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NewsTallinn Black Nights responds to criticism of Russian film: “This is an anti-war work”
Film has been removed from the Standing with Ukraine programme, but remains in competition.
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FeaturesTallinn director Tiina Lokk warns about threats to film festival independence
”There is no right to demand that you should take a film off your programme,” says Lokk.
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News‘Putin’ director on guerrilla filming in Russia and his AI ambitions
Polish filmmaker Patryk Vega’s Putin is being sold by Germany’s Kinostar at the AFM.
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NewsHamburg’s Tamtam Film on working with European partners to expand drama, doc and series slate
Company has two projects - Kerstin Polte’s Highly Explosive and Charlotte Sieling’s Way Home - playing at Filmfest Hamburg.
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NewsTIFF halts ‘Russians At War’ screenings after “significant threats”; producers lament “heartbreaking” situation
“This decision has been made in order to ensure the safety of all festival guests, staff, and volunteers.”
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NewsTIFF backs North American premiere of ‘Russians At War’ doc despite Ukrainian-Canadian protests
Documentary Organization of Canada also speaks out after TVOntario withdraws support for Anastasia Trofimova’s film.
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FeaturesAlexander Rodnyansky on financing October 7 drama ‘Of Dogs And Men’
The drama is directed by Dani Rosenberg and premieres in Venice’s Horizons strand.
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NewsFrench hit ‘A Little Something Extra’ sells to key territories (exclusive)
The comedy drama is the biggest film at the French box office so far this year.
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News‘Limonov: The Ballad’ filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov backs Georgian protestors
Serebrennikov was speaking during a Cannes press conference about protests that have errupted in Georgia over a controversial new law.
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NewsSergei Loznitsa gears up to shoot Stalin-era drama ’Two Prosecutors’ (exclusive)
Film based on a novel by little known Russian writer Georgy Demidov.
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FeaturesHow Estonia’s Ida-Viru region is building its film industry on the border with Russia
Ida-Viru shares a 77km border with Russia; the region has confirmed funding for a €15m film studio for 2025.
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News‘Navalny’ director, film collaborators react to Alexei Navalny death; Berlin vigil underway
Hundreds of Berliners are gathered outside the Russian embassy.
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NewsAlexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, subject of ‘Navalny’ doc, dies in prison
Navalny was the subject of the 2023 Oscar & Bafta best documentary winner.
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NewsMatch Factory takes on sales for Victor Kossakovsky’s Berlinale Competition title ‘Architecton’
A24 will distribute the documentary in North America.
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NewsRussia tops international markets for French films in 2023
It was followed by Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain.
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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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NewsRussian buyers and sellers out in force at AFM
“We are following the same protocol as last year,” said AFM’s organiser, IFTA.
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Reviews‘Air’: Tokyo Review
Alexey German Jr focuses on female Russian pilots in this surprsingly conventional Second World War drama
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FeaturesWhy ‘Queendom’ director Agniia Galdanova put her cinematographer on roller skates
The filmmaker spoke at a screening of her film at DMZ Docs in South Korea.
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Reviews‘Empire V’: Fantasia Review
Banned in Russia, this fantasy feature sees the country ruled over by an elite, secret conclave of vampires