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Locarno StepIn: Five Takeaways about Netflix, Apple, and Content for Self-Driving Cars

By Nick Vivarelli

A group of roughly 60 prominent European independent film industry execs assembled Thursday at the Locarno Festival in Switzerland to thrash out some of the pressing issues they are facing as they scramble to contend with the disruptiv


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Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche to Reteam on Comedy 'E-Book' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell and Emiliano Granada

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Following on Kristen Stewart-starrer "Personal Shopper," Olivier Assayas, president of Locarno's main International Competition jury, will return to the French language for his next film, tentatively-entitled "E


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Locarno: Stray Dogs Boards 'Good Luck,' 'The Asteroids' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

Paris-based Stray Dogs has acquired world sales rights outside producers' territories to Ben Russell's "Good Luck" and Germano Maccioni's "The Asteroids," which both world premiere in main International Competition at Switzerland's Loc


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Locarno: São Paulo-Locarno Industry Academy International to Launch in October (EXCLUSIVE)

By Emilio Mayorga

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Locarno's Industry Academy will make a new expansive move this fall, launching an edition at São Paulo's Mostra, the São Paulo-Locarno Industry Academy International, which takes place Oc


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Locarno: Indian Thespian Naseeruddin Shah in Final Talks for 'Barzakh' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Naman Ramachandran

LONDON -- Veteran Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah will play one of the leads in co-directors Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi's "Barzakh: Between Heaven and Hell". Produced by Anam Abbas and Mazhar Zaidi for Pakistan and U.K.-based production


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Locarno: Trailer of Hlynur Pálmason's 'Winter Brothers' (EXCLUSIVE)

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason, already cited as one of leading lights of a new generation of Icelandic filmmakers - think Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson's ("Heartstone," 2016), Rúnar R&uacut


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Turkish Casting Director Harika Uygur Wins Locarno's European Casting Award

By Nick Vivarelli

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Turkish casting director Harika Uygur is the winner of the Locarno Film Festival's European Casting Award for her work on the ensemble cast of "Mustang," director Deniz Gamze Erguven's foreign-language


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Jeanne Moreau Appreciation: French Icon Was a New Kind of Liberated Actress

By Peter Debruge

Jeanne Moreau was loved by two men onscreen and by millions more who sat in the dark. One third of the cinema's ultimate love triangle, in Francois Truffaut's "Jules et Jim" (which, let's admit, really ought to have been called "Cather


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Locarno: First Look Highlights 'Stasis,' 'Portugal,' 'The Mover'

By John Hopewell

Mantas Kvedaravicius' "Stasis," Lauri Lagle's "Portugal" and Davis Siamanis Jr.'s "The Mover" feature in the Locarno Festival's 2017 First Look, which focuses on Baltic cinema. "El Padre Medico," "The Little Comrade,' and "Paradise 89"


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Eurimages Chief Roberto Olla on How a Netflix Acquisition Can be 'Kiss of Death' For a European Art Film (EXCLUSIVE)

By Nick Vivarelli

Roberto Olla, executive director of the Council of Europe's Eurimages co-production fund, is concerned that as Netflix starts acquiring Eurimages-supported European art films, the type of global deals the streaming giant is doing


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Locarno: Director Jan Speckenbach on International Competition Player 'Freedom'

By John Hopewell

LOCARNO, Switzerland -- In "Freedom," which world premieres in International Competition at the Locarno Festival this week, Nora (Johanna Wokalek) walks out on her lawyer husband (Philip Hans-Jochen Wagner) and their two children in Be


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