Melanie Goodfellow
Screen's Senior Correspondent, Europe & Middle East, based in London.
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NewsFrench genre start-up Wild West unveils 12 new projects at Bordeaux event (exclusive)
Wild West was created by Wild Bunch International and Capricci last year to foster French-language genre content.
NewsWild Bunch International posts fresh deals on Cannes title ‘Holy Spider’ (exclusive)
Iran-set serial killer drama draws buyers worldwide following buzzy world premiere in Competition at Cannes.
NewsCannes Marché du Film’s incoming director Guillaume Esmiol talks 2022 comeback edition
Incoming market head talks enticing professionals back to the Palais, plans for the future and potential price hikes.
NewsCannes attendees jubilant over return to physical market as business returns
Final figures show there were 12,872 professionals accredited to the market as it returns to full strength.
NewsSaudi Arabia’s Telfaz11 pacts with France’s Easy Riders on four-picture slate
Telfaz11 was at the forefront of Saudi Arabia’s YouTube content revolution of the 2010s and is now pushing into cinema.
News“It’s not a comeback film”: former French rap star Diams talks Cannes bio-doc ‘Salam’
Bio-documentary is co-directed by ex-rapper Melanie Diams, ‘Divines’ director Houda Benyamina and writer Anne Cissé.
NewsFeaturistic Films, WTFilms re-team on survival thriller ‘Cold Meat’ (exclusive)
Downton Abbey star Allen Leech plays a man battling for survival in a blizzard in the Colorado Rockies.
NewsColombian teen drama ‘The Pack’ scoops top Cannes Critics’ Week prize
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
NewsReservoir Docs posts first deals on ‘Goya, Carrière And The Ghost Of Buñuel’ (exclusive)
The documentary revolving around French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière world premiered at Cannes Classics
NewsMPM serves up territories for culinary ‘Umami’ starring Gerard Depardieu (exclusive)
The Paris-based company is planning a special physical market screening in Tokyo on June 1 for Japanese buyers.
NewsFrench give “loss of habit’ as key reason for not going to cinema post-pandemic
National Cinema Centre study probes ongoing 30% shortfall in cinema admissions a year after theatres reopened.
NewsMad Solutions takes MENA rights to Soudade Kaadan’s ‘Nezouh’
It is Kaadan’s second feature after The Day I Lost My Shadow, which won Venice’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best first film in 2018.
NewsVytautas Katkus’s ‘The Visitor’ wins Critics’ Week Next Step project prize
The prize is connected to the parallel section’s Next Step programme helping directors move from shorts to features.
NewsKimStim acquires Berlinale Encounters winner ‘Unrest’ (exclusive)
Paris-based Alpha Violet handles international sales on period drama exploring the birth of the anarchist movement in a Swiss valley.
NewsOmar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’ sweeps Critics’ Awards for Arab Films
167 film critics from 68 countries voted on the awards organised by the Arab Cinema Centre.
NewsFrance’s forgotten comic book super-heroes set for Marvel-style revival (exclusive)
French talent agent Florent Lamy has optioned rights to slew of French superheroes such as the Mikros trio, L’Archer Blanc and Epsilon.
NewsMarion Cotillard gets behind impact film production company Newtopia
New company spearheaded by filmmaker Cyril Payen and producer Magali Payen has three productions in development.
News‘Yomeddine’ director A.B. Shawky signs for Saudi feature ‘Sea Of Sands’ (exclusive)
Saudi-Egyptian co-production revolves around the special bond between a young Bedouin orphan and a camel.
Newsmk2 films posts early deals on buzzy Un Certain Regard title ‘Corsage’ (exclusive)
Vicky Krieps as the 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria, affectionately nicknamed Sisi, as she turns 40.
NewsTF1 Studio boards ‘Funny Birds’ starring Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Saylor (exclusive)
Martin Scorsese is executive producer on second feature from LA-based French directorial duo Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Via.