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2550 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 21/09/2026.

EXCLUSIVE: MMM Film Sales boards Amartei Armar’s Locarno title Our Time Will Come

EXCLUSIVE: MMM Film Sales boards Amartei Armar’s Locarno title Our Time Will Come

The sales outfit has acquired worldwide rights to the Ghanaian-French-Saudi co-production, which is bowing in the Filmmakers of the Present competition  

07/08 | Industry | Market | Ghana/France/Saudi Arabia

Prime Video unveils Catherine Zeta-Jones in revenge thriller series Kill Jackie

Prime Video unveils Catherine Zeta-Jones in revenge thriller series Kill Jackie

The eight-part show follows a former international drug smuggler forced to confront a team of assassins and the secrets she has spent two decades burying  

06/08 | Production | Funding | UK/Australia/Spain

IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund grants development support to 20 projects

IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund grants development support to 20 projects

The €200,000 allocation places a particular emphasis on filmmakers from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia  

05/08 | Production | Funding | Netherlands

Filming set to begin shortly on BritBox and BBC’s Agatha Christie series Hercule

Filming set to begin shortly on BritBox and BBC’s Agatha Christie series Hercule

The six-part drama will shoot mainly in Liverpool, with Edward Bluemel leading an ensemble cast as a young Hercule Poirot  

05/08 | Production | Funding | UK/USA

Markus Duffner • Head, Locarno Pro

Interview: Markus Duffner • Head, Locarno Pro

“Innovation is not only about technology”

Amid emerging talent, private capital and new co-production models, Locarno Pro is seeking concrete responses to the growing instability facing independent cinema  

04/08 | Locarno 2026 | Locarno Pro

EXCLUSIVE: True Colours boards Venice International Film Critics' Week title Giaffa the Great

EXCLUSIVE: True Colours boards Venice International Film Critics' Week title Giaffa the Great

Marco Santi’s debut feature, starring Edoardo Pesce and Carlotta Gamba, will open the sidebar as a special event  

03/08 | Industry | Market | Italy

Ferzan Ozpetek to direct Giorgio Armani series for Lux Vide

Ferzan Ozpetek to direct Giorgio Armani series for Lux Vide

Produced with Faros Film and supported by the Giorgio Armani fashion house, the international biographical project will draw on the company’s archives, creations and landmark locations  

31/07 | Production | Funding | Italy

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title Blossoming

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Locarno Semaine de la Critique title Blossoming

Kamila Serwicka’s debut documentary chronicles five women breaking a cycle of domestic abuse and reclaiming control over their lives  

31/07 | Locarno 2026 | Semaine de la Critique

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad’s feature debut, Cute, set for San Sebastián world premiere

Marlene Emilie Lyngstad’s feature debut, Cute, set for San Sebastián world premiere

The Danish-Norwegian-Swedish drama will compete in the New Directors sidebar, with TrustNordisk boarding international sales ahead of its festival launch  

31/07 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Norway/Sweden

Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

Interview: Luigi Sales • Head of Content and Original Productions, Giffoni Innovation Hub

“Our value primarily emerges in projects connecting companies, institutions, creatives and young people within a single innovation process”

One year on from our first meeting, the professional explains how the Innovation Hub turns creativity and youth participation into concrete pathways into the audiovisual industry  

31/07 | Giffoni 2026

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