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After revisions to the Oxford Junior Dictionary, a widely used children’s dictionary, led to the removal of such nature words as “acorn,” “bluebell” and “otter” in favor of such technology-centric words as “attachment,” “broadband,” and “voice-mail,” writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris reacted with their book The Lost Words: A Spell Book (2017). It helped to create a broader discussion and protest about the loss of nature itself, along with a celebration of creatures and plants that share the planet with humans.

Hannah Papacek Harper’s feature directorial debut, Lost for Words, which she also wrote and which is getting its U.K. premiere at Sheffield DocFest on Saturday, was inspired by the book.

The documentary, which world premiered at Cph:dox in Copenhagen, features cinematography by Tess Barthes and editing by Becky Manson. It is a rare visual, audio, and musical experience that takes audiences on a trip through nature and thought.

Animality, the latest screen work from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is among the titles that will world premiere at this year’s Cph:dox in Copenhagen.

The festival, which runs March 19-30, released its 2025 competition lineups this morning. Across its six categories, the festival will feature 94 world premieres. The theme of this year’s festival is “human rights and the rules-based international order.”

World premieres include films about Israel and Palestine, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the rise of the far-right across Europe, identity politics, art, and activism. High-profile visitors set for the festival include Ai Weiwei, Ukrainian feminist activist Inna Shevchenko, investigative journalist and whistleblower Christo Grozev, musician Warren Ellis, comedian Jerrod Carmichael, and Adam Kinzinger.

Main competition titles include Alisa Kovalenko’s My Dear Theo, Thomas Balmés’ À demain sur la Lune, Artur Franck’s The Helsinki Effect, and this year’s opening film Facing War by Tommy Gulliksen.

As Cph:dox gears up for its 2025 edition, organizers have unveiled an audacious program of more than 200 films with a sharp focus on human rights under the theme “Right Here, Right Now.”

With 94 world premieres – 68 of them feature-length, the highest number in the festival’s history – Cph:dox continues to expand its global footprint.

For the third consecutive year, all main competition titles are world premieres. While this is not a formal selection criterion, artistic director Niklas Engstrøm tells Variety, “The fact that top directors chose to premiere their films with us speaks volumes about how the festival has grown.” He adds that shifting the festival from November to March in 2017 strengthened its global standing, positioning it as the go-to European launchpad for U.S. filmmakers after Sundance.

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Hot Sundance titles heading to Cph:Dox include “Mr Nobody against Putin,” “The Dating Game” and “Zodiac Killer Project.”

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Michael Bisping is furious about the senseless terror attack in his hometown of Manchester, and has taken to social media to vent about the event, calling the bombers "Motherf**kers." Bisping took to his social media in the aftermath of the attack, posting to voice his concerns for everyone affected in the attack, and his anger at event was evident in his hashtag. "Lost for words at this cruelty. My thought and prayers are with...

Jake Wood is ''honoured'' to be named the UK's top Weird Crush for the second year in a row. The 'EastEnders' star has been handed the award in heat magazine's annual poll, ahead of the likes of Ed Sheeran and Greg Davies. Jake said: ''I must be the weirdest crush in the history of weird crushes. I'm quite honoured. Last year I was delighted, and this year I'm even more bowled over. Lost for words. ''I must be slightly weirder then Ed [Sheeran] and that's a great honour to me. I'm obviously the hottest weirdest ginger.'' When the 43-year-old actor - who is currently...

After releasing a teaser early last week, Naughty Dog has fulfilled its promise by unveiling the extended E3 demo for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which picks up from the tail-end of the demonstration showcased by Sony on stage a fortnight ago.

The footage itself made its grand debut via the studio’s official Twitch channel – 11am Pt/2pm Et earlier, to be specific – where fans of The Last of Us creator were treated to a sizzle reel that proved to be an action masterclass. While Naughty Dog remained mum about the finer details, such as where in the story this set-piece takes place, the clip largely speaks for itself.

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Soon after careering through the bamboo barricade from the end of the E3 demo, Nathan Drake is dragged through the mud – literally. Pursued by a group of bandits, this particular segment of Uncharted 4:...

Chris Elliott (There’s Something About Mary) and J.K. Simmons (Juno) will join writer/director Marc Lawrence’s yet untitled romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant with Marissa Tomei, Bella Heathcote and Allison Janney. Grant’s latest venture into the rom-com genre finds his character as a screenwriter who, thanks to an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, was on top of the world in 1998. Meanwhile, fifteen years later, his creativity has disappeared along with his wife and money, so he takes a job teaching screenwriting on the East Coast. He expects to make some easy money and maybe find some easy co-eds, but doesn’t predict finding romance with a...

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We wouldn't dare neglect the selection of bite-sized cinema from around the world. Here are the Twitch contributors' favorite shorts and web series from 2011. Shorts Hope (Canada) Director: Pedro Pires by Todd Brown Though Jesus Orellana's Rosa is arguably the short of the year in terms of industry response and overall awareness--and for good reason, it's fantastic--i prefer Pedro Pires' Hope. The latest from the director of Danse Macabre is pure visual art, packed to the gills with gorgeous images and haunting emotional resonance. This man's a genius and needs to be turned loose on a feature now. Nursery Crimes (United Kingdom) Lost for Words (Canada) Coup de Grâce (Spain) by Shelagh M Rowan-Legg Films began as shorts, and it's nice to see directors...

The Decepticons and Autobots battle once again.

Cast your mind back to 9/11. Lost for words to express the enormity of the horrific spectacle unfolding on their screens if not before their very eyes, people kept incredulously repeating the mantra: "It's like something out of a movie." Well, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, the third in Michael Bay's Hasbro-based franchise, recreates precisely the unbelievable, in-your-face blockbuster that 9/11 was like.

Flying metal behemoths swoop into the sides of urban towers, causing mass terror and destruction, as ant-like people hang...

The actor Pete Postlethwaite died yesterday at the age of 64. We look back over his career in clips

It's difficult to know which is the more telling statement about Pete Postlethwaite, who died yesterday. That Steven Spielberg called him "the best actor in the world", after working with him on Jurassic Park sequel The Lost World. Or that Postlethwaite reacted to the praise with such dry deprecation: "I'm sure what Spielberg actually said was, 'The thing about Pete is that he thinks he's the best actor in the world.'"

A man with a face just made for immortalising on Mount Rushmore, Postlethwaite was an ensemble actor to his core; transparently decent and generous, hardly a limelight hogger. The role that first brought him to the attention of most people was Giuseppe Conlon, inmate dad to Daniel Day-Lewis's falsely imprisoned Guildford Four suspect Gerry in 1993's In the Name of the Father.

Ronan Keating wants to save his marriage. The Boyzone singer is distraught to think his 12-year union to wife Yvonne could be over following her discovery he has been having an affair with backing dancer Francine Cornell and has canceled all work commitments for the next three weeks in a bid to save his relationship.

The 33-year-old singer performed with his bandmates at the SkyDance music festival in Zurich, Switzerland, on Friday, May 21 but is now flying back to the family home in Dublin, Ireland, to try and convince Yvonne, 36, to give their marriage another chance. According to the News of the World, Ronan told a friend, "I'm devastated. I know what I did was wrong. I feel terrible about what this has done to Yvonne. But I'm not prepared to give up on my marriage. I've canceled everything and I'm going back to Dublin to make this work."

Despite Ronan's hopes,...

Before Tom Cruise chose Knight and Day as his follow-up to Valkyrie, he had every studio custom-tailoring as Cruise vehicles films that included the DreamWorks action film Motorcade, The Tourist (which rebounded as a Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie vehicle), a teaming with Denzel Washington in the Robert Ludlum novel adaptation The Matarese Circle, the Suzanne Bier-directed romantic comedy Lost for Words, and the Warner Bros action film The 28th Amendment. Before Cruise and Cameron Diaz circled Knight and Day, I read a draft of the script when the producers were after Chris Tucker and Eva Mendes to play the leads and [...]...

Let’s start with the synopsis:

“Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post-apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.”

I never would have expected such a brilliant science fiction western to come out of Denmark if I hadn’t seen it for myself. The entire short is available here for your online viewing pleasure. Here’s the story behind the creation of this film:

“Shot in deserted Faxe Kalkbrud, Denmark, and directed by Jens Raunkjær Christensen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen, Connected is a unique short film, a sci-fi western with a tiny budget, but huge ambitions. A relatively small but very enthusiastic and talented crew helped bring this bleak vision of the future to the screen. The film is produced...

From macho Spartan warriors to conflicted superheroes to… heroic barn owls? Really Zack?

Based off a collection of popular children’s books called The Guardians of Ga’hoole, this actually looks like a mash-up of 300 and Watership Down, except with owls of course. The imagery of the owls soaring and the idea of giving the standard quest film a makeover with these wooly birds is actually appealing. Just ignore the horrid pop song in the trailer and you will be fine.

Snyder has a good handle on visual style, but both of his last films fell flat for me outside of the first viewing. This one looks like it might hearken back to the days of Secret of Nimh and the like. I’m digging the flying effects and after just seeing How To Train Your Dragon in 3D, I admit that the format is perfect for animated films like...

Lo and behold, we have a brand new trailer for How To Train Your Dragon, starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, and Jonah Hill. I’ve got to say, I’m really looking forward to this one.

I caught up with the children’s book by Cresidda Cowell (which skews much, much younger than Harry Potter or Percy Jackson) and I found it a hilarious little ditty that’s perfectly calibrated for kids and their parents. It’s a wonderful read-before-bed kind of book, with a great deal of goofy humor that has a playful tongue-in-cheek vibe to go with the festive fantasy world. I’ll have a full review of the series out next week in our Atomic Books section, but right now, there’s a new trailer for the Dreamworks animated version of the tale.

Confession time first. I love dragons in the movies. Dragonslayer, Dragonheart,...

God Bless Jami Winans and his filmmaking team.

Their indie effort ‘Ink’, a fantastical mish-mash of children’s bedtime stories, surrealistic imagery and sci-fi action is an honest to goodness sleeper. You won’t see it, or its emotional impact, coming. It’s been some time since a film this low budget achieved so much in regards to what ends up on screen. The world of Ink is like 80’s Spielberg meets Terry Gilliam by way of Neil Gaiman. At the same time, it has originality and heart. Plenty of that last one.

Most of the film is set in an invisible world that exists underneath our own. While the physical realm sleeps, the ethereal ‘Storytellers’ (who are envisioned as an ethnically diverse group of grungy punks) roam the night planting happiness, hope, encouragement and solace in the dreams of humanity.

Behind them, sometimes trailing and sometimes stalking are the subversive and malicious Incubi,...

Last month, we got our first look at Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the return of Gordon Gecko. Now there’s a longer, international trailer that sheds light on the film’s plot.

The first trailer very effectively showed us Douglas stepping back into the world, noting the changing times (hey! giant cell phone!), and taking on a protege. But it didn’t really tell us anything about the story. Was Gecko a good guy now, as script rumors have suggested? Would the film have any of the same bite?

From the looks of this, I’d say that first question is still (thankfully) unanswered, and the answer to the second one is yes, it probably will. If that’s the case, you can thank Michael Douglas who shines brighter in these few minutes of footage than he has in any of his most recent films.

Short films rarely get the proper respect they deserve, despite the fact there are several really great ones out there.

In fact, many of the filmmakers working today started out in the short film department. Movies like District 9 and Shane Acker’s animated 9 began their life as short subjects, with Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain short pic landing him the gig to direct the feature.

Point being is the world of short films houses a great many wonders, if one knows where to look. So, it’s without further ado that I introduce you to the trailer for Sean Wainsteim’s Lost for Words, a Canadian kid’s fantasy that seems to be edging toward horror. There’s some creepy and trippy imagery here, including a pair of critters that might have leapt right of H.R. Puffn’stuff or one of Jim Henson’s 80’s films like Labyrinth or Dark Crystal.

What’s this? A new trailer for Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass with twice the usual amount of Norton? Looks that way. Nelson, known for his off-kilter character work in films like O’ Brother, Wher Art Thou?, Holes and Minority Report, is directing and starring in this story of identical twins who conspire to take on a small-town drug lord together.

The plot synopsis sounds like an action movie, but the trailer is it’s own quirky little beast, with Edward Norton starring as both twins–one a shaggy pot dealer and the other a straight-laced Ivy League professor– and Richard Dreyfuss as the crime boss. Nelson looks to be recycling his usual, scruffy yokel and Keri Russell steps in to add the romantic interest, with Susan Sarandon playing the mother of the twins.

I think this has more than a little of the Coens’ Bros. feel to it,...

Today we mourn the loss of a talented studio and the uprising of unoriginality. So what else is new in filmworld? Everybody's all abuzz about a certain Batman savior taking the reigns of another DC Comics superhero; and speaking of DC, we might get a documentary in just a few short months.

The Good

• The guys behind the excellent documentary Spellbound—director Jeffrey Blitz and producer Sean Welch talked to Collider and confirmed that DC Comics has asked them to create a feature documentary on the publishing giant for their 75th anniversary. Even better, they're looking to have the movie delivered (at least in rough version) in time for this year's Comic-Con. Well, there's something to look forward to this July. Check out what they have to say about the project.

• In an interview with LatinoReview, Saw series writer Patrick Melton posits that the long-running franchise will come to an end with their seventh installment,...

Anybody who knows me knows very well that I have a pronounced weakness for kid-oriented science fiction and fantasy films, particularly those done in the 80s style where there was a real sense of peril throughout.  It's pretty much a dead genre these days other than the Potters and Percy Jacksons of the world but Sean Wainsteim would like to change that.

The Toronto based director has just completed his fantasy short film Lost For Words and the freshly released teaser is simply astounding. Amazing mood, strong cinematography and creature designs that neatly teeter on the line between kid-friendly fantasy and genuine horror. Yes, please!