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Adrien Brody on His Ties to China and New Film 'A Dog Named De Niro' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

Adrien Brody was feted Friday with a lifetime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival, Europe's preeminent indie event, where he sat down with Variety and talked about why his 2003 Oscar for "The Pianist" didn't lead to


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Locarno: Estonia's 'Portugal' Wins Top First Look Prize

By Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland --  Making good on its buzz coming into Locarno, "Portugal," the debut film feature of renowned Estonian playwright Lauri Lagle, took the top First Look prize on Sunday at Locarno's Festival, as Locarno's thre


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Locarno: Fandango Closes Raft of Sales on 'Loves That Cannot Belong to This World' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Fandango Sales has closed multiple deals on Italian director Francesca Comencini's romantic dramedy "Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World," ahead of the film's world premiere Sunday on the Locar


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Singapore Funds Board Locarno-Bound 'Song of Scorpions'

By Naman Ramachandran

Singapore-based film funds and distribution entities Aurora Media Holdings and M! Capital Ventures have boarded Anup Singh's "The Song of Scorpions." The film has its world premiere next month as a Piazza Grande screening at the Locarn


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Switzerland Picks Petra Volpe's 'The Divine Order' for Foreign-Language Oscar Race

By Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO -- Petra Volpe's feel-good dramedy "The Divine Order," sold by TrustNordisk, has been selected as Switzerland's foreign-language Oscar candidate at the 90th Academy Awards. The U.S. release of "Order" is scheduled for the end o


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Locarno: Brazil's Anavilhana Moves Sergio Borges' 'Coiote,' Clarissa Campolina's 'Faraway Song' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Belo Horizonte-based Anavilhana, one of Brazil's most prominent regional production houses which has also inherited talent and energies from the legendary Teia collective, is producing the next films by Sergio B


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Locarno: Alief Enters Sales Biz, Acquiring Int'l on Artizm's 'Scary Mother' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- London and Tbilisi-Based Alief LLC, an international player on Georgia's film scene, is moving into the world sales business, acquiring international rights to "Scary Mother," a Locarno Cineastes of the Present


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Just Film Takes Swiss Director Rolando Colla's 'Seven Days' for Benelux (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Just Film Distribution has acquired Benelux rights from London-based Film Republic to "Seven Days," the fifth feature by Swiss auteur Rolando Colla whose career launched from the Locarno Film Festival in 19


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Locarno: 6 Things Many Up-and-Coming Producers Around the World Have in Common

By Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- The producers hail from far-flung places such as Tel Aviv, Santiago de Chile, Warsaw, Rome, Mexico City and Sao Paulo. But, however disparate their origins, in film industry terms, increasingly, young production


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Locarno: 'Good Manners' Creators on Latino Genre, Walt Disney, Fairy Tales

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Grounded in an only-half fantasy Sao Paulo of Pharaonic high-rises tower rearing into the sky, gigantic malls and aseptic homes, but awash with the palette of fantasy, Locarno International Competition player "G


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Locarno: Alliance For Development Fosters Co-Productions Among Countries Where French, German, and Italian are Spoken

By Nick Vivarelli

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- The third edition of the Locarno Industry Days' Alliance for Development initiative, which aims to help develop and co-produce projects from France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland by facilitating cooperatio


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