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David Katz


453 articles available in total starting from 11/07/2018. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Toronto announces its world cinema-laden Centrepiece slate, along with TIFF Docs and Midnight Madness

Toronto announces its world cinema-laden Centrepiece slate, along with TIFF Docs and Midnight Madness

The former two strands have European world premieres galore alongside highlights from the year’s festival circuit, whilst the latter maintains its reputation as TIFF’s most transgressive section  

07/08 | Toronto 2025

Ann Oren’s new “fetish feature”, Objet a, concludes shooting in Germany and Luxembourg

Ann Oren’s new “fetish feature”, Objet a, concludes shooting in Germany and Luxembourg

Following up her Locarno-premiering hit Piaffe, the Berlin-based director returns with another outré and risqué-sounding project  

04/08 | Production | Funding | Germany/Luxembourg/Greece

Toronto announces its Discovery line-up, seeking the auteurs of tomorrow

Toronto announces its Discovery line-up, seeking the auteurs of tomorrow

The festival has unveiled its most diverse and globally orientated section, made up this year of 23 world premieres, which aims to spotlight the next generation of great directors  

24/07 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

Toronto announces its competitive Platform section, and more sparkly Gala and Special Presentations

Toronto announces its competitive Platform section, and more sparkly Gala and Special Presentations

Arnaud Desplechin, Romain Gavras and Annemarie Jacir have world premieres lined up at the event, playing alongside the best films from many other festivals from this year  

23/07 | Toronto 2025

Toronto announces its first wave of Gala and Special Presentations

Toronto announces its first wave of Gala and Special Presentations

Seventeen films have been announced so far for the Canadian festival’s 50th edition, ten of which are world premieres  

17/07 | Toronto 2025

The UK and French industries re-affirm their partnership with a new Moving Image Co-operation Agreement

The UK and French industries re-affirm their partnership with a new Moving Image Co-operation Agreement

The two national film bodies, the BFI and the CNC, have collaborated on a deal benefitting the audience, culture and industry in both countries  

15/07 | Industry | Market | UK/France

Review: Magellan

Review: Magellan

Lav Diaz enjoys his first star collaboration in this epic focusing on the Age of Discovery, with Gael García Bernal playing the famed explorer Ferdinand Magellan  

09/07 | Filmfest München 2025

Review: Leonora in the Morning Light

Review: Leonora in the Morning Light

Thor Klein and Lena Vurma direct a highly faithful account of Mexican-British painter Leonora Carrington’s artistic journey  

02/07 | Filmfest München 2025

Shane Meadows wraps shooting on Chork, his first fiction feature in two decades

Shane Meadows wraps shooting on Chork, his first fiction feature in two decades

Co-written by Adolescence creator Jack Thorne, the “runaway road trip” movie marks the British filmmaker’s return to cinema after several years of TV work  

24/06 | Production | Funding | UK

Félix Dufour-Laperrière • Director of Death Does Not Exist

Interview: Félix Dufour-Laperrière • Director of Death Does Not Exist

“The qualities and flaws of the film have nothing to do with the budget we worked with – we gave our all”

The rising Québécois director tells us about the complex process that brought his strange and beautiful ecological animation to life  

17/06 | Annecy 2025

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