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Kate Winslet was feted before the European premiere of her film Lee at the Munich International Film Festival and told the packed crowd about starring in, and producing, the movie about war photographer Lee Miller. Taking the stage to accept the Festival's CineMerit award, Winslet said that the…

"With disruption comes great opportunity," Mubi Chief Content Officer Jason Ropell told delegates at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Tuesday. "It brings evolution and I think, right now, optimism in the business is warranted."   Speaking at a rare onstage interview at KVIFF's…

 Karlovy Vary has revealed winners for its market and industry sections: Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch & Intensive Queer, Works in Development – KVIFF Talents, and First Cut+ Works in Progress.  The 2024 KVIFF Eastern Promises winners comprise:  Works in…

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will be bestowed with the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. The actress and producer will also participate in an In Conversation With… event looking back on her career. The TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award…

The Berlin Film Festival is launching a new section called Perspectives, a competitive strand devoted to international fiction feature debuts. The strand is being launched with an eye on strengthening the breadth of new talent at the festival, which will also discontinue its Encounters strand, first…

UPDATED: The 81st Venice Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci, with Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe. The Warner Bros sequel will be screened out of competition…

It wouldn't be a film festival without at least one timely, harrowing emigrant story, but just when you might think the stylistic possibilities have been exhausted — from documentary, to vérité-style fiction and occasionally a dash of deadpan comedy (like Ben Sharrock's wonderful Limbo, 2020) — along…

Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be feted by the upcoming Locarno Film Festival with a career achievement award, celebrating his more than 100 credits across a multitude of genres. The Bollywood star will receive the award in the festival's Piazza Grande on August 10. He will then also…

Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz drama Life scooped the top Golden Bee award for Best Feature Film at Malta's second Mediterrane Film Festival over the weekend. This year's selection was overseen by Italian film festival veteran Teresa Cavina, who pulled together a line-up of 45 works with…

Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm hit the festival circuit this month with Désirée Nosbusch's emotionally raw drama Poison, in which they co-star as an ex-couple who meet up years after the death of their young son which drove them apart. The feature, which world premieres at Germany’s Munich Film Festival…

Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus will make its UK premiere at the revamped Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) in August. The highly anticipated reboot of Ridley Scott's horror franchise will open the festival's new Midnight Madness strand on August 15. 20th Century Studios will release…

Christmas has come early for genre fans this year with the release of MaXXXine, the third and perhaps not-so-final part of a horror trilogy that began in 2022 with X, a splatterfest set in the '70s porn industry. Mia Goth was director Ti West's leading lady, playing both Maxine Mink, the leading lady of…