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2023 ShortList Film Festival, chosen from award-winning shorts from across the world in the past year. This year’s films tell personal stories that captivate and inspire — including a film about two Chinese grandmothers, a film about scuba diving in the ruins of a tsunami and one film about the LAPD blowing up a neighborhood.The films – which include narrative, documentaries and animation - are available to watch and vote on from June 28 through July 12, exclusively on TheWrap. The award-winning short film that is chosen by TheWrap’s Industry Jury will be honored with the prestigious Industry Prize.

Alongside its top-billed stars, it features Shea Whigham, Marin Ireland and Owen Teague (who will soon headline the next “Planet of the Apes” movie alongside Freya Allen). Steve Pond at TheWrap called it “a blackly humorous riff on film noir and a tour de force for its cast,” and the film’s commercial hopes arguably lie in the two-hander at its core.

here.“Asteroid City” takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955.

Cannes Film Festival came to a close on Sunday, and it’s been a time of exhilarating highs coupled with very quiet low days. Where Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes can have their latest films debut back-to-back and a Sunday that feels incredibly silent by comparison.

Cannes Film Festival always knows how to make an entrance and, while questions still remain about whether the shaky global theatrical experience and China’s buying power will affect the festival (coupled with issues involving the festival’s online ticketing platform), it wasn’t evident on the red carpet. Cannes Welcomes Johnny DeppThe opening night feature, the Maïwenn-directed “Jeanne du Barry,” a period piece starring Johnny Depp as Louix XV, kicked off the first night of the festival.

“The Menu,” a dark, bloody satire of the one percent and the restaurants that cater to them. The film stars Ralph Fiennes as the pretentious, craft-obsessed head chef at an exclusive restaurant on a remote island.

“War Pony” wins Palm Dog AwardBrit the Silver Poodle, who stars in Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s indigenous drama “War Pony,” took home the coveted Palm Dog collar, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The Palm Collar is awarded to the best performance by a canine or group of canines during the festival. The award consists of a leather dog collar with the term “PALM DOG.”Steve Pond, in his review of “War Pony” wrote, “Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and co-written, co-produced and starring members of the Native American community, “War Pony” is unhurried, naturalistic and heartbreaking, taking its rhythms from the lives of characters in a situation where the lack of options can lead to desperation or to resignation.

so many others in the Academy, they feel optimistic about the future of documentary short films as the projects become more accessible.“The short doc has the lowest barrier of entry to all forms of cinema,” said Ben Proudfoot, director of “The Queen of Basketball.” “As we think about making the film industry more diverse, more viable, more international… I think the short doc is the most exciting corner of cinema. Frankly, regardless of how the telecast is produced, the growth of this part of the industry is going to happen anyway,” Proudfoot added.Proudfoot was one of six nominated filmmakers who spoke with TheWrap’s Steve Pond on Tuesday about their work.

TheWrap’s Steve Pond, napping — Maggie Gyllenhaal for “The Lost Daughter.” Pond left both Gyllenhaal and Spielberg out of his predictions, figuring Denis Villeneuve for “Dune” and Paul Thomas Anderson for “Licorice Pizza” have better shots.“The Lost Daughter” had some fans in the Best Actress category as well; two-time Oscar winner Olivia Colman, who plays a college professor on holiday in Greece in Gyllenhaal’s film, was the poll’s No. 1 choice.

TheWrap-Up,” host Sharon Waxman and special guest co-host and TheWrap assistant managing editor, audience, Adam Chitwood, take a look at the latest Hollywood headlines, including Disney’s response after the studio was called out for its upcoming live-action remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” by “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage.Then, Sharon and Adam are joined by TheWrap senior TV reporter Tim Baysinger who shares the significance of the recent astronomical Sunday night football ratings for the two NFL playoff games last weekend, the first of which saw Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs come back against the Buffalo Bills to tie the game in the last 13 seconds, before ultimately winning in overtime. TheWrap Awards editor Steve Pond then arrives to talk all things Sundance 2022, including the film that sold out of the festival for a reported $15 million.And, for this week’s interview segment, Sharon shares her discussions with the stars and filmmakers of “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” (featuring Emma Thompson), and Eva Longoria Bastón and Oscar de la Joya, the director and one of the subjects of “La Guerra Civil.”In her interview with Emma Thompson, who plays a retired school teacher who hires a younger sex worker (Leo Grande, played by Daryl McCormack) to experience adventure and some good sex, opens up about aging in Hollywood, and doing a full-nude scene at 62.

good boss," Bardem said with a laugh during a conversation with León de Aranoa and TheWrap's Steve Pond. "But that's what the people in the factory, the people around him, and most especially the audience have to believe -- that he's kind of a man with great intentions.

Best International Film category at the Academy Awards, is the latest film playing with the idea of falling in love with androids that feel way too human.

Making large scale action films can be challenging for any production, but for “Escape From Mogadishu” producer Hyejung Kang, the challenge wasn’t the budget or even the scale of the film but not having access to the country the movie is based on.“The fact that we had to remake all of this in another country and it had to be based on past facts because we still cannot enter into Somalia,” Producer Hyejung Kang tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond.

Maybe. Critics have returned some fairly mixed reviews, for instance TheWrap’s Steve Pond, who called it a “formidible accomplishment” but also noting that it’s “frustrating.” But by all accounts Villenevue wasn’t meddled with by producers the way Lynch was, and all critics praise the film’s visuals and ambition.

Wright had previously helmed a few episodes of her Netflix series “House of Cards,” which she compared to a “mini cinema school” that allowed her to learn on the job. That, coupled with her decades of experience as an actress, made her finally feel ready to step behind the camera for her first feature film.“I didn’t think I could do it.

number of actors across the years. But because “Arracht” had to be shot in reverse, O Healai then had to rapidly put back on enormous amounts of weight while filming continued.“The weight loss was a lot, but the weight gain was also dramatic,” director Tom Sullivan told TheWrap’s Steve Pond.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film Festival“The emotional journey that she goes on is very much inspired by my own journey.

“I was only going to be starring and producing it initially, but we actually lost our original director and it was Emma Needell, who wrote the film and worked with us on developing the film for four years who said ‘I think you should be the one to make this,'” Oyelowo told TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “The Water Man” stars Lonnie Chavis as a boy whose mother (Rosario Dawson) has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Also Read: Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Film Composer, Dies at 91“I finally broke down. And it was the maestro that made me break down,” Tarantino told TheWrap’s Steve Pond back in 2015 upon the release of “The Hateful Eight.” “I didn’t know if it was going to work out, but I felt I owed it to myself and I owed it to him to investigate it.