All articles by Tim Dams – Page 4
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NewsGeorgian drama ‘Tear Gas’ leads Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro winners
Nine projects win prizes from IFFR Pro’s Cinemart and Darkroom programme.
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NewsPiperFilm scores North America deal for porn industry biopic ‘Diva Futura’ (exclusive)
Giulia Louise Steigerwal’s film world premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
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NewsHubert Bals’ funding pot grows as demand for development financing rises
International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has backed festival hits such as Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light
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NewsItaly’s PiperFilm to sell Eagle Pictures films including hit ‘The Boy With The Pink Trousers’ (exclusive)
Leading Italian companies strike partnership agreement that will also see Eagle handle home video releases of PiperFilm’s movies.
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NewsBerlin title ‘Reflection In A Dead Diamond’ secures key sales; first trailer unveiled (exclusive)
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s latest is an homage to the 1960s Euro-spy action thriller starring Fabio Testi.
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NewsCate Blanchett shines light on refugee filmmaking fund: “These stories aren’t getting into the mainstream”
Blancett officially launched €500,000 Displacement Film Fund at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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NewsIran’s Soheila Golestani banned from travelling to Rotterdam to serve on festival jury
Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Golestani, calling her ”a victim of opression”.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic takes aim at Donald Trump in passionate opening-night speech
The festival director emphasised the power of cinema to connect pepole in an era of resurgent nationalism.
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NewsRotterdam’s Vanja Kaludjercic, Clare Stewart talk festival highlights and funding challenges
2025 edition presents filmmakers, themes and topics “that you do not often get a chance to see.”
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NewsArthood Entertainment boards Rotterdam Big Screen competition title ‘Soft Leaves’ (exclusive)
Coming-of-age drama is debut feature by Belgian-Japanese director and screenwriter Miwako Van Weyenberg.
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NewsCate Blanchett teams with Rotterdam film festival for Displacement Film Fund
Short film scheme will fund the work of displaced filmmakers.
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NewsJulie-Jeanne Régnault to leave as general secretary of European Film Agency Directors association
Exec has played a key role in European Union film industry policy discussions.
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NewsRuben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’ starts filming, reveals additional cast
Double Palme d’Or winners’ latest kicks off production in Budapest.
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NewsMinerva Pictures unveils EFM slate including features from Andrea Pallaoro and Stefano Sardo (exclusive)
Line-up also includes Taavi Vartia’s Finnish survival thriller Ice Skater.
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NewsAlexandra Lebret steps down as managing director of European Producers Club
Lebret has headed influential producers organisation since 2002.
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NewsBerlinale adds final titles to Panorama, Forum and Generation Kplus strands
Three films added to the Berlinale line-up.
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NewsFive Oscar nominations talking points: less diversity, surprise shut-outs and Universal sets record
Coralie Fargeat, director of ’The Substance’, does much of the heavy lifting for female representation.
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NewsIntramovies unveils key sales for Venice Horizons Extra drama ‘Vittoria’ (exclusive)
Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman-directed feature sells to countries including France and Japan.
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NewsBerlinale selection will “get people talking about vibrancy” of film, says Tricia Tuttle
Tuttle sought to navigate a path for 2025 edition where politics can be discussed but films can also be celebrated.
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Features10 talking points for the US and international film industry in 2025
Topics include AI, the Trump effect on M&As, US vs international production hubs, and continued cuts to public funding.