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- Giorgio Diritti - Director: “It was a massacre of innocents”
After his feature debut The Wind Blows Round, which benefited from unexpected word of mouth, Giorgio Diritti returns with an ambitious second film
- Frédéric Mermoud - Director: “Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket”
After several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive transition to features with a film presented at Locarno and lauded at Chicago
- Industry - UK - Northern Ireland Screen contributes £22m to local economy
At a time when the UK film industry is facing an uncertain future comes the cheering news that Northern Ireland Screen, the development agency for the screen industries in the region, has returned £22m to the local economy at a ratio of 5.5:1. The agency’s…
- Releases - France - With Love From the Age of Reason in summer line-up with Euro flavour
While audience figures in French theatres are currently slowing down after an excellent first semester, the line-up for late July-early August will see several European titles try to hold their own against a flood of US blockbusters. This Wednesday, July…
- Production - Denmark - Von Trier’s Melancholia kicks in
To mark the beginning of production of his new film Melancholia, Danish director Lars von Trier met with the local press on Monday. Sitting in front of a packed gathering at Film i Väst’s Trollhättan studios in Western Sweden, where von Trier is shooting…
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