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Das EnergaCamerimage – International Film Festival hat jetzt die letzten drei Filme für den Wettbewerb um den Goldenen Frosch bei der von 16. bis 23. November stattfindenden Festivalausgabe bekannt gegeben. Über den Gewinner entscheidet eine Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Cate Blanchett.

Hauptpreis beim EnergaCamerimage – International Film Festival: der Goldene Frosch (Credit: EnergaCamerimage – International Fillm Festival)

Mit Denis Villeneuves „Dune: Part Two” (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung), Ridley Scotts „Gladiator II” und Steve McQueens „Blitz” hat das EnergaCamerimage – International Film Festival die letzten der insgesamt zwölf Filme für den Wettbewerb seiner von 16. bis 23. November stattfindenden Ausgabe bekannt gegeben.

Um den Goldenen Frosch sowie den Silbernen und den Bronzenen Frosch konkurrieren außerdem „Des Teufels Bad“ (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung) von Veronika Franz und Severin Fiala, Edward Bergers „Konklave“ (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung), Brady Corbets „The Brutalist“ (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung), Mauro Delperos „Vermiglio“ (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung), Jacques Audiards „Emilia Pérez“ (hier unsere The-spot-Besprechung), Rachel Morrisons „The Fire Inside“, Magnus...

It is fitting that for the 30th year of the Geneva International Film Festival, artistic director Anais Emery and her team are going back to the future.

“It was very important to recall the history of the festival but not through a retrospective,” says Emery of the event that takes place in the Swiss city from November 1-10.

”We wanted to renew, to celebrate and underline Giff’s speciality and specificity.”

That means showcasing innovative storytelling delivered via the myriad audiovisual mediums available to creators, from film, TV and web content to installations, virtual reality and extended reality (Xr) works.

Academy members who are voting in the Best International Feature Film category have been given 85 different films to consider, according to emails sent to voters on Friday and obtained by TheWrap.

The 85 films make up the smallest field in the category in nine years. Last year saw 88 qualifying films, after the total number of eligible films had topped 90 in five of the previous six years. The record was 93, set in 2000.

In late September, all prospective voters in the category received emails inviting them to vote in the international category and telling them that those who opted in would receive emails with their assigned viewing on Friday, Nov. 1. But those emails came a week early, going to prospective voters on Friday afternoon, Oct. 25, and separating the members into seven separate groups.

Each group was given a list of 12 or 13 films to view, either in the Academy’s members-only screening platform devoted...

International awards contendersAll We Imagine As Light andThe Girl With The Needleare among the films screening as part of the international competition at the 30th anniversary edition of the Geneva International Film Festival, taking place in Switzerland from November 1-10.

Payal Kapadia’s Indian dramaAll We Imagine As Light centres on three woman living in modern-day Mumbai and was awarded the grand prix at Cannes earlier this year.

Several of the competition films are also representing their countries at the Oscars as international feature submissions includingMatthew Rankin’s Universal Languagefor Canada and Magnus von Horn’sThe Girl With The Needlefor Denmark.

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) has unveiled the documentary and international film longlists for its 2024 ceremony, with films including in-videogame title Grand Theft Hamlet and Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora.

Grand Theft Hamlet is on the 12-strong best feature documentary list. The film is the debut feature from directorial duo Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane; it premiered at SXSW this year and was recently acquired for a UK-Ireland theatrical release. It follows two struggling actors who find solace from lockdown isolation by staging William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the online Grand Theft Auto game.

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Un escaparate del mejor cine europeo del año. © Seff

La 21 edición del Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla se celebrará del 8 al 16 de noviembre y ya se conoce la programación completa. En total son veintidós estrenos en España, ocho mundiales y dos internacionales. 

La sección oficial contará con un jurado de altísimo nivel presidido por el productor británico David Puttnam y con el actor británico Jeremy Irons, la directora artística del Rome Film Fest, Paola Malanga, la programadora francesa Eva Rekettyei y la directora francoargelina Mounia Meddour. Ellos serán los encargados de decidir el palmarés de esta vigésimo primera edición que cuenta en su sección oficial con títulos destacados como Flow, la película representante de Letonia en los Oscars, Julie Keeps Quiet, representante de Bélgica, The Girl with the Needle, representante de Dinamaca, y Santosh, representante de Reino unido. Otros títulos de la sección oficial incluyen A Missing Part, que se presentó en Toronto,...

Das von 16. bis 23. November im polnischen Torun stattfindende Camerimage-Festival hat jetzt die ersten drei Titel für den Wettbewerb um den Goldenen Frosch bekannt gegeben.

Die ersten Titel für den Wettbewerb um den Goldenen Frosch beim Camerimage-Festival stehen fest (Credit: EnergaCamerimage – International Fillm Festival)

Die ersten drei Filme für den Wettbewerb beim EnergaCamerimage – International Fillm Festival, das von 16. bis 23. November im polnischen Torun stattfindet, stehen fest.

Wie die Veranstalter jetzt bekannt gaben, konkurrieren mit Jacques Audiards französische Oscareinreichung „Emilia Pérez“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) und dem dänischen Oscarkandidaten „The Girl with the Needle“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) zwei Cannes-Titel um den Goldenen Frosch. Ebenfalls in den Camerimage-Wettbewerb eingeladen wurde aktuell das Boxerinnen-Biopic „The Fire Inside“; das Regiedebüt der Kamerafrau Rachel Morrison war einer der Kritikerfavoriten auf dem Toronto International Film Festival.

In den Wettbewerb um den Goldenen Frosch gehen in der Regel rund ein Dutzend Filme. Die weiteren sollen in den nächsten Tagen bekannt gegeben werden.

The EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has selected three films for its main competition in 2024 that showcase cinematographic skill and explore different human experiences. The festival, held each year in Toruń, Poland, celebrates excellence in cinematography and visual storytelling.

One of the selected films is Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez.” The drama tells the true story of a Mexican drug cartel leader’s gender transition. It received praise at the Cannes Film Festival for its deft handling of multiple genres and powerful performances. Rachel Morrison’s directorial debut “The Fire Inside” chronicles Olympic boxer Claressa Shields’ rise to success. The biopic garnered acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival for its unflinching portrayal of Shields’ journey.

Magnus von Horn’s period piece “The Girl with the Needle” is also part of the initial lineup. Set after World War I in Copenhagen, it follows a seamstress dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Critics...

Scandinavia’s leading sales outfit REinvent has boarded Norway’s true crime “Escaping Bolivia,” currently filming in Cape Town, South Africa, after an initial shoot in Oslo.

Fenomen (“Rod Knock”) and longstanding outfit 4 ½ (“Out Stealing Horses”) are producing for TV2 Norway, in co-production with Germany’s pubcaster Ndr and Oslo Film Fund.

Helmer Anna Gutto, behind Lionsgate’s “Paradise Highway” starring Juliette Binoche, is concept director, working next to creator and episodic director Emilie Beck, attached to Netflix’s “Royalteen.” Toplining the six-part series are Jakob Oftebro (“Agent Hamilton”), Ella Øverbye, from Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams,” Josephine Tetlie, Lisa Hovden and Danish actor Joachim Fjelstrup (“The Girl With the Needle”).

The show is inspired by the infamous drug case of three Norwegian girls aged 17, 18, 21, who were imprisoned in Bolivia after being caught in 2008, with 22kg cocaine in their bags. Two managed to escape – one with a child, helped by...

The EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has unveiled the first batch of movies selected for its 2024 main competition — a trio of aesthetically adventurous stories about women.

The selection includes Jacques Audiard’s Cannes jury prize winner Emilia Pérez, Magnus von Horn’s arthouse drama The Girl with the Needle, and Rachel Morrison’s boxing biopic The Fire Inside. Camerimage organizers will unveil the rest of this year’s competition selection — which usually totals around a dozen movies — in the days ahead.

As previously announced, this year’s Camerimage competition will be assessed by a panel led by jury president and two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett.

Emilia Pérez and The Girl with the Needle both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May — and both were selected by THR‘s critics as among the best films of the 2024 edition.

“Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the divine Karla Sofia Gascón light up Audiard’s...

Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival is celebrating its 40th edition, placing its bets on emerging, often debuting Polish filmmakers.

“This event often acts like a springboard,” says programming director Gustaw Kolanowski. But making a feature debut in Poland is still challenging.

“For me, this road wasn’t easy. It was difficult to meet a producer who would believe in a film that’s quiet and intimate, but also impactful,” says Monika Majorek, behind “Where Do We Begin,” where three siblings and their mother rebuild their lives after the death of their father.

“I’ve made certain career choices to be able to tell this story and waited a long time for this opportunity. I was advised to look for some loud, controversial subject, but this film comes out of real emotions. Maybe there’s a lack of quiet voices [in Polish cinema]? Those that listen instead of speaking?”

Dominika Montean-Pańków, director of “The Crossroads,...

The 21st Sevilla European Film Festival will take place this Nov. 8-16, and Variety has been given an exclusive heads-up on this year’s competition juries that will choose the winners of the Gold and Silver Giraldillos as well as the special judges’ prize and a new award, the Puerta América Award.

Dedicated specifically to contemporary European film, Sevilla aims to bring the best in European cinematographic culture to the south of Spain for dialogues between the new artists and recognized figures from the industry while also dedicating space to new media for cinematographic expression.

Jurists for this year’s main competition section include British producer David Puttnam, who will chair the jury, Oscar-winning British actor Jeremy Irons, Rome Film Fest artistic director Paola Malanga, French programmer Eva Rekettyei, and French-Algerian director Mounia Meddour (“Papicha”).

Accompanying today’s jury announcements, Sevilla shared details about its new Puerta América Award, granted...

Predicting the eventual five Oscar nominees for Best International Feature is made difficult by the three-step process that begins after the October 2, 2024 deadline for countries to submit entries. To be part of the selection process for this category, which was called Best Foreign Language Film before 2020, requires a great deal of dedication. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best International Feature.)

In the days following the deadline for submissions, the academy determines each film’s eligibility. Then the several hundred academy members who serve on the International Feature screening committee are divided into groups and required to watch all their submissions over a six-week period that ends in early December. Their top 15 vote-getters will make it to the next round. That list of semi-finalists will be revealed on December 17, 2024.

These 15 films will be made available to the entire academy membership who can cast ballots for the final...

Art house streamer and distributor Mubi has snatched up all U.S. rights, as well as exclusive global SVOD rights, to Grand Theft Hamlet, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s award-winning documentary mashup of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and ultra-violent video game Grand Theft Auto.

The doc follows two unemployed actors during the 2021 Covid lockdown who attempt to state Hamlet entirely within the GTA virtual game world. Grand Theft Hamlet premiered at SXSW this year, where it won the documentary feature jury award. It also won The Hollywood Reporter critic Leslie Felperin, who called the experimental film “innovative, highly amusing and often touching.”

The film will have its U.K. premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 15, followed by a special presentation at BFI Imax on Oct. 20. Mubi plans to release Grand Theft Hamlet in early 2025, with further details to be announced soon. Grand Theft Hamlet was financed by BFI Doc Society,...

Unlike the Oscar Best Picture race, which doesn’t have a real frontrunner at this point, there’s a clear favorite in the Best International Feature Film category.

With the deadline for submissions in the category passing on Wednesday and Academy members invited to become voters in the category on Friday, one big question looms over this year’s race: Can anything beat “Emilia Perez”?

At the moment, the answer appears to be no. With 82 countries having announced their entries in the race, no other film has anywhere near the visibility of the French entry, Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes sex reassignment surgery. The film has U.S. distribution from Netflix and is considered a strong candidate for a Best Picture nomination, which in five of the last six years has been a ticket to victory in the international race.

Still, it’s...

Arthouse distribution Mubi has signed a multi-territory deal for Luca Guadagnino’s Daniel Craig-starrer Queer.

The deal, announced Friday, will see Mubi take all rights for Queer in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey, and India and all rights, excluding theatrical rights, in Italy. A24 has the film for the U.S.

Queer premiered at the Venice Film Festival and had its North American premiere at Toronto last month.

Daniel Craig stars alongside Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, and Jason Schwartzman in the feature, based on Burroughs’ 1950s-set autobiographical novel. The former 007 star plays William Lee, an American expat and heroin addict in Mexico City, whose spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, played by Starkey, makes him believe it might be finally...

Mubi has secured a multi-territory deal for Luca Guadagnino’s Venice title Queer.

The distributor has acquired all rights on the film for UK-Ireland, Canada, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey and India; and has all rights excluding theatrical in Italy, where Lucky Red is releasing in cinemas.

Mubi’s release plans will be announced shortly. The deal was struck with sales agent The Veterans.

The film will have its US premiere as the Spotlight Gala at New York Film Festival this month, followed by its UK premiere as a Special Presentation at BFI London Film Festival.

Queer debuted...

The Virginia Film Festival is kicking off its 37th year with a lineup featuring a couple of Cannes winners that are now taking the fall festival circuit by storm.

Located in Charlottesville, and set for October 30 through November 3, the festival has chosen Sean Baker’s “Anora” as its Opening Night Film. The dramedy, which stars Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn sex worker who enters into a whirlwind romance with the son of a Russian oligarch, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was a runner-up for the coveted People’s Choice Award at TIFF. In addition to special guests from the cast set to be in attendance, Tom Quinn, Founder and CEO of Neon, the film’s distributor, will be on hand to receive the inaugural Impresario Award on behalf of the company.

For the Centerpiece Film, the festival has programmed Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” which has had...

Coralie Fargeat’s bold, bloody and buzzy “The Substance” has become the most successful box office release for arthouse distributor and streamer Mubi.

The Demi Moore-starring body horror — which Mubi acquired for multiple territories before Cannes (where it won the best screenplay) for a figure rumoured to be in the low double-figures, its biggest acquisition to date — has a global box office after 10 days of $14.8 million, of which $13.6 million comes from Mubi’s markets.

The figure easily surpasses the $10 million the company amassed earlier this year with “Priscilla,” which itself was a major moment in the trajectory of Mubi, founded by London-based Efe Cakarel in 2007, marking its widest release at the time (and surpassing its previous record holder “Aftersun” at the box office). But “The Substance” — which had a reported budget of $17.5 million — turns things up several notches further, becoming Mubi’s first wide release in the U.S.

Arthouse streamer Mubi has secured the rights to Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements following its world premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice International Film Festival.

Mubi nabbed the portrait of the influential ’90s indie band in all rights deals for the U.K, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. It also scooped up exclusive SVOD rights in the U.S., where Utopia is releasing the film theatrically.

Perry, known for features like Her Smell and Listen Up Philip, is also a prolific music video director and helmed Pavement’s video for Harness Your Hopes in 2022. For Pavements, he uses different formats and genres — from documentary to musical comedy to museum exhibition — to present the work of the alt-rock band whose reputation has only grown since their ’90s heyday.

Calling the two-hour-plus result both “exhaustive and enthusiastic,” THR reviewer Jordan Mintzer noted “You don’t have to be a major fan of Pavement,...

Mubi has acquired “Pavements,” Alex Ross Perry’s unconventional documentary-musical-biopic about cult ’90s slacker band Pavement, for multiple territories following its recent world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The arthouse distributor, streamer and production company has picked up all rights to the film — soon to bow in both the New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival — for the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, France and Canada. Meanwhile, Mubi also acquired exclusive SVOD rights for the U.S.

The deal was signed with Utopia, which is handling world sales and, the day after the film’s Venice launch, announced it would also distribute theatrically in the U.S. Mubi says it will announce its release plans in the coming months.

Directed and written by Perry (“Her Smell”), “Pavements” stars Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones and...

by Cláudio Alves

The Girl With The Needle may have benefited from a different title, different expectations.

Like last year, my 2024 TIFF journey was marked by many a Best International Film Oscar submission. I've already written about some of them, including contenders from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Palestine, and Portugal. Now, as this protracted post-festival coverage reaches its end – got to move on to NYFF at some point – let's consider the official submissions from Denmark and Bulgaria. The Cannes-competing The Girl with the Needle from Magnus von Horn, and the TIFF-premiering Triumph by Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva dramatize shocking true stories that prove Lord Byron was right. Truth really is stranger than fiction…...

Operating for only the third time, the Jakarta World Cinema film festival is bringing a diverse slate of global and local pictures to Indonesia’s biggest city.

It kicked off in high style on Saturday with a screening of Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.” The body horror-fantasy debuted at Cannes and has already proved a popular choice as either opening or closing film at multiple film festivals. In Jakarta, it got a reaction, extracting shrieks, gasps and applause from the opening night crowd.

Earlier, in a breezy ceremony, complete with dancers replicating some of “The Substance’s” fitness moves, audiences had been told that organizers had assembled a lineup of just over a hundred titles.

In a country, where cinema is popular, but a class of risk-taking indie distributors is an industry sector has yet to be fully developed, that is a significant number. Instead, Jwc has a close relationship with KlikFilm,...

Sweden has selected The Last Journey as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

The documentary by popular Swedish TV hosts and journalists Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson, known at home as Filip och Fredrik, sees the duo take Hammar’s father Lars on a road trip to France.

Lars has recently retired after 40 years as a French teacher but instead of a “third age” of travel, wine and experiences with his wife, he becomes passive and tired. By making the same road trip that the family used to make when Filip was a child, and staging some of life’s most beautiful moments, they hope to rekindle Lars’ spark.

The doc is produced by Nexiko in co-production with Nordisk Film Distribution, Rmv Film and collaboration with Svt.

The work has proven a hit at the Swedish box office this year, drawing more...

Entries for the 2025 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 97th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 3, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between November 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 2, 2024.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to...

Magnus von Horns „The Girl With the Needle”, der im Cannes-Wettbewerb seine Premiere feierte, geht für Dänemark ins Rennen um eine Oscarnominierung in der Kategorie „Bester internationaler Film“.

Das Danish Film Institute hat Magnus von Horns „The Girl With the Needle” (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung), der im Cannes-Wettbewerb seine Weltpremiere feierte, für eine Oscarnominierung in der Kategorie „Bester internationaler Film“ bei der Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences eingereicht. Auf der Shortlist des dänischen Auswahlkomitees standen außerdem Zara Zernys „Echo of You“ und Gustav Möllers „Sons“.

Zur Wahl des Films sagt Jacob Neiiendam, Head of International beim Danish Film Institute und Vorsitzender des Auswahlkomitees, kurz und knapp: „Das Komitee hielt ‚The Girl With the Needle‘ für den stärksten dänischen Kandidaten, der sich in diesem Jahr eine Oscar-Nominierung sichern kann.“

In „The Girl With the Needle” spielt Vic Carmen Sonne die junge Fabrikarbeiterin Karoline, die nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg in Kopenhagen ums Überleben kämpft.

Denmark has chosen “The Girl With the Needle” to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. The film tells the difficult story of illegal abortions in Copenhagen during the early 1900s.

Directed by Magnus von Horn, “The Girl With the Needle” follows seamstress Karoline after she becomes pregnant by her wealthy partner. When he abandons her, Karoline must decide between trying a self-induced abortion or an unsafe back-alley adoption. The movie explores this controversial topic through her harrowing journey.

Starring rising actor Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, the film has already received critical acclaim on the international film festival circuit. It premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Reviews praised von Horn’s direction and the unflinching portrayal of the challenges facing women without options.

The Hollywood Reporter called it a “dark, urgently...

Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s period drama The Girl With the Needle as its nominee for Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars.

Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the feature stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) as Karoline, a young seamstress who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her pregnant but refuses to marry her. When she finds herself unemployed and expecting, Karoline has the choice of two bad options: Give herself an abortion with a knitting needle or work with the shady backstreet adoption agency.

The Girl With the Needle premiered in competition in Cannes and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. The strong critical reception for the film — THR‘s review called it a “dark, urgently timely Danish drama” that “builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire” — as well as the timely subject...

Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With the Needle as its Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film category.

Starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, The Girl With the Needle riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War. Deadline’s review called the film “an unequivocal and beguiling triumph.”

Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post World War I Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world...

Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With The Needle will represent Denmark as its international feature submission for the 97th Academy Awards.

The black-and-white drama premiered at Cannes in Competition and has since screened at the Polish Film Festival and Pingyao.

Trine Dyrholm and Vic Carmen Sonne star in the story loosely inspired by a real-life serial killer in Copenhagen who murdered numerous babies from 1913-20.

Nordisk Film Creative Alliance’s Malene Blenkov, whose credits include Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness Of Strangers, produces together with Mariusz Włodarski for Lava Films with support from The Danish Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute,...

Entries for the 2025 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 97th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 3, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between November 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 2, 2024.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to...

The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history, yet director Magnus von Horn isn’t interested in retreading a familiar serial killer biopic ground. Telling a story inspired by Dagmar Overby presents fertile ground for horror, but Dagmar’s chosen victims were children and babies, making for murkier territory to traverse. Instead, von Horn smartly navigates the treacherous pitfalls of this serial killer tale with thoughtful empathy, framing the story from a broader perspective for a timely, gothic tale of hardship for society’s forgotten and discarded.

Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, a young seamstress working in a Copenhagen factory, struggles to survive after her husband was declared missing in action during WWI. No recovered body means she’s without any supplemental support from the government, and her single income isn’t enough to keep the rent paid. Even when her boss,...

The Philadelphia Film Festival is honoring Sean Baker’s film career.

The “Anora” director will be at the center of a retrospective with the Philadelphia Film Society, which will take place over the course of the three weeks prior to the festival’s kick-off. The 33rd annual festival will then screen Baker’s Palme d’Or winner “Anora” on 35mm.

The festival will take place from October 17 through 27, and feature buzzy hits like “A Real Pain,” “Conclave,” and Venice Golden Lion winner “The Room Next Door.” Additional early festival titles include “Bird,” “Blitz,” “The Girl with the Needle,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” and “The End.”

“These films are just a small teaser of what is sure to be one of our most thrilling and talked-about Festival lineup ever,” J. Andrew Greenblatt, CEO and Executive Director of the Philadelphia Film Society, said. “Stay tuned for the...

Filmfest Hamburg has unveiled the full programme for its 32nd edition, which is set to open with Louise Courvoisier’s Cannes prize-winner Holy Cow and close with Pedro Almodovar’s Golden Lion-winner The Room Next Door.

French filmmaker Courvoisier will be accompanied by lead actors Clément Faveau and Malwéne Barthelemy at the opening gala on September 26 for the German premiere of her debut feature, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it won the Youth Prize. The coming-of-age film will be released by Pandora Film in German cinemas on January 2.

The Filmfest’s new director Malika Rabahallah and...

The world premiere of Liu Juan’s A River Without Tears is set to open this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival, which has revealed its full line-up.

The eighth edition of the festival, founded by acclaimed director Jia Zhangke, is scheduled to run from September 24-30 in the picturesque city of Pingyao, in China’s Shanxi province.

Sections include Crouching Tigers, made up of emerging international filmmakers; Hidden Dragons, featuring the first or second films of Chinese directors; gala films by renowned directors; and Made-in-Shanxi, comprising titles by local filmmakers or films shot in in the province.

Opening film...

Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff) has announced the line-up for its eighth edition, including its Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons sections, and opening film A River Without Tears.

The festival also announced that it is screening a restored version of Chen Kaige’s award-winning Yellow Earth, to mark the 40th anniversary of the film, one of the first major titles of China’s Fifth Generation movement, which won a Silver Leopard at Locarno as well as best cinematography for Zhang Yimou at Nantes Three Continents Film Festival.

Opening film A River Without Tears, the second feature of female director Liu Juan, is the story of a father who insists on finding out the truth of his daughter’s suicide. Executive produced by Chinese auteur and Pingyao festival founder Jia Zhangke, the film will also screen as one of 12 titles in the festival’s Hidden Dragons section for emerging Chinese filmmakers (see full list below).

Meanwhile,...

As the Toronto International Film Festival gets underway, The Hollywood Reporter’s critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.

Several of this year’s slate have already debuted at other festivals throughout the year. For those curious about the very best the TIFF calendar has to offer, a few — but not nearly all — of the highlights include the Steven Soderbergh ghost story Presence, which David Rooney hailed as “masterfully done” out of Sundance; the Icelandic grief drama When the Light Breaks, which Lovia Gyarkye described as “impossible to shake” at Cannes; and the literary adaptation Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which Caryn James praised at Telluride for the “astonishing” child performance at its center.

In addition, the lineup includes a number of highly anticipated world premieres — we’re curious about David Gordon Green’s Nutcracker,...

La película de terror se estrenará en cines de la mano de YouPlanet Pictures. © IFC Films

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de Azrael, una película de terror dirigida por L. Katz y escrita por Simon Barrett, que se proyectará en el Festival de Sitges 2024, donde competirá en la Sección Oficial Fantástico a Competición.

En Azrael, nos adentramos en un mundo aterrador en el que nadie habla. Una comunidad liderada por mujeres persigue a Azrael, una joven que ha escapado de su reclusión. Azrael está destinada a ser sacrificada para apaciguar a un antiguo demonio ancestral que reside en lo más profundo del bosque. Sin embargo, ella luchará por su propia supervivencia mientras avanza hacia un salvaje enfrentamiento entre las fuerzas del bien y del mal.

La película, que se estrenó en el Festival de Cine de South by Southwest a principios de año, está protagonizada por Samara Weaving,...

Otros de los títulos seleccionados incluyen ‘Bird’, ‘Emilia Perez’, ‘Kinds of Kindness’ y ‘The Substance’.

La Academia de Cine Europeo ha anunciado la primera selección de títulos que optan a las nominaciones de los Premios del Cine Europeo. Se han seleccionado 29 producciones y en septiembre se ampliará la lista con una nueva tanda de títulos.

En esta primera lista se encuentran tres películas españolas: Un amor, de Isabel Coixet, con siete nominaciones a los premios Goya 2024, O Corno, de Jaione Camborda, ganadora de la Concha de Oro en el Festival de San Sebastián 2023, y Volveréis, de Jonás Trueba, premio a la Mejor Película europea en la Quincena de Realizadores de Cannes.

La ceremonia de los Premios del Cine Europeo tendrá lugar el 7 de diciembre en Lucerna (Suiza). Pueden optar a los Premios del Cine Europeo los largometrajes europeos que, entre otros criterios, hayan tenido su primera proyección oficial entre el...

The first wave of titles in contention for the 2024 European Film Awards include Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness and Sundance award-winner Kneecap.

Cannes premieres feature predominantly in the 29 titles unveiled today (August 14), including Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez; Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig; Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour; Halfdan Ullmann Tønde’s Armand and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – all of which picked up prizes on the Croisette.

Other films from Cannes include Andrea Arnold’s Bird; Emanuel Pârvu’s Three Kilometers To The End Of The World; The Count Of Monte-Cristo; and Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With The Needle.

The European Film Academy has revealed the first tranche of film titles that members can consider for nominations for the European Film Awards, which take place on Dec. 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The academy’s selection of 29 titles covers films that had their first official screening between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. Further titles will be announced in September, which will include films that had their premieres in the summer and early autumn festivals, such as Locarno and Venice.

Among the selection are Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” Cannes’ best actress and jury prize winner, Miguel Gomes’ “Grand Tour,” Cannes’ best director winner, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds Of Kindness,” best actor winner at Cannes, Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” jury special prize winner at Cannes, Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” best screenplay winner at Cannes, “Armand” by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the Golden Camera winner at Cannes, Matthias Glasner’s “Dying,...

Die European Film Academy hat 29 Spielfilme bekannt gegeben, die ins Rennen um eine Nominierung in den Kategorien der European Film Awards, die am 7. Dezember in Luzern verliehen werden, gehen. Weitere sollen im September folgen.

Die ersten Filme der Spielfilmauswahl für die European Film Awards stehen fest (Credit: European Film Academy)

Der Vorstand der European Film Academy hat die ersten 29 Spielfilme bekannt gegeben für eine Nominierung in den Kategorien der European Film Awards bekannt gegeben. Weitere sollen nach Efa-Angaben im September folgen.

Wie die European Film Academy heute mitteilt, waren die Filme von den Akademiemitgliedern für eine Nominierung empfohlen worden.

Den rund 5.000 Akademiemitgliedern obliegt es nun auch, die Filme zu sichten und die Nominierten in den Kategorien „Europäischer Film“, „Regie“, „Schauspielerin“, „Schauspieler“, „Drehbuch“, „Dokumentarfilm“, „European Discover“ und „Young Audience Award“ zu benennen, die am 5. November bekannt gegeben werden.

Die Gewinner werden am 7. Dezember in Luzern zusammen mit den Gewinnern der...

Cannes Competition titles The Substance, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, and Emilia Perez are among the first set of titles recommended for nominations at this year’s European Film Awards.

Overall, 29 titles have been selected for the first stage of nominations by the European Film Academy Board. The selection includes films from 26 countries. In the coming weeks, the 5,000 members of the European Film Academy will start to vote on the selected films. The winners will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony in Lucerne, Switzerland, on December 7.

To be eligible for a European Film Awards, films must be European feature films which, among other criteria, had their first official screening between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024 and have a European director. The rule book states that should a film director not be European, exceptions can be made if the filmmaker is “provided they have a European refugee or similar status...

Mubi has acquired key territories on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest ahead of its world premiere in Competition at Venice Film Festival.

It has bought the film for UK-Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux and Latin America. Mubi will announce release plans in the coming months.

Adapted by Tsangari and Joslyn Barnes from Jim Crace’s novel of the same name, Harvest is a tragicomic take on a Western, in which a village in an undefined time and place disappears over seven hallucinatory days.

The cast includes Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling and Frank Dillane, plus Screen Stars of Tomorrow Arinze Kene,...

From Aug. 17-23, the charming coastal town of Haugesund, Norway, will showcase 76 films and 21 shorts in the newly renovated Edda film hub, offering two extra screening rooms, bringing the total halls to seven.

“We are looking forward to using the two new luxury halls and giving both the films and the audience a quality experience,” said festival honcho Tonje Hardersen.

Many of the high-quality features will screen in the festival’s main program, including several Cannes entries making their Norwegian premiere, such as “All We Imagine as Light,” “The Substance,” “Wild Diamond,” “The Girl with the Needle” and “When the Light Breaks.”

Among the four world premieres, three hail from Norway, a nation that boasts an enviable list of 2024 fest winners, such as Sundance’s “A New Kind of Wilderness,” “Handling the Undead,” Berlin’s “Sex” and Karlovy Vary’s “Loveable,” all lined up for Haugesund as well.

“Once again,...

Knapp 80 Filme von 45 Verleihern: Die Filmkunstmesse Leipzig holt einmal mehr die ganze Vielfalt des Arthouse auf die Leinwände der Passage-Kinos, des CineStar Leipzig und der Schauburg als Spielstätte für öffentliche Screenings. Jetzt wurde das Programm bekanntgegeben, das aus deutscher Sicht u.a. die neuen Werke von Tom Tykwer, Tim Fehlbaum oder Andres Veiel umfasst.

Großer Andrang zur Eröffnung: Darauf darf man sich auch bei der 24. Filmkunstmesse einstellen (Credit: Ag Kino-Gilde/Tom Schulze)

Publikums-, Kritiker- und Jurylieblinge des Festivals in Cannes: Sie sind traditionell fester Bestandteil des Programms der Filmkunstmesse Leipzig – und daran ändert sich natürlich auch bei der 24. Ausgabe des zentralen Treffens der deutschsprachigen Arthouse-Szene nichts. Ebenso wenig gilt dies für die immense Bandbreite und Vielfalt der dort für Fachpublikum (und teils auch für die Öffentlichkeit) gezeigten Titel. 78 Filme von 45 Verleihern zählen die Organisatoren der Ag Kino-Gilde diesmal.

Tradition haben auch hochkarätige Eröffnungsfilme am Montagabend – jeweils einer, der nur dem...

Hungarian director Gábor Reisz’s Explanation For Everything received the Grand Prix and a cash prize of €10,000 at the 24th edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival (18-28 July) in the Polish city of Wroclaw.

Reisz’s third feature film, which is being handled internationally by Films Boutique, premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival where it won the award for best film in the Orizzonti competition.

It also won a Golden and Silver Hugo Award in Chicago as well as prizes at Les Arcs, Febiofest Bratislava and Uruguay Iff, among others.

The International Competition Jury, which included...

Sweden’s major film and TV organisations have signed a letter to the government calling for an urgent change to the “first-come, first-served” funding process, which they claim saw all funds allocated in one minute in the latest funding round.

The letter, signed by representatives of eight organisations including Film i Vast, Svt and the Swedish Film Distributors Association, asks for the government “to promptly implement a change in the application process for support for audiovisual production (production incentives).”

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The criticism regards Section 11 of Sweden’s production incentive regulations, which were introduced in 2022. It...

The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled their lineup of 63 films from the Gala and Special Presentations programs. Notable titles include the world premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and The Last Showgirl, the North American premieres of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest and Justin Kurzel’s The Order, the Canadian premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, along with many favorites from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Check out the lineup below.

Galas 2024 (in alphabetical order)

*Previously announced

Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe Cosima Spender | UK

World Premiere

Better Man Michael Gracey | USA

Canadian Premiere

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Embeth Davidtz | South Africa

Canadian Premiere

Sales Title

*Eden Ron Howard | USA

World Premiere

Sales Title

*Elton John: Never Too Late R.J. Cutler, David Furnish | USA

World Premiere

*Harbin Woo Min-ho | South Korea

World Premiere

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World premieres from Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, David Mackenzie, Edward Burns, Uberto Pasolini, Peter Cattaneo, and Rachel Morrison among the Gala and Special Presentation titles unveiled by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) today (July 22).

Hard Truths is a rare TIFF premiere for Leigh after the UK auteur’s last film Peterloo debuted in Venice in 2018, while Mr. Turner in 2014 and Another Year in 2010 both premiered in Cannes. Cornerstone represents sales and Bleecker Street will handle US distributon on the film, which stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Secrets And Lies.

Pasolini’s The Return marks his follow-up to Venice 2020 entry Nowhere Special...