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Rarely in recent decades has the festival circuit been as disrupted as it has in the past 12 months. A confluence of local and global issues — from war to inflation, political unrest to societal shifts — have created a perfect storm for many of these vital cultural platforms, leading to funding…

Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, whose current mandate is due to expire after the upcoming 81st edition, has been renewed in the role for 2025 and 2026. Parent body La Biennale di Venezia said its board of directors, chaired by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, had approved the…

The Venice Film Festival will fete Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master & Commander) with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 80th edition. Accepting the honor, Weir said: "The Venice Film Festival and its Golden Lion are part of the…

Isabelle Huppert has been named as jury president for the main competition of the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival, running from 28 August to 7 September 2024. The decision was made by the Board of Directors of parent body the Biennale di Venezia, who confirmed the…

Every week there are large numbers of indie and specialty releases vying for attention. It’s impossible to do them all, so when the option of reviewing Nowhere Special was placed in front of me I resisted at first after discovering it actually premiered at…

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…

The recent passing of Terence Davies and the tributes that followed — tales of a steel will, impassioned budgetary battles and a host of dream projects that never materialized — give this highly personal tribute to Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas an extra…

UPDATED, 7:45 AM: “Two objects cannot occupy the same point in space at the same moment in time.” So begins the official trailer for Michael Mann’s Ferrari, which finds automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari at a personal and professional crisis point in his life. “The corner races at you, you have perhaps a…

The Oscar Meter at Deadline is working overtime as the race for the 96th Academy Awards is shifting into higher gear as summer turns to fall this weekend. The official start of the very long six month+ awards season is now behind us as we made it…

Depending on who you speak to, Aggro Dr1ft has either been a hideous blight on the fall festival circuit or… Well, currently, there's not exactly a consensus on what there is to love about Harmony Korine's in-your-face fantasia, a nightmare vision of Florida made all the more hellish by its refusal to…

Veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winning refugee drama Green Border will release as planned in Poland on September 22 in defiance of a political backlash and wave of online hate talk. Inspired by real-life events along Poland's border with Belarus, the film has…

Indonesia has selected Makbul Mubarak's award-winning drama Autobiography as its submission in the Best International Feature category of the Oscars.  Selected from a pool of 100 films, Autobiography was handpicked by a nine-person committee, established by the Indonesian Film Companies…