Cate Blanchett to topline Alice Birch’s feature debut, Sweetsick

Cate Blanchett to topline Alice Birch’s feature debut, Sweetsick

The two-time Oscar winner will star in and produce the drama, which marks the first directorial outing from the acclaimed Lady Macbeth screenwriter  

09/09 | Production | Funding | UK/USA

Astra announces the line-up of its 32nd edition

Astra announces the line-up of its 32nd edition

The Romanian festival boasts a new competition, DocShorts, and a longer edition this year  

09/09 | Astra 2025

The Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film unveils its programme

The Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film unveils its programme

Located in Brittany, the gathering will take place between 1-5 October and will include some of the most acclaimed recent films from the UK and Ireland  

09/09 | Dinard 2025

Seriesly Berlin unveils a new line-up of global stories for Seriesly Berlin Pitches

Seriesly Berlin unveils a new line-up of global stories for Seriesly Berlin Pitches

The festival’s second edition doubles down on its international scope and its support for creative experimentation, presenting 16 projects in two pitching sections  

09/09 | Seriesly Berlin 2025

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Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... - Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice - 04/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 04/09/2025
Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice
VENICE 2025: The fund is aimed at supporting 10-12 features each year, including documentaries and animated works

Market Trends
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A busy summer festival season awaits the European film industry. Cineuropa will continue to keep its readers up to date with the latest news and market insights, covering the buzziest events, including Locarno, Venice, Sarajevo, Haugesund, Toronto, San Sebastián, Zurich and many others

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies - 03/09/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 03/09/2025
Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies
VENICE 2025: Participants in the event organised by Europa Distribution described the session as “a rare opportunity for frank, in-person exchange”

Produce – Co-Produce... - Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America - 01/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025
Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America
VENICE 2025: The initiative, freshly unveiled on the Lido, will also extend to Spain and Portugal

Produce – Co-Produce... - Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities - 01/09/2025

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025
Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities
VENICE 2025: The event was aimed at familiarising Italian producers with the financial and creative advantages of partnering with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - Eurimages sheds light on its awards, sponsorships and inclusion strategies at the Venice Production Bridge - 30/08/2025

Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 30/08/2025
Eurimages sheds light on its awards, sponsorships and inclusion strategies at the Venice Production Bridge
VENICE 2025: The fund’s reps underscored that its value lies not only in the money it awards, but also in the visibility and credibility it grants to projects and institutions

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming - Netflix unveils guidelines for the use of generative AI in content production - 28/08/2025

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 28/08/2025
Netflix unveils guidelines for the use of generative AI in content production
The streaming platform’s stipulations are structured around four key areas: data use, creative output, talent and performance, and ethics and representation

Animation - Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow - 26/08/2025

Animation – 26/08/2025
Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow
Animators Konstantīns Višņevskis and Mārtiņš Upītis shared their experience of working on the highly successful, Oscar-winning feature by Gints Zilbalodis

Review: Babystar

Review: Babystar

Joscha Bongard's bold debut explores social media's dark side through arthouse aesthetics and a disturbing family narrative  

09/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

Interview: Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

"In Lebanon we do have a lot of pain but we also have a lot of art, music and love"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese helmer casts an eye over the fragmented historical, social, cultural and political landscapes of Beirut in her debut feature-length documentary  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

Interview: Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

"I've always secretly judged my family, so I told myself I had to go back and realize what it really was"

VENICE 2025: The Mexican director talks about her film centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

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Co-Production Podcast

Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France) - 30/08/2025

30/08/2025
Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)
The producers of the film by Kristina Dufková are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium) - 12/08/2025

12/08/2025
Episode 78: Ghost Trail (France/Germany/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Jonathan Millet are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium) - 22/07/2025

22/07/2025
Episode 77: The Flats (France/Ireland/UK/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Alessandra Celesia are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden) - 08/05/2025

08/05/2025
Episode 76: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark/Poland/Sweden)
The producers of the film by Magnus von Horn are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium) - 25/03/2025

25/03/2025
Episode 75: Vermiglio (Italy/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Maura Delpero are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia) - 20/03/2025

20/03/2025
Episode 74: Crossing (Sweden/ Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia)
The producers of the film by Levan Akin are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium) - 10/12/2024

10/12/2024
Episode 73: Flow (Latvia/France/Belgium)
The producers of the film by Gints Zilbalodis are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support

Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia) - 28/11/2024

28/11/2024
Episode 72: Wishing on a Star (Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia)
The producers of the film by Peter Kerekes are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Interview: Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

"Those thermal baths have a magical quality, they are the perfect place to create intimacy"

VENICE 2025: In his feature debut, the Spanish director broaches the topic of masculinity in all its fragility, in a place suspended between past and present  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir

Interview: Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir

"What I want to show in this film is that hope is not far away"

VENICE 2025: The Iranian director breaks down his GdA Director's Award winning film, a personal exploration of the doubts that plague him before he leaves his home country  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

Interview: Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

"I experienced for the first time what it is to be with someone who experience a genocide, which is different from a war"

VENICE 2025: The Swiss director talks about his moving film, in which nine Palestinian refugees share their stories in minimalistic surroundings that reproduce the map of Gaza  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

"This film is like a cinematic reality show"

VENICE 2025: The director reconnects with his Calabrian roots with his mix of reality, fiction and theatre, which tells of the feud within a family: his own, to be precise  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

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Photogalleries

Venice 2025 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2025

27/08/2025
Venice 2025 – Photogalleries
The global film community is back on the Lido for the 82nd Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 27 August-6 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/05/2025

13/05/2025
Cannes 2025 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 13-24 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries - 13/02/2025

13/02/2025
Berlinale 2025 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 75th edition, the first under the direction of Tricia Tuttle, from 13-23 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries - 23/09/2024

23/09/2024
San Sebastian 2024 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 72st edition, which is unspooling from 20-28 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Venice 2024 – Photogalleries - 27/08/2024

27/08/2024
Venice 2024 – Photogalleries
After the media storm triggered by last year's SAG-AFTRA strike, the global film community is back on the Lido for the 81st Venice Film Festival, unspooling from 28 August-7 September. Discover the festival highlights and the international stars walking the red carpet in our exclusive photo galleries

Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries - 14/05/2024

14/05/2024
Cannes 2024 – Photogalleries
The international film industry is gathering again on the Croisette for a packed edition of the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, unspooling from 14-25 May. Discover the festival highlights in our exclusive photo galleries

Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries - 15/02/2024

15/02/2024
Berlinale 2024 – Photogalleries
The Berlin International Film Festival returns for its 74th edition, the last under the direction of Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, from 15-25 February. Check out the festival highlights in our exclusive photogalleries

San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries - 25/09/2023

25/09/2023
San Sebastián 2023 – Photogalleries
The San Sebastián International Film Festival cements its position on the global festival circuit with its 71st edition, which is unspooling from 22-30 September. Check out our exclusive photo galleries

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

Interview: Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

"The advantage of this idea was being able to portray the youth of today and hear Annie Ernaux's text"

VENICE 2025: The French director tells us about her new documentary, in which she explores the impact of the work penned by the author, about a group of secondary-school students  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Filming kicks off on Zurab Dzhidzhilava’s The Man Who Desalinated the Sea

Filming kicks off on Zurab Dzhidzhilava’s The Man Who Desalinated the Sea

Production has begun on the Georgian drama-mockumentary, toplined by Martin Cooke and set to be filmed across Europe  

09/09 | Production | Funding | Georgia

Mediawan’s Plan B launches European arm under Ed Macdonald

Mediawan’s Plan B launches European arm under Ed Macdonald

Brad Pitt’s production company is expanding its global reach with a new London-based subsidiary aiming to boost the firm’s production of premium TV series  

09/09 | Industry | Market | UK/USA/France

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Reviews

Father Mother Sister Brother - by Jim Jarmusch

Father Mother Sister Brother
by Jim Jarmusch
VENICE 2025: Jim Jarmusch’s latest effort brings familial awkwardness to the fore with quiet humour and elegance

The Voice of Hind Rajab - by Kaouther Ben Hania

The Voice of Hind Rajab
by Kaouther Ben Hania
VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes

La grazia - by Paolo Sorrentino

La grazia
by Paolo Sorrentino
VENICE 2025: Politics and existentialism are lent exquisite, low-key Italian beauty in Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, starring his regular Toni Servillo

At Work - by Valérie Donzelli

At Work
by Valérie Donzelli
VENICE 2025: Bastien Bouillon excels in Valérie Donzelli’s surprisingly deep dive into the vocation of writing

Below the Clouds - by Gianfranco Rosi

Below the Clouds
by Gianfranco Rosi
VENICE 2025: With his new documentary dedicated to the Neapolitan territory, Gianfranco Rosi returns to the slopes of Vesuvius, in search of the welding between ancient life and today

Silent Friend - by Ildiko Enyedi

Silent Friend
by Ildiko Enyedi
VENICE 2025: Ildikó Enyedi’s eccentric, charming film inspects a tree in a German university garden in three distinct time periods over the last century

Lost Land - by Akio Fujimoto

Lost Land
by Akio Fujimoto
VENICE 2025: Japanese director Akio Fujimoto’s powerful second feature follows two displaced Rohingya children as they attempt to flee Bangladesh for Malaysia

Short Summer - by Nastia Korkia

Short Summer
by Nastia Korkia
VENICE 2025: Nastia Korkia’s first fiction feature paints a poetic portrait of a childhood spent in the shadows of a war which stubbornly insinuates its way into everyday life

Finn Cole joins Mads Mikkelsen in Future Artists Entertainment’s Arctic thriller Sirius

Finn Cole joins Mads Mikkelsen in Future Artists Entertainment’s Arctic thriller Sirius

The feature directed by Lee Smith is inspired by the real-life Sirius Patrol, the Danish special unit tasked with defending Greenland’s frozen coastline  

09/09 | Production | Funding | UK

Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

Interview: Pedro Souto, João Monteiro • Artistic directors, MotelX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival

“It’s about building a community that shares not only a passion for the genre, but also the emotions that come with being there”

The head honchos of Lisbon’s flagship fantastical festival talk about cinematic curation in the Portuguese context and about questioning the bounds of horror film  

09/09 | /Portugal

Latvia submits Lauris and Raitis Ābele’s Dog of God for the Oscars

Latvia submits Lauris and Raitis Ābele’s Dog of God for the Oscars

Set in 17th-century Livonia, the animated picture follows a series of mystical events, blending history with folklore  

09/09 | Oscars 2026/Sponsored

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Interviews

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab
VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the titular girl’s death

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother
VENICE 2025: The US director shares some thoughts on his stories, his work and his love for cinema, veering off at times into some minute detail

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of Mother
VENICE 2025: We met up with the Macedonian-born, Belgian-based filmmaker to talk about her new film, an anti-biopic of Mother Teresa

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger
VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker discusses his adaptation of Albert Camus's famous novel, how he approached the opacity of the main character and contextualised the colonial era

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work
VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble

Pascal Diot • Head, Venice Production Bridge

Pascal Diot • Head, Venice Production Bridge
The seasoned industry figure unpacks this year’s Lido-based offering for producers and creative professionals, unspooling from 28 August-3 September

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me
VENICE 2025: The Lebanese helmer casts an eye over the fragmented historical, social, cultural and political landscapes of Beirut in her debut feature-length documentary

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
VENICE 2025: In his feature debut, the Spanish director broaches the topic of masculinity in all its fragility, in a place suspended between past and present

Review: Hen

Review: Hen

György Pálfi pulls off an audacious film revolving around the misadventures of a chicken and holding up a mirror to the far-from-squeaky-clean human world  

09/09 | Toronto 2025 | Platform

Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

Interview: Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

“Ivy is a plant that is beautiful but also toxic; that duality really interested me”

VENICE 2025: The Ecuadorian director discusses the sensory approach, working with actors and the formal decisions behind her film  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Review: Julian

Review: Julian

Cato Kusters’ first feature film offers up a pointillist story of love and poignant grief, advancing at the hurried pace of her protagonist’s memories  

08/09 | Toronto 2025 | Discovery

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Trailers/Teasers/Clips

Father Mother Sister Brother - by Jim Jarmusch

Father Mother Sister Brother
by Jim Jarmusch
Venice 2025 - Competition
Golden Lion for Best Film

La grazia - by Paolo Sorrentino

La grazia
by Paolo Sorrentino
Venice 2025 - Competition
Volpi Cup for Best Actor

At Work - by Valérie Donzelli

At Work
by Valérie Donzelli
Venice 2025 - Competition
Award for Best Screenplay

Below the Clouds - by Gianfranco Rosi

Below the Clouds
by Gianfranco Rosi
Venice 2025 - Competition
Special Jury Prize

Silent Friend - by Ildiko Enyedi

Silent Friend
by Ildiko Enyedi
Venice 2025 - Competition
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent

The Kidnapping of Arabella - by Carolina Cavalli

The Kidnapping of Arabella
by Carolina Cavalli
Venice 2025 - Orizzonti
Best Actress

Lost Land - by Akio Fujimoto

Lost Land
by Akio Fujimoto
Venice 2025 - Orizzonti
Special Jury Prize

A Year of School - by Laura Samani

A Year of School
by Laura Samani
Venice 2025 - Orizzonti
Best Actor

Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

Interview: Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

“I’m always in between: I want to make horror films and I want to make Tokyo Story”

VENICE 2025: The German director unpicks his Bangkok-set movie, a noir-tinged thriller in which love is stronger than life  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Review: Winter of the Crow

Review: Winter of the Crow

Poland’s Kasia Adamik crafts a lean, distressing neo-noir centring on a British academic stranded on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain  

08/09 | Toronto 2025 | Platform

Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

Interview: Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

“My political reflections have always been my primary creative drive”

VENICE 2025: The Paris-based Japanese director discusses his social drama which morphs into a thriller, starring Damien Bonnard in the lead  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

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Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella - by Carolina Cavalli

The Kidnapping of Arabella
by Carolina Cavalli
VENICE 2025: Carolina Cavalli’s sophomore feature uses off-kilter dramedy to reflect on an emerging generation disappointed with their lives

The Ivy - by Ana Cristina Barragán

The Ivy
by Ana Cristina Barragán
VENICE 2025: Ana Cristina Barragán’s intimate portrait of healing is an emotionally raw story hinging on the relationship between a 30-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy

A Year of School - by Laura Samani

A Year of School
by Laura Samani
VENICE 2025: Laura Samani’s second film is a female coming-of-age story that betrays the revolutionary spirit of the character in the novel on which it is based

Calle Málaga - by Maryam Touzani

Calle Málaga
by Maryam Touzani
VENICE 2025: Maryam Touzani brings us a new Moroccan story brimming with life and love, and urging us to think deeply about generational divides

Bearcave - by Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis

Bearcave
by Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis
VENICE 2025: Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B Papadakis explore society’s expectations of two young female best friends in the Greek countryside

Industry Reports

Produce – Co-Produce... – 04/09/2025

Fondazione Prada launches €1.5 million film fund at Venice

VENICE 2025: The fund is aimed at supporting 10-12 features each year, including documentaries and animated works

Distribution, Exhibition and Streaming – 03/09/2025

Producers and distributors push for earlier collaboration and smart audience strategies

VENICE 2025: Participants in the event organised by Europa Distribution described the session as “a rare opportunity for frank, in-person exchange”

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025

Italy unveils a €1 million annual fund to boost co-productions with Latin America

VENICE 2025: The initiative, freshly unveiled on the Lido, will also extend to Spain and Portugal

Produce – Co-Produce... – 01/09/2025

Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities

VENICE 2025: The event was aimed at familiarising Italian producers with the financial and creative advantages of partnering with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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