Venice 2026: The Verdict
Political cinema was back with a vengeance on Lido screens, hurling an intense reality check at the complacent.
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Author: The Film Verdict
Venice 2026: The Awards
May el-Toukhy’s dark period piece ‘Woman Unknown’, set at the end of WWII in Denmark, took home the Venice Golden Lion, while protagonist Mathilde Arcel carried off the best actress award.
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Meet Irina Ignatiew-Lemke
Irina Ignatiew-Lemke steps up as Managing Director of European Film Promotion
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Amman 2026: The Awards
Cyril Aris’s romcom grounded in Lebanon’s harsh reality ‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ won Amman’s Arab Narrative competition, while in the Arab Feature Documentary race Tawfiq Sabouni’s moving recreation of life in a Syrian prison ‘The Other Side of the Sun’ won three awards.
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Something Hard, Something Strange: BIFAN hits 30
As the Bucheon International Fantasy Film Festival turns 30, its new Korean Cinema programmer Kim Hyung-seok explains why “the divide between art films and genre films is ultimately artificial”.
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