All articles by Tim Dams
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg unveils opening and closing films
Films by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and Josef Kubota Wladyka to bookend the festival.
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NewsMichaël R. Roskam’s ‘Le Faux Soir’ to close San Sebastian film festival
WWII drama about resistance fighters printing fake edition of Le Soir newspaper will have European premiere at festival.
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NewsFormer Pact CEO John McVay joins AI skills platform Aimici
McVay will later take over as chair from the incumbent Sir John Lucas-Tooth.
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NewsFlorin Serban’s ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2026
Romanian filmmaker takes top prize at festival, with other prizes for South Korean director Hong Sangsoo as well as actor Monica Bellucci.
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News‘Everything That’s Wrong With You’: first trailer for Urša Menart’s Sarajevo competition entry
EXCLUSIVE: Slovenian director’s sophomore fiction feature world premieres in narrative competition section at Sarajevo.
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NewsHow Zoe Saldana’s husband Marco Perego became a rare angel investor for arthouse filmmakers
“Who is the auteur we can help to produce?” says Perego of his motivation.
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NewsCroatia, Kosovo, Portugal and Turkey projects selected for San Sebastian’s WIP Europa lineup
WIP Europa showcases films at post-production stage that are majority European.
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NewsUganda, Somalia and Ghana projects share top prize at Locarno’s Open Doors
Locarno Pro’s co-production and talent development programme is currently focused on 42 countries in Africa.
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NewsLocarno Pro unveils First Look, Alliance 4 Development and Heritage Restoration winners
Prizes for Locarno Pro’s flagship works-in-progress, development and restoration winners were handed out on Sunday night.
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NewsLocarno film festival protest sees huge shroud unfurled with names of 60,000 killed in Gaza
Peaceful protest took place shortly before a sold-out Piazza Grande screening of Olivia Wilde’s ’The Invite’, which is being attended by over 8,000 people.
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FeaturesOlivia Wilde explains why she fought for cinema release over a streaming deal ‘bribe’ for ‘The Invite’
Speaking at Locarno Film Festival, Wilde said the industry has been mistaken in believing that comedies now only work on the small screen and not in cinemas.
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NewsSplit Screen boards Georgian protest drama ‘Tear Gas’ ahead of Locarno premiere
EXCLUSIVE: Fiction film about family drawn into mass protests in Tblisi was shot inside real demonstrations in Georgia.
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FeaturesLegendary producer Joni Sighvatsson on working with David Lynch: “He was very single-minded”
Sighvatsson was honoured at the Locarno Film Festival ahead of a Piazza Grande screening of Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or winner ’Wild At Heart’.
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Features“Evil is part of our life”: director Felix Randau on ‘I Is Another’ about Himmler's masseur
Film stars Claes Bang as the former massage therapist to SS leader Heinrich Himmler, who claims to have saved thousands of lives.
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NewsLocarno Pro talks nepo babies and white male filmmakers: “Privilege is very present in the industry”
Most of this century’s top grossing films were made by ‘nepo baby creatives’ according to research presented at the Locarno Film Festival’s StepIn industry conference.
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NewsZurich Film Festival to honour Martin McDonagh
Writer and director will receive festival’s A Tribute To … Award during a gala premiere of his latest film ;Wild Horse Nine’.
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NewsLocarno pays tribute to Isabella Rossellini as festival kicks off with ‘The Green Eyes’ premiere
Artistic director Giona A Nazzaro led round of applause for two of his Locarno predecessors who died this year, Moritz de Hadeln and Lili Hinstin
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NewsRotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund backs 20 projects with development funding
Funding recipients include Berlinale Silver Bear winner Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias.
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NewsPiperPlay boards Tommaso Landucci’s Venice Horizons premiere ‘Children Of The Monkey’
EXCLUSIVE: Film’s screenplay previously won the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film Lab grand prize, and is executive produced by James Ivory.
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NewsSan Sebastian adds Mike Leigh, Nicole Garcia, Pablo Larrain titles to competition lineup
Spanish festival is set to take place from September 18-26.