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FeaturesNew Talent: ‘Vittoria’ filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman enjoy weaving fact with fiction
Venice Horizon’s title ‘Vittoria’ has proved the perfect calling card for what the Italy-US directing duo want to do.
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Features‘Superboys Of Malegaon’ filmmakers: “We felt it had an opportunity outside of India”
”The material lends itself to a global audience,” says director Reema Kagti.
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FeaturesDaniel Craig talks ‘Queer’ role: “It wouldn’t have worked when I was doing Bond”
Queer’ is only the second movie Daniel Craig has made since his final appearance as James Bond in 2021’s ’No Time To Die’.
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Features“I like a challenge”: director Karim Elshenawy on telling ’The Tale Of Daye’s Family’
The inspirations behind family drama ’The Tale Of Daye’s Family’, which opens the 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival.
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Features“Tolerance and ambition”: Red Sea film programmers reveal goals for the festival
Red Sea programmers programmers Antoine Khalife and Kaleem Aftab discuss how they are growing the festival to become a major international platform.
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FeaturesArab studio MAD Solutions looks back on 15 years of growth and readies its next chapter
After 15 years in business, Arab entertainment studio MAD Solutions is entering its next phase.
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FeaturesAamir Khan talks India’s Oscar selection of ‘Lost Ladies’ and how he nearly starred in the film
The Bollywood actor and producer is on the awards campaign for the feature directed by Kiran Rao.
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FeaturesBabatunde Apalowo wrestled with writer’s block to create second feature ‘In The Shadows Of Good Fortune’
Apalowo is presenting ‘The Shadow Of Good Fortune’ at Marrakech’s prestigious Atlas Workshops.
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FeaturesHow Cherien Dabis moved ‘All That’s Left Of You’ from Palestine to Cyprus and Greece to avoid the war
“It’s unheard of to have to re-prep a movie as many times as we had to on this one,” says the Palestine-US filmmaker.
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Features“It’s humour that will save us,” says ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ director Lina Soualem as she prepares first fiction feature
‘Alicante’ is about a woman’s relationship with her Algerian parents who have moved to Spain to open a restaurant.
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Features‘Kneecap’ filmmakers on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics and bringing bigger budget films to Belfast
Rich Peppiatt’s film won audience awards at Sundance and Galway and is being released next month in UK-Ireland.
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NewsRussian director on ‘Deaf Lovers’ PÖFF controversy: “Censorship is the biggest threat to art in our world”
‘Deaf Lovers’ was removed from Tallinn’s ‘Standing With Ukraine’ programme but kept in the festival.
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FeaturesIDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia reflects on polarisation of the doc sector and the dangers of self-censorship
Festival admissions climbed back to pre-Covid levels.
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NewsNikhil Mahajan on his tiger thriller ‘Raavsaaheb’: “We were very concerned about crew safety”
Mahajan’s Marathi-language fourth feature is inspired by real deaths when tigers have strayed into human villages.
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Features‘Fear & Trembling’ directors Manijeh Hekmat and Faeze Azizkhani: "It's a dire situation for filmmakers in Iran"
Iranian filmmakers co-write and co-direct story of a fundamentalist older woman who isolates herself from society
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FeaturesTallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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FeaturesRecord entries, big budgets and new funders: How the IDFA Forum for creative docs is shaping up
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, IDFA’s head of industry, says she was surprised by the sheer number of entries this year.
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Features“Documentary film has always been annoying to authorities,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
The artistic director is embracing issues from AI to global politics in his final edition that opens today.
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FeaturesSeville film festival head explains how the Spanish event supports European films in the awards conversation
Manuel Cristóbal is overseeing his second edition as festival director of the Spanish festival.