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EXCLUSIVE: James Graham’s BBC drama Sherwood has set three-time BAFTA nominee Clio Barnard as its Season 2 director, as Lesley Manville and David Morrissey confirm they will reprise their roles in a story that will move forward to the present day. Barnard, who has been BAFTA nominated for Ali & Ava, T…

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…

Clio Barnard has been a powerful indie force on the British film scene since her 2010 debut The Arbor, a stunningly unique portrait of playwright Andrea Dunbar. She followed it up with The Selfish Giant, highlighting the poorest parts of England, and now alights on a similar topic—albeit in wildly different…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Bean and Mark Stanley are in talks to join Clio Barnard’s Dark River opposite Ruth Wilson. The film is Barnard’s anticipated next feature after The Selfish Giant. It marks a welcome return for Bean to indie Brit filmmaking after a number high-profile roles in big-budget and fantasy-inflected fare such…

EXCLUSIVE: The Affair star Ruth Wilson is in advanced negotiations to join Clio Barnard’s feature Dark River. The actress, who won the Golden Globe for her bravura work on Showtime infidelity melodrama The Affair, will play the female lead. The producers are casting the male lead role. Wilson’s career has been on the…

For a Hollywood talent agent looking for somebody hot to sign up, the winner and even some other nominees (see below) for BAFTA’s Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer fits the bill. Previous winners have been Duncan Jones, who's currently making Source Code starring Jake Gyllenhaal for…

The director, whose 127 Hours is closing the festival, was presented with a BFI Fellowship at tonight’s awards ceremony by fellow director Stephen Daldry. Also on hand was Martin Scorsese, who paid tribute to the BFI National Archive. As for the winners, jury president Patricia Clarkson presented director Alexei…