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"I wanted to explore the limits of a group, how it can sometimes provide a home but one whose doors are locked & bolted." ⛓️👥 - Actress & director Bérangère McNeese about her first feature The Girls From Above, which was presented at Namur International Francophone Film Festival: cineuropa.org/484711

Bérangère McNeese • Director of The Girls From Above

13/10/2025 - The Belgian actress chatted with us about her first feature-length directorial effort which follows a young woman who finds refuge with a gang of girls

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✨📽️ Cineuropa journalists are currently in Poland, covering the 41st Warsaw Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news & more.
Follow our #filmfestival report here:
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REPORT: Warsaw 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 41st Warsaw Film Festival live with reviews, interviews and news...

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👁️‍🗨️ "The gentleness of the camera's gaze upon the emotional violence to which it bears witness reveals the constant necessity of such types of storytelling." - Read the review of Dea Gjinovci's very intimate documentary The Beauty of the Donkey: cineuropa.org/484744

Review: The Beauty of the Donkey

13/10/2025 - Through part-reenactment and part-historical discovery, Dea Gjinovci examines her father’s scars from his exile from Kosovo by returning with him to his hometown

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German-Spanish actor-director Daniel Brühl returns behind the camera with Break, a World War II-era tennis biopic about German tennis champion Baron Gottfried von Cramm. 🎾🎬 The screenplay is based on Marshall Jon Fisher's book A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men.
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Daniel Brühl to direct World War II-era tennis biopic Break, starring Felix Kammerer

13/10/2025 - The actor-turned-director’s second feature will focus on tennis legend Gottfried von Cramm, who defied the Nazi regime while hiding a dangerous personal secret

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🆕 The 16th edition of ANICA's "Sala e Salotto" study, which was presented at MIA market Rome, confirms broader but less frequent cinema audiences in Italy: There are greater numbers of viewers visiting cinemas but fewer tickets sold, with growth among younger audiences. 🎟️
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ANICA study confirms broader but less frequent audiences in Italy

13/10/2025 - According to the report presented at the MIA, there are greater numbers of viewers visiting cinemas but fewer tickets sold, with growth among younger audiences

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🆕📽️ Sergei Loznitsa presents the trailer for the 29th Ji.hlava IDFF: The acclaimed Ukrainian-born filmmaker has directed the promotional video for the upcoming edition of the documentary festival, which is taking place in the Czech city from 24 October-2 November.
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Sergei Loznitsa presents the trailer for the 29th Ji.hlava IDFF

13/10/2025 - The acclaimed director has directed the promotional video for the upcoming edition of the documentary festival, which is taking place in the Czech city from 24 October-2 November

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The new Danish film movement #DOGMA25 gets under way with Isabella Eklöf’s BDSM-themed drama MR. NAWASHI. A symbolic ceremony at Zentropa’s headquarters in Filmbyen marked the official launch of the movement's first film, set to premiere in autumn 2026. 🇩🇰🎬
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DOGMA 25 officially gets under way with Isabella Eklöf’s MR. NAWASHI

13/10/2025 - The new Danish film movement, inspired by DOGMA 95, begins with the Swedish director’s intimate BDSM-themed drama, set to premiere in autumn 2026

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🏆 The 31st Athens International Film Festival handed out its #awards on 12 October: The Golden Athena for Best Film went to Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling, while the City of Athens Award for Best Director was presented to Mary Bronstein for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
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Sound of Falling and Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk win at Athens

13/10/2025 - The top award winners at the 31st Athens International Film Festival – Nyxtes Premieras have been praised for their bold storytelling and striking performances

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🆕 The upcoming #DOKLeipzig (27 October-2 November) has announced its full line-up❕ A total of 78 films, 30 of which world premieres, will be screening in competition. Among the world premieres: Ivan Ramljak's political thriller Peacemaker & A Jewish Problem by Ron Rothschild.
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DOK Leipzig announces its complete line-up

13/10/2025 - Films by Ivan Ramljak, Srđan Kovačević, Caroline Guimbal, Sergio Oksman and Nikolaus Geyrhalter, among others, have been chosen to compete at the 68th edition

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‼️ #EXCLUSIVE The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival has announced the return of Agora Series & Agora's new talent programme, led by Fleur Winters. The forum dedicated to TV & streaming series will run alongside the festival, on 1 & 2 November.
More here: cineuropa.org/484719

EXCLUSIVE: Thessaloniki’s Agora Series expands with a new talent programme

13/10/2025 - The festival’s industry strand is introducing a new initiative designed to support both emerging and established screenwriters based in Greece

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💬 "There was the big question of how we could show children in a way that wouldn’t reproduce what we were criticising." - Director Veronika Hafner about her feature film Obhut, which centres on a young man who resolves to reveal his attraction to young girls to his sister.
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Veronika Hafner • Director of Obhut

09/10/2025 - The Munich-based director explains how she created her debut feature, with a story informed heavily by her parallel career as a psychotherapist for children and youth

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Luxembourg's 18th CinÉast festival will open on 15 October with the international premiere of Chopin, A Sonata in Paris by Michał Kwiecinski. 🎹🎶 Altogether, 65 features & 50 shorts from 20 Central & Eastern European countries will screen during the festival. Details here: cineuropa.org/484663

CinÉast celebrates adulthood with its 18th edition and an equally mature line-up

10/10/2025 - The Luxembourgish festival championing Central and Eastern European cinema will open with the international premiere of Chopin, A Sonata in Paris and boasts more than 120 screenings

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The 26th Arras Film Festival (7-16 November) has unveiled the nine feature films, all as-yet unreleased in France, that will by vying for the Golden Atlas. Three of them, including Stephan Komandarev's Made in EU, were recently unveiled at Venice #FilmFestival. ✨
More here: cineuropa.org/484641

Nine films to vie for the Golden Atlas at the Arras Film Festival

10/10/2025 - Stéphane Demoustier will chair the jury of the competition at the 26th edition of the event, which will run from 7-16 November

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The 17th Lumière #FilmFestival kicks off today. Headlining this year is US director Michael Mann, who will be honoured with a retrospective, receive the Lumière Award & give a master class. Other guests, such as Natalie Portman & John Woo, will also give master classes. 💡🎞️
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The Lumière Film Festival prepares to kick off

10/10/2025 - The 17th edition of the world’s biggest event devoted to heritage cinema, a favourite for cinephiles, will unspool in Lyon from 11-19 October

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📽️ Cineuropa's Vittoria Scarpa watched Valerio Ciriaci's "Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence". The #documentary breaks the silence around the first woman director in the history of Italian #cinema, Elvira Notari, and explores her impact on present-day works. Read the review here: cineuropa.org/484646

Review: Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence

10/10/2025 - Valerio Ciriaci’s documentary breaks the silence around the first woman director in the history of Italian cinema, and explores her impact on the present

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🆕🔎 Rome’s MIA Market hosted a panel on "Engaging Audiences Today: Data-Driven Storytelling in a Fragmented Market". Led by Ampere Analysis' Guy Bisson, the session unpacked the "anime-fication" of Europe’s animation, streamers' retreat & AI's disruption.
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Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson unpacks the “anime-fication” of Europe’s animation, streamers’ retreat and AI’s disruption

10/10/2025 - Interest in anime has been rising steadily for over a decade, and Western Europe’s current animated output increasingly mirrors this trend, says the expert at MIA

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👁️‍🗨️ "Can a person escape their past? Can we rebuild amidst the ashes? How do we start over after prison, when being deprived of freedom also means being deprived of the tools to grow?" - Read the review of Vanja d’Alcantara's Cap Farewell, which screened at Namur Film Festival:
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Review: Cap Farewell

10/10/2025 - Belgian filmmaker Vanja d’Alcantara delivers a family drama borrowing from film noir and unfolding against a backdrop of female emancipation

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📣 #OPENCALL Registrations are now open for FOCAL Production Value 2026, the 8-day residential workshop on scheduling and budgeting complex European feature films and limited series.
ℹ️ Dates: 9-17.01.2026 in Noordwijk (NL)
⏰ Deadline: 10.11.2025
🔗 Apply here: focal.ch/prodvalue

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Ireland unveils a 40% VFX relief & improved digital games credit in its 2026 budget. The move aims to position the country as a leading hub for high-end VFX & digital production, on par with international competitors such as France & New Zealand. 🎬🇮🇪 #audiovisual
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Ireland unveils 40% VFX relief and improved digital games credit in its 2026 budget

09/10/2025 - The move aims to position the country as a leading hub for high-end VFX and digital production, on par with international competitors such as the UK, France, New Zealand and Canada

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Stockholm Film Festival is getting ready to kick off on 5 November. Its freshly unveiled programme will present 130 films from 60 countries. Eagles of the Republic by Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh, which previously screened in competition in Cannes, will open the festival. More:
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Stockholm Film Festival unveils its programme

09/10/2025 - Tarik Saleh will open the 12 days of celluloid celebration with his Eagles of the Republic, while Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie will get special recognitions

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The main award of the 40th Namur Film Festival’s, the Bayard d’Or, went to Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers’ feature We Believe You. The film centres on a woman facing a custody trial to protect her children. The Bayard for Best First Film went to Pauline Loquès's Nino. 🏆
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The 40th Namur Film Festival’s Bayard d’Or goes to We Believe You

09/10/2025 - Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers’ movie also scooped the Best Acting Performance Prize for Myriem Akheddiou, while Pauline Loquès’ Nino bagged three trophies

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👵 "Crazy Old Lady is more than a mere carousel of effects – it strives to go further than this, breathing meaning into and justifying its deranged plot [about a senile lady unwilling to let her caretaker leave]." - Read the review of Martín Mauregui's debut feature here:
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Review: Crazy Old Lady

09/10/2025 - Carmen Maura tyrannises her male foil – and demands the viewer’s attention – in Martín Mauregui’s gothic, sadistic and at times terrifyingly funny tale

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🆕 Leaders in European drama call for action on gender balance at Rome’s MIA Market (6-10 October): The panel discussion "Beyond 27%: Shaping European Drama" was titled like this because currently, despite gradual progress, women make up just 27% of the AV sector’s workforce. ⚖️♀️
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Leaders in European drama call for action on gender balance at Rome’s MIA

09/10/2025 - If the continent’s drama output wants to reflect the society it serves, it must start by fixing the imbalance behind the camera, the panellists suggested

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The European Film Awards will honour Liv Ullmann with a Lifetime Achievement Award during the upcoming edition, which will take place on 17 January 2026 in Berlin. The Norwegian actress is known for her roles in films such as Scenes from a Marriage & Farewell Moscow. 🏆✨
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The European Film Awards to honour Liv Ullmann

09/10/2025 - The Norwegian actress will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the upcoming edition of the European Film Academy accolades

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🔊 Episode 80 (❗) of the Cineuropa & Eurimages Co-production Podcast is here! In this part, Cineuropa’s Editor, Domenico La Porta, talks to the producers of Michael R Roskam's upcoming Le Faux Soir: Cassandre Warnauts (BE) & Alice Girard (FR).
Listen to it here: cineuropa.org/484642

Episode 80: Le Faux Soir (Belgium/France)

09/10/2025 - The producers of the upcoming film by Michael R Roskam are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support