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Lena Dunham is back. Sharp Stick — the writer-director-actor's follow-up to the HBO series Girls and her first film since Tiny Furniture (2010) – opens in LA at Landmark's renovated single-screen NuArt Theatre and at the Quad Cinema in NYC. It expands to 40-50 screens next weekend, heading to about 100…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment announced today the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights to Ali & Ava written & directed by BAFTA nominee Clio Barnard (Dark River, The Selfish Giant, The Arbor). The film recently won two British Independent Film Awards, and was nominated for five additional awards. Greenwich…

Clio Barnard took inspiration from two people she met while filming previous films for Ali & Ava, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. “I knew I wanted it to be a love story,” Bernard said to Anna Smith at Deadline’s Contender’s Event: London. She also described the idea behind the film as a “bio-fiction.&#8221…

Clio Barnard returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the British drama Ali & Ava. While billed as a romance, the Directors’ Fortnight entry doesn't take the path of a traditional idealized love story, instead exploring the connection between a new couple within Barnard's social realist world. Based on locals that she…

Here's the first image from Ali & Ava, the next project from Dark River and The Selfish Giant director Clio Barnard. The film follows Ava (Claire Rushbrook) a respected matriarch on a predominantly white Bradford estate, and Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a charismatic son, brother, boss and landlord, an avid music and book…