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The 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) will feature key Cannes Film Festival winners in its Horizons section and a selection of action and horror movies, both new and older, for its revamped Midnight Screenings program under the new name “Afterhours.”

In a lineup update unveiled on Friday, Kviff said it will this year screen more than 130 feature films in the picturesque Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.

The Horizons lineup, which traditionally features highlights from the festival circuit of the past year, includes the likes of Jay Duplass’ The Baltimorons, Tom Shoval’s A Letter to David, Michel Franco’s Dreams, My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr., Mary Bronstein‘s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, Jafar Panahi‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, and fellow Cannes...

We Believe You, debut feature by Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys, assembles a family of witnesses into a haunting silent theatre of dread. Myriem Akheddiou anchors the frame as Alice, who drags her son Etienne (Ulysse Goffin) across a station platform into a custody hearing revived by fresh allegations of abuse.

Adèle Pinckaers grants Lila a stoic compassion, while Laurent Capelluto’s father hovers between denial and guilt. Natali Broods presides as the judge, her measured glances weighing each soul within a stark chamber. Their testimonies echo as whispered confessions.

Here, form collides with existential rupture. The camera shifts from restless handheld to rigid geometry, constructing a confine where testimony becomes ordeal. Every static shot poses a philosophical challenge: Can belief find footing in procedural stone? Alice’s fight for her children’s sanctuary becomes an exploration of faith and doubt.

Stakes distill to a single breath: maternal fervor against paternal claim,...

Exclusive: Paris-based The Party Film Sales has acquired international sales rights for Dutch director Sven Bresser’s first feature Reedland ahead of its premiere in competition in Cannes Critics’ Week in May.

The film tells the story of reed cutter Johan who discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land and is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While he takes care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil. But darkness can thrive in unexpected places.

Non-professional actor Gerrit Knobbe makes his big screen debut as Johan, alongside young newcomer Loïs Reinders.

The drama is among 11 first and second feature films, seven in competition, selected out of 1,000 submitted films for the upcoming edition of Cannes Critics’ Week, running from May 14 to 22.

Reedland is the first feature by a Dutch director to premiere in Critics’ Week since Karim Traïdia’s The Polish...

Paris-based company The Party Film Sales has closed a raft of sales on “We Believe You,” a gripping family custody drama directed by Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys, following its premiere at the Berlinale.

The film, which is produced by Makintosh Films, bowed in the newly-launched Perspectives section where it won a Special Mention.

“We Believe You” tells the story of Alice, a mother fighting for her children’s safety in a harrowing custody battle, accusing their father of a crime. Standing before a judge, she must speak up to protect them from their father before it’s too late.

The film stars Myriem Akheddiou in the lead role, known for her work in the Dardenne brothers’ Young Ahmed, alongside Laurent Capelluto, Natali Broods (“Façades”), and rising young talents Ulysse Goffin and Adèle Pinckaers. “We Believe You” follows Dufeys’s short “Invincible Summer” which played at last year’s Berlin Film Festival.

The Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival was awarded to Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud for Dreams (Sex Love) tonight (February 22), the first time this honour has gone to the country.

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Dreams (Sex Love) sees Haugerud complete his Sex Love Dreams trilogy with the story of a young woman whose writings about a crush on her French teacher shock her mother and grandmother, causing them to re-examine their own fantasies. M-Appeal is handling sales.

Haugerud said on stage that it was “beyond [his] wildest dreams” to win the Golden Bear and, speaking...

The 75th Berlin Film Festival has concluded after nine days of fearless cinema in Germany. IndieWire was on the ground this year and earlier this week took a closer look at the top contenders for the Berlinale Golden Bear, which will be announced today along with other prizes.

That Rose Byrne and director Mary Bronstein had returned to the Palast red carpet meant their film “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (which bowed early on at Berlin after world premiering at Sundance in January) was bound to win something. Byrne won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance for her turn as a stressed-out mother in crisis in the A24 psychodrama. Hopefully, this award gives Byrne momentum for the 2025 awards season ahead; it’s one of the great screen performances and certainly the crown of her career.

Today’s ceremony marked the first under new artistic director Tricia Tuttle,...

The debut feature by Charlotte Deville and Arnaud Dufeys, We Believe You, walks the well-known path of courtroom dramas. However, it does so with originality and grace in reconciling formal rigour with heightened emotions, while clocking only 78 minutes.

At the beginning, it does not seem so, as the filmmaking duo opens their work with close-up shots of its protagonist and our point-of-view character, Alice (Myriem Akheddiou), from behind, the front and the side in shaky hand-held fashion. The presence of the actress who has had a number of episodic roles Dardenne brothers's films combined with such filmmaking style suggests a typical take on a typical topic of the struggle of an ordinary person with life itself. In this case, Alice has to calm her son Etienne (the newcomer Ulysse Goffin) down so they can proceed to the court to attend the custody hearing. The ten-year-old boy resists the very notion.

The Party Film Sales has sold “We Believe You,” directed by Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys, to Spain (Filmin and Karma Films) and Benelux (O’Brother Distribution). In France, the film’s release will be overseen by Tpfs’s sister company jour2fête.

Produced by Makintosh Films, “We Believe You” premieres in Berlinale’s Perspectives section, spotlighting debut features. It focuses on Alice, a mother fighting for her children’s safety in a custody battle, accusing their father of a horrifying crime.

“We meet victims of sexual assault, and some of them reveal incest to us. It’s something I know well from my work,” says Charlotte Devillers, who used her own experiences as a nurse in a sexual health clinic.

“That’s how I met Arnaud. I told him about my job and the situations I’d encountered. As a nurse, I’m always observing and listening. These are the tools...

The competition line-up for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival is being announced at a press conference at 11am Cet (10am GMT).

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New festival director Tricia Tuttle is revealing the titles for the Competition and new Perspectives strand alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.

The announcement is being live-streamed on the festival’s social channels. Watch it live above.

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As previously announced, the festival will open with Tom Tykwer’s Special Gala out of competition selection The Light.