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Mads Mikkelsen has distinguished himself across his career with his ability to move between arthouse hits in his native Denmark and big Hollywood franchises such as James Bond, Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Fantastic Beasts and Indiana Jones. The actor was quizzed in a Marrakech Film Festival…

Martin Scorsese has cancelled his trip to the Marrakech International Film Festival at the eleventh hour, which he was due to attend as the special honorary guest of its 20th edition. The director is a long-time supporter of the Moroccan festival, attending it five times since its creation in…

Jessica Chastain, resplendent in a shimmering silver tasseled jump suit, championed the power of art to bring about positive change at the opening night of the Marrakech Film Festival on Friday evening. The actress is the attending the Moroccan film festival as the president of the jury. She was…

Afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here bringing you the latest from around the globe as our friends in America tuck into their turkey. Sign up for the newsletter here. Red Sea Revs Up Shifting sands: Red Sea International Film Festival, the big…

Rotterdam Film Festival Sets 'Head South' As Opening Film Jonathan Ogilvie's post-punk, coming-of-age comedy Head South has been announced as the opening picture of the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), running from January 25 to February 4. The festival has also teased a handful of…

Garry Keane and Stephen Gerard Kelly's documentary In The Shadow Of Beirut, which is Ireland's Oscar category this year, is headed to the Red Sea International Film Festival, running November 30 to December 9 in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. The work, which is executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea…

Michael Mann's high octane biopic Ferrari has been announced as the closing picture of Saudi Arabia's third Red Sea International Film Festival, running November 30 to December 9 in the port city of Jeddah. The movie, starring Adam Driver as legendary Italian motor-racing driver and entrepreneur Enzo…

The 2023 film festival season has wound its way from Sundance and SXSW through Cannes and Tribeca to the fall stops at Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Still to watch for this fall: Both Sundance’s Festival Favorite Award winner Radical starring Eugenio Derbez and Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a…

UPDATED with latest: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who plays a school cook mourning her son in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, will receive the 2024 Breakthrough Performance Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival.  She co-stars as Mary Lamb, whose 20-year-old son recently died while on…

This year's winners at Camerimage Film Festival in Toruń, Poland were unveiled Saturday, with The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s drama about an indigenous boy taken in at a mysterious remote monastery, taking the top prize. Poor Things, Searchlight’s Yorgos Lanthimos drama starring Emma Stone, won the…

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly is leaving the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam with a major award: Best Director in International Competition for his film Life Is Beautiful. But where he goes next is uncertain – he can't return to Gaza for the time being because the border is closed as…

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