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San Sebastian Film Festival (September 18-26) has added Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are to its line-up, with the event to world premiere the eight-part series in full as part of its Official Selection special screenings. Written by Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri together with Guadagnino, the HBO-Sky…

Pressing on with plans to hold its physical edition September 18-26, Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, the competitive strand that does not mandate any style or length standards. There are 10 features and nine shorts present this year. The feature length…

The Zurich and San Sebastian film festivals, which tend to overlap in their late-September slots and traditionally try to pool resources, are teaming once again to deliver a special market initiative that the orgs hope will contribute to rejuvenating the beleaguered international film biz. After months of pandemic…

San Sebastian Film Festival has added five features to this year's line-up, including Matt Dillon's second film as a director The Great Felllove, and Julien Temple's Shane McGowan doc Crock Of Gold. The Temple pic will be presented in Competition alongside Harry McQueen's Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley…

Organizers of the Sarajevo Film Fesitval, which was set to be one of the first international film festivals to take place in a meaningful physical form this summer, have made a late decision to shift the event entirely to online after a spike of infections in Bosnia. The fest had been due to take place August 14 – 21…

The Venice Film Festival's industry-focused Production Bridge had unveiled the line-up of projects that will take part in its 'Final Cut In Venice' workshop this year. The six films all hail from the MENA region. There are three fiction projects: Hadjer (Algeria, France) by Anis Djaad and Alegria Productions; Harvest…

eOne and Australian pay TV company Foxtel have inked an expanded deal on a slate of the former's recent titles. Included are the Oscar-winning 1917, Green Book, and Judy, as well as Wild Rose, Booksmart, Babyteeth, and more. The agreement sees Foxtel take both pay TV and SVOD rights for the pics in the territory and…

The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the film calendar with Sundance, Toronto and London the latest festivals to announce hybrid events featuring physical and online activity. Below we rundown the current status of some of the key upcoming festivals and markets in the next six months; this list…

The San Sebastian Festival, one of Europe's most prestigious film events, is pulling out of Films in Progress, the twice-yearly event that was launched in 2002 to back the production of Latin American cinema. The event has welcomed directors including Pablo Larrain, Ciro Guerra, Sebastian Lelio and Amat Escalante in…

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian drama Pacified tonight won the Golden Shell top prize at Spain’s prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival. We spoke to the Black Swan and mother! director about how he came to the project, which is his company Protozoa Pictures’ first foreign-language film, and what’s next…

Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian drama Pacified (Pacificado) has won the Golden Shell top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The movie also won best actor for Bukassa Kabengele and best DoP for Laura Merians. Crowned this evening at the Spanish festival, Portuguese-language pic Pacified charts the…