‘Unclenching The Fists’ Wins Top Prize In Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard Sidebar

Naman Ramachandran The world premiere of Netflix’s new school western “The Harder They Fall” will open the 65th British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival.The film is directed by Londoner Jeymes Samuel, touted by Ted Sarandos as one of the streamer’s discoveries.The film stars Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi, R.J. Cyler, Damon Wayans Jr.

Peter Rabbit 2 holds at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart to enjoy a second week at the top.

Naman Ramachandran Siân Heder’s “CODA,” an Apple original film, has won the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: London Award presented by BIFA.The award was voted for by 40 leading professionals from the British film industry assembled by the British Independent Film Awards.The film follows Ruby, a CODA or Child of Deaf Adults, who is torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Grand Tour 's long-awaited Scottish special finally hit our screens.

The Venice Film Festival (September 1 – 11) is not expected to offer a quarantine dispensation for vaccinated UK guests, according to festival sources.

Christopher Vourlias Philipp Yuryev’s “The Whaler Boy,” which took home the Venice Days award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, won the top prize at the Transilvania Film Festival on Saturday.The jury praised the Russian director’s feature debut, an offbeat story of a teenage whale hunter on the Bering Strait who sets out to meet a webcam model, for being “beautiful and meticulous in its sense of time and place” while also being “really resonant and contemporary at the same time as being

Michael Sarnoski’s ‘Pig’, starring Nicolas Cage, and Billy Crystal’s ‘Here Today’ will open and close the 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival.As reported by Variety, other highlights of the annual festival will include the UK premiere of ‘Annette’, ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’, ‘Prince Of Muck’ and ‘The Road Dance’, as well as a string of films focused on social issues including ‘Europa’, ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’, ‘Ballad Of A White Cow’ and ‘The Justice Of Bunny King’.Ken Hay,

LONDON -- Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.Britain’s Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, is on the longlist announced Tuesday for the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with “Klara and the Sun,” a novel about love and humanity narrated by a solar-powered android.

Venice Film Festival will stick with last year’s coronavirus protocols, director Alberto Barbera confirmed during this morning’s lineup announcement.

Lewis Hamilton was more at fault for his crash with title rival Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix. Hamilton was involved with a highly contentious incident with Verstappen on the first lap at Silverstone, with the crash prompting a huge backlash after his victory.

Rosamund Pike wasn’t holding back when it came to her fashion choice on the final day of the Cannes Film Festival.

Christopher Vourlias Mubi, the London-based streamer and theatrical distributor that’s been on a buying spree this week in Cannes, has acquired the rights for North America, U.K., and a host of other territories for Kira Kovalenko’s “Unclenching the Fists,” which took home the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Variety can reveal.Set in a former mining town in Russia’s North Ossetia region, “Unclenching the Fists” is the story of a young woman, played by Milana

Guy Lodge Film CriticCANNES — At a banner ceremony for female filmmakers, Russian writer-director Kira Kovalenko’s sophomore feature “Unclenching the Fists” won the top prize for best film in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, from a jury headed by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold.

Naman Ramachandran Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap’s Good Bad Films (“Choked”) has boarded debutant Indian filmmaker Suman Sen’s “Eka” (“Solo”) as a producer.The project was selected as one of the participant’s at this year’s La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Français, a tailored program helping talented young directors from emerging countries increase their international exposure.France’s Dominique Welinski (“House of my Fathers”) is already on board as a producer via outfit DW, as are

Katie Price's latest round of plastic surgeries meant the star was unable to be with her daughter on her 14th birthday.The star, who shares Princess Andre with ex-husband Peter Andre, jetted off to red-list country Turkey on June 15 for a complete surgical makeover which included full body liposuction and a cat-eye facelift. Singer and presenter Peter, 48, took care of his and Katie's son, Junior, 16, as well as Princess while the former glamour model recovered from her operations.

Danielle Lloyd has raised her concerns for friend Katie Price and her ‘addiction’ to cosmetic surgery, according to the Mirror.The model recommended that Katie should seek therapy if she 'starts' to feel like she is becoming addicted to surgery following her latest procedure which has left her swollen and bruised.The mum-of-four, who has recently urged Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy to end their feud, is no stranger to a bit of cosmetic alterations when she revealed she had a range of

EXCLUSIVE: James Corden and Sally Hawkins are to star in a comedy drama series from Spectre co-writer and Britannia co-creator Jez Butterworth.

Variety. The film from director Pablo Larraín will also play in competition for the Golden Lion.

EXCLUSIVE: Streamer and theatrical distributor Mubi has closed its first on-the-ground Cannes business, signing a multi-territory deal for Sebastian Meise’s second feature Great Freedom, which premiered here in Un Certain Regard.

“Clara Sola” and a naturalistic one in the African film “Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,” and it’s even surfaced in Charlotte Gainsbourg’s documentary about her mother, Jane Birkin, “Jane by Charlotte,” in Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” and in Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World.”Of those films, most are by female directors.