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NewsIda wins Helsinki audience award
Helsinki International Film Festival scores new audience record.
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News'71 wins top Athens award
Other winners included Norwegian drama Blind, Danish horror When Animals Dream and Nick Cave doc 20,000 Days On Earth.
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NewsZurich launch pad for Swiss films
Eleven Swiss films and five Swiss co-productions will screen during the 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25-Oct 5).
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NewsDirector on Swiss Oscar hopeful The Circle
Award-winning Swiss director Stefan Haupt may have to make room in his trophy cabinet with his latest film The Circle (Der Kreis).
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NewsYalom's Cure taken across Europe
Swiss feature doc Yalom’s Cure, which premiered at the Locarno Festival in August, has been snapped up by a number of European distributors.
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NewsAntonio Banderas to star in Altamira
EXCLUSIVE: Spain shoot for period drama from Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson.
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NewsBille August’s Silent Heart beats globally
After playing in San Sebastian, the family drama sells across Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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NewsConcrete Night wins at Finnish Film Week
Finnish Oscar submission Concrete Night won Director of the Year for Pirjo Honkasalo and Producers of the Year for Mark Lwoff-Misha Jaaari at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Week.
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NewsUK, France get Second Chance
Susanne Bier’s drama debuted at Toronto and stars Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster Waldau.
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NewsSvensk promotes Stjernströmer Björk
Jenny Stjernströmer Björk appointed new evp acquisition and co-production at Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri
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NewsStudioCanal pacts with Grand Electric
Producer Eric Newman’s newly formed Grand Electric has entered into a multi-year co-venture with StudioCanal through which the new company will acquire, develop, and produce films for the European and US markets.
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NewsSan Seb unveils co-pro winner
Cuban film August wins the San Sebastián Co-production Fórum; Magallanes wins Films in Progress.
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NewsIda producer to pitch at Connecting Cottbus
New projects by the producers of Ida and Crulic are among 13 selected from Albania to Ukraine to be pitched at this year’s Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market (November 6-7).
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NewsSpanish cinema hits record high
SAN SEBASTIAN: Local films secure best-ever box office share of 23.6%.
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NewsItaly submits Human Capital to Oscars
Italy hopes to repeat last year’s win in the Best Foreign-Language Film category with Paolo Virzi’s family thriller.
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NewsLocarno opens doors to northern Africa
The 13th edition of Locarno’s Open Doors co-production forum to focus on four countries in the Maghreb.
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NewsTurkey's Fabula scores bumper Toronto
EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling Turkısh distributor snaps up 20 titles.
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NewsFinnish filmmaker Peter von Bagh dies
Finnish film historian, critic, documentary filmmaker Peter von Bagh – co-founder and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival – has died aged 71
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NewsPascal Breton launches Federation Entertainment
Heading into MIPCOM, French television executive Pascal Breton has partnered with a group of film and television producers and showrunners to launch Federation Entertainment.