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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and today we can confirm some exciting news – the Nuri Bilge Ceylan camp is indeed moving forward on his next feature film which will roll out this summer. We add mentioned a tidbit of casting news last week, and now we have a title and official synopsis via the Arte France Cinéma folks who are backing a half dozen new film projects. Titled Soleil blafard (Yorgun Günes) (or the direct translation of Pale Sun), Sabri lives alone in the suburbs of Ankara. His daughter, who lives in Istanbul, invites him to spend a few days with her and her young son at her seaside vacation home.… Read the rest

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With her sweeping and ambitious fourth feature, Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir gives emotional weight to the history books, excavating the roots of nearly a century of loss, injustice, and colonial brutality. Through interwoven stories of villagers, laborers, and intellectuals, she crafts a richly human portrait of resistance, identity, home, and displacement—revealing how the long shadow of the 1936–1939 uprising continues to shape Palestinian life today. As in Salt of This Sea (2008), When I Saw You (2012), and Wajib (2017), Jacir grounds political upheaval in personal histories and lived realities, but here she pushes further back into the past to show how inseparable contemporary Palestinian experience is from this earlier moment.… Read the rest

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Not that we have any issue with a legitimate tie, but it does make you wonder how many voters there actually are in the Best Live Action Short Film category, where The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva ended up sharing the prize. All told, we correctly called 19 of the 24 competitive Oscar categories—good for a solid 79.17% batting average. The One Battle After Another team won the top prizes with a half dozen trophies, with Sinners making to leave its mark with a quartet of awards. Here are last night’s winners!

Best Picture
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another” WINNER
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” WINNER
Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
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After dazzling the critic elite at Telluride and cementing its frontrunner status at TIFF, Hamnet appeared poised to gallop away with the Oscar race, but the season took a dramatic turn when Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another opened to a thundering response and galloped through awards season, scooping up the Golden Globes, WGA, PGA, and DGA awards. Sinners from Ryan Coogler emerged as a late-breaking dark horse, from an April release (not unlike Everything Everywhere All at Once three years back) turning tonight’s Oscars into what now feels like a genuine photo finish. One thing is certain: if Sinners starts collecting trophies in the telecast’s first two hours, we could be headed for a truly electric finale and if there are two key categories to watch out for it’s the Best Supporting categories.… Read the rest

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Berlin-based visual artist Ann Oren transitioned from more than a decade immersed in short-form, docu and experimental cinema into her audacious feature debut, Piaffe — a bold, body-conscious fever dream that signaled the arrival of a striking new voice. As noted in our Nicholas Bell’s ★★★★ review, the film is nothing short of arresting, a work that fuses tactile sensuality with conceptual rigor. Its selection for competition for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2022 further cemented Oren’s emergence from the gallery space into from promising debut into a sophomore feature that may contain overlapping themes of desire and control, here is everything we know so far … for Ann Oren’s Objet A.… Read the rest

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We are nearing the four-year gap between projects that celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan typically allows between films so while this tidbit of news is slightly unconventional it logistically makes sense. Our friends at World of Reel have learned that Turkish actress Pınar Deniz is set to join the master filmmaker for what will be a summer shoot – lining up for a premiere for what is already a promising 2027 edition with Ruben Ostlund, Alice Rohrwacher and Bertrand Bonello as possible Palme d’Or competitors.

Ceylan’s 2023 About Dry Grasses (read review) gave actress Merve Dizdar the Best Actress award so this casting news is a big deal for Deniz — best known for the series Yargı (Family Secrets) (2021–2024).… Read the rest

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The Brutalist family reunion continues as Screen Daily reports that Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ sophomore feature Diamond Shitter (which will also be known as the generic title of High End in some markets) have castt Andrea Riseborough and Guy Pearce alongside Raffey Cassidy and Alessandro Nivola — they replace the previously announced Eva Green and Ben Whishaw. Production began this week in Geneva, Switzerland and it will continue in Ireland until the second week of April. Key folks behind the lines include Lanthimos-regular Robbie Ryan as director of photography, Saffron Cullane as costume designer, John Leslie as production designer, and John Walters as editor.… Read the rest

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For those who might not have caught wind of the news this past Monday, we finally have a new film project by auteur American indie Rome-based auteur Jonas Carpignano. After completing his trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea moving into 2017’s A Ciambra (read review) and 2021’s A Chiara, he is set to adapt a thriller suspense novel published back in 2017 and Tessa Thompson is attached for the lead. Deadline reports that A Separation (obviously not a remake of Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 sublime divorce drama), will be shot in southern Greece and produced by Linden Productions’ Riva Marker with Viva Maude’s Kishori Rajan and Greta Caruso, and Faliro House’s Christos V.… Read the rest

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One of the rare Sundance Institute promoted projects that participated in all three Sundance Labs (Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers) filmmaker Hanna Gray Organschi has landed the heroine for her feature debut. Deadline reports that Grace Van Patten is attached to topline Rubber Hut for what will be a summer shoot which means it has a legit chance at grabbing a competition spot for the upcoming 2027 Sundance Film Festival edition. Willa’s Elizabeth Woodward and Stone Fruit Productions’ Tara Sheffer are producing. Indie vets Anne Carey and Jason Michael Berman will be exec producing. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker fresh from the Screenwriter’s Lab – we thought of Alexander Payne type vibes when reading about the project on paper.… Read the rest

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With a selection of films dating back to last year’s Cannes such as Alexe Poukine’s Kika (read review), with generous helping of Venice Film Festival and select items such as Pete Ohs‘ Erupcja from TIFF (read review) and as recent as the Berlinale, the lineup has been announced for the 2026 edition of New Directors/New Films. The 55th edition takes place between April 8th to the 19th and they’ll open with Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus (fresh from Sundance) and close with Rosanne Pel’s Donkey Days (which debuted at the Locarno Film Festival). We are looking at a dozen features, 17 North American premieres, and of course the shorts line-up:

Agon dir.… Read the rest

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