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News and tips about doing business in Cannes for the Festival, MIPIM, Midem, and Creativity festival.
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🚨 Film professionals at the Euro Balkan Film Festival (Rome, 30 October-6 November) issued a declaration urging the European Commission to strengthen cultural-exception rules, retain platform investment obligations & set ethical AI frameworks for creators. #cinema
More: cineuropa.org/485544
More: cineuropa.org/485544
The Euro Balkan Film Festival issues a declaration on authors’ rights, platforms and AI
05/11/2025 - Film professionals are urging the European Commission to strengthen cultural-exception rules, retain platform investment obligations and set ethical AI frameworks for creators
cineuropa.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Important #moviebiz
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The European Film Festival is bringing the best of European movies to Pakistan! Get ready for a packed schedule of screenings in Karachi and Lahore
#EuropeanFilmFestival #Karachi #Lahore #FilmFestival #Cinema #Pakistan
#EuropeanFilmFestival #Karachi #Lahore #FilmFestival #Cinema #Pakistan
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The European Film Festival is bringing the best of European movies to Pakistan! Get ready for a packed schedule of screenings in Karachi and Lahore
#EuropeanFilmFestival #Karachi #Lahore #FilmFestival #Cinema #Pakistan
#EuropeanFilmFestival #Karachi #Lahore #FilmFestival #Cinema #Pakistan
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Killer Shorts is launching a new initiative for emerging horror short film writers: The Scream List, featuring specially curated industry access.
Killer Shorts Offers New Opportunity For Horror Writers With The Scream List
Killer Shorts is launching a new initiative for emerging horror short film writers: The Scream List, featuring specially curated industry access.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Killer Shorts is launching a new initiative for emerging horror short film writers: The Scream List, featuring specially curated industry access.
Happy birthday to Alain Delon who almost - but not quite - made it onto an official poster of the #Cannes festival cannes-or-bust.com/2019/05/alai... there objections
French actor Alain Delon at first refused the honour
The Cannes film festival's attribution of an honorary Palme d'or to actor Alain Delon in 2019 has been controversial. It now transpires that he at first refused the honour
cannes-or-bust.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happy birthday to Alain Delon who almost - but not quite - made it onto an official poster of the #Cannes festival cannes-or-bust.com/2019/05/alai... there objections
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PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is an astonishing documentary, not least because it is video calls filmed on another phone. Its main participant, Fatima Hassouna, died in an Israeli airstrike the day after the film was accepted to Cannes. I urge you to see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/m...
‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’: An Extraordinary Voice (and Film)
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is an astonishing documentary, not least because it is video calls filmed on another phone. Its main participant, Fatima Hassouna, died in an Israeli airstrike the day after the film was accepted to Cannes. I urge you to see it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/m...
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Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.
Thoughts?
Moviegoers Return But Italian Cinema is Running Out of Stories, Say MIA Panellists
https://www.byteseu.com/1475925/
Italy’s audiovisual sector benefits from sophisticated tools to track audience behavior and box office performance. Through box office tracking company, Cinetel, attendance data …
https://www.byteseu.com/1475925/
Italy’s audiovisual sector benefits from sophisticated tools to track audience behavior and box office performance. Through box office tracking company, Cinetel, attendance data …
Moviegoers Return But Italian Cinema is Running Out of Stories, Say MIA Panellists - Bytes Europe
Italy’s audiovisual sector benefits from sophisticated tools to track audience behavior and box office performance. Through box office tracking company,
www.byteseu.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Thoughts?
Trifole/Truffles - the feelgood Italian look at roots and friendship - will open in the US in November. #italiancinema youtu.be/Isr8EnLdJmU?... #truffles #moviesky
Trifole | Official Teaser | Only in Theaters November 14
YouTube video by G&F Pictures
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Trifole/Truffles - the feelgood Italian look at roots and friendship - will open in the US in November. #italiancinema youtu.be/Isr8EnLdJmU?... #truffles #moviesky
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Picasso with his Dalmatian dog, Villa La California, Cannes, 1961 #art #arts #finearts
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Picasso with his Dalmatian dog, Villa La California, Cannes, 1961 #art #arts #finearts
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🆕🏆 The European Film Awards honour Alice Rohrwacher with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award: The acclaimed Italian director (Corpo Celeste, Happy as Lazzaro) will receive the prize at the 38th European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin: cineuropa.org/485553
The European Film Awards honour Alice Rohrwacher with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award
05/11/2025 - The acclaimed Italian director will receive the prize at the 38th European Film Awards ceremony
cineuropa.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🆕🏆 The European Film Awards honour Alice Rohrwacher with the European Achievement in World Cinema Award: The acclaimed Italian director (Corpo Celeste, Happy as Lazzaro) will receive the prize at the 38th European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin: cineuropa.org/485553
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Hey Belfast - tomorrow I will be conducting a Q&A with Ben Wheatley after the Irish premiere of his ramshackle, handmade, brain-twisting, zero-budget new movie BULK.
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Belfast Film Festival 2025
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Hey Belfast - tomorrow I will be conducting a Q&A with Ben Wheatley after the Irish premiere of his ramshackle, handmade, brain-twisting, zero-budget new movie BULK.
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
Ben may also have copies of the fanzine he created about BULK if you're lucky.
belfastfilmfestival2025.eventive.org/schedule/bul...
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28th British Independent Film Awards Nominations full list. My Father's Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr leads the pack with 12 nominations followed by Pillion with 10 and I Swear with 9. #BIFA2025
movie-on.blogspot.com/2025/11/28th...
movie-on.blogspot.com/2025/11/28th...
28th British Independent Film Awards Nominations
movie-on.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
28th British Independent Film Awards Nominations full list. My Father's Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr leads the pack with 12 nominations followed by Pillion with 10 and I Swear with 9. #BIFA2025
movie-on.blogspot.com/2025/11/28th...
movie-on.blogspot.com/2025/11/28th...
A reminder of the 1994 storms on the Côte d'Azur. 31 years ago today
Le 5 novembre 1994, Countea de Nissa
La crue du Var [3 770 m³/s] causait des dégâts considérables aux infrastructures routières, ferroviaires, immobilières implantées dans sa vallée et inondait CADAM et @AeroportNice
ina.fr/ina-eclaire-a.... 31 ans
#AlpesMaritimes #Nice #Nice06
La crue du Var [3 770 m³/s] causait des dégâts considérables aux infrastructures routières, ferroviaires, immobilières implantées dans sa vallée et inondait CADAM et @AeroportNice
ina.fr/ina-eclaire-a.... 31 ans
#AlpesMaritimes #Nice #Nice06
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A reminder of the 1994 storms on the Côte d'Azur. 31 years ago today
Over in Bucharest, John Malkovich, Sean Bean and Tim Burton attended the première of "Yellow Tie" www.romania-insider.com/john-malkovi... #indiecinema #romania #malkovich
John Malkovich and Sean Bean attend gala premiere of ‘The Yellow Tie’ in Bucharest
The gala premiere of The Yellow Tie/Cravata Galbenă, a major international production about the life of renowned Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, took place on November 1 at Bucharest’s Sala Pal...
www.romania-insider.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Over in Bucharest, John Malkovich, Sean Bean and Tim Burton attended the première of "Yellow Tie" www.romania-insider.com/john-malkovi... #indiecinema #romania #malkovich
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New today on the site!
Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
(🎨 by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
(🎨 by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New today on the site!
Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
(🎨 by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
Abel Ferrara talks with @aheartofgould.bsky.social about his new memoir, his films, and his life as an artist.
(🎨 by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
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We are so close we have only 2 days left!! Can we hit more backers before the crowdfund ends of our family friendly horror JINX!
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Get involved and be part of the making! We need extra funds for the last part of filming
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Get involved and be part of the making! We need extra funds for the last part of filming
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are so close we have only 2 days left!! Can we hit more backers before the crowdfund ends of our family friendly horror JINX!
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Get involved and be part of the making! We need extra funds for the last part of filming
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
Get involved and be part of the making! We need extra funds for the last part of filming
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Just when you can’t get enough OBAA Cory Everett goes HARD for @thefilmstage.com
thefilmstage.com/one-battle-a...
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One Battle After Another: Pop Culture Glossary
Breaking down the film’s inspirations, influences, and pop culture references—from Steely Dan to Star Wars. Like all of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, his tenth feature One Battle After Another is a ri...
thefilmstage.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Just when you can’t get enough OBAA Cory Everett goes HARD for @thefilmstage.com
thefilmstage.com/one-battle-a...
thefilmstage.com/one-battle-a...
Ewan McGregor to be celebrated at a #BAFTA Scotland ceremony www.bafta.org/media-centre... #starwars #actor #award
Ewan McGregor to be honoured with BAFTA Scotland Outstanding Contribution award - Bafta
www.bafta.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ewan McGregor to be celebrated at a #BAFTA Scotland ceremony www.bafta.org/media-centre... #starwars #actor #award
Projection company Barco announces a major rollout of its HDR technology in Germany www.barco.com/en/about/pre...
HDR by Barco Expands Global Footprint to Germany
www.barco.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Projection company Barco announces a major rollout of its HDR technology in Germany www.barco.com/en/about/pre...
"Mussolini: Son of the Century", the 8-part series, is screening on Mubi. Director Joe Wright goes over why he took on somehting that has become eerily topical. mubi.com/fr/program-n... #indiecinema #series
Better the Devil You Know: Joe Wright on Mussolini: Son of the Century
A timely eight-part miniseries, Mussolini: Son of the Century traces the evolution of fascism and a dictator’s rise to power. Matthew Thrift sits down with director Joe Wright to discuss the show’s va...
mubi.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"Mussolini: Son of the Century", the 8-part series, is screening on Mubi. Director Joe Wright goes over why he took on somehting that has become eerily topical. mubi.com/fr/program-n... #indiecinema #series
I'd hate to have to choose between these 10 classics!
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the world's most influential film events, and these 10 winners of the Festival's Palm d'Or prize will show you why.
10 Best Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Winners - Looper
www.looper.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'd hate to have to choose between these 10 classics!
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Has anyone ever had to sleep at Nice airport? Should I update this old report? ;-) cannes-or-bust.com/2006/04/site... #travel #riviera #airport
Rate your experience of sleeping at Nice airport
Is it feasible to sleep at Nice airport rather than taking a taxi or finding a hotel?
cannes-or-bust.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Has anyone ever had to sleep at Nice airport? Should I update this old report? ;-) cannes-or-bust.com/2006/04/site... #travel #riviera #airport