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The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its competition line-up for this year's festival, with Marie Kreutzer's Corsage and Ukrainian helmer Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’ selected in the feature film and documentary categories respectively. A total of 51 films will compete…

As a young girl, Corsage star Vicky Krieps was a big fan of the 1950s Sissi series of films. When, at age 14, she read a biography about the real-life Empress Elisabeth, she was convinced somebody should make a movie that delved into her story. "I saw these Romy Schneider movies when I was a little girl and because in…

Here are some of the key talking points from the Cannes Film Festival and market at half-way. First of all, how about that weather. The general feeling is that it’s great to be back en masse at a sunny, in-person, A-list festival with the spectre of Covid greatly diminished, at least. At dinner last night, it was…

It took the Empress Elisabeth's strongest lady's maid an hour every morning to lace her stays. The Emperor Franz-Joseph's wife Sissi, as she was fondly known to the subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was famous for the narrowness of her waist, which reputedly measured 19 and a half inches; the slightest weight…