Cannes Discovery Award Winner Laura Ferrés Brings Debut Feature to Locarno Competition

Since first being introduced to EastEnders fans all the way back in 2009, Lily Slater has fast become a fan favourite as viewers at home have watched the youngster grow up before their very eyes. Most recently, the twelve year old daughter of Stacey Slater has shocked fans with a teenage pregnancy storyline, with the initial mystery surrounding the baby’s father - and her decision to keep the baby - keeping viewers on the very edge of their seats.

If you're as nosy as we are then you probably spent a lot of this past 2023 Love Island series wondering how the stars achieved their glowing tans and toned figures. We particularly wondered what Jess Harding did to get such flawless skin and perfect features – and now we finally have the answer. Posting new Instagram Story videos from the passenger seat of a car, Jess answers "aesthetic-related" questions from followers.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Victor Erice, one of the greatest of Spanish filmmakers, will receive a prestigious Donostia Award, given for career achievement, granted by the San Sebastian Film Festival. The award will coincide with screening of Erice’s latest film, “Close Your Eyes” (Cerrar los Ojos), which world premiered at the Cannes Festival this May.

Laura Hamilton has been flooded with support from fans after sharing a family announcement on social media. The 41-year-old is known for her presenting role on A Place in the Sun on Channel 4, as well as regular appearances on This Morning, where she often takes on live features on location.

Guy Lodge Film Critic On the final weekend of a bustling 18-day event, the in-person edition of this year’s Melbourne Film Festival has drawn to a close with an awards ceremony that saw a whopping $300,000 AUD (over $191,000 USD) in prize money handed out across six categories. The biggest individual award of $140,000 AUD (nearly $90,000 USD) was presented to the winner of the fest’s international Bright Horizons competition: “Banel & Adama,” an arresting debut feature by Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy.

Estonia has selected the Sundance prize-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

EXCLUSIVE: The meteoric rise of women’s soccer is continuing. The origins of the women’s game is to be explored in a feature from director Farren Blackburn and Free Turn Entertainment.

ITV FIFA Women's World Cup star Laura Woods has hit back at a nasty troll’s message in the best way after she was teased over her selfies on Instagram. Laura shared the messages with her fans on her Instagram stories where the troll could be seen calling Laura “ugly” on two separate occasions, in response to two different selfies she had posted. The presenter added to her story: “It feels like you’d like some attention?”, before writing on a separate story: “Is everything ok?”.

Primavera Sound has announced that it will debut in Peru this year, marking the festival’s latest expansion.The festival, which also hosts editions in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Bogotá and more, will debut in its newest South America territory in November.Primavera Sound in Lima will take place on November 22 and December 2, 7 and 8, where The Cure, Bad Gyal, Pet Shop Boys and Bad Religion will headline.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The European Film Academy has fired the starting gun in the race for the European Film Awards. It has recommended 19 films to its members who will then select the nominees from this list.

Love Island host Maya Jama is celebrating turning 29 by renting her very own villa on the Spanish party island of Ibiza.The star took to her Instagram account to joke that she was a “big girl” who “rents her own villa for her bday.” Maya, who recently had to awkwardly swerve a kiss from an ex Love Islander, posted the caption on a gorgeous picture of herself relaxing on the steps of a massive pool. Adding to her story, the presenter also posted a close up selfie of her squinting into the camera, explaining that she “takes naps after every meal”.

Marta Balaga Harmony Korine teased upcoming Venice premiere “Aggro Dr1ft” in Locarno, where he picked up the Pardo d’onore Manor award for outstanding achievement in cinema. “I am excited. I have never made anything like it.

Vivi Di Domenico, Julio Iglesias Jr. is giving love another chance. Through his social media, the singer shared a photos that revealed he’s in a new relationship. The beautiful woman he is pictured with in the black and white photo is model Ariadna Romero, with whom he seems to have been involved with for a few weeks.

K.J. Yossman Andrew Georgiou upped to head of Warner Bros. Discovery’s media business in the U.K.

More change at Warner Bros. Discovery, with UK and Ireland boss Antonio Ruiz exiting to be replaced by Andrew Georgiou.

A Place In The Sun host Laura Hamilton got emotional as she gave an “awful” update to one couple on a recent episode.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Sanfic Industria, the industry component of Chile’s 19th Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic), charges back in full in-person mode this year after three years online. This year’s selection, comprising 11 fiction and 10 documentaries, hails from Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Spain and Brazil.

Dominican project Tres balas (Three Bullets) has dominated the awards handed out by Open Doors, Locarno Pro’s talent development program for artists from underrepresented communities.

Holly Jones With ruminating obscurity, the ambitious Negu Film Collective – which includes filmmakers Ekain Albite, Mikel Ibarguren, Nicolau Mallofré and Adrià Roca – works to explore the contradictions of a Basque conflict that weighs heavy on all that lived through it. Stakes, set in slow succession, portray reverberations of the era’s traumas.

He’s received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Grammys, 19 Latin Grammys, and is an Emmy nominee for his work on HBO’s “The Last of Us.”