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EXCLUSIVE: Here's your exclusive trailer for Lilja Ingolfsdottir's feature debut Loveable, which has its world premiere in the main competition section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival next week.  The film, which is produced by The Worst Person in the World producer Thomas Robsahm, is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Singaporean writer and director Nelicia Low ahead of the world premiere of her debut feature Pierce at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The thriller will be the first ever Singaporean feature to compete in the main Crystal Globe Competition of the…

Michael Douglas Set As Guest Of Honor Of 50th Deauville Film Festival Michael Douglas will be guest of honor at the 50th Deauville American Film Festival. It will be the actor’s fifth trip to the fall festival unfolding in the swanky northern French beach resort. The organisers suggested Douglas has…

This year's edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is set to present a retrospective on Franz Kafka and his influence on cinema, dubbed The Wish To Be A Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema. It will examine how the influential Czech writer has impacted filmmakers from Orson Welles, Martin…

The lessons learned in this pitch-black German-Bulgarian co-production are very grim indeed, a social-realist drama that takes an unexpectedly shocking turn at its harrowing climax. The film's recent win at Karlovy Vary, where it took the Grand Prix in the Crystal Globe Competition, should give it a…

Norwegian cinema has been enjoying a moment lately, what with Joachim Trier's crowdpleasing The Worst Person in the World pulling up to Drive My Car in the Oscar race and Kristoffer Borgli's Sick of Me carving out a rep on the festival circuit. The Hypnosis, Ernst de Geer's feature debut, sits somewhere…

For writer-director Naqqash Khalid, questions are more important than answers and this premise is something the academic-turned-filmmaker explores heavily in his debut film In Camera, which recently premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The bold film, which opened to positive reviews…

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Eastern Promises industry strand has unveiled the winners of it’s project showcases, which took place at the fest from July 2-4. This year's edition presented 27 film projects that were screened across the festival’s three established programs: Works in…

The unseen and the obscene are the subject of Pascal Plante's disturbingly brilliant psychological horror Red Rooms, which takes an overused genre — the serial killer movie — and an often-misused technique — dark Lynchian surrealism — and somehow alchemizes…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Vachon offered her outlook on some of the industry's most pressing issues at a keynote masterclass session Monday afternoon at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The session, moderated by Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr., opened with a focus on Vachon's career before…

You know the modern world is in a dark place when even a middle-aged Iranian woman says that things were better in the old days. Indeed, for his feature debut, director Behrooz Karamizade has fashioned an intelligent and thoughtful drama that should travel…

EXCLUSIVE: Before Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie captured the zeitgeist with their Warner Bros-backed Barbie, the popular doll was the subject of a much darker indie pic directed by Todd Haynes. Titled Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), the experimental pic used archival material…