All Features articles
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Features11 hot topics from the Bafta nominations: voters embrace genre films, Cannes premieres, Gen Z stars
It is also a mixed year for UK talent and women are missing in many key categories.
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FeaturesHow simplifying the new emotions unlocked ‘Inside Out 2’
Initial emotional concepts for the film included Schadenfreude, Surprise and Shame.
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FeaturesWhat are the tentpole film releases of 2025 in the UK?
Screen spotlights a selection of releases that aim to drive UK cinemagoing in 2025.
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Features‘The Thing With Feathers’, ‘Pillion’ among key 2024 BFI production awards
Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut and ‘Retreat’, a thriller with a predominantly deaf cast, are also on the list.
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FeaturesNew Talent: ‘Vittoria’ filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman enjoy weaving fact with fiction
Venice Horizon’s title ‘Vittoria’ has proved the perfect calling card for what the Italy-US directing duo want to do.
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Features‘Superboys Of Malegaon’ filmmakers: “We felt it had an opportunity outside of India”
”The material lends itself to a global audience,” says director Reema Kagti.
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FeaturesMohammad Rasoulof on taking on Iran’s oppressive regime with ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’: “Just have hope”
The making of the politically charged domestic-drama thriller has become an inseparable element of the film itself.
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FeaturesInternational execs choose favourite projects, praise youth focus of Tallinn’s 28th edition
‘Emi’, ’The Worker’ and ‘Late Shift’ all gathered plaudits from industry attendees.
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NewsRussian director on ‘Deaf Lovers’ PÖFF controversy: “Censorship is the biggest threat to art in our world”
‘Deaf Lovers’ was removed from Tallinn’s ‘Standing With Ukraine’ programme but kept in the festival.
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FeaturesTallinn’s industry head looks forward to presenting projects, talking AI and debating funding sources
The Tallinn industry programme closed attendance applications early for the first time.
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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FeaturesHow a European fund is investing Nordic private equity in the indie film sector
Already partnering with A24, XYZ Films and mk2 Films, Finnish‑founded investment fund IPR.VC has ambitions to expand its footprint even further.
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FeaturesHow Israel’s Eran Riklis made ’Reading Lolita In Tehran’ with Golshifteh Farahani
“We stitch back what they tear apart,” says Farahani of the role of artists when making a film about Iran with an Israeli director.
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FeaturesBringing “quality to mass audiences”: Amazon’s UK and European originals heads talk film and scripted strategy
Tara Erer and Nicole Morganti explain how local talent and targeted demographics are the route to global hits.
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FeaturesJoshua Oppenheimer on giving a musical twist to the apocalypse in ‘The End’
‘The End’ stars Tilda Swinton and George MacKay and had its world premiere at Telluride.
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FeaturesTilda Swinton, Marvel and jellyfish tents: what goes on at the Venice Immersive island?
Projects include ‘Impulse: Playing With Reality’ and Marvel work ‘What If…?’
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Features“It’s a step up,” say Sarajevo industry heads of boosted 2024 programme
The 45 projects in this year’s CineLink include several from Turkey.
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NewsSarajevo’s Jovan Marjanovic talks physical expansion, hometown heroes and tackling tricky issues
“We hope it becomes the new centre of the city, and the country,” says the festival director of the newly-expanded festival.
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FeaturesHow FIRST International Film Festival offers a springboard for new Chinese directors
FIFF founder and head Song Wen discusses the spirit of the festival and future of Chinese independent and arthouse cinema.
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FeaturesWhy Malaysian censors cleared sensitive riot drama ‘Snow In Midsummer’ (exclusive)
Chong Keat Aun’s award-winning feature is the first local film about Kuala Lumpur’s tragic race riots of May 1969 to secure a release.