With a Boost From Sarajevo Film Festival, Balkan Drama Poises for Breakthrough

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi Arabia’s nascent Red Sea International Film Festival has revealed 14 Arabic feature films selected to receive production and post-production funding from its Red Sea Fund.The announcement was made at the Venice Film Festival where the Red Sea festival and Saudi Arabia’s fledgling film industry have a substantial presence.Among the beneficiaries of the fund are Jordanian writer and director Darin J.

Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey are together again!

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline, we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the Venice Film Festival, which continues on schedule for a second year in a row despite the pandemic disrupting other events.

The BFI London Film Festival has confirmed an eight-strong lineup for its Official Competition this year. The movies are:

Denis Villeneuve joked that wrangling Timothée Chalamet’s infamous hairdo, which he claimed was “alive”, was the biggest challenge he faced delivering Frank Herbert’s Dune to the screen. The movie premieres Friday night at the Venice Film Festival, and Villeneuve and his cast assembled earlier in the day for the film’s official press conference. “I had to direct Timothée and I had to direct his haircut,” the director laughed.

Georgia Tennant has expressed her pride following the release of the trailer for Kenneth Branagh's upcoming film, Belfast. The actress - who is married to David Tennant - is particularly excited as her daughter, Olive, is set to make her debut on the big screen.Sharing the trailer on her Twitter page on Friday morning, doting mother Georgia remarked: "Proud mum moment.

Jamie Dornan has officially hit the festival circuit with his new movie!

th edition, stars kicked off the opening night as they mean to go on, with a generous helping of high octane glamour. The first evening saw the premiere of Madres Paralelas, a film about motherhood starring Penélope Cruz, who looked chic as ever in a navy and cream tulle Chanel couture gown.

Clayton Davis Telluride is off, and it’s not business as usual.The first day began with the annual patron brunch, where press, talent and other festival-goers mingle in the celebration of the Colorado getaway, now in its 48th year. In attendance were “Belfast” writer and director Kenneth Branagh with one of his stars Jamie Dornan, which screens for the first time later this evening.

The Jerusalem Film Festival has named the winners from its various competition strands this year, with Juho Kuosmanen’s Finnish drama Compartment No. 6 winning Best Film in the international competition.

going on envy-inducing holidays. Before we know exactly what the celebs will wear for the world's oldest and most glamorous red carpet, let's take a look back at the very best fashion moments from the Venice Film Festival.

wow fabrics as the big trends. And what with these being the last hot days of the year, yeah, show some skin! This is the Venice Film Festival, not !Behold the best looks so far:More from GlamourSee More Stories© 2021 Condé Nast.

Films and fashion! The 2021 Venice Film Festival has officially kicked off, which means that celebs far and wide are flying over to Italy to celebrate the annual 11-day celebration. 

Guy Lodge Film CriticThe recent horrors in Afghanistan have once more exposed the callousness with which too many residents of Europe and the U.S. speak of refugees, whereby displaced human lives become numbers, coldly counted and ranked on a long list of national priorities: not people to be saved, but problems to be solved.

Will Tizard ContributorMigration drama “As Far as I Can Walk,” directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, won the top prize at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday, commended by the critics for its nuanced portrayal of the realities of refugees’ lives.The joint Serbia/France/Luxembourg/Bulgaria/Lithuania production, starring Ibrahim Koma and Nancy Mensah-Offei and inspired by a Serbian medieval epic poem, also won the $25,000 Crystal Globe prize, best actor award for Koma, special

Alissa Simon Film CriticSerbian director Stefan Arsenijević is competing for Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Crystal Globe with his second feature, “As Far As I Can Walk.” It’s a surprising and exhilarating blend of contemporary refugee story, love triangle and medieval Serbian poem.Arsenijević’s hometown Belgrade marks an important point on the Balkan migrant route. A few years ago, he could see thousands of new refugees arriving every day.

Christopher Vourlias Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom,” a prison drama about a gay man repeatedly incarcerated under a draconian law outlawing homosexuality in West Germany, won the award for best feature film at the Sarajevo Film Festival.The Austrian director took home the Heart of Sarajevo at Thursday night’s ceremony, while leading man Georg Friedrich won the award for best actor for a film that won the runner-up prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar.