Cannes
Greta Gerwig Named Cannes Jury President for 2024
Greta Gerwig is hitting the Croisette. The Barbie helmer, fresh off her first-ever best director nomination at the Golden Globes (Gerwig’s $1.4 billion toy-to-screen blockbuster picked up a total of 9 Golden Globe noms), has been confirmed as the Jury President for the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival. “A heroine of our modern times, Greta […]
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Switzerland Country of Honor at 2024 Cannes Film Market
Switzerland has been named the new country of honor for the upcoming Marché du Film, the 2024 Cannes Film Market, which will run May 14 to 22, 2024. The small Alpine nation punches above its weight on the international film scene, in large part due to its positioning as an ideal co-production partner, with a […]
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Lupita Nyong’o to Exec Produce Sudan Drama ‘Goodbye Julia’
Lupita Nyong’o has boarded Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s feature debut, Goodbye Julia, as an executive producer. The first-ever Sudanese feature to screen at the Cannes Film Festival was also selected by the African country to be its second-ever Academy Awards submission for best international feature film. “Goodbye Julia is a powerful representation of the conflict happening in Sudan […]
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‘In Flames’ Supernatural Horror Pic Lands at Game Theory Films (Exclusive)
In Flames, the feature debut of Pakistani-Canadian director Zarrar Kahn, has been picked up for the U.S. market by Game Theory Films. The Urdu-language horror movie, which premiered as part of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight lineup, follows a young woman and her mother tormented by real and fantastic forces following the death of the family patriarch. The […]
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Israeli Director Yahav Winner Found Dead After Hamas Terrorist Attack
Israeli soldiers have recovered the body of The Boy director Yahav Winner after he fought off an attack on his home by Hamas terrorists in the southern Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, only to be kidnapped and eventually killed. On Thursday, Israeli sales and distribution company Go2Films confirmed the death of the Israeli […]
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‘In the Rearview’ Director Maciek Hamela Brings Human Face to Brutal Ukraine War
Maciek Hamela’s documentary In the Rearview, about Ukrainian refugees traversing their war-torn country in his dusty van as they seek safety during the first days of the Russian invasion, bowed in Cannes. But the Polish director is relishing the upcoming North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Canada has kept its door wide open […]
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TIFF Legend: How Atom Egoyan’s Career Was Launched on a Toronto Sidewalk
Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan’s 40-year relationship with the Toronto International Film Festival helped put his movies on the map in Hollywood. But that impressive trajectory out of Toronto of iconic Egoyan dramas like Next of Kin, Family Viewing, The Adjuster, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter and Guest of Honor — often psychodramas about families shattered by […]
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Lux Award Shortlist Includes Cannes, Berlin Winners
The Lux Award, a film prize awarded by the European Parliament, unveiled the five finalists for its 2024 honor at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. The shortlist includes already-lauded favorites from the Berlin, Cannes and Sundance film festivals. On the Adamant, Nicolas Philibert’s French documentary about a unique psychiatric treatment center based on a […]
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Sandra Hüller Stars in Trailer for Cannes Palme d’Or Winner ‘Anatomy of a Fall’
German actress Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) plays a German writer accused of murdering her French husband (Samuel Theis) in the first trailer for the new Neon film Anatomy of a Fall. The French thriller, from director Justine Triet, won the Palme d’Or in Cannes and is already being eyed as a potential contender for the […]
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Iranian Director Saeed Roustayi Imprisoned for Screening Film ‘Leila’s Brothers’ in Cannes
Iranian director and screenwriter Saeed Roustayi has been sentenced to six months in prison for screening his film Leila’s Brothers at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival without necessary authorization, according to local reports. The filmmaker — alongside his producer Javad Noruzbegi — were on Tuesday found guilty of “contributing to propaganda of the opposition against the Islamic […]
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Spike Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Nadine Labaki Join Toronto Film Fest’s Visionaries Program
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Visionaries informal conversation series presented by The Hollywood Reporter, led by Spike Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Nadine Labaki and The King’s Speech producer See-Saw Films. Oscar-winning director Lee will be on hand to discuss his long career in Hollywood, which includes the groundbreaking 1992 biopic Malcolm X. […]
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Wang Bing, Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard Films Join Toronto Film Fest Lineup
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental work that includes films by avant garde directors Denis Côté, Radu Jude, the late Chantal Akerman and Wang Bing. There’s selections for Isiah Medina’s He Thought He Died, an experimental heist film; Angela Schanelec’s Music, a retelling of the Oedipus myth; and Denis […]
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