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Bitters End has acquired international sales rights for “Two Seasons, Two Strangers,” the latest feature from Japanese director Sho Miyake, ahead of the Cannes film market. With three…
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys,…
Pluto Film has boarded Pedro Cabeleira’s “Entroncamento” (Night Passengers) as sales agent. The film premieres in Cannes sidebar ACID. The film is set in the neighborhood of Entroncamento…
Doha Film Institute CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi will be fêted during the Cannes Film Festival by the Arab Cinema Center with its Arab Cinema Personality of the Year Award. The award honors…
International sales outfit Cercamon has acquired worldwide rights to the Gaza-set documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” directed by Iranian-French filmmaker Sepideh Farsi. The…
Loco Films has landed international sales rights to “The Man Who Saw the Bear,” the long-awaited directorial comeback of iconic French actor Pierre Richard. The anticipated movie will…
Screenbound International Pictures is set to shop helmer Arabella Burfitt-Dons’ sophomore feature “Finding My Voice” to international buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market, with a…
European Film Promotion has selected 20 rising European producers for the 26th edition of its Producers on the Move networking program, which runs during the Cannes Film Festival. Variety…
PARIS — Halle Berry and “Succession” star Jeremy Strong are part of the powerhouse panel that will join jury president Juliette Binoche at the Cannes Film Festival. Though Binoche was…
PARIS — Viola Davis is set to shine a light on women directors, and will serve as juror for this year’s Lights on Women’s Worth award. The L’Oréal Paris prize is marking its fifth year at…
A restored 4K version of Charlie Chaplin‘s classic silent comedy “The Gold Rush” is set to have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of a global release timed exactly 100…
Cannes Critics’ Week has revealed the jury for its Next Step program’s €2,500 ($2,835) development prize, with three key industry figures set to select the most promising debut feature…
Spike Lee has boarded as an executive producer on Chinese-Lebanese Spanish-born filmmaker Joecar Hanna‘s short film “Talk Me,” which has been selected by Cannes Film Festival to run in its…
10 directors from eight countries are set to pitch their latest projects in development to a select group of VIP private investors in Cannes as part of the Marche du Film’s Investors…
HanWay Films has boarded “The Third Parent,” the upcoming horror starring Rob Lowe (“The West Wing,” St. Elmo’s Fire”) alongside Crispin Glover (“Back to the Future,” “River’s Edge”), and…
Payal Kapadia, who made history last year as the first Indian director in three decades to win a major award in Cannes’ main competition, was honored with France‘s prestigious “Officier…
Indie animation producer and distributor GKIDS and Japanese stop-motion animation studio Dwarf announced that they will jointly develop a new animated film based on the original…
Circle Women Doc Accelerator has selected four documentary projects by women and gender-expansive filmmakers for its annual showcase at the upcoming Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film…
Cannes’ Annecy Animation Showcase has become an annual appetizer to June’s Annecy Festival, the year’s main course for all things animation. Today, the event, co-organized by the Marché du…
Sales agent Square Eyes has acquired worldwide rights to the Ukrainian feature documentary “Militantropos,” directed by Alina Gorlova (“This Rain Will Never Stop”), Yelizaveta Smith…
A partner for the fifth time to the Marché du Film‘s Goes to Cannes showcase, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – the Baltics’ biggest film event – will dedicate a curated program to…
ACID, a Cannes Film Festival parallel section, has announced its 2025 selection consisting of nine feature films. That includes “L’aventura” by Sophie Letourneur, Aurélien…
Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the lineup of its 64th edition, which will be dominated by French and Belgian movies, kicking off with Laura Wandel’s tense social drama “Adam’s…
Ethan Hunt could be hitting the Croisette. Though no decision has been made, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is weighing a Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise…
