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52 articles available in total starting from 05/07/2010. Last article published on 22/04/2025.

Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

Interview: Lorcan Finnegan • Director of The Surfer

“The surfer’s psychological journey is also a bit like therapy for people struggling with having lost their childhood home”

The Irish filmmaker discusses his mystery-thriller, how he created the character with Nicolas Cage and his approach to the use of colours in the film  

22/04 | BIFFF 2025

Olivia Cooke, Alden Ehrenreich and Helen Mirren to topline Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland

Olivia Cooke, Alden Ehrenreich and Helen Mirren to topline Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland

The pic, now in production in Rome, sees Mirren playing the ageing queen of thrillers Patricia Highsmith  

30/01 | Production | Funding | UK/USA/Australia/Switzerland/Italy

Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night

Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night

Hybrid documentarian Gabrielle Brady’s ode to loss is a touching, collaborative effort set in rural Mongolia  

16/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Review: Brando with a Glass Eye

Review: Brando with a Glass Eye

Antonis Tsonis blends US genre cinema with European arthouse sensibilities in a story exploring the interplay of ambition and redemption through a method actor who can’t live outside of a role  

09/09/2024 | Films | Reviews | Australia/Greece

Review: The Surfer

Review: The Surfer

CANNES 2024: Nicolas Cage once again gives his all in Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-bound psychological thriller  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Midnight Screenings

Review: The Royal Hotel

Review: The Royal Hotel

Kitty Green presents a powerful genre thriller about the alliance of two women in the face of fear and constant threat  

28/09/2023 | San Sebastián 2023 | Competition

Juho Kuosmanen’s first English-language series, Alice & Jack, set to premiere at Toronto

Juho Kuosmanen’s first English-language series, Alice & Jack, set to premiere at Toronto

The new Channel 4 romantic drama is toplined by Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson  

18/08/2023 | Production | Funding | UK/Australia/USA

Internationally backed documentary series Citizens at War: A Year in Ukraine to be released next month

Internationally backed documentary series Citizens at War: A Year in Ukraine to be released next month

The six-episode series will feature interviews with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, survivors of a mass execution and a beauty queen who becomes a sniper  

13/01/2023 | Production | Funding | Ukraine/Canada/UK/Australia

Review: Emily

Review: Emily

Actress Frances O’Connor makes a passionate but flawed first directorial effort with this fictionalised chronicle of the Wuthering Heights author’s life  

20/10/2022 | Sitges 2022

EFP and EWA Network kick off the new edition of 'Europe! Voices of Women in Film' at the Sydney Film Festival

EFP and EWA Network kick off the new edition of 'Europe! Voices of Women in Film' at the Sydney Film Festival

During the online event, we got to know this year's selected directors and followed an intense discussion on the topics of inclusiveness and representation of gender in film  

10/06/2022 | Industry | Market | Europe/Australia

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