‘Greek Hollywood’ Looks to Cash in on Cachet as Production on the...
There were sunny skies over the Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, with unseasonably high temperatures leading many visitors to reach for the sunscreen while dashing between movie premieres and...
View ArticleSofia Exarchou’s Locarno Prize Winner ‘Animal’ Takes Top Award, Acting Honors...
Sofia Exarchou’s “Animal” won the Golden Alexander at the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival on Sunday, marking the first time in 30 years that a Greek film took home the top honors at the country’s...
View ArticleIDFA Winner Mohamed Jabaly, Director of ‘Life Is Beautiful,’ Reflects on...
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly, who won the best director award at documentary festival IDFA on Thursday for “Life Is Beautiful,” has expressed his sense of helplessness amid the rising death...
View ArticleAlternativa Film Project Marks Close of First Edition With Award Ceremony...
The first edition of the Alternativa Film Project wrapped with an award ceremony this weekend in Almaty, the cultural capital of Kazakhstan, with filmmakers from Central Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleOut of Russia’s Shadow, Kazakh Cinema Finds a Fresh Voice in Generation of...
While the war in Ukraine has upended global geopolitics and ratcheted up tensions between Russia and the West, the impact has been especially profound across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where many...
View ArticleCentral Asia’s ‘Children of Independence’ Win Festival Plaudits, Look to Grow...
Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, an emerging generation of filmmakers born and raised in the independent countries of Central Asia is giving an exhilarating charge to the region’s...
View ArticleAlternativa Film Project Looks to Bolster Impactful Cinema in Central Asia...
Siberian-born entrepreneur Arsen Tomsky is not your typical tech mogul. The CEO of the California-based technology company inDrive got his start far from Silicon Valley, when he designed a ride-hailing...
View ArticleArt Imitates Life in Sundance-Bound Abduction Comedy ‘Kidnapping Inc.’ After...
Art imitates life in the Sundance-bound “Kidnapping Inc.,” a dark comedy about a botched kidnapping plot that became eerily prescient when three crew members were abducted during the production of the...
View Article‘Doubling Down on Africa’: How Soccer, Local Content Are Driving Showmax Push...
Just days after Amazon Prime Video announced that it was pressing pause on its original content production in Africa, leading local streaming service Showmax is gearing up for a February relaunch...
View ArticleWhy Russia’s Propaganda Machine Is on the Attack Against a Blockbuster...
Just days after the Russian blockbuster “The Master and Margarita” surged to the top of the domestic box office, Kremlin cronies, pro-war propagandists and an army of online trolls have waged a...
View ArticleHeretic Takes World Sales Rights to Berlin-Bound ‘The Great Yawn,’ Poetic...
Heretic has acquired world sales right to Iranian director Aliyar Rasti’s “The Great Yawn,” a debut feature that premieres this month in the competitive Encounters strand of the Berlin Film Festival....
View ArticleJoburg Film Festival Sets Apartheid-Era Documentary ‘London Recruits’ as...
Gordon Main’s apartheid-era documentary “London Recruits” has been tapped as the opening film at the sixth Joburg Film Festival, which takes place Feb. 27 – March 3 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The...
View ArticleBaltic Screen Industries Continue to Surge Despite Global Turmoil, Uncertainty
To get a sense of the state of cinema in the Baltic countries today, you could look instead to Park City, Utah, where two of the region’s filmmakers — Estonia’s Anna Hints and Lithuania’s Marija...
View ArticleTop Baltic Producers Take Their Buzz Titles to EFM
One year after sharing the stage at the European Film Market as joint Countries in Focus, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia continue to shine. Despite the downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, the...
View ArticleUkraine War Drama ‘Stay Online,’ Shot Using Innovative Screenlife Format,...
“Stay Online,” a Ukraine war drama from director Yeva Strielnikova which uses the innovative Screenlife format, has been acquired for North American distribution by Dark Star Pictures, Variety has...
View ArticleK5 Intl. Takes International Sales Rights to Ukraine War Drama ‘Stay Online’...
K5 Intl., the international sales arm of K5 Media Group, has acquired world sales rights excluding North America to “Stay Online,” a tense Ukraine war drama that was entirely shot in the Eastern...
View ArticleMetFilm Sales Nabs International Rights to Sundance Documentary ‘The Battle...
MetFilm Sales has secured international rights to “The Battle for Laikipia,” Daphne Matziaraki and Peter Murimi’s multi-layered portrait of the conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white...
View ArticleUkraine Industry Strikes Defiant Note in Berlin Two Years After Russian...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will mark its second somber anniversary next week, though in recent months the conflict has been pushed from the headlines in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. But with...
View ArticleRising Senegalese Filmmaker Mamadou Dia on Grief, Trauma and ‘Indigenous...
A lonely widower wrestling with the loss of his wife finds himself in the thralls of a mental health crisis, setting the stage for a moving tale of grief and acceptance in Mamadou Dia’s “Demba,” which...
View ArticleAbel Ferrara Sets Ancient Tragedy-Inspired Modern Gangster Story ‘American...
Abel Ferrara is set to begin production on his latest feature, “American Nails,” a modern gangster story inspired by ancient tragedy that stars Asia Argento and Willem Dafoe, Variety has learned....
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