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2254 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s sports drama Saipan to world-premiere at Toronto

Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s sports drama Saipan to world-premiere at Toronto

The Centrepiece entry revisits Ireland’s most infamous football feud ahead of the 2002 FIFA World Cup  

07/08 | Production | Funding | Ireland/UK

REPORT: Open Doors @ Locarno Pro 2025

REPORT: Open Doors @ Locarno Pro 2025

We take a closer look at four African projects being co-produced with European partners – or seeking them – which are taking part in the industry initiative organised by the Swiss festival  

07/08 | Locarno 2025 | Locarno Pro

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Locarno competition entry Solomamma

EXCLUSIVE: Teaser for Locarno competition entry Solomamma

Janicke Askevold’s drama explores the emotional terrain of single motherhood, looking at questions of identity and human connection  

06/08 | Locarno 2025 | Competition

Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

Interview: Giona A Nazzaro • Artistic director, Locarno Film Festival

“Today, Locarno is an indispensable observatory to understand where contemporary cinema is at”

The artistic director of the Swiss gathering talked to us about this year’s programme and about the importance of building an offering that adequately reflects the complexity of this historical moment  

05/08 | Locarno 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Kids title The Badgers

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Kids title The Badgers

Paul Magnus Lundø’s pic follows 11-year-old Berny who moves in with his foster mother and dreams of becoming a legacy scout like his father  

04/08 | Locarno 2025

Latvia to step into the spotlight at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival

Latvia to step into the spotlight at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival

Some of the Baltic country’s most prominent producers — including Matīss Kaža, Alise Ģelze and Guntis Trekteris — will present their latest projects at the Swiss gathering  

01/08 | Locarno 2025/Sponsored

RÚV and ZDF commission series Death of a Horse with ACT4 and Windlight Pictures

RÚV and ZDF commission series Death of a Horse with ACT4 and Windlight Pictures

The crime drama centres on a competitive rider whose prized stallion is discovered dead under suspicious circumstances on the morning of the national championships’ final  

01/08 | Production | Funding | Iceland/Germany

The Match Factory unveils an ambitious Venice line-up

The Match Factory unveils an ambitious Venice line-up

The agent’s film slate includes Golden Lion contenders by Paolo Sorrentino, Jim Jarmusch, Gianfranco Rosi and Pietro Marcello, Lucrecia Martel’s documentary and Giulio Bertelli’s debut  

31/07 | Venice 2025

Viaplay Content Distribution picks up international rights to Swedish series Adults

Viaplay Content Distribution picks up international rights to Swedish series Adults

Written by Amanda Högberg and Daniel Karlsson, the dramedy centres on a woman whose perfect life derails when her boyfriend drops a surprise marriage proposal  

31/07 | Distribution | Releases | Exhibitors | Sweden

Production underway on Apple TV+ thriller series Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson

Production underway on Apple TV+ thriller series Down Cemetery Road, starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson

The show follows a suburbanite woman who becomes fixated on the disappearance of a young girl after a house explodes in her quiet Oxford neighbourhood  

30/07 | Production | Funding | UK

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