CANNES: Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos hot from his 11 Oscar nominations for Poor Things is in competition with Kinds of Kindness, a three part fable. The director has teamed up again with leading actress and muse Emma Stone, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for Poor Things. His 2018 black comedy The Favourite, starring Emma Stone alongside Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.

CANNES: Three years after screening in the main competition in Cannes with his film Red Rocket the American director Sean Baker is back in the Cannes competition with his new film Anora.

BERLIN: German director Tilman Singer’s German/USA coproduction Cuckoo screens in a Berlinale Special Gala at this year’s festival. Singer also wrote the script.  

BERLIN: Sasquatch Sunset directed by brothers Nathan and David Zellner screens as Berlinale Special and it is indeed difficult to categorise the very special film that is totally without dialogue. The film follows up on the Zellner brothers short film Sasquatch Birth Journal 2.

BERLIN: Director Jane Schoenbrun’s feature I Saw the TV Glow screened earlier this year in the World Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival before having its international premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. Schoenbrun also wrote the script for the film.

BERLIN: American director Nathan Silver’s warm and original comedy Between the Temples had its international premiere at its Panorama screening at this year’s Berlinale. The film screened earlier this year in the official selection of the USA Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

BERLIN: Director Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man screened in the main competition at the 2024 Berlinale after making its debut at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Schimberg also wrote the script for this dark satire that takes a new look on the old trope that beauty is only skin deep.

BUCHAREST: The first feature film by Romanian writer/director/producer Bogdan Mureșanu, The New Year That Never Came, which is a coproduction with Serbia, has been picked up by Cercamon ahead of its world premiere in the Horizons competition of the 81st Venice IFF. Mureșanu is the author of The Christmas Gift (2018), the Romanian short film with the most international awards.

VENICE: Films from Dea Kulumbegashvili, Andrei Ujică, Peter Kerekes, Bogdan Mureșanu and Vojtech Strakaty have been selected for the Competition and Horizons (Orizzonti) sections of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which will be held 28 August – 7 September 2024.

BUCHAREST: TWST / Things We Said Today, the new work by the acclaimed Romanian-German writer / director Andrei Ujică, will have its world premiere in the Official Selection - Out of Competition of the 81st Venice IFF (28 August – 7 September 2024). This French/Romanian coproduction has been a dream project for Ujică since high school.