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Two young women, caught in the maze of modern disillusionment, decide to abandon a familiar, suffocating existence. In a modest U.K. town, where quiet desperation mingles with adolescent restlessness, these immigrant teens break away, seeking something that promises freedom but may hide peril.

Their impulsive decision to leave for Turkey and the borderlands ignites a narrative charged with conflicting emotions—a search for personal identity set against a backdrop of systemic marginalization.

The film unfolds at a time when the struggles of Muslim youth in Western settings have become a stark reality, marked by prejudice and exclusion. Such a socio-political climate casts long shadows over their quest, with the lure of radical ideas acting as a dangerous siren call.

Director Nadia Fall, whose theatre roots are evident in the careful staging of each scene, fashions a work that oscillates between youthful exuberance and the weight of impending tragedy.

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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has unveiled the ten-title official selection for its Next Wave Film Festival geared towards young filmmakers and audiences aged between 14 and 24.

The festival will run April 10-13 at TIFF’s Lightbox venue in Toronto.

Next Wave’s four Canadian premieres include Brides, the UK drama directed by Nadia Falls, which screened in the world cinema dramatic section at this year’s Sundance festival.

North American premieres in the official selection include US comedy-drama Pools, from writer-director Sam Hayes.

The line-up’s international premiere is US documentary Rape Play, directed by Gabriella Mykal.

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The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for movies starring Jessica Chastain, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Rupert Friend, Marion Cotillard, Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Emma Mackey and more.

The 2025 Berlinale runs through February 23.

Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.

Blue Moon

Section: Competition

Director: Richard Linklater

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

Deadline’s takeaway: Richard Linklater’s Broadway chamber piece looks back to a lost time and mourns a lost soul in Lorenz Hart as the booze is about to consume him. In a bravura theatrical performance, Ethan Hawke...

Like all genres, coming-of-age stories have their own set of tropes. Characters attempting to find a date for prom, trying to get into college, and throwing a massive rager when their parents aren't home, for example, are all staples of the genre. Nadia Fall’s debut film, Brides, certainly treads some familiar teen movie territory — particularly that of the road trip variety — which makes it all the more haunting, because it's ultimately a coming-of-age tale like you've never seen before.

Nadia Fall’s Brides is an urgent, unsettling, and deeply empathetic coming-of-age film, one that dares to explore the tension between agency and coercion in the radicalization of young women. Inspired by the true story of the Bethnal Green trio, three East London schoolgirls who left home in 2015 to join Isis, Brides follows Doe (Ebada Hassan) and Muna (Safiyya Ingar), two best friends who, feeling alienated in the U.K., set out on a perilous journey to Syria.

Their misguided plan is born from a longing for belonging, a desire to escape the contradictions of their upbringing, and the allure of a purpose larger than themselves. As their path becomes more dangerous, the cracks in their conviction begin to show. Through a precise and compassionate script by Suhayla El-Bushra, Brides challenges dominant narratives, exploring the vulnerability, defiance, and naivety that shape the choices of two young girls who see no...

Brides producer Marica Stocchi and Samantha Taylor of the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment are among 17 independent producers selected for the sixth edition of Ace Animation Special, the animation business programme of European network Ace Producers.

The 17 producers will take part in the workshop from March 18-23 in Dingle, Ireland, in collaboration with the Animation Dingle festival.

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Producers will participate with animated features and series projects in early development, with the workshop designed to provide knowledge of how to diversify business for an international audience.

Sessions in the workshop will include animatic story development,...

Brides producer Marica Stocchi and Samantha Taylor of the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment are among 18 independent producers selected for the sixth edition of Ace Animation Special, the animation business programme of European network Ace Producers.

The 18 producers will take part in the workshop from March 18-23 in Dingle, Ireland, in collaboration with the Animation Dingle festival.

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Producers will participate with animated features and series projects in early development, with the workshop designed to provide knowledge of how to diversify business for an international audience.

Sessions in the workshop will include animatic story development,...

Neon has closed what is understood to be a $17m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Figeroid’steam will represent all international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand. Neon has scheduled an August 1 theatrical release in North America.

Michael Shanks...

Neon has closed what is understood to be a $15m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Figeroid’steam will represent all international rights excluding Australia and New Zealand. Neon has scheduled an August 1 theatrical release in North America.

Michael Shanks...

Neon is understood to be nearing a $15m worldwide deal on Together, the body horror starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco that has been the standout commercial prospect of Sundance.

The first deal of the festival means that, for the second year in a row, Kristen Figeroid and the team at Neon International will head to Berlin with a buzzy genre hit from Park City after picking up Lucy Liu ghost story Presence last year.

Michael Shanks made his feature writing and directing debut on Together, the Midnight selection about a couple who relocate to the country where their touch-and-go...

Neon Films producer Nicky Bentham and Motive Pictures’ Sam Lavender are among the speakers at the 10th edition of Glasgow Film Festival’s industry programme, which runs March 3-6.

Bentham, whose latest project is Nadia Fall’s Sundance premiereBrides,will talk aboutestablishing Neon Films and working as an indie film producer.

Former Film4 executive Lavender, now executive producer atSimon Maxwell’sMotive Pictureswith credits including The Lobster, The Favourite and Saint Maud , will participate in a conversation about making independent UK feature films.

Glasgow will also host an update on the UK’s nascent Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (Ciisa), from chief operating officer Andrew Medlock.

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

Real-life item Alison Brie...

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

‘Together’: Sundance Review

Michael Shanks’ feature directorial debut and Midnight entry turned heads (and stomachs) as soon as it debuted on Sunday at Eccles Theatre. Buyers including Apple, A24, Focus Features, Amazon, and Searchlight Pictures are among those who were either in attendance at the premiere or who have since seen it.

Real-life item Alison Brie...

ByMonday evening in Park Citystudios and streamers were understood to be in hot pursuit of the Alison Brie-Dave Franco body horror Together, by far the most broadly appealing acquisitions target in what Sundance buyers agree has otherwise been a desert of commercial prospects.

Other fiction features without distribution have impressed over the first five days, despite the preponderance for bleak stories that some observers say has set a rather sullen table for the US acquisitions space in the next few months ahead.

However many agree the quality of filmmaking has been high, and nowhere has this been more evident that with the documentary selection,...

Deftly directed by Nadia Fall from Suhayla El-Bushra's multi-layered screenplay, Brides examines a relatively recent, ripped-from-the-headlines subject ripe for sensationalism and exploitation. Namely, the subject is Western-born or -raised Muslim women who left the West behind for the illusory promises of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis). The film considers the subject with an admirable mix of sympathy, empathy, and compassion. Asking the “why?” without explicit judgment or implicit bias, Fall crafts a sensitively moving film centered on two young women, Doe (Ebada Hassan) and Muna (Safiyya Ingar), and the momentous, possibly fatal decision to leave the West and all its flaws and failures for the illusory promises of the Middle East. We meet Doe and Muna already committed to...

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They say, sometimes, the journey is more important than the destination. In renowned theatre director Nadia Fall’s “Brides,” two runaway teenagers journey away from their seaside English hometown to Istanbul. They plan to cross over the border to Syria so that they can join Isis. However, when their fixer – the one who was supposed to help them cross over doesn’t show up, the girls are in a definite mix. Their innocence leads them on an adventurous detour where they meet strangers – both good and bad – up until they decide to finally take the big plunge.

Based on the real-life story of two young women from East London who one day decided to leave their school, and fly across Europe to reach Istanbul, with the aim of getting across the border to join Isis, “Brides” stars Ebada Hassan as Doe and Sagiyaa Ingar as Muna, the teenage girls that...

Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo. Doe and Muna, the British 15-year-olds at the center of “Brides,” either haven’t been given much slack to make the right kind of wrong choices, or haven’t permitted themselves that liberty — so when they do err, it’s in seismically reckless, potentially ruinous fashion. Clearly inspired by cases like that of Shamima Begum, the London teen who traveled in secret to Syria to become an Isis bride, Nadia Fall’s debut feature seems on the surface like a hot-button provocation, but it’s surprisingly humane and good-humored in its attempt to understand the individual lives behind a sensational headline issue.

America under Trump’s second presidency is fearful for its borders and the potential terrorists that might be coming in through them. Britain, under the comparatively liberal Keir Starmer, has a rather more niche anxiety: that its citizens will leave and then return as insurgents. This seemingly unlikely scenario played out in real life in 2015, when 15-year-old London schoolgirl Shamima Begum and two friends flew to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria, where they became jihadi brides and lived in misery. When she was found four years later, in a Northern Syrian refugee camp, Begum made news a second time, this time for being rendered stateless by the Conservative government.

Begum’s case is surely an unspoken factor behind playwright Nadia Fall’s feature debut. Scripted by Suhayla El-Bushra — whose time in the writers’ room on Nida Manzoor’s underrated We are Lady Parts, a British sitcom about an all-female Muslim punk band,...

Exclusive: Nadia Fall, a noted artistic theatre director — she’s just moved from the Theatre Royal, Stratford East to run the mighty Young Vic — has directed her first feature film. It’s called Brides and is about two Muslim schoolgirls who leave their disruptive homes to travel via Turkey to Syria, where they join the Islamic state and offer themselves for marriage to men waging war.

It’s easy, and lazy, to jump to conclusions that the two girls — Muna and Doe, played extraordinarily well by Safiyya Ingar and Ebada Hassan, respectively — just kids really, are radicalized foot soldiers readying themselves to become terrorists, a bit like the real-life story of Shamima Begum, who left Britain in 2015, made her way to Syria and within two weeks was wed to a man who was later convicted of terrorism offenses.

They’re not that, Brides is not that.

“I can see on...

In Brides, UK teenagers Doe and Muna (Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar) take an ill-advised trip to Syria to escape the constant feeling of being othered that follows them at home. The film, the debut feature by Young Vic Theatre artistic director Nadia Fall, examines teenage girlhood through a distinct sociopolitical lens. The film was shot in three different locations, meaning the production had new crews every two weeks. Director of photography Clarissa Cappellani discusses working through those challenges and the films and photographs that she and Fall used as references. See all responses to our […]

The post “A Continuous Swing Between Memories and the Present.”: Dp Clarissa Cappellani on Brides first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

In Brides, UK teenagers Doe and Muna (Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar) take an ill-advised trip to Syria to escape the constant feeling of being othered that follows them at home. The film, the debut feature by Young Vic Theatre artistic director Nadia Fall, examines teenage girlhood through a distinct sociopolitical lens. The film was shot in three different locations, meaning the production had new crews every two weeks. Director of photography Clarissa Cappellani discusses working through those challenges and the films and photographs that she and Fall used as references. See all responses to our […]

The post “A Continuous Swing Between Memories and the Present.”: Dp Clarissa Cappellani on Brides first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Premiering in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Brides follows two UK teens who travel to Syria in an attempt to escape the othering they face at home. The film is the debut feature of Nadia Fall, the artistic director of London’s Young Vic Theatre and director of productions of Three Sisters and King Hedley II, among others. The film is edited by Fiona DeSouza, whose credits include 2020’s Kindred and episodes of numerous TV series, including Great Expectations and Hanna. Below, she shares a trick for making a small number of setups go a long way and how a good cup of tea […]

The post “I Am Always Mining for Gold in the Rushes”: Editor Fiona DeSouza on Brides first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Premiering in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Brides follows two UK teens who travel to Syria in an attempt to escape the othering they face at home. The film is the debut feature of Nadia Fall, the artistic director of London’s Young Vic Theatre and director of productions of Three Sisters and King Hedley II, among others. The film is edited by Fiona DeSouza, whose credits include 2020’s Kindred and episodes of numerous TV series, including Great Expectations and Hanna. Below, she shares a trick for making a small number of setups go a long way and how a good cup of tea […]

The post “I Am Always Mining for Gold in the Rushes”: Editor Fiona DeSouza on Brides first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

On the eve of Sundance Film Festival (January 23-Februrary 2) many filmmakers and executives had already descended upon Park City for the 2025 edition. As attendees sample the blend of work from established talents and the promise of discoveries, amid the customary mingling and business side of things there will be real stories of heartbreak.

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The devastating LA County wildfires are likely to have impacted many from the Los Angeles region who make the journey to the Utah mountains. The writer-director team of Meera Menon and husband Paul Gleason behind Midnight zombie selection Didn’t Die...

The penultimate Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah—and the first held since the fest announced that it was shopping around for a new home—2025’s edition begins a two-year farewell to the slopes by rolling out a familiar slate of documentaries, daring Next selections, indie dramas with exactly one high-profile star,...

The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival is a little over a week away and it’s time for us to talk about movies that will be the talk of Sundance, movies that push the envelope of imagination and reality, movies that should not be missed and lastly underrated movies that are a must watch as well. The list below is not comprehensive and the goal is not to rank order any of the movies in this list. From films by critically acclaimed directors like Ira Sachs and Richard Linklater to actors like Benedict Cumberbatch, Diego Luna, Olivia Coleman, Dev Patel, Jennifer Lopez and Rose Bryne, the list also focuses on independent films by new exciting directors and filmmakers to look out for in the future. In no particular order, we are listing 25 feature films that are a must watch if you are planning to check out the festival.

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UK filmmakers and talent have a strong showing at Sundance 2025, taking place from January 23 to February 2, 2025 in Park City.

Brides, the feature debut of theatre director and incoming Young Vic artistic director Nadia Fall,premieres in the World Cinema Dramatic competition.The film, which is written by Suhayla El-Bushra,follows two troubled teenage girls who decide to run away to Syria, is produced by Neon’s Nicky Bentham and Marica Stocchi from Italian outfit Rosamont.

It was supported by the BFI and Ffilm Cymru Wales, Welsh Government via Creative Wales, Great Point Media, the Italian Ministry of Culture Minority Co-production Fund,...

The long-awaited film by Flora Lau (Lux), Chloé Robichaud‘s take on a Quebec classic (1970’s Deux Femmes en or) in Two Women, Vladimir de Fontenay‘s sophomore feature Sukkwan Island and Argentina filmmaker Laura Casabé‘s thriller The Virgin of Quarry Lake (written by Benjamin Naishtat) are among the ten films selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Comp. Here are the ten:

Brides / U.K. — Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.…...

Sundance Film Festival’s 2025 line-up comprises 87 features, nearly half of which are directed by women, and is crammed with new work by returning stars and indie stalwarts including Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lopez, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Ruffalo, and Dev Patel.

Among anticipated highlights are the feature directorial debut of UK playwright and incoming Young Vic artistic director Nadia Fall with her Bankside Films sales title Brides inWorld Cinema Dramatic Competition,about teenage friends who plan to travel to Syria.

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Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama in Premieres about the New York portrait photographer...

On Sunday at Cannes, Diane Kruger put her star power behind a worthy cause, attending the ‘Transcending Borders’ gala at the Campari Lounge hosted by Breaking Through the Lens—an organization that works to support female filmmakers.

“I know first hand how incredibly difficult it is as a woman in this industry,” Kruger told Deadline. “Even though we’ve made strides, obviously, in the industry. But [this organization] really just resonated to me and I think more than ever, it’s a time to hear female voices. Even this year alone in Cannes, we’ve heard the uprising of the #MeToo movement, but it’s not just that. It’s also just telling our stories, and so I think that’s incredibly important.”

Kruger is at the Cannes Film Festival with David Cronenberg’s film The Shrouds, which will premiere in Competition on Monday. “I’m starting to be actually a little nervous,...

The UK industry gathered at the Cannes UK pavilion yesterday (May 16) to celebrate the work of the eight projects taking part in this year’s Cannes Great 8 showcase.

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Sean Dunn’s The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford and Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path were among the eight titles taking part, with filmmakers taking to the stage to discuss their projects.

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The only documentary in this year’s line-up is Witches, from Elizabeth Sankey, in which the filmmaker explores the unexpected connections...

The BFI is once again heading to the Cannes Market with its so-called Great 8 — a selection of projects from first and second-time filmmakers that it will present to international buyers.

Now in its seventh year, the 2024 Great 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council, with support from the Great Britain & Northern Ireland campaign, BBC Film, and Film4. The list includes Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira’s feature On Falling, produced by Jack Thomas-o’Brien for Sixteen Films. The full list of titles are:

Brides – director Nadia Fall, writer Suhayla El-Bushra Bring Them Down – director/writer Christopher Andrews The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford – director/writer Sean Dunn On Falling – director/writer Laura Carreira The Salt Path – director Marianne Elliott, writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz Sunlight – director Nina Conti, writers Shenoah Allen, Nina Conti Surviving Earth – director/writer ​​Thea Gajić Witches – director/writer Elizabeth Sankey

With 2022 and 2023 editions taking place online,...

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Sean Dunn’s The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford and Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path, featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, are among the eight films taking part in the Great 8 showcase, which presents new UK feature films from first-and second-time UK filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers.

Now in its seventh year, the 2024 Great 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council, with support from the Great Britain & Northern Ireland campaign, BBC Film and Film4.

In preparation for Cannes, unseen footage from...

UK outfit Bankside has boarded world sales on Brides, the debut feature from acclaimed theatre director and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Nadia Fall, as production wraps.

The film, which shot in Wales, Turkey and Italy, stars newcomer Ebada Hassan and Layla’s Safiyya Ingar as two teenage girls in 2015, in search of freedom, friendship and belonging, who run away from their troubled lives in a seaside town with a misguided plan of travelling to Syria.

Nicky Bentham produces through London-based Neon Films, alongside Marica Stocchi of Rome-based Rosamont. Catryn Ramasut and Alice Lusher of Cardiff’s ie ie productions are co-producers.

The national agency for the Irish screen industry’s budget has been raised to €39.2m.

Ireland’s national agency for the screen industry, Screen Ireland, has received a €1.5m increase to its budget, as outlined by the Irish government’s 2024 budget.

Screen Ireland’s total budget for 2024 will be €39.2m, compared to €37.7m in 2023.

The capital budget for 2024 will be around €34m, which is invested in projects and initiatives, while the administration budget will be around €5.2m, allocated to staffing, marketing and other administrative costs.

This follows yesterday’s boost to Section 481, the Irish tax incentive of 32%, which has increased...

Director’s winning project is BFI-backed UK-Italy co-production Brides.

UK writer-director Nadia Fall has won the €10,000 Breaking Through The Lens Action Grant, an award for a filmmaker from a marginalised gender presented in partnership with Swiss watch and jewellry manufacturer Chopard.

Fall was chosen from five finalists, with the award presented at an event at the Chopard boutique in London this evening.

Fall won the award for her project Brides, which follows two teenage girls who leave their troubled lives in an English seaside town to join Isis in Syria. A UK-Italy co-production between the UK’s Neon Films and regional Italian funds,...

Finalists include Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023, Nadia Fall.

Breaking Through The Lens (Bttl), a US-based non-profit that advocates for a more equitable film industry, has named the five finalists for their Chopard x Bttl Action Grant, which gives feature film directors of marginalised genders the chance at winning €10,000 towards a project.

The finalists include Screen Star of Tomorrow 2023 Nadia Fall, who is seeking support for her feature debut, Brides. The UK-Italy co-production follows two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship and meaning, run away from their troubled lives in an English seaside town in order to join Isis in Syria.

The renowned annual talent showcase spotlights the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland.

Screen International has unveiled the 2023 edition of Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland.

This year marks a special milestone for Stars of Tomorrow – its 20th edition, and the annual talent showcase has demonstrated an unparalleled track record for spotting emerging UK and Irish talent, both in front of and behind the camera, since its launch in 2004.

Those selected this time include Heartstopper star Kit Connor, Mia McKenna-Bruce, who played the lead role in Cannes breakout How To Have Sex,...

More than 100 key figures from the UK film and TV industry have signed a letter urging the UK government to take “immediate action” against Iranian authorities for “gross violations of human rights and women’s rights” in their response to the wave of public protests that erupted last year.

The industry leaders, including Barbara Broccoli, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Edgar Wright, are calling for the UK government to “actively campaign to stop the violence used against the protesters in Iran, including an immediate stop to all executions” and “demand the release of all political prisoners in Iran.”

“Enough is enough. If the global community, which the UK is an active and influential member of, does not act firmly, these atrocities will continue,” the letter reads. “We need to sincerely support the people of Iran in their fight for justice and freedom.”

The letter was organized by British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari (Under...

A growing number of figures from the film and TV industry in the U.K. have signed a letter urging British politicians to support the people of Iran as the country faces global condemnation for executing several of those involved in the wave of protests that erupted last year.

The letter, instigated by British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari, calls for members of U.K. parliament to actively campaign for Iran to stop violence against protesters and end all executions, to hold Iran accountable for the “gross violations of human rights and women’s rights,” and to demand that Iran releases all political prisoners.

Among the almost 100 names to have signed the letter, which is still circulating and gathering attention, are Olivia Colman, Martin McDonagh, Jessie Buckley, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Brett Goldstein, Jonathan Pryce, Hugh Bonneville, Richard Curtis, Gillian Anderson, Felicity Jones, George Mackay, Edgar Wright and Hayley Atwell.

The letter is the latest...

In today’s Global Bulletin, “The Prince of Egypt” musical plans its return to London’s West End, BBC Arts unveils a slate of TV and radio adaptations for its Lights Up festival, Festival MiX Milano rebrands as MiX International Festival of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Queer Culture, Mip Cancun announces 2021 in-person market dates and details, and Telefilm backs two new features in Canada.

Theater

Following the latest U.K. government guidance on the easing of lockdown restrictions, DreamWorks Theatricals has announced that “The Prince of Egypt” musical theater adaptation of the DreamWorks Animation classic film, will resume live performances at London’s Dominion Theater in the West End on July 1 and has extended its booking through Jan. 8, 2022.

As an extra precautionary measure, performances from July 1 through Sept. 4 will be held under Step 3 protocols, including strict social distancing restrictions. Starting Sept. 6, performances will take place under Step 4 protocols, with limits on social contact lifted.

On the heels of the Golden Globe win for Ted Lasso star and creator Jason Sudeikis, Apple has announced a new cast member for the second season.

Sarah Niles has joined the hit comedy series as a new series regular. She will play Sharon, a sports psychologist who has been brought in to work with AFC Richmond.

Production on Season 2 is currently underway. The series received an early Season 3 renewal in October.

Ted Lasso, which hails from Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence, is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago. It stars Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer. Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed also star.

The...