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Qatar's Doha Film Institute (DFI) has announced that Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández and Jim Sheridan will serve as Qumra Masters at the 10th edition of its respected talent incubator event, running from March 1 to 6. They join a long list of top professionals to have…

Jerusalem Film Festival Artistic Director Elad Samorzik has announced his departure from the role later this year after ten editions in the role, to be replaced by Orr Sigoli. Sigoli and Samorzik will work together on the next edition, scheduled to unfold from July 18 to 28, with the latter…

Mother, Couch, the Niclas Larsson-directed film, took the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Göteborg Film Festival. The film was awarded SEK 400,000, which is about $38,000. The film stars Ewan McGregor, who had also received an honorary Dragon Award during 47th edition of the festival. M…

If you are nominated for an Oscar this year, you are probably making your travel plans to head to Santa Barbara. That is because the Santa Barbara Film Festival is taking place from February 7-17, and quite frankly if you aren’t there at some point between…

Japanese actor and director Toshihiko Tanaka's human relationships drama Rei and Iranian filmmaker Oktay Baraheni’s tale of identity and society The Old Bachelor have won the top awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Rei won the €40,000 ($43,000) Tiger Award in the main…

Less than a week after we reported on Warner Bros. Discovery’s circling of buzzy Sundance documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, the studio has closed the deal valued at $15M, Deadline has learned, acquiring worldwide rights to the pic, which was one of the most buzzed-about titles of this…

There's quite a lot going on beneath the shiny, fun surface of this animated comedy, though some of the questions it deals with — animal mortality, the world's fragile eco-system — might be too much for younger children to process. For older, smarter kids, it could be a gateway film, a way to turn young…

David Schwimmer makes a bold choice with this ambitious, if not entirely seamless psychodrama. Starting out as a hyperactive life-in-crisis movie, like a more melancholy, introspective Fight Club, it swaps horses in midstream with a shocking twist that will likely alienate any viewers seduced by seeing…

Park Kwang-su has been appointed chair of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs from October 2-11 this year.  His appointment at the general meeting comes after a tumultuous 2023 for the festival, which saw four managers resign.  An acclaimed filmmaker from the Korean New…

The Berlin Film Festival has put out a statement in support of Iranian filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, whose feature My Favourite Cake is due to compete for the Golden Bear at the 74th edition. In a release bannered "Call for Freedom Of Movement, Freedom Of Expression for…

Acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf will serve as jury president at the 30th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema (VIFFAC), which runs from February 6-13.  Held in France, this year's edition will spotlight Taiwanese cinema and Malayalam-language films from India. A total of 92…

German production powerhouse X Filme Creative Pool, its distribution arm X Verleih and Beta Cinema have unveiled a first look for Tom Tykwers' new feature-length film The Light (Das Licht). The movie marks German director’s first work for the big screen since his 2016 Saudi Arabia-set comedy-drama A H…