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Werner Herzog and Orlando Bloom on ‘Bucking Fastard’ and That Threesome Scene With the Mara Sisters: ‘It Has Such Charm and Depth’

While speaking at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where they are presenting “Bucking Fastard,” renowned German director Werner Herzog and the film’s star Orlando Bloom spoke about a threesome scene between the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor and Rooney and Kate Mara, who lead Herzog’s latest as two deeply intertwined sisters. Asked about the scene, […]

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Introducing George Jaques, the ‘Sunny Dancer’ Director and ‘Ballsy’ British Creative Being Called the ‘Tom Holland of Filmmaking’

Luxury fashion house Hermès recently hosted a special dinner in London to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Athenaeum, the production company founded by British multi-hyphenate George Jaques. While a touch pretentious, the name was chosen mostly because it “didn’t sound like a 16-year-old made it,” someone who, at the time, “couldn’t actually spell it,” he […]

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Oscars: Poland Submits Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland,’ Starring Sandra Hüller, for International Feature Race

Poland has selected “Fatherland,” Paweł Pawlikowski’s post-WWII drama starring Sandra Hüller, as its entry for the Oscars international feature race. The black-and-white film — which follows German novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller) on a road trip across Germany in 1949 — world premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival in […]

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Catalonia’s New Generation Raises Its Game as Ambition, Scale and Genre Drive Bolder Arthouse and Crossover Titles

Over 2019-25, annual Catalan government general cinema funding soared from €12.5 million ($14.4 million) in 2019 to €30.2 million ($34.8 million) in just specific support lines. Now, however, the films that are being made are also getting bigger, as a new generation of filmmakers and TV creatives emerged over the last decade raise their game […]

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Catalonia: A Dozen Highlights at San Sebastián, From a Time-Loop Thriller to a Singular Heist Tale and a Potential Arthouse Sleeper

Barcelona’s soccer players packed out Spain’s FIFA World Cup winning team. Now Catalonia, the northeast region of Spain counting on Barcelona as its capital, accounts for a very significant chunk of the Spanish films playing this year’s San Sebastián Festival, one of its principal draws. Some 150 Catalan companies, no less, will be in San […]

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Japan’s Top Broadcasters Unite for First Joint Delegation to MipCancun (EXCLUSIVE)

Ten major Japanese broadcasters are joining forces for the first time to send a joint delegation to MipCancun, marking the country’s first coordinated television market presence outside Asia. The “All-Japan” initiative is organized under the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association (JBA) in collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and the Broadcast Program […]

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‘Tenzing’ Actor Tenzin Dalha Unveiled as Male Lead in Bengali Thriller ‘Chheledhora’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Tenzin Dalha, at the Toronto Film Festival with Jennifer Peedom’s Apple original Film “Tenzing,” has been revealed as the male lead in Bengali-language thriller “Chheledhora,” opposite Swastika Mukherjee. His casting had been withheld when the Indo-American production was first announced earlier this year, with producers naming only Mukherjee at that point. “Tenzing,” a gala presentation […]

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Alfonso Cuaron to Make First Korea Visit at Busan as Festival Also Spotlights European Women+ Filmmakers

The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has announced the first-ever Korea visit by Alfonso Cuarón, alongside a dedicated spotlight on nine films from European women and genderqueer filmmakers. Cuarón, who has won the Academy Award for best director twice, for “Gravity” (2013) and “Roma” (2018), also holds the Venice Film Festival’s best screenplay prize […]

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‘Best of the Best’ Director Lena Khan on Making a Bollywood Fusion Dance Movie for Netflix, Working With Hasan Minhaj and Telling Maitreyi Ramakrishnan to Bring ‘Channing Tatum Energy’

Competitive Bollywood fusion dance has thrived on American college campuses for decades, but it has rarely been the subject of a scripted feature film. Lena Khan’s “Best of the Best,” premiering Friday on Netflix, follows childhood best friends Maya and Anjali as they join UCLA’s competitive dance team, only to discover that the road to […]

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Edmund Yeo and Vivian Sung Chase Malaysia’s Buried Past in Toronto Title ‘The Age of Goodbyes’: ‘Ordinary People Living Inside History’

“The Age of Goodbyes” begins, in more ways than one, with a curse. In Li Zi Shu’s sprawling Malaysian Chinese novel, a family is said to be marked by early death; in Edmund Yeo’s screen adaptation, in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival, that curse becomes the hinge on which five decades […]

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As global crises grow, Germany cuts development aid

The budget of Germany's Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry is set to shrink for the fifth consecutive year. Aid organizations warn that the cuts will have severe consequences for millions of people.

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Trump intent on imposing global tariffs

The on-again, off-again tariffs between the United States and other countries are again under scrutiny, with the U.S. president not budging. VOA White House Correspondent Carolyn Presutti reports.

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