All articles by Tim Dams – Page 5
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Features11 hot topics from the Bafta nominations: voters embrace genre films, Cannes premieres, Gen Z stars
It is also a mixed year for UK talent and women are missing in many key categories.
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NewsRaoul Peck to be guest of honour at Visions du Reel
Oscar-nominated Haitian filmmaker’s work includes I Am Not Your Negro and Ernest Cole: Lost and Found.
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NewsThe Match Factory hires Agathe Valentin as sales director
Former HanWay Films director of sales joins leading German international sales outfit.
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NewsRevamped Czech Audiovisual Fund to back series and games as well as films
Estimates suggest CAF’s budget will increase by 35% to around €84m a year thanks to levies and investment obligations.
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NewsTrue Colours secures sales for key festival titles (exclusive)
Toronto title U Are The Universe, Venice feature Familia and Locarno premiere Death Will Come among sales.
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NewsItalian box office holds steady in 2024 as Disney takes distributor crown
Sleeper hit ’The Boy With The Pink Trousers’ was top local title of 2024, followed by Paolo Sorrentino’s ’Parthenope’.
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NewsBerlinale Pro director Tanja Meissner on what the industry can expect at EFM 2025
Meissner will oversee her first European Film Market (EFM) next month.
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NewsItaly’s Open Reel boards Berlinale Generation Kplus title ‘The Nature Of Invisible Things’ (exclusive)
Brazilian director Rafaela Camelo’s feature tells the story of two ten-year old girls whose paths cross in a hospital.
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NewsEuropean Film Awards sets Athens as host city of 2027 ceremony
The awards are held every second year in Berlin and travel throughout Europe in the other years.
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NewsLocarno explores date shift forward to July from 2027
A-list festival says date change appears necessary “to respond to the challenges faced by the entire 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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NewsOpen Reel boards Berlinale Generation 14plus title ‘Sandbag Dam’ (exclusive)
Croatian director Čejen Černić Čanak’s film is a story of forbidden love.
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NewsBerlin’s EFM revamps with tech hub, distributor prize and additional screening venue
2025 will mark first edition of Berlinale market run by Tanja Meissner.
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NewsRotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger and Big Screen competition line-ups
IFFR 2025 runs January 30 – February 9.
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NewsUkraine joins Creative Europe Media programme
Ukrainian organisations can now apply for the full range of Media funding.
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NewsSaudi’s MBC Studios sets feature adaptation of Osamah Almuslim’s horror novel ‘Travellers’ Hell’
Rising Saudi filmmaker Hana Al-Omair is set to direct Traveller’s Hell
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NewsStampede Ventures’ thriller ‘Fourth Wall’, starring Emma Roberts, to shoot at Saudi's AlUla Studios
Production also marks a reset of the partnership between Saudi’s Film AlUla and Stampede Ventures
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NewsBerlinale’s World Cinema Fund backs projects including Edwin's anticipated 'Sleep No More'
A total of €260,000 has been shared between projects from Argentina, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia and Rwanda.
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NewsUK and Netherlands pledge closer film and TV production links
British Film Commission (BFC) and the Netherlands Film Commission (NFC) sign a memorandum of understanding.
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FeaturesIs Saudi Arabia’s box office boom over or set to rise again?
Saudi Arabia’s box office market has plateaued after enjoying huge growth when cinemas first reopened in 2018. Are the boom years over, or is this just a blip?