All articles by Rebecca Leffler – Page 23
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NewsGinger & Fed boards women’s shelter drama ‘A Place For Her’ starring Karin Viard (exclusive)
The drama is based on a group of women balancing challenging work and personal lives.
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NewsCharades takes on Dominik Moll’s police thriller ‘Case 137’ starring Lea Drucker (exclusive)
The film is set in the internal affairs department of the French national police.
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NewsCedric Klapisch’s time-jumping ‘Colours Of Time’ acquired by Studiocanal (exclusive)
‘Colours Of Time’ is the latest ensemble film featuring a stellar French cast from Cedric Klapisch.
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NewsIndie Sales adds ‘Leonora In The Morning Light’ starring Olivia Vinall to Rendez-Vous slate (exclusive)
The film is a biopic of the English surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.
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FeaturesWill moves by Canal+ and Disney prompt a seismic shift to France’s windows chronology?
A dramatic overhaul of the system in favour of the global platforms is likely to meet pushback from France’s powerful theatrical distribution sector.
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Features75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025
Expect films from Chloe Zhao, Carla Simon, Julia Ducournau, Annemarie Jacir, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynne Ramsay and (possibly) Lucrecia Martel.
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NewsFrench box office rises 0.5% year on year but remains 13% below pre-pandemic period
The top 10 films accounted for 32% of total ticket sales (57.9 million tickets) - the most in some 20 years.
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News‘Kneecap’ wins top prize at Les Arcs Film Festival
Source: Wildcard ‘Kneecap’ Rich Peppiatt’s Irish comedy Kneecap has won the Crystal Arrow for best film at France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, which ran from December 14-21, 2024 in the mountain resort town. The origin story of the titular Irish-language hip-hop group earned a €20,000 digital promotional ...
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NewsFrance’s streamer levy has injected €1bn into the industry in three years, says report
In 2021 France introduced a 20% levy on the annual turnover of the US streamers to invest in the French film and industry
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News‘Emilia Perez’ leads nominations for France’s Lumière Awards
The French-made, Spanish-language film earned six nominations.
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NewsFrench director Christophe Ruggia faces five-year sentence in sexual assault trial
Ruggia is accused of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor.
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FeaturesHow Iranian cinema continues to take flight in the face of relentless government oppression
Iran’s filmmakers are defying strict censorship laws to scoop festival prizes and woo global buyers and audiences.
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FeaturesMati Diop talks “uncategorisable” ‘Dahomey’ and her ambitions for African cinema
French-Senegalese director Mati Diop talks to Screen about unpacking a heavy history of colonialism with her genre-defying hybrid documentary Dahomey.
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NewsVenice award-winner ‘Familiar Touch’ lands sales including China (exclusive)
Sarah Friedland’s drama won a trifecta of awards when it premiered in Venice’s Horizons section.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week Next Step Programme selects eight international directors
The workshop to help them prepare their first feature is taking place in Normandy and Paris from Dec 8-13.
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NewsAlain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ wins France’s Louis Delluc prize
Award is a traditional curtain raiser for French awards season.
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News‘Beating Hearts’, ‘Gladiator II’ propel France’s November box office
Source: Cédric Bertrand Beating Hearts Studiocanal’s epic romance Beating Hearts kept the French box office pumping through the month of November as Paramount’s Gladiator II opened to boost ticket sales to a total 17.7 million, up 17% from the same month last year, according to the CNC. ...
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NewsFrench biopic ‘The Divine Sarah Bernhardt’ woos global buyers for Memento International (exclusive)
Film stars Sandrine Kiberlain as the actress nicknamed “La Divine”.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils 2024 Work in Progress selection
The projects will be presented to industry professionals on Sunday, December 15.
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NewsFrench-Danish actor Niels Arestrup dies aged 75
Arestrup played a Corsican crime boss in Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Grand Prix, Oscar-nominated A Prophet.