Dark creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s 1899, the highly-anticipated fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus have made the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022 Primetime programme.
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We are lucky to be in a world where LGBTQ+ filmmakers and stories have a wide-reaching spotlight. From dramas to genre films, representation is wonderful.
Sometimes, however, it is good to remember before this golden era and honor the masters of the past who pushed boundaries to get us where we are. A notable gay filmmaker of the 20th century is German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a writer, director, and actor who lived a short life but left an integral impact and helped spawn the German ’70s new wave scene that also launched filmmakers like Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
Dark creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s 1899, the highly-anticipated fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus have made the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022 Primetime programme.
They're on top of the world having just conquered Euro 2022, defeating Germany in nail biting extra time and taking home the trophy. But the England Women's Football team lionesses Lucy Bronze, Keira Walsh and Ellen White reveal exclusively to OK! that behind the jubilation of their victory lies years of shocking sexist abuse. Lucy Bronze, who is due to sign for Barcelona, says that some of the messages she receives online are unrepeatable.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a deal which transforms a local project into an international production, Taiwan’s Tydal Productions has struck a co-production deal with the Czech Republic’s Lonely Production to make “Malice,” a potentially arresting high-sea thriller to be directed by Lungyin Lim.Set up at Lungyin Lim’s Tydal Productions and Aview Images, both based in Taiwan, “Malice” is produced by Aview Images’s SheeHeng Kuek and Ivy Shen Yu-hua.Scheduled to shoot from December 2023, it will now be co-produced by Prague’s Lonely Production, founded by producer-director Michal Sikora.Lonely Production will oversee the post-production package in the Czech Republic and Europe. Lim has a preference for shooting in Super 16 mm with digital VFX, European expertise feeding into the traditional film process.
Becky Hill has hit back at online trolls who criticised the outfit she wore during her performance at the Euro women’s final.Hill played a four-song set at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday (July 31) ahead of the Lionesses taking on Germany. Stefflon Don and Ultra Naté both appeared as special guests.As BBC News reports, the singer has since responded to numerous tweets regarding the outfit she wore for the show: a sparkly silver leotard.Replying to one Twitter user who said, “You don’t always have to dress up”, Hill wrote: “Women are ALWAYS expected to dress up. What was i supposed to do? go on in my trackies?”Another follower said it was “disappointing” to see degrading comments about the singer’s appearance at a time when “confident young women [had been] given a platform”.Hill responded: “I’ve spent most part of today feeling shit & had a little cry about how incredible the women’s football was yesterday & how sad that people devalued my worth as a performer because of what I wore.
A motorcyclist has been rushed to hospital after falling off his bike before colliding with a van in Bury. Police were called out to reports of a crash in Tottington yesterday evening (July 31).
Stacey Solomon and Coleen Rooney led the many stars leaving messages of congratulations to England's Lionesses as they beat Germany 2-1 to win the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 final. Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly led the team to their historic triumph at Wembley during a gripping game that went into extra time. The game goes down in history as not only England’s first major trophy win since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966 but also the first time England has won the European Championship in its history.
Three players who play for Manchester United and Man City, respectively, played huge roles in securing the European Championship after England defeated Germany 2-1 in incredible fashion on Sunday evening.
When mum-of-three Lara Besbrode arrived in the UK in 2014, she had no home, no money and no plan.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBerlin-based sales agent Pluto Film has acquired Michal Blaško’s suspense drama “Victim,” about a woman seeking justice in a racist society, ahead of its world premiere in Venice’s competitive Horizons strand.The Slovak-Czech-German coproduction tells the story of Irina (Vita Smachelyuk), a single mother from Ukraine living in a town in the Czech Republic. When her son Igor (Gleb Kuchuk) is attacked, the whole town stands in solidarity with her family and condemns their Roma neighbors, who allegedly committed the crime.