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Croatian director Igor Bezinović's documentary Fiume o Morte! exploring the complex figure of Italian poet and playwright Gabriele D'Annunzio has won the top Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The film also won the FIPRESCI Award for standout film in the main Tiger…

EXCLUSIVE: Deva Cassel (Netflix’s The Leopard), Julien De Saint Jean (The Count Of Monte Cristo) and Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) are set to co-star in a contemporary, French-language version of Gaston Leroux's classic Paris-set novel The Phantom of the Opera, aimed at a young adult audience and…

EXCLUSIVE: Addam Bramich, Ryan Hamilton and Volodymyr Artemenko's production banner Simple House Films is launching an international sales arm at the EFM. The new division is headed by Anastazja Bankowska, who recently served as Global Sales Executive at Kino Swiat, the leading Polish…

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases…

As the couple in Oh, Hi! struggles to fully commit, the Sundance Film Festival romantic-comedy from Sophie Brooks also struggled to connect with its audience. Writer-director Brooks’ sophomore feature stars Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman as Iris and…

Netflix is in talks for the Geeta Gandbhir directed documentary The Perfect Neighbor which won the Documentary Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Neighbor made its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The film follows a minor…

EXCLUSIVE: Sixth Dimension, Studiocanal's new in-house genre label led by Jed Benedict, has picked up global rights excluding North America to the reboot of 1984 slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night. The project, which is the label's first acquisition, is heading into production this spring and is…

Dutch distributor Huub Roelvink, founder and managing director of Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie, has been selected for the inaugural EFM Distributor Award recognizing his contribution and commitment to arthouse distribution. He was chosen by a three-person professional jury consisting of…

EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has unveiled one of its biggest European Film Market slates ever featuring upcoming films by Cristian Mungiu, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Saeed Roustaee, Claire Denis, Mario Martone and Raoul Peck. The company is also handling a trio of Berlin Film Festival titles: Lucile…

SXSW has rounded out its film lineup for the 2025 edition, while also announcing that Daniel Minahan's On Swift Horses will close the film and TV festival in its U.S. premiere. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter star in On Swift Horses, which follows Muriel (Edgar-Jones) and her…

America's newest film festival is about to get underway, in Hollywood's backyard. The Ladyface Mountain Film Festival in Agoura Hills, about 30 miles to the west of the movie capital, opens Thursday with a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane, directed by Julian Brave…

EXCLUSIVE: Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola are set to join Raffey Cassidy in the cast of Antonia Campbell-Hughes upcoming thriller Diamond Shitter. Beta Cinema unveiled the casting additions as it boarded the feature, for a pre-sales launch at the EFM. Produced by London and…