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May 23, 2026
‘The Secret Agent’ Breakout Tânia Maria Joins Leonardo Lacca’s ‘Sábado Morto’ (EXCLUSIVE)
“The Secret Agent” breakout Tânia Maria has joined Leonardo Lacca’s “Sábado Morto” (“Dead Saturday,” in literal translation). Produced by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux’s banner Cinemasc...
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May 22, 2026
Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’ Wins Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes
It was Un Certain Regard, the second most prestigious section at the Cannes Film Festival, that brought arguably the event’s biggest surprise hit this year. Jordan Firstman’s directorial debut “Clu...
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May 21, 2026
São Paulo Attracts Big International Shoots Like Michael Almereyda’s ‘Zero K’ as State Readies to Launch 20 Year Plan to Ensure Industry Stability
Despite Brazil not having this yaer a film at Cannes’ major sections from a Brazilian director, representatives from the Latin American country still arrived confidently at the Marché du Film to bu...
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May 18, 2026
Carla Simón, Nicolás Méndez, Turbo Shorts Capture Spain’s New Wave International Lift-Off
First, on Saturday night, Spaniard Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved,” starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo, scored some of the best reviews of any competition title to date this year at the C...
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May 18, 2026
Brazil’s Nicho54 Institute to Launch Black Brazilian Cinematheque With Over a Thousand Films by Black Brazilian Filmmakers (EXCLUSIVE)
Brazil’s Nicho54 Institute is launching Cinemateca Negra (Black Brazilian Cinematheque in literal translation), an original publication that consolidates data about Black films in Brazil. Launching...
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May 18, 2026
Projeto Paradiso and Embratur Announce ‘The Blue Trail’ Amongst First Round of Selected Films for Screen Brasil, Confirm Expanded Second Edition (EXCLUSIVE)
Brazilian Tourism Board Embratur and leading philanthropic initiative Projeto Paradiso have announced the three films selected for their inaugural Screen Brasil initiative, aimed at promoting Brazi...
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May 17, 2026
Toronto-Winning ‘Charcoal’ Director Carolina Markowicz to Shoot ‘The Funeral’ Starring Maeve Jinkings (EXCLUSIVE)
Lauded Brazilian director Carolina Markowicz, who won the TIFF Award for Best Directing in 2023 with “Charcoal,” will start shooting “The Funeral” in Brazil from next week. Production starts in São...
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May 17, 2026
Dominga Sotomayor Talks ‘Meta’ Element of Casting Selton Mello in Tender Drama ‘La Perra,’ Not Translating the Title to Avoid ‘Violent’ Judgment of Women
Five years since directing a segment of the anthology film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” renowned Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor is back in Cannes with “La Perra.” Premiering at Director...
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May 14, 2026
Aina Clotet Talks Portraying an Older Coming-of-Age in Critics’ Week Title ‘Viva’: ‘We Are Still Missing So Many Stories About Women’
When Spanish actor-turned-director Aina Clotet received a call that her directorial feature debut “Viva” was shortlisted for Cannes’ prestigious Critics’ Week sidebar, she thought she was dreaming....
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May 14, 2026
Catalonia Consolidates as Go-To Production Partner
Following a banner year in 2025 with Carla Simón’s “Romería” and Oliver Laxe’s “Sirāt” in Cannes competition, Catalan cinema makes a strong return to the Croisette this year with seven titles, incñ...
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May 14, 2026
Upcoming Films From Catalonia Include Auteurs, Dance and Stop-Motion Animation
Some awaited films in the pipeline from Catalonia: The Rift Director: Àlex Lora (Inicia Films, Scope Features) Lora’s follow-up to his 2024 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, “The Masterpiece,” tell...
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May 5, 2026
‘Only Heaven Knows’ Director Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva Says ICE Raids Would Have Made Film ‘Impossible’ Today, Talks Strong Wave of Kyrgyz Cinema
The nomadic Alternativa Film Festival travelled over 7,000 miles between its original launchpad of Kazakhstan and Medellín, Colombia, for its third edition. But one of the great audience successes ...
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April 21, 2026
From ‘The Secret Agent’ to ‘The Blue Trail’ to the Future: How Recife Became Brazil’s Burgeoning Film Capital
Almost exactly a year ago, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura and the large cast and crew behind “The Secret Agent” turned the famed Cannes Film Festival red carpet into an impromptu carnaval para...
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April 21, 2026
‘Secret Agent’ Momentum and Desire to Co-Produce With Africa: 5 Takeaways From the Projeto Paradiso Talent Network National Meeting
One very rarely gets the chance to be in a room with almost two hundred filmmakers from one single country, gathered not to pitch against one another for scarce grants, but to discuss ways of colla...
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April 20, 2026
Akinola Davies Jr. Calls Salvador a ‘Fever Dream’ Ahead of Special Screening as Brazilian Filmmakers Work on Doc About His Time in the Country (EXCLUSIVE)
When explaining why they chose British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. as the international guest of honor at this year’s Projeto Paradiso National Talent Network gathering in Recife, the ini...
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April 20, 2026
Kleber Mendonça Filho Working on Book About Touring ‘The Secret Agent,’ Praises Neon: ‘If You Have Neon as an Option, It Is Not Even a Choice’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Lauded Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho would love to repeat his partnership with Neon on his next film after a “truly great” year working on “The Secret Agent.” The director praised the m...
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April 20, 2026
MFF & CO Developing Cinematic Universe Based on ‘Possible,’ William Ury’s Best-Selling Guide to Conflict Resolution (EXCLUSIVE)
International entertainment studio MFF & CO has optioned the rights to William Ury’s book “Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict.” The company is set to develop a fictiona...
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April 18, 2026
Meet Olga Rabinovich, the Philanthropist Singlehandedly Financing Brazil’s Film Talent
Back in 2018, Brazilian heiress and philanthropist Olga Rabinovich sat her team down and gave them a mission: to find the most effective way to nurture a cause in dire need of effective financial s...
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April 16, 2026
Kleber Mendonça Filho, Akinola Davies Jr. to Speak at Projeto Paradiso’s Talent Network National Meeting in Brazil’s Recife
Recife, a bustling capital in the Northeast of Brazil, has recently been catapulted to global attention thanks to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s four-time Oscar-nominated “The Secret Agent.” The genrebend...
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April 6, 2026
‘Narcos’ Director Fernando Coimbra Talks Becoming Netflix Global No. 1 With Brazilian Real-Life Catastrophe Series ‘Radioactive Emergency’
Fernando Coimbra (‘Narcos,’ ‘Perry Mason’) was 11 years old when his country came to a halt to watch an unfolding tragedy that would come to be known as the “Brazilian Chernobyl.” Four decades late...
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April 2, 2026
Cannes’ Marché du Film Reinforces Focus on Creators, AI, Innovation and Immersive With 2026 Program
The industry-leading Marché du Film, Cannes’s prestigious market, has reinforced its commitment to looking ahead as it gears to deliver its 2026 edition between May 12-20 in the buzzy French city. ...
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March 24, 2026
Brazilian Literary Sensation Thalita Rebouças Pens First TV Project With Globoplay’s ‘Single Together’
The work of Thalita Rebouças, one of Brazil’s most commercially successful authors, has been widely adapted for the stage and resulted in several hits on the big screen, including “Confessions of a...
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March 23, 2026
Netflix, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, FilmNation, MrBeast Execs Among Speakers at Global Production Event AFCI Studio Summit
High-profile executives from major companies such as Paramount and Netflix will gather in Los Angeles this week for the Association of Film Commissioners International’s annual event, rebranded thi...
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March 20, 2026
Oscar Winning ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ Director David Borenstein Lines Up Next Project With PBS, Reunites With Danish Team for ‘Living in Our Heads’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Earlier this week, American director David Borenstein was supposed to pitch his next project at CPH:DOX’s prestigious Forum platform. He had to pull out at the last minute, however, but for a very ...
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March 20, 2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’s’ ‘Insane’ Oscars: Artificial Rainbows, Toilet Interviews and Speaking Truth to Trump’s Government
On a beautiful spring morning in Copenhagen, a newly minted superstar walked into the courtyard of the imposing Kunsthal Charlottenborg museum: Danish producer Helle Faber, whose “Mr. Nobody Agains...
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March 20, 2026
Why Elvira Lind and Oscar Isaac Waited Almost a Decade to Share ‘King Hamlet,’ an Intimate Doc Shot During ‘Beautiful and Sad’ Moment of Their Early Marriage (EXCLUSIVE)
Danish director and writer Elvira Lind’s “King Hamlet” may, on the surface, be about her then-boyfriend-now-husband Oscar Isaac’s preparation to play Shakespeare’s most famous character in Sam Gold...
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March 20, 2026
New Projects by Kathryn Ferguson, Asmae El Moudir and Véréna Paravel Crowned at CPH:DOX as Industry Reflects on AI Threat and Learns From Cousins in Journalism
More than €110,000 ($127,000) total in awards were handed out in Copenhagen this evening as another edition of CPH:DOX’s industry arm came to an end. The Laura Poitras executive-produced doc “Every...
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March 19, 2026
Louis Theroux on Capturing Reality of Israeli Settlements in ‘The Settlers’: ‘I’d Never Seen Something Like This Unfold in the Open With No Shame’
In 2010, British journalist Louis Theroux went to Israel to interview ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers who believed it was their religious and political obligation to populate the West Bank for th...
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March 17, 2026
Arte President Bruno Patino Issues Industry-Wide Alert: AI Has Now Pushed Us Into a ‘Relationship Economy,’ the Only Way Forward Is ‘Coalition’
Amongst growing conversation on conglomeration, the shifting landscape of global media and restrained freedom of speech, the leading documentary festival CPH:DOX chose “Media Sovereignty: Rethink, ...
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March 15, 2026
‘Hell’s Army’ Director on the Rise of Russian Mercenary Legion the Wagner Group, and a Warning for the U.S.: ‘This Darkness Is Coming Everywhere’
When Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley (“Dirty Wars”) first set out to make a documentary about the Russian state-funded private mercenary faction The Wagner Group, he believed he was chronic...
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