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Happy New Year! As the Deadline team gears up for another busy and discovery-filled 12 months on the global film festival circuit, here is our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we expect to see on the way. While we scored better than an 80% strike rate for 2024, this year's…

Rich Peppiatt’s drama Kneecap, which made it onto short list for Best International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards earlier this week, has scooped the top Crystal Arrow for best film at France's Les Arcs Film Festival. The prize, awarded in partnership with state broadcaster France…

The Berlin Film Festival is to fete Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her career achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025. "The range of Tilda Swinton's work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity…

‘Safe House’ To Open Göteborg Film Festival Eirik Svensson’s Safe House (Før Mørket) will kick of the 48th Göteburg Film Festival on January 24, 2025. The film’s screenplay, written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Lars Gudmestad, is based on real events from the autobiography ‘Det Finnes Ingen de Andre…

EXCLUSIVE: MAD Distribution, the theatrical arm of Cairo-based studio MAD Solutions, has acquired MENA rights to Tunisian director Amel Guellaty's coming-of-age road movie Where The Wind Comes From ahead of its world premiere in Sundance. The movie – described by MAD Distribution as "a refreshing…

Michel Gondry and Ira Sachs are among the headline filmmakers set to debut new feature works within the sidebar competitions at next year's Berlin Film Festival.  The German festival announced the pair this afternoon as part of its first crop of confirmed titles.  Gondry will screen Maya, Give Me…

French actress Karin Viard's stay as guest of honor at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps got off to a dramatic start over the weekend after she fell while skiing and banged her head. The star, who is a best known internationally for her roles in films La Famille Bélier (which was remade…

Dutch filmmaker Floor Van der Meulen's drama Happy Days, about a woman who suffers a burnout after she commits to looking after grandchildren several days a week, has scooped one of the top prizes at the Les Arcs Coproduction Village. It is one 18 feature film projects selected for the 16th edition…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacques Audiard is in the thick of awards season with his much-buzzed film Emilia Pérez, and now he is set for a retrospective from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival next month. That Cannes Jury Prize-winning film starring Oscar hopeful Karla Sofia Gascón along with Selena…

Sundance on Monday debuted the list of short films to be presented at this year’s festival. 57 were selected, in total, with shorts to screen as part of eight curated programs that will include fiction, nonfiction, and animated titles from the U.S. and globally. Chosen from 11,153 submissions, this…

Italian producer Mario Gianani has revealed his pleasure at reuniting with Lorenzo Mieli in their new Rome-based company OUR Films in a talk on his career at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps. Gianani was at Les Arcs with actor-director Paola Cortellesi, who received the festival's' Prix…

The media spotlight may have been on the raft of Hollywood A-listers hitting the fourth edition of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival in the port city of Jeddah over these past 10 days, but what was happening in the backdrop at its market was no less remarkable. Like the rest of the festival, the…