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The 11th iteration of the Kosovar fiction-film event promises a week full of cinema, new discoveries and a strong industry section. For the 11th year, the Prishtina International Film Festival (PriFest), the leading fiction-film festival in Kosovo, is getting ready to welcome its guests. The festival, set to unspool from 16-21 July, will open at the National Theatre in Prishtina with Field of Blackbirds, the debut feature by Kosovar writer-director Arzana Kraja. The film is a Kosovar-uk-Albanian co-production by Circle Production Company and has been supported by the Kosovo Cinematography Center. A total of 70 films will be screened in five competitive and five non-competitive programmes, including six world, five international, one European and 19 regional premieres. PriFest’s main competition section, the European programme, includes six movies this year: Amare Amaro by Julien Paolini (France/Italy), Bad Bad Winter by Olga Korotko (Kazakhstan/France), Consequences by Darko Štante (Slovenia/Austria), Elephants Can Play.

Platform will screen features The Elephant Queen, Hala at Sicilian festival.

The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in on behalf of Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.

The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and highlight the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.

Apple will screen two of its films at the festival. Mark Deeble...

Platform will screen features The Elephant Queen, Hala at Sicilian festival.

The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will celebrate the first TV series in its 65-year history when Octavia Spencer flies in to discuss Apple TV+’s forthcoming true-crime drama Truth Be Told.

The series will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Spencer will attend the Italian festival, where she will receive the Taormina Arte Award and talk about the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.

Sicilian festival will screen the first TV series in its 65-year history.

The Taormina Film Festival (June 30-July 6) in Sicily will screen the first TV series in its 65-year history, Apple TV+’s forthcoming drama Truth Be Told.

Apple will offer a first-look at the series, which will debut on the Apple TV app this autumn. Series creator and executive producer/star Octavia Spencer will come to Taormina to present the series, which is inspired by a true-crime novel by Katherine Barber.

Apple will also show preview footage of See starring Alfre Woodard, and The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston,...

Paris-based sales company adds Chained For Life, Demons to slate.

Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has added several titles to its slate ahead of the upcoming European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.

Among the additions are two films which will have their world premieres in Berlin: Aaron Schimberg’s satire Chained For Life, which will screen in Berlin Critics’ Week, and Daniel Hui’s psychological thriller Demons, which will be presented at Berlinale Forum.

Reel Suspects will also be screening footage of Bartosz Konopka’s polish historical drama The Mute. The director’s previous credits include Fear Of Falling and...