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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

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"The film gives us a key to understanding how historical & political memory works, especially with regard to the history of communism in Italy, which is now associated with the Red Brigades' terrorist communism..." - Filmmaker Andrea Segre about his film The Great Ambition:
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Andrea Segre • Director of The Great Ambition

08/10/2025 - The director talks about his film, charting the innovative project led by Italian politician Enrico Berlinguer, a little-known name from the world of deeply democratic communism

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🔛 The third edition of Next Step II, a programme launched by the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, kicks off today in Upper Corsica.The line-up includes sophomore-feature projects by Cristèle Alves Meira, Graham Foy & Mikko Myllylahti.
🔎 Read Fabien Lemercier's report here:
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REPORT: Next Step II 2025 @ Cannes Critics’ Week

08/10/2025 - The line-up includes sophomore-feature projects by Cristèle Alves Meira, Michael Borodin, Graham Foy, Felipe Gálvez and Mikko Myllylahti

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👁️‍🗨️ "Beneath its simplicity lies a touching reflection on second chances, belonging & the fragile, funny ways people keep each other afloat." - Read the #review of Miha Hočevar's buddy comedy Hidden People, which screened at Reykjavík International Film Festival:
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Review: Hidden People

07/10/2025 - Miha Hočevar’s feature is an enjoyable and thoroughly contemporary comedy of the defeated, with an unusual Slovenian and Icelandic flavour to it

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🏆 Joachim Lafosse's Six Days This Spring wins Best European Feature Film at Odesa International Film Festival, while Pavlo Ostrikov's U Are the Universe bags both the Grand Prix & a Special Jury Diploma.
All awardees here: cineuropa.org/484434

Odesa International Film Festival announces its award winners

06/10/2025 - Six Days This Spring has won Best European Feature Film, while U Are the Universe collected both the Grand Prix and a Special Jury Diploma

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At Dinard British & Irish #FilmFestival, Cineuropa's David Katz had the chance to watch Marc Evans' drama Mr Burton - about actor Richard Burton. 🎭 The UK-USA-Canada co-production won the Audience Award at Dinard. Read the #review here: cineuropa.org/484472

Review: Mr Burton

07/10/2025 - Marc Evans’ engaging drama shows how a Welsh miner’s son named Richie Jenkins became the great thespian Richard Burton, with the help of his closeted schoolmaster

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🐺 The 29th Tallinn Black Nights #FilmFestival (PÖFF, 7-23 November) has unveiled its First Feature Competition line-up, which consists of 13 debut films.
The programme curator, Triin Tramberg, describes the selection as one that "pushes audiences out of their comfort zones":
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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival unveils its First Feature Competition line-up

07/10/2025 - Thirteen debut films from across the globe will be competing at this year’s festival, bringing bold, unsettling and deeply human stories to the fore

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🆕 Steven Knight launches a Peaky Blinders sequel series for #Netflix & #BBC. The new chapter in the saga moves to post-war Birmingham, where a new generation of Shelbys takes control amid the city’s reconstruction. Cillian Murphy will also be on board as executive producer.
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Steven Knight launches Peaky Blinders sequel series for Netflix and the BBC

07/10/2025 - The new chapter in the saga moves to post-war Birmingham, where a new generation of Shelbys takes control amid the city’s massive reconstruction, with Cillian Murphy on board as ex produc...

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💬🐂 "A playful, ovation-worthy bromance about a matador and his entourage, a tale that explores the possibility of rapprochement between opposites..." - Read Alfonso Rivera's review of the Spanish Disney+ series Fate (Spanish: La suerte):
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Series review: Fate

07/10/2025 - Paco Plaza and Pablo Guerrero travel across Spain with a playful, ovation-worthy bromance about a matador and his entourage, a tale that explores the possibility of rapprochement between ...

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🏆🇪🇺 The Lux Audience Award 2026 edition was launched on 7 October at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. You can now rate the nominated films here: luxaward.eu
#awards #Europeancinema @europarl.europa.eu

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🎂 Happy anniversary! Professionals from 24 countries will gather on 15 & 16 October at the 5️⃣th Shooting Locations Marketplace. The event, which is organised by Feria de Valladolid & Spain Film Commission, will welcome new shooting destinations & companies this year.
More: cineuropa.org/484495

Shooting Locations Marketplace turns five

07/10/2025 - Valladolid once again becomes a hub for international shoots, in the presence of filming-location and ancillary services professionals hailing from 24 countries