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Donald Trump asked Emma Thompson on a date. “A phone rang in my trailer, and it was Donald Trump. I thought it was a joke. I said: ‘How can I help you’? I thought he needed direction. He…
Emma Thompson called her character in Brian Kirk’s film “Dead of Winter” a “real life heroine” during a conversation at Locarno Film Festival on Friday. “We seem to be telling an awful lot…
LOCARNO, Switzerland — Sophia Mocorrea, writer-director of Sundance winning short “Kidnapping of the Bride” and awaited feature “Marriage by Abduction,” which scooped December’s Les Arcs…
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s “With Hasan in Gaza” will be for many a hauntingly poignant visual journey through Gaza as it existed in 2001. Based on recently rediscovered video…
At Locarno Film Festival on Friday, Emma Thompson will be honored and her latest film, Brian Kirk’s thriller “The Dead of Winter,” will have its world premiere. Variety spoke to the…
Queer romance “Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes,” Johannesburg-set funeral farce “Death & Its Friends” and feel-good heist movie “The Color Yellow” (“Manjano”) look like potential standouts…
Though long celebrated as one of our most versatile screen stars, four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe might not seem like the obvious choice to portray a swaggering, playboy…
Hana Jušić’s second feature “God Will Not Help” has debuted a trailer ahead of its Locarno premiere. Selected for its prestigious International Competition and set in the early 20th…
Adding to the run-up of pre-Locarno business, in one key distribution deal, Zurich-based Frenetic Films, one of Switzerland’s most highly-regarded arthouse/crossover distribution houses,…
International film sales agency MoreThan Films has picked up rights to Sophy Romvari’s feature debut “Blue Heron” ahead of its world premiere as part of the Filmmakers of the Present…
Japanese director Kawase Naomi’s drama “Yakushima’s Illusion” (“L’Illusion de Yakushima”), starring Vicky Krieps, will world premiere at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival as a late…
Paris-based sales-production house Totem – whose sales slate has included “Compartment No. 6,” My Favourite Cake” and “The Hypnosis” – has boarded worldwide sales on “Follies,” a sexually…
Heretic has acquired world sales rights to Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze’s “Dry Leaf” ahead of its world premiere in the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival.…
Lights On has boarded international sales for “Hair, Paper, Water…,” the latest collaboration between Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Graux and Vietnamese director Truong Minh Quy, which will…
Intramovies has picked up interational sales rights for Italian drama “Mosquitos” (“Le Bambine”). Directed by Valentina and Nicole Bertani, it will premiere at Locarno Film Festival’s…
Rome-based Intramovies has taken global sales rights to “White Snail,” the first fiction feature by Austrian-German artistic duo Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter which world premieres in main…
New Paris-based sales and co-production outfit B-Rated International has acquired sales rights to “Sorella di Clausura,” Ivana Mladenovic‘s parody of romantic melodrama, ahead of the…
Locarno main competition title “Phantoms of July,” the latest from fast-rising German director Julian Radlmaier, has been picked up for international by Bendita Film Sales. The full…
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival has announced its full lineup, which will see Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche and Ben Rivers competing for its prestigious Golden Leopard. Jude, who won…
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, who is admired for her work with Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola…
The Locarno Film Festival will present its Honorary Leopard Award, Pardo d’Onore, to American filmmaker Alexander Payne on Aug. 15 during its 78th edition. Payne will also present his…
Lucy Liu will be honored with a career achievement award at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival where the U.S. multi-hyphenate known for iconic roles in “Kill Bill” and “Charlie’ s Angels”…
Emma Thompson will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival where her latest film, Brian Kirk’s action thriller “The Dead of Winter” – which she executive produced – will have its world…
