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The dog days of summer are here, and it's the perfect time to make some memories down by the local lake. Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), coming to theaters on September 12, is aiming to capture the feeling of the season with four slice-of-life vignettes of locals from a lake town who all pursue their goals while they're still young and the weather is nice. Hailing from first-time director Sierra Falconer, it's billed as an authentic, subtle, and sweet look at the rhythms of life and human connection against an idyllic backdrop that spurs self-discovery. As part of Collider's Exclusive Preview event for upcoming movies, we're excited to share a new image that offers a peek into the lives of the residents around Green Lake.

Our exclusive shot invokes the feeling of freedom in small-town summer living through the lens of a girl preparing to set sail on the waters of Green Lake.

David Laub has joined Neon as Senior Vice President of Marking and Publicity, where he will work closely with Ryan Werner, Neon’s new President of Global Cinema. In this newly created role Laub “will bring his years of experience in marketing, publicity, and awards to Neon’s growing slate,” according to the official release.

Before Neon, Laub served as Head of Metrograph Pictures from February 2024 through July 2025, during which time he acquired and released films like “Good One,” which played Sundance; “Santosh,” a Cannes selection, and “April,” a Venice prize-winner. Before that, he spent nine years at A24, where he worke din all aspects of film distribution including marketing, publicity, acquisitions, and exhibition.

During his time at A24, he oversaw a slate that included “Aftersun,” “First Cow,” “First Reformed” and Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir” and “The Souvenir: Part II.” He also worked on the campaigns of “Everything Everywhere All At Once...

David Laub has joined Neon as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Publicity.

Laub, who served as Head of Metrograph Pictures from February 2024 through July 2025, will work closely with Ryan Werner, Neon’s new President of Global Cinema, further strengthening the studio’s position as a champion of bold, auteur-driven filmmaking. In this newly created role, Laub will bring his years of experience in marketing, publicity, and awards to Neon’s growing slate.

During his time at Metrograph, Laub acquired and released such films as India Donaldson’s highly acclaimed feature debut “Good One,” which played both Sundance and Cannes and was on over 100 year-end top ten lists; Cannes selection “Santosh,” which was on the shortlist for this year’s International Oscar award; and the highly lauded Venice prize-winner “April,” by Dea Kulumbegashvilli.

Laub spent almost 9 years at film and television studio A24, where he worked in all aspects of film distribution including marketing,...

David Laub, the former head of Metrograph Pictures, is joining Neon as SVP Marketing and Publicity, a newly created position in which the exec will focus on marketing, publicity and awards.

Laub will work closely with Ryan Werner, Neon’s new President of Global Cinema.

Laub had been head of Metrograph Pictures since February 2024. During his run, he acquired and released such films as India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One, which played both Sundance and Cannes and was on more than 100 year-end top 10 lists; Cannes selection Santosh, which was on the shortlist for this year’s International Feature Oscar; and the lauded Venice prize-winner April by Dea Kulumbegashvilli.

Laub previously had spent close to nine years at A24, where he worked in all aspects of film distribution including marketing, publicity, acquisitions and exhibition. He oversaw a slate of films for the company that included Charlotte Wells’ Oscar nominee Aftersun,...

Films from parts of the world plagued by war and other hardships dominate the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori that will open with Ukrainian-born director Vladlena Sandu’s autobiographical film “Memory” that revisits her traumatic childhood memories in war-torn Chechnya.

The competition of the Giornate – which is also known as Venice Days – comprises 10 world premieres, none of which are english-language titles. They hail from countries including Iran, Lebanon Kenya, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, Spain, Greece and Italy.

The selection features another filmmaker, Germany-based Russian filmmaker Nastia Korkia, re-elaborating the Chechnyan conflict in “A Short Summer,” the story of eight-year-old Katya, who goes on vacation with her grandparents just as the war in Chechnya breaks out.

“In many of the selected titles the goal is life, building lives, relationships. One tries to process grief in order to overcome it and try hard to see the world...

Honor Swinton Byrne is reuniting with writer-director Anne-Sofie Lindgaard for the National Film and Television School (Nfts) short film “Small One,” joined by Charlotte Spencer and Herbert Nordrum in what marks the emerging filmmaker’s graduation project.

The casting represents a significant get for the Nfts production, bringing together Swinton Byrne, fresh off “A Very Royal Scandal,” with Spencer from “The Gold” and Nordrum, who broke out in “The Worst Person in the World.”

Lindgaard, the Danish filmmaker behind festival favorite “Icelandic Poppies,” is tackling fertility and family dynamics in her latest short. The story follows sisters grappling with opposite pregnancy experiences — one dealing with an unexpected conception while the other faces IVF struggles.

The project marks Lindgaard’s third collaboration with casting director Simon Higgins, whose recent work includes assembling talent for her Cannes silver-winning short “Backseat.” Their partnership has become a defining element of Lindgaard’s Nfts tenure.

The Future of Film is Female will release Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake), the feature debut of writer-director Sierra Falconer, on September 12 at the IFC Center in New York with a national expansion to follow.

A wistful, slice of life anthology, which premiered at Sundance to strong reviews, follows intertwined lives around Green Lake in Michigan.

The film, executive produced by acclaimed director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir), is the second distribution partnership for The Future of Film is Female after The Graduates by Hannah Peterson in 2024. The NYC-based nonprofit founded by Caryn Coleman is dedicated to releasing independent films directed by women and nonbinary filmmakers with a tailored release plan for each project.

Coleman will handle the U.S. theatrical release. Giant Pictures will oversee the U.S. digital, set for late fall. Vortex Media has all rights in Canada to the film staring Maren Heary (She Said), Jim Kaplan...

Being a single mom and a successful painter is already a tough act to maintain. But doing so as an exile who escaped the Soviet bloc and suffered deep trauma for doing so, is even more distressing — especially when your past comes back to haunt you.

Such are the burdens faced by Perla, the titular heroine of Alexandra Makarova’s promising second feature, which screened in Karlovy Vary after premiering at Rotterdam back in January. Stark and tense, with an impressive eye for period detail, the film is at once a portrait of a rebellious female artist and a time capsule revealing lives torn apart by the Iron Curtain only a decade before it lifted.

Like a cross between Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Perla shuffles between scenes of postmodern artistic creation and Soviet-era political strife, focusing on a Slovakian painter (Rebeka Polakova) trying to raise her daughter,...

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane Labed first gained attention with her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) before delivering an award-winning Venice Film Festival performance in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg (2010). Since then, she has collaborated with visionary directors such as Richard Linklater, Guy Maddin, Justin Kurzel, Joanna Hogg, and, most recently, Brady Corbet, further cementing her reputation as a versatile and compelling actress. In 2019 she presented her short feature debut in the Quinzaine section – we interviewed her for her remarkable “Olla,” and were excited when the trades announced that was she was going to direct her feature debut.…...

Exclusive: Sven Bresser’s Cannes Critics’ Week title Reedland is among the films expected to screen at NLWave 25, the new Dutch screenings event launched today by the Netherlands Film Fund, See Nl and Eye Filmuseum, in association with Christian De Schutter’s marketing, PR and strategic agency Hype Park.

Nl Wave 25 will showcase early-stage projects, recently completed films, documentaries and animation to the international industry in Utrecht from September 24-26.

“There is a very good harvest of Dutch films coming up,” said Sandra den Hamer, chief executive office of the Netherlands Film Fund.

In addition to Reedland, this year’s...

Tilda Swinton is developing an exhibition for the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam that will include new film projects she will create in collaboration with a series of filmmakers, including Luca Guadagnino and Joanna Hogg.

The exhibition will be titled Tilda Swinton – Ongoing and will be on view from September 28 2025 to February 8 2026. The full list of filmmakers she has tapped for the exhibition are Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Jim Jarmusch, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Swinton will also create two installation pieces with fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard and photographer Tim Walker.

The work of Derek Jarman, the late filmmaker behind seminal works like Jubilee and The Garden, will also be celebrated as part of the exhibition, with Swinton presenting never-before-seen archival material from his 8mm oeuvre. Jarman and Swinton were longtime collaborators, with the actor making her screen debut in Jarman’s Caravaggio.

“With the honour of this extraordinary invitation,...

Oscar-winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton shocked fans earlier this year when she told the Berlin International Film Festival that she was taking a break from making movies.

But on Wednesday, the celebrated performer, artist, and fashion icon unveiled that she is developing an exhibition, Tilda Swinton – Ongoing, exclusively for the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, featuring eight works created in collaboration with such big names and friends as Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, and Jim Jarmusch.

The exhibition will also present works with Olivier Saillard, Tim Walker and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as well as the late Derek Jarman.

“Eye has given me the opportunity to reflect on the mechanics of my working practice over the past 40 years,” Swinton said. “And to come to rest on the – ever-present – bedrock and battery of the close fellowships I found from the very first and continue to rely upon to this day. In focusing attention...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.News Peter Pan.Disney will no longer include content warnings before classic films that feature racial stereotypes on its streaming service Disney+ as part of a shift in Dei strategy following President Trump’s second inauguration. In 2020, the company began appending an introductory text to movies like Dumbo (1941) and Peter Pan (1953) cautioning viewers of “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” insisting that “these stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.” Now, a disclaimer stating that a film “may contain stereotypes or negative depictions” will be buried in its “details section.”Shiori Ito has pledged to reedit sections of her film, Black Box Diaries (2024), which chronicles her own sexual assault case, to remove unauthorized content.

Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion and Wes Anderson are among the signees of an appeal to stave off the impending threat that a substantial portion of Rome’s movie theaters could be converted into shopping centers and supermarkets under proposed regional legislation.

Alarm over the future of the Eternal City’s cinemas was prompted last month after asset management companies Colliers Global Investors and Wrm Capital won a Rome real estate bankruptcy auction and acquired nine movie theaters for a reported €50 million ($52 million).

Some of these venues, such as the city’s central Cinema Adriano multiplex, are fully operational, while others have long been shuttered. The person behind the fund is believed to be Italian-British financier Raffaele Mincione.

Meanwhile, a new regional piece of legislation is being drafted — and is up for approval this week — that would remove norms that currently prevent Rome movie theaters from being converted into any other...

Mubi has unveiled its lineup for next month’s streaming offerings, featuring Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaali!, along with El Planeta from Amalia Ulman, whose latest Sundance-premiering feature Magic Farm was picked up by the company. An additional highlight is Joanna Hogg’s new short Autobiography of a Handbag, which is also available to stream below.

Alistair Ryder said of Quentin Dupieux’s Daaaaaali! in his review, “Despite casting several of France’s finest character actors as the famed Spaniard, this isn’t an I’m Not There-style tribute to the artist’s spirit attempting an unconventional work in vein like theirs. Dupieux clearly has no interest in those sub-genres of the biopic, either, even if he does have a clear reverence for his subject. Instead his madcap romp manages to blow up all biopic expectations in the most winningly stupid ways...

A vote is scheduled for next week in Italy that could turn cultural venues in Rome — including 50 movie theaters — into shopping malls and supermarkets. Martin Scorsese is among the filmmakers petitioning to save them.

Architect Renzo Piano has shared a letter whose appeal has now been endorsed by filmmakers and Hollywood luminaries including Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Ari Aster, Julie Taymor, Yorgos Lanthimos, J.J. Abrams, Josh Safdie, Todd Haynes, Judd Apatow, Damien Chazelle, Mark Cousins, Alfonso Cuarón, Willem Dafoe, Robert Eggers, Joanna Hogg, Dawn Hudson, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Schrader, Léa Seydoux, John Turturro, Thomas Vinterberg, Jeremy Thomas, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Debra Winger.

The government of the Lazio region, which hosts the Italian capital, is about to approve a law that will be voted on next week that would make 50 movie theaters, including Rome’s many historic and abandoned cinemas, vulnerable...

The inimitable Tilda Swinton used her platform in Berlin Thursday night, where she received a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement, to call out political extremism, environmental degradation and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.

Without ever uttering the words Gaza or Palestinian, the Oscar-winning Scottish star also gave an impassioned speech in support of “the great independent state of cinema,” what she called “an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of Riviera property.” (The latter a clear reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed plans for Gaza).

Swinton called out what she termed the “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder… unacceptable to human society. These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.

Joanna Hogg brings Miu Miu’s Wander Bag to life in a daring new film Xmag UK Bea Álvaro Figueroa

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A 14-year-old is obliged to stay at her grandparents’ lake home after her impulsive mom elopes and prioritizes her new husband. At the competitive music camp across the water, a determined young violinist pushes himself to be named first chair, sacrificing the personal connections he covets more. Meanwhile, at the local bar, a fisherman finds an unlikely ally in catching the whopper that’ll change his life. And finally, at a family-run bed-and-breakfast, two sisters make the most of their summer before the older one heads off to college.

The location, rather than the characters or their independent narrative strands, serves to unify the four sketches that comprise “Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake.” Set in writer-director Sierra Falconer’s old stomping grounds — among the cozy, neighborly community that surrounds a scenic lake in northern Michigan — the pleasantly laconic anthology film debuted in U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance.

Director Sierra Falconer, whose debut feature will premiere next week at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed for representation at WME.

The UCLA grad’s “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)” was selected for the U.S. dramatic competition at the 41st edition of the Utah cinema confab founded by Robert Redford. The film weaves together four interconnected tales unfolding over one summer around an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan.

“I grew up spending summers on Green Lake in rural, northern Michigan, and from the start, I knew my first film had to be a portrait of this special place,” Falconer tells Variety, adding that her film “captures small but significant moments of connection, framed by a shared sense of belonging.”

Narrative threads in “Sunfish” include a young girl bonding with her grandparents through sailing and two sisters savoring their last days running a bed-and-breakfast together. The festival bills the...

The Berlin Film Festival is to fete Tilda Swinton with an Honorary Golden Bear for her career achievement. The award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 13, 2025.

“The range of Tilda Swinton’s work is breathtaking. To cinema she brings so much humanity, compassion, intelligence, humour and style, and she expands our ideas of the world through her work. Tilda is one of our modern filmmaking idols, and has also long been part of the Berlinale family. We are delighted to be able to present her with this Honorary Golden Bear,” said Festival Director Tricia Tuttle.

Swinton commented: “The Berlinale is the first film festival I ever went to, in 1986 with Derek Jarman and the first film I made, his Caravaggio. It was my portal into the world in which I have made my life’s work – the world of international filmmaking – and I...

Riding the coattails of the biggest animated film ever is no mean feat. And Dream Productions, a four-episode narrative series of 20-minute-ish episodes, feels like one of Pixar’s most ambitious small-screen efforts yet. Their TV spin-offs tend to be tiny animated snacks, often no more than 5 minutes at a time; this feels like a full meal, with a runtime that adds up to a full movie. Set between the two _Inside Out_films, you could almost think of it as Inside Out 2.5.

Happily, it’s also an absolute treat, expanding the psychologically rich and comedically fertile setting of a pre-teen’s brain in deeply satisfying ways. Dreams as a concept have already been briefly explored in the two Inside Out films, beginning with Pete Docter’s superlative 2015 smash and continued with Kelsey Mann’s solid sequel: a means of delving into unprocessed memories, the dreams themselves staged as if giant movie productions,...

Fresh off his appointment as director of Italy’s National Cinema Museum, former Berlinale chief Carlo Chatrian is in Greece where he has curated an intriguing lineup of titles for the repertory sidebar at this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Grouped under the theme of ‘monsters,’ flicks handpicked by Chatrian include George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead and Lee Chang-Dong’s Peppermint Candy. The unique mix of titles has been a hit with audiences here in Greece and best exemplifies the unique and staunchly international programming style that Chatrian says has earned him the rep as an industry “outsider.”

“I’m really attempting to expand the vision of cinema,” he says.

From 2012 to 2018, Chatrian was the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival. He held the same position at the Berlin Film Festival from 2020 until this year when he stepped down after the German government announced plans to...

Mother/daughter relationships are an important cornerstone of cinematic storytelling. But one type of maternal representation we don’t usually see portrayed on screen is that of the mother whose life is flourishing in the wake of their child leaving the nest. It’s a fascinating notion and one that lies at the centre of Lily Weisberg’s drama Working Summer. The plot of Weisberg’s film centres on Nora who returns home to Upstate New York where he mother has embraced a life centred around basketweaving. To Nora’s surprise, her mother isn’t wallowing in the loss of her departure but instead has found a sense of fulfilment in her low-stakes existence. Working Summer has certainly marked Weisberg as one to watch on Dn’s radar and if you’re a fan of Sofia Coppola or Kelly Reichardt, we recommend you check out her work too, starting with this short,...

In Josh and Benny Safdie's 2019 panic attack "Uncut Gems," Adam Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a fast-talking jewelry store owner with several terrible habits. For one, he's been having a long-term affair with his mistress (Julia Fox) and his bitter, angry, soon-to-be-ex-wife Dinah (Idina Menzel) can't wait to be rid of him. Howard is also is a gambling addict with an unusual way of perpetuating his habit. He loans gems to celebrities and athletes, but takes their existing jewelry as collateral. He then takes the jewelry across town to a pawn shop and pawns it for a pile of money before betting the money on a sporting event. If he wins, he can get the jewelry out of hock and return it to the original owners with cash in his pocket, and no one is the wiser. If he loses ... well, he actually loses a lot.

"Uncut Gems" grabs you...

Mubi has acquired several territories including UK on Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says, which had its world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in May.

Mubi has picked up the film for the UK, Germany, Austria and Turkey, with Volta Pictures acquiring all rights for Ireland. The Match Factory, which is owned by Mubi, handles international sales on the title.

The film follows two sisters – one who is suspended from school, leading to the other exploring her own independence and creating tension on a holiday in Ireland. Mia Tharia, Pascale Kann and Rakhee Thakrar star in the film.

Quick Links A Family Drama Starring Loki's Tom Hiddleston Archipelago Was a Critical Success for Its Portrayal of Family Struggles Audiences Found It Hard to Relate to Archipelago

Tom Hiddleston is an English actor who rose to fame by portraying Norse God Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting in 2011. His charming smile and powerful delivery of lines have made him gain dedicated fans all around the world. Few know, however, that Hiddleston is a classically trained actor. If his career took some time to take off since his graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005, Hiddleston did have a narrow relationship with director Joanna Hogg during his quieter years, and they both had their silver screen debut in her 2007 movie Unrelated.

Three years later, one of the most controversial works by the English filmmaker was released. Archipelago, a drama film about familial ties and struggles, received a...

Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin has named former Berlin Film Festival head Carlo Chatrian as its new director. Chatrian will be in post for five years.

Chatrian replaces Domenico De Gaetano. The museum’s management committee thanked De Gaetano in a statement this afternoon for leading the institution during recent “complex years” and “succeeding in the enterprise of increasing visitors and making it an attractive cultural center of international standing, opening it to the new languages ​​of cinema.”

The committee said the decision to hire Chatrian was “unanimous.” Chatrian, a Turin native, began his cinema career as a writer and journalist. He has been a programmer and consultant for various institutions including the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Filmmaker Doc in Milan, Alba International Film Festival (of which he was also deputy director), Courmayeur Noir in Festival, Festival dei popoli in Florence, Cinéma du Réel in Paris,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

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A Different Man director Aaron Schimberg has assembled an all-35mm retrospective of films that inspired his new feature, including work by Lynch, Lubitsch, Nicholas Ray, and Tsai; the 50th-anniversary restoration of The Conversation begins a run.

Museum of Modern Art

A career-spanning Johnnie To retrospective has begun, featuring the director in-person.

Anthology Film Archives

An Ingrid Caven retrospective includes films by Fassbinder and Eustache; work by Joseph Cornell, Tony Conrad, and Bruce Conner plays in “Essential Cinema.”

Film at Lincoln Center

An essential retrospective of Brazil’s L.C. Barreto Productions continues.

Roxy Cinema

Faces and A Woman Under the Influence screen.

Museum of the Moving Image

A retrospective of the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden continues; two films by Joanna Hogg screen on Saturday; Young Frankenstein and The Warriors have standalone showings, the latter on 35mm.

Film Forum

The Searchers...

Portuguese feature Manas and Dutch title Alpha. have won the first two prizes from the independent Giornate degli Autori sidebar in Venice.

Marianna Brennand Fortes’ Manas took the Director’s Award, selected by The Souvenir director Joanna Hogg’s jury. Set in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the film follows a 13-year-old girl who decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.

The film is backed by Walter Salles and the Dardenne Brothers, and produced by Fortes for Portugal’s Fado Filmes. The film receives a €20,000 cash prize, to be divided equally between...

Brazilian director Marianna Brennand’s drama “Manas,” about a 13-year-old girl suffering abuse in the depth of the Amazon rainforest, has scored the Venice Days director’s award.

Backed by Walter Salles and the Dardenne Brothers, “Manas” is set on the island of Marajó in the Amazon rainforest. Marcielle lives near the riverbank with her father, mother and three siblings. Prompted by her mother’s words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by “finding a good man” on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle, as she is known, matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried about her younger sister and the bleak future they face, she decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.

The section’s top award, decided by a jury headed by “The Eternal Daughter” filmmaker Joanna Hogg,...

Celebrating twenty years, Venice Days (aka Giornate degli autori) is kicking off this week alongside the Venice International Film Festival with a jury headed by Joanna Hogg. One premiere that has caught our eye is Cláudia Varejão’s Kora, which examines the stories of refugee women living in Portugal. They all carry their past in their body and words, as well as their loved ones in portraits. From these memories we access the intimate, political gaze of those who reconstruct (their) present. Ahead of the premiere, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer.

“Every day, people are thrown out of their homes and their countries by oppression, armed conflict and human rights violations. Many of them lose parents, children, every relational or emotional reference. They are deprived of their everyday lives, of their education, of their jobs and even their native tongues. From one moment to the next,...

A self-reflexive origin story about creation, growth, and the myth of the lone artist, “My First Film” announces a bold, disruptive new talent in American cinema. But if the film’s release is anything like Zia Anger’s experience in the film world thus far, it will elicit a maddening whimper where it should have made a bang.

That’s because Anger, who writes and directs with fierce emotion and sincerity, has had terrible luck (if you want to call it that) on the film scene. Despite directing evocative music videos for artists like Mitski and Angel Olsen, Anger has been consistently overlooked by Hollywood, and has struggled to secure financing. Her first feature, shot on a shoestring budget with support from family and friends, was rejected from every film festival.

A caveat: even Anger looks back on that first film as “bad.” At least she implies as much in “My First Film,...

“The Eternal Daughter” filmmaker Joanna Hogg is returning to the Venice Film Festival, this time, as the jury president for the 21st edition of Giornate degli Autori, also known as Venice Days.

Hogg directed “The Souvenir,” “The Souvenir Part II,” and “The Eternal Daughter,” which debuted in competition at Venice in 2022. She previously served on the 2020 Venice Film Festival jury when Cate Blanchett was president. Now, Hogg succeeds Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodríguez in the role of Giornate degli Autori jury president.

The 2024 Venice Film Festival celebrates the 10th anniversary of the GdA Director’s Award, bestowed to one of 10 films in its competition. The winning film will receive a 20,000 euro cash prize, which will be split equally between the director and the international distributor who will use the 10,000 euro to promote the film.

“What could be more fun and stimulating than watching films and sharing ideas with a jury of young cinephiles,...

Acclaimed British filmmaker Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir, The Eternal Daughter) will head up the jury of the Giornate degli Autori (GdA) sidebar at the upcoming 2024 Venice Film Festival. Hogg will oversee a jury of 27 young European film fans judging the movies of the parallel section, which runs alongside the Venice festival from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7. The jury will pick the section’s GdA Director’s Award.

“Throughout her cinematic journey, Hogg has examined the human soul, family and sentimental relationships with rare precision, psychological depth and authenticity,” said GdA artistic director Gaia Furrer. “Hers is an implosive cinema, as Martin Scorsese, who produced Hogg’s last three films, defined it: A cinema capable of bringing to light truths that are often uncomfortable or unspeakable.”

Hogg is best known for her pair of autobiographical dramas, The Souvenir (2019) and The Souvenir: Part II (2021), the first of which premiered in Sundance, the second in Cannes.

UK filmmaker Joanna Hogg is to be president of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori, running from August 28-September 7.

The jury consists of 10 former participants of the European young cinephile 27 Times Cinema programme. Jury heads in recent years have included João Pedro Rodrigues, Céline Sciamma, Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova and Nadav Lapid.

The jury decides the winner of a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the filmmaker and the film’s international distributor.

Once again, the jury sessions will be coordinated by Karel Och, artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

The Quay Brothers’ Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hour Glass,...

UK director and screenwriter Joanna Hogg has been announced as jury president of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), running from August 28, to September 7.

She will preside over a jury of 27 young European cinephiles attending GdA under the auspices of the 27 Times Cinema program, a joint initiative organized by the independent sidebar, the European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award and Europa Cinemas

This jury decides the GdA Director’s Award, the sidebar’s only official prize, under the coordination of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) director Karel Och.

The €20,000 cash prize is split equally between the director and the international distributor, who commits to using the sum received to promote the film.

“What could be more fun and stimulating than watching films and sharing ideas with a jury of young cinephiles” said Hogg, “I thank the Giornate degli Autori for inviting me to what I anticipate will be...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen)

Though The Dead Don’t Hurt gradually becomes Vivienne’s story as Holger disappears to fight, his presence still defines the film in strange ways. While Mortensen certainly looks younger than 65 and I’m not one of those people who busts out a calculator to determine what is or isn’t an appropriate age-gap relationship, Mortensen casting himself opposite Krieps in the romantic (even action hero) lead role he’s clearly too old for (beyond maybe financing requirements) reeks of ego. Maybe this wouldn’t matter as much if he dramatized these proceedings in a way more compelling than just its interesting conceptual ideas of immigrants in the west going through the passage of time together.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWSThe Souvenir Part II.Equity, the British entertainment industry trade union, has greeted the incoming Labour government—the first in fourteen years, having won in a landslide—with demands for reforms to the government’s arts funding.Meanwhile, across the Channel, snap French parliamentary elections resulted in an upset victory for the leftist coalition Nouveau Front Populaire over Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, which had promised to privatize, at least partially, the national television and radio broadcaster, amid other cutbacks.IATSE has released more details regarding its tentative contract with AMPTP, including allowances and limitations around the use of artificial intelligence.Teamsters Local 399 is still bargaining with AMPTP and may still be far from resolving issues...

Tosin Cole has already been part of two of the best-known sci-fi franchises around.

Sure, the American-born British actor admits his turn as starfighter pilot Lieutenant Bastian in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was perhaps a little “blink-and-you’ll miss it” (although it could have been a lot more — he got down to the final few auditioning for John Boyega’s role of Finn but “it just didn’t work out” and J.J. Abrams offered him this part instead). But in BBC cult series “Doctor Who,” however, across seasons 11 and 12, he played the main character of Ryan Sinclair, companion to Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord. It all gives him some solid bragging rights.

“You know, I can tell my grandkids, ‘Your granddaddy was in this show!,’” he exclaims.

But now there’s another sci-fi that he hopes could also become something to tell the grandchildren about in years to come.

Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.For more Cannes 2024 coverage, subscribe to the Weekly Edit newsletter.Eephus.For all the thrills that come from watching the latest film by this or that renowned auteur, I don’t come to Cannes for confirmation, but for the pleasure of discovery. And nothing quite matches the exhilaration of reckoning with a new voice—the kind that jolts you out of your festival torpor and reminds you of all the beauty and magic the cinema can muster. As usual, those epiphanies were a lot harder to come by in the official competition than in the risk-friendlier Directors’ Fortnight, an independent sidebar born in 1969 as a counterprogram dedicated, per its mission statement, “to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema.” It is here that some of the greatest have shown their earliest stuff, an illustrious pedigree that’s flaunted before each screening through a short reel...

Joe Alwyn has been the center of much media attention in the last few years. That may be news if you’ve been living in a hermetically sealed bunker. But outside that particular and unsolicited spotlight, the dandyish 33-year-old British actor has carved his name out in films from idiosyncratic auteurs. There was Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” as a grieving and queer-flirting film editor; Claire Denis’ sensuous 2022 Cannes Grand Prix winner “Stars at Noon” as a Brit adrift in Nicaragua having lots of sex with Margaret Qualley’s character; and most recently “Kinds of Kindness,” whose director Yorgos Lanthimos he previously starred for as a lusty baron in “The Favourite.”

Alwyn is back this year at Cannes in three roles in “Kinds of Kindness,” co-written with Lanthimos by his friend and “Alps” and “The Lobster” collaborator Efthimis Flippou. Which means we are very much in the mode of old-school Lanthimos,...

Yes, there were more flame-throwers, but working on Furiosa was pretty similar to starring in Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, says the actor. So how does he duck the crossfire that comes with playing Jk Rowling’s Strike?

When Tom Burke was cast in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the prequel to the crash-bang spectacular Mad Max: Fury Road, he sat his 77-year-old mother down in front of the television and showed her the previous film in that post-apocalyptic series, just to give her some idea of what he was letting himself in for. Afterwards, she looked concerned. “Will you be mainly inside or outside?” she asked.

Any parent would worry. As Praetorian Jack, he helps the young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) take revenge against the pharaoh-like warlord (Chris Hemsworth) who killed her mother. Jack’s job is to sit at the wheel of the War Rig, one of those whopping...

Cailey Fleming in If Image: Paramount Pictures Children’s films are always positioned to memorialize the imaginative worlds in our heads, acting as shrines to those places that shrink as real life constricts us, growing more abrasive and demanding. On the surface, writer/director John Krasinski’s If is destined...

Cailey Fleming in IFImage: Paramount Pictures

Children’s films are always positioned to memorialize the imaginative worlds in our heads, acting as shrines to those places that shrink as real life constricts us, growing more abrasive and demanding. On the surface, writer/director John Krasinski’s If is destined to...

George Miller keeps a photo on his phone. Taken somewhere in the ’70s, it’s a picture of Craig Hemsworth — back when the father of Chris Hemsworth hung out with the same gang of motorbike riders that appeared in the original “Mad Max.” He even knew Wonder Dog, that film’s cycle-riding canine. And of course, the younger Hemsworth is a dead ringer for his dad.

“[Chris] dug deep,” Miller told IndieWire of his “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” star. “He is highly considered on anything and everything, multi-dimensional. And he has wisdom. He is just 40. Now, at that age, if I only had half his understanding of the world at large, his place in it, the connection to family and the way he wants to conduct his life!”

We’re in Cannes and it’s the day before the festival’s out-of-competition world premiere of “Furiosa,” the fifth installment of his 45-year-old franchise.

Getting a feature into Cannes’ official selection is among the pinnacles of filmmaking achievements for most production companies. Ireland’s Element Pictures clearly isn’t most production companies — this year, it has three.

According to co-founder Ed Guiney, who set up Element with Andrew Lowe in 2001, while his company’s triple-headed festival visit may be “wonderful”, it’s simply down to good fortune and timing. “You know, some years you have nothing for Cannes,” he says, speaking from Element’s breezy, white-walled Dublin headquarters, located above an outdoor clothing shop and a jeweler on the Irish capital’s busy O’Connell Street, where it also runs its distribution arm Volta Pictures and the programming for the popular arthouse Light House Cinema, which it has operated since 2012.

But for anyone who has been keeping an eye on Element over the last decade, this edition of Cannes is merely another unprecedented milestone...

Exclusive: Element Pictures is coming off the back of yet another buzzy awards season with its absurdist comedy Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, notching 11 Oscar nominations and coming home with four wins, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. But just when it feels like the company’s trajectory can’t get higher, the Irish-Anglo production, distribution and exhibition banner is hitting the Croisette this year with no less than three films in the Cannes official selection. Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, which reunites him with his long-term writing partner Efthimis Fillipou and Poor Things stars Stone and Willem Dafoe, will compete for the Palme d’Or, while French actor Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says and I Am Not a Witch director Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore feature On Becoming A Guinea Fowl are both screening in the Un Certain Regard section.

It’s especially significant to Element co-founders...

Visit Films has come on board to represent international sales on India Donaldson’s Good One, which was just announced in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight line-up.

The film receives its international premiere on the Croisette after it world-premiered in Sundance in January.

As previously announced, Metrograph Pictures acquired North American rights to Good One in its first buy since moving into distribution.

The film follows 17-year-old Sam on a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills as she contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend. Newcomer Lily Collias stars alongside James Le Gros and Danny McCarthy.

Cinema for Gaza, a group launched by a small group of female filmmakers and film journalists, has successfully raised more than $315,000 to support medical aid for the civilian population in Gaza.

A celebrity auction, organized by Cinema for Gaza, and supported by the likes of Tilda Swinton, Annie Lennox, Joaquin Phoenix, Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro, raised some $316,778 (£254,297) for Medical Aid for Palestinians (Map), a U.K.-based charity that provides on-the-ground medical support, from sterile water to cancer drugs, for those on the Gaza Strip. The celebrities donated personal items — from signed film posters to personal Zoom chats to, in the case of Lennox, the handwritten lyrics to her Eurythmics hit “Sweet Dreams” — to be sold off to the highest bidder. (Lennox’s lyrics sheet was the top seller, with a bidder paying $26,222 for the piece of pop music history).

The Zone of Interest filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who...