Lasting (2013)
Borgman (2013)
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (2013)
Young and Beautiful (2013)
Miele (2013)
The Last Days (2013)
Northwest (2013)
Metrodome adds latest Moodysson to line up

Metrodome adds latest Moodysson to line up

Blood Ties: Redemption song to a familiar tune

Blood Ties: Redemption song to a familiar tune

Me Myself and Mum: Boy or Girl?

Me Myself and Mum: Boy or Girl?

Athlete Ben Johnson joins Finnish/Croatian film

Athlete Ben Johnson joins Finnish/Croatian film

Who are the Bastards?

Who are the Bastards?

With her 11th film, French director Claire Denis presented a somber, sensual work against a backcloth of traumatic revenge in Un Certain Regard at the 66th Cannes Film Festival  

22/05 | Cannes 2013 | Un Certain Regard | France

Athlete Ben Johnson joins Finnish/Croatian film

Athlete Ben Johnson joins Finnish/Croatian film

Arto Halonen's upcoming feature film A Patriotic Man focusing on doping in sports, has cast the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson in one of the secondary roles  

22/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Finland

Buyers keen on SF's Waltz

Buyers keen on SF's Waltz

The Swedish biopic Waltz For Monica had a warm reception in Cannes following its first market screenings. Fresh deals with Japan, Greece and Taiwan were closed by sales agent SF International  

22/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Scandinavia

The Great Beauty: a journey to the end of the night

The Great Beauty: a journey to the end of the night

Paolo Sorrentino’s film is an exploration of a wonderful Rome seen through the eyes of a cynical and disenchanted Virgil: Toni Servillo  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Competition | Italy

A Castle in Italy: the tree will fall

A Castle in Italy: the tree will fall

Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi delves with sensibility to the heart of a wealthy family, caught up by time and the disarray of existence  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Competition | France

Blood Ties: Redemption song to a familiar tune

Blood Ties: Redemption song to a familiar tune

Guillaume Canet delivers a remake under the influence, presented out of competition on the Croisette  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Out of Competition | France

ARRI enjoys world's attention for kids fare

ARRI enjoys world's attention for kids fare

Munich-based Arri World Sales has closed several deals on its family films V8: Start your Engines, screening at the market, and stereoscopic 3D animation project Ploe: You Never Fly Alone  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Germany

Buyers follow Michael Winterbottom's Trip to Italy

Buyers follow Michael Winterbottom's Trip to Italy

Goalpost Films has pre-sold key territories on Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Italy, which is set to start filming on May 24  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | UK

Metrodome adds latest Moodysson to line up

Metrodome adds latest Moodysson to line up

TrustNordisk announced in Cannes on 21 May that UK distributor Metrodome Distribution has picked up rights for Lukas Modysson’s upcoming coming of age film We Are the Best  

21/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Sweden

Me Myself and Mum: Boy or Girl?

Me Myself and Mum: Boy or Girl?

Guillaume Gallienne brilliantly accomplishes the cinematographic adaptation of his play, a very amusing work, moving and subtle, about sexual identity  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

A new president and an appeal for 'cultural exception'

A new president and an appeal for 'cultural exception'

Aurélie Filipetti and Androulla Vassiliou were guest speakers at the Europa Cinemas conference in Cannes  

20/05 | Industry | Exhibitors | Europe

Stop-over: An immersion into clandestine life

Stop-over: An immersion into clandestine life

For almost a year, Swiss director Kaveh Bakhtiari filmed clandestine immigrants from Iran living in Athens  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

Two documentaries presented on May 19 for Official Selection

Two documentaries presented on May 19 for Official Selection

The Missing Picture and The Last of the Unjust were shown at Un Certain Regard and Out of Competition respectively  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Documentaries

Alex van Varmerdam • Director

Interview: Alex van Varmerdam • Director

"The pleasure comes from inventing it all"

In competition for the first time in Cannes, the Dutch filmmaker gives a few cryptic leads for understanding his intriguing Borgman  

20/05

Exhibitors fear 'cinema without windows'

Exhibitors fear 'cinema without windows'

CICAE President Detlef Rossmann appeals for a cinematic alliance to be set up  

20/05 | Industry | exhibitors | Europe

Tip Top: Appearances can be misleading

Tip Top: Appearances can be misleading

Serge Bozon delivers an unbridled and witty author comedy, borne along by Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain and François Damiens  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

Bright US Future for The Past and Two Days, One Night

Bright US Future for The Past and Two Days, One Night

The current Palme d’Or contender, Asghar Farhadi’s The Past and former winners the Dardenne brothers with their new project Two Days, One Night have found US distributors  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | US

Jodorowsky’s Dune: The story is always more important than the film

Jodorowsky’s Dune: The story is always more important than the film

Frank Pavich’s documentary reveals the creative process behind the adaptation of science fiction book Dune by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

UK distributors open up their wallets

UK distributors open up their wallets

Three UK distributors - Artificial Eye, Arrow Films and Metrodome Distribution - have acquired competition entries and market premieres in Cannes  

20/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | UK

La danza de la realidad: a revisited and invented childhood

La danza de la realidad: a revisited and invented childhood

Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky returns after 23 years with work in which he has reconstructed his childhood in a tale-like manner  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

Borgman: Gradual takeover of total control

Borgman: Gradual takeover of total control

Alex van Varmerdam signs his name to a Kafkaesque film brimming with black humour, about a team of exterminators of middle-class life  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Competition | Netherlands

European cast aboard Julian Barnes’ adaptation of The Porcupine

European cast aboard Julian Barnes’ adaptation of The Porcupine

Julian Barnes’ screen adaptation of his novel The Porcupine to be directed by Srdjan Dragojevic for UK’s F&ME and Serbia’s Delirium has actors Karl Markovics and Rade Serbedzija in lead roles  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | UK

Birro focuses on gang-related crime for Meta Stockholm

Birro focuses on gang-related crime for Meta Stockholm

Danish former von Trier producer Meta Louise Foldager's production company sets up Swedish branch to commence with television series by Swedish writer Peter Birro  

19/05 | Production | Denmark

Spanish 6 Sales inks Magnolia deal on Big Bad Wolves

Spanish 6 Sales inks Magnolia deal on Big Bad Wolves

Spain’s sales and financing outfit 6 Sales has closed a major US deal with Magnolia Pictures on the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves, directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Spain

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