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The ongoing war in Gaza was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director Alexander Payne diplomatically chose to not offer his viewpoint on the matter.

“Quite frankly, I feel a little bit unprepared for that question,” said Payne, the competition jury president, when asked about his personal stance on the humanitarian crisis. “I’m here to judge and talk about cinema. My political views, I’m sure, are in agreement with many of yours.”

Payne noted that questions about the festival’s position on Gaza — three of which were asked during the 20-minute conversation — would be better directed to Venice chief Alberto Barbera. Ahead of the festival, Venice organizers were urged by hundreds of international filmmakers and artists to take a “clear and unambiguous stand [to] condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing across Palestine carried out by the Israeli government and army.

Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori has unveiled the line-up for its 22nd edition.

The main competition, showcasing 10 features, will open with Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Vladlena Sandu’s Memory, a deeply personal work piecing together childhood memories of life in Chechnya’s capital of Grozny amid the violence of the First Chechen War.

The Chechen Wars also loom large in exiled Germany-based Russian director Nastia Korkia’s Short Summer about an eight -year-old girl vacationing with her grandparents as their marriage crumbles and the conflict in the North Caucasus spills into everyday Russian life.

Further contenders include Spanish director Gabriel Azorín Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes, following two men who return from the front and seek out an ancient thermal bath, the mysterious waters of which giving them the courage to say things they have never before told anyone.

Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser, who made waves...

International sales agent Salaud Morisset has acquired world rights to “Silent Rebellion” (À bras-le-corps), the debut feature from Swiss director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo. The film is set to have its world premiere in the new Spotlight section at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Variety debuts an exclusive clip here.

“Silent Rebellion” tells the story of 15-year-old Emma, who becomes pregnant after a rape. Defying her oppressive rural Protestant community, Emma embarks on a journey of self-determination, transforming her trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of her village and the lingering shadows of World War II.

“The film follows the growing movement of women filmmakers who are reinterpreting 20th-century historical events through a feminist lens, highlighting women’s narratives that have often been overlooked,” Salaud Morisset said in a statement.

Salaud Morisset and Sgualdo previously partnered on her short film “You Can’t Do Everything at Once,...

Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Zhao Tao, Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero and Cristian Mungiu will be joining Alexander Payne on the International Jury for the 82nd Venice Film Festival, which takes place August 27 – September 6, 2025.

As announced in April, Payne will head the international jury. On Friday, with the recommendation of the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barb, the Board of Directors of La Biennale announced the additional jury members.

Recent Best Actress Oscar nominee Torres (for Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here”) will judge the festival’s films alongside French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian writer, director and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director, writer and producer Mohammad Rasoulof and Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

The jury will give the Golden Lion, Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion for Best Director, Coppa Volpi for Best Actress, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, a best screenplay award, the...

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the official juries for its 82nd edition running from August 27-September 6.

On the main competition jury, previously announced jury president Alexander Payne, will be joined by French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian director, writer and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof; Brazilian actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres; and Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

They will decide the Golden Lion for Best Film; Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize; Silver Lion for Best Director; Coppa Volpi for Best Actress; Coppa Volpi for Best Actor; Award for Best Screenplay; Special Jury Prize; and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress.

A number of the jury members have Venice connections.

Brizé’s Another World (2021) and Out of Season (2023) premiered in Venice competition; Delpero world premiered her second film Vermiglio at the festival last year,...

The full international juries roster for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled.

The director-heavy lineup joining previously announced competition president Alexander Payne consists of: Oscar-nominated Brazilian actress and writer Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), prominent Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Palme d’Or-winning Romanian director-writer-producer Cristian Mungiu, French director Stéphane Brizé (“Out of Season”), Italian director Maura Delpero (“Vermiglio”) and Chinese actor and producer Zhao Tao (“Caught by the Tides”).

In addition to awarding the Golden Lion for best film, the competition jury will also be responsible for handing out the Silver Lion grand jury prize, Silver Lion for best director, Coppa Volpi for best actress, Coppa Volpi for best actor, special jury prize, best screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for new young actor or actress.

Meanwhile, Palme d’Or-winning French director Julia Ducournau (“Titane”), who was back in Cannes this year with “Alpha,...

Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and US producer and writer Joslyn Barnes of Louveture Films are among the among the jurors for the 2025 Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16).

Reygadas’ films include Cannes competition titles Silent Life and Battle In Heaven, while Barnes’ work as a producer includes Oscar-nominated documentaries Strong Island and Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, and she also co-wrote 2024 awards contender Nickel Boys.

Joining them on the festival’s international competition jury are Swiss actor Ursina Lardi, best known for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon; and the Netherlands’ Renée Soutendijk, who won Locarno...

New York-based indie producer Joslyn Barnes (“Nickel Boys”), Mexican multi-hyphenate Carlos Reygadas (“Our Time”) and Swiss stage-and-screen actor Ursina Lardi (“The White Ribbon”) have been set as members of the upcoming Locarno Film Festival’s main jury.

As previously announced, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will preside over the Swiss indie festival’s competition panel. The jury also includes Dutch actor Renée Soutendijk, winner of the event’s female actor prize in 2023 for her role in Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams.”

Locarno titles in the Cineasti del Presente competition, dedicated to emerging directors at their first or second feature, will be judged by Indonesian actor Asmara Abigail, known to Locarno audiences for her performance in Malaysian director Ming Jin Woo’s “Stone Turtle” (2022); La Frances Hui, who is the curator of film at New York’s MoMA and co-chair of the museum’s New Directors/New Films festival; and Indian actor Kani Kusruti,...

The 70th David di Donatello Awards, held at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, marked a pivotal moment for Italian cinema as women filmmakers emerged at the forefront of the country’s most prestigious film honors. Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio dominated the evening, winning seven awards, while major honors were also claimed by Valeria Golino and Margherita Vicario, signaling a broad shift in creative leadership and recognition.

Delpero’s wartime drama, set in 1944 in an isolated Alpine village, earned the top prizes: Best Film and Best Director. She became the first woman to receive the directing award in the seven-decade history of the event. Only two women had previously taken the Best Film category. Vermiglio also collected awards for Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound, Casting, and Production. These achievements reflect both the artistic ambition of the film and its technical command across multiple disciplines.

The narrative of Vermiglio follows the disruption caused by...

A collection of this year’s David-nominated short films is now available on Mubi.Italian cinema never changes. Italian cinema speaks to no one. Italian cinema is dead. But are we sure about that?For the new season of the Mubi Podcast Italian Voices of Today, created in collaboration with the David di Donatello Awards, we want to explore five key moments that marked a clear “before” and “after” in our cinema, moments that prove change is happening. We do this through conversations with the 2025 David nominees for Best Short Film, alongside five figures who have already made their mark on Italian cinema.Mattia Carzaniga meets Maura Delpero, director of Vermiglio (2024) , a film that marked a turning point for Italian cinema in recent years: After winning the Silver Lion in Venice, it journeyed around the world, and has now won seven prizes at the 70th David di Donatello Awards, including best film and best director.

Maura Delpero’s Italian WW2 drama Vermiglio won best film at the 70th David Di Donatello awards, Italy’s version of the Oscars, held at Rome’s historic Cinecittà film studio on Wednesday night. Delpero also took best directing honors en route to a 7-trophy sweep.

The film, which had its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival last year, beat out the two award frontrunners, Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, a sumptuous, occasionally surreal tribute to his hometown of Naples, and Andrea Segre’s The Great Ambition, a political biopic about Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, which lead the pack going into the David awards with 15 nominations each. Parthenope went away empty-handed, but The Great Ambition took two awards: Best actor for Elio Germano, who play Berlinguer, and best editing for Jacopo Quadri.

Tecla Insolia won best actress for her starring role in Nicolangelo Gelormini’s Sicilian...

Women dominated Italy’s David di Donatello Awards with Maura Delpero’s Venice Silver Lion winner “Vermiglio” taking top honors and Valeria Golino’s female empowerment drama “The Art of Joy” and Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut “Gloria!” also scoring multiple statuettes.

“Vermiglio,” which is set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters, was the night’s big winner taking best picture, best director, screenplay, producer, cinematography, sound and the David’s newly introduced casting category.

Delpero, who is the first woman to win the best director David in the 70-year history of the awards – and only the third female filmmaker to win best film – underlined the anti-war aspect of “Vermiglio”

“When I thought about writing it, someone asked me if it wasn’t anachronistic to talk about war,” she said.

“Unfortunately,...

Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio took home Best Film and Director at the 70th edition of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday evening, in an historic win for a female director.

Delpero is the first woman to win the David di Donatello Best Director prize in the history of the awards, and only the third female filmmaker to win Best Film.

The film picked up seven David di Donatellos in total which also included Best Original Screenplay, Casting, Producer, Cinematography and Sound.

Set in a remote mountain village in 1944, Vermiglio revolves around a family whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a deserted soldier. The feature world premiered in Venice where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and went on to be Italy’s 2025 Oscars submission.

It was an historically strong night for female directors.

Other big winners included Italian actress and singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario who won Best First Film,...

Timothée Chalamet underlined the impact of Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” on his career as he received Italy’s David Award for Cinematic Excellence during the event’s 70th edition on Wednesday evening at Rome’s Cinecittá studios.

“Luca is probably the most important person in my career,” said Chalamet, who attended Italy’s top film award show with girlfriend Kylie Jenner — marking the first time they’ve walked a red carpet together despite being linked for two years — and his father Marc Chalamet. When Chalamet earned his first best actor nomination in 2017 for Guadagnino’s “Call Me” at 22, he was the third-youngest nominee ever in that category.

“I started out as a 20-year-old kid from New York who was having a hard time breaking out in the American film industry,” Chalamet said. “My career happened overnight thanks to Luca Guadagnino and the chance he took on...

“Vermiglio” will soon be streaming stateside. Maura Delpero’s Italian epic is set to debut on the Criterion Channel May 20, IndieWire can announce. The film will be later released on Blu-ray & DVD from Janus Contemporaries August 26.

“Vermiglio” is set in a remote Alpine village, where a strict schoolteacher’s (Tommaso Ragno) family is rocked by the appearance of a mysterious Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who is fleeing the front lines of World War II. The family’s three very different daughters each find their lives transformed by the soldier’s presence across one year. Per the official synopsis, as the “four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the teacher, are instantly drawn to each other leading to an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from tragedy, the family will face its own.” Roberta Rovelli, Anna Thaler, and Rachele Potrich also star.

Timothée Chalamet will receive the David for Cinematic Excellence during the 70th edition of the David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s leading film prizes.

The honor will be conferred on May 7 during the awards ceremony, aired live in primetime on national broadcaster Rai 1 from the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The event will be hosted by actor Elena Sofia Ricci and singer Mika. It will also be live on Rai Radio2, hosted by Carolina Di Domenico and Claudio Santamaria.

“Timothée Chalamet’s European origins and American background make him one of the most unpredictable and talented protagonists of international cinema today, capable of being both an auteur performer and a star generating trends and styles,” said Piera Detassis, president and artistic director of the Academy of Italian Cinema.

“The academy is delighted to award him the David for Cinematic Excellence, which is meant to be an acknowledgement of the great...

The producers behind internationally acclaimed titlesThe Girl With The Needle andVermiglio are among those selected for European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Producers On The Move programme, which showcases rising talent and fosters international co-productions.

Agnieszka Wasiak was the Polish co-producer on Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With The Needle through Lava Films, while Italy’s Francesca Andreoli produced Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio via Cinedora.

The 20-strong group will take part in a programme that aims to foster international co-productions, share experiences and create professional networks. The Pre-Festival online programme starts today and runs until April 30, and includes speed meetings,...

Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, the director’s sumptuous, occasionally surreal tribute to his hometown of Naples, and Andrea Segre’s The Great Ambition, a political biopic about Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, are the frontrunners for this year’s David Di Donatello awards, Italy’s version of the Oscars.

Parthenope and The Great Ambition picked up 15 nominations each, including for best film and best director. In the best film category, they will face up against Maura Delpero’s Italian WW2 drama Vermiglio and Valeria Golino and Nicolangelo Gelormini’s L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy), which received 14 nominations each, and the Francesca Comencini-directed drama The Time It Takes, which received four nominations. Other multiple nominees include Margherita Vicario’s debut feature Gloria!, about women musicians at a Church-run establishment in early-1800s Italy, which scored nine nominations, and Francesco Costabile’s crime thriller Familia, with eight.

In the best international film category,...

Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope and Andrea Segre’s The Great Ambition have taken the lead at the nomination stage for Italy’s upcoming 70th David di Donatello awards.

The titles have secured 15 nominations each including for best film and director.

Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio and Valeria Golino and Nicolangelo Gelormini’s The Art Of Joy received 14 nominations each, followed by Gloria! and Familia with nine and eight nominations respectively.

Sorrentino’s Parthenope, following a woman from her birth in 1950 to the current day against the backdrop of Naples, world premiered in Cannes.

Biopic The Great Ambition stars Elio Germano as 1970s and 1980s left-wing political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who nearly led the Communist party into power.

Vermiglio world premiered in Venice where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and went on to be Italy’s 2025 Oscars submission. Set in a remote mountain village in 1944, the drama revolves around...

Sideshow and Janus Films have unveiled a five U.S. cities tour for Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia later this month.

After opening the film at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center in New York and the Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles on March 21, the film head to Boston, Chicago and more cities on March 28 and San Francisco on April 4.

Misericordia premiered at the Cannes Premiere section in 2024, and has since screened at Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI.

The film was nominated for eight César Awards and was one of three films considered for the French Oscar entry.

Félix Kysyl stars as a seemingly benign, out-of-work baker who drifts back to his small hometown after the death of his beloved former boss.

Staying on after the funeral, he begins to insinuate himself into his late mentor’s family, living with his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot), in...

Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten’s feature documentary A Want In Her scooped the audience award at the 23rd Dublin International Film Festival (Diff) on Sunday, March 2.

The film follows the filmmaker on a search for her missing mother, also won the documentary award. It premiered at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024.

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“As is true of many of the most important things in life, I didn’t know if this film would work,” said Carten. “Many great people had to take a risk for this film to exist. So it is such a delight to have...

Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced winners for the 2025 Dorian Awards, and it’s great news for genre fare like The Substance, Wicked, and I Saw the TV Glow.

Mubi’s body-horror movie The Substance won a leading five trophies, including Film of the Year, Demi Moore (Best Lead Performance), and Coralie Fargeat (Best Director), while Universal’s film adaptation of the Wicked musical claimed honors for Ariana Grande (Best Supporting Performance), Cynthia Erivo (Lgbtqia+ Film Trailblazer), and Jonathan Bailey (Rising Star).

Other movies with multiple victories were I Saw the TV Glow (LGBTQ Film of the Year and Jane Schoenbrun for LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year), Will & Harper (Documentary of the Year and LGBTQ Documentary of the Year), and Challengers (Justin Kuritzkes for Screenplay of the Year and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Film Music of the Year).

In addition to her acting triumph, Moore...

Exclusive: Sideshow and Janus Films will release The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Academy Award nominee Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt on Friday, April 18 in New York and Los Angeles.

It will expand nationwide on Friday, April 25. See the latest teaser here.

The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition and subsequently played at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

Producers of the film are Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent. It is an Sbs, Prospero Pictures & Saint Laurent Productions Film with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Eurimages, Ontario Creates in association with Sphere Films, Crave & CBC Films with the support of Canal +, Ocs & the Centre National du Cinema et de L’image Animée.

Karsh (Cassel) is a prominent businessman.

As expected, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez (Netflix) landed a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination today, one of a leading, and record-setting 13 overall for a film not in English. Other mentions for the audacious musical melodrama include Best Picture, Director, Actress and more.

With so many inclusions elsewhere, it’s possible that votes are split and Emilia Pérez does not convert to a win in the International race with folks opting to honor another deserving picture. But, if it does win, it would be the first time that a selection from France scores an Academy Award in the International category since Régis Wargnier’s Indochine in 1993.

The other titles in the International Oscar field doing crossover duty include Walter Salles’ lauded and so-called “comeback” movie, I’m Still Here from Brazil where it has done terrific box office for Sony. The movie also scored a Best Picture nomination as well...

The title of Maura Delpero’s second feature refers to a small Italian Alpine village. There is talk of war amongst the community, but at first it’s hard to place which war is being referred to. It’s actually 1944 and the war has taken most of the young men away, but this community seems entrenched in a distant past. The women are all kitted out in long skirts, there are few signs of electricity or motorised transport, the schoolchildren recite the Lord’s prayer in Latin, illiteracy among the adults reigns.

One of the village elders is Cesare Graziadei (Tommaso Ragno) and the story revolves around him and his increasingly large family. The film opens with the simplicity of the family’s rigorous morning routine, with chores being performed, milk going from cow to cup and each member getting an equal share. A sense of complete togetherness is implied.

Sideshow and Janus Films have picked up all North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest flick Cloud.

Cloud debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival before playing Tokyo and Beyond Fest. Sideshow and Janus Films have set the film for a summer 2025 theatrical release.

Starring Masaki Suda, the film is a thriller that follows a young man named Yoshii who resells goods online and ends up triggering a series of mysterious events, blurring the boundaries between the online and offline worlds.

The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with the Nikkatsu Corporation. Producers are Yumi Arakawa, Yuki Nishimiya, and Nobuhiro Iizuka. The film was produced by Nikkatsu and Django Film Corporation.

“Cloud is a wildly entertaining film about our anonymous digital existence that transforms itself into a vengeance-driven action flick that only Kiyoshi Kurosawa could have dreamed up,” Sideshow and Janus Films said in a statement.

Disney’sBob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown,opens wide in around 700 sites across the UK and Ireland this weekend.

Timothee Chalamet plays the US musician from 1961, when the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door singer was an unknown 19-year-old, freshly landed in New York from Minnesota. James Mangold directs the Searchlight title, with Elle Fanning and Edward Norton also in the cast.

Music biopics have – for the most part – performed robustly at the UK-Ireland box office of late. Studiocanal’s Amy Winehouse film Back To Black opened to £2.7m in April of last year and finished on £12.3m. Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love...

The U.K. and Ireland box office saw Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” stay at the top in its fourth week, roaring to £2.2 million ($2.6 million) over the weekend and bringing its cumulative total to £24 million ($29.2 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

In second place, Universal’s “Nosferatu” earned $2.4 million in its second weekend, with a total of $10.7 million. Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” raced into third with $1.8 million in its third weekend, pushing its total earnings to $25.4 million.

Studiocanal’s “We Live In Time” secured the fourth spot, adding $1.6 million to its total of $6.3 million. Debuting in fifth was Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Babygirl,” opening to $1.3 million. Disney launched another new entry with “A Real Pain,” landing in sixth place. The drama earned $1.2 million in its debut weekend.

In seventh place, Universal’s musical blockbuster “Wicked” continued its stellar run, adding $1.07 million in its eighth weekend. With a cumulative total of $71.4 million,...

Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Peréz may be the heavy favorite to win the best international film competition at the upcoming Academy Awards.

But that didn’t stop a host of emerging and established directors from around the world gathering at the Palm Springs Festival Festival to win over Academy voters by touting their audacious storytelling and indie film feats. Many of the filmmakers brought movies that reckon with their past, as with Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, in which Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres plays a mother of five children whose family is torn apart when the father goes missing under Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Salles told one of two Oscar best international filmmaker panels at Palm Springs that he based his family drama on a book written by a childhood friend, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, whose family and home he often visited and which played a pivotal part...

Walter Salles’ Brazilian drama “I’m Still Here” was named the best of the 35 Oscar-contending international films at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival, Psiff announced on Sunday.

The award given out by a jury from the international film critics association Fipresci was open to 35 of the 85 eligible films in the category, including all 15 of the Oscars shortlisted titles. “I’m Still Here” won in a field that also included Golden Globes winner “Emilia Pérez,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “Flow,” “Vermiglio,” “Kneecap” and others.

Italy’s “Vermiglio” won the award for screenplay, while acting awards went to Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez” and the trio of Irish hip-hop musicians Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Provái for “Kneecap.”

The documentary award was open to 10 nonfiction films that screened at the festival. The Palestinian/Israeli film “No Other Land,” was the only eligible film that also made the Oscars Best Documentary Feature shortlist.

A24’s The Brutalist busted out in limited expansion this weekend with close to $1.39 million on just 68 screens, a $20.4k per screen average, excellent for a period film with a three hour and 35-minute run time about a Hungarian architect in 1950s Doylestown, Pa. It won multiple Golden Globes — for Best Picture – Drama, Best Actor for Adrien Brody and Best Director — last Sunday.

This is another fine indie weekend as Hard Truths by iconic filmmaker Mike Leigh saw $165k at 22 theaters, a strong opening, despite severe weather in the south and the ongoing fire crisis in LA.

The Last Showgirl rounded out the top 10 on its debut weekend.

Holdovers Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and Babygirl are at nos. 4, 6 and 8 respectively.

Indie distributors are now wondering if arthouses that gravitated to wide-release studios films since Covid may want to rethink.

The Brutalist: Another example of A24’s creative thinking included...

The 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival has revealed this year’s juried award winners. Psiff took place from Jan. 2-13, 2025, and screened 165 films from over 71 countries, including 68 premieres. The line-up includes 35 of the International Feature Film Oscar Submissions along with Talking Pictures, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, Queer Cinema, True Stories, World Cinema Now and more.

Previously announced winners include the Desert Views Award, Young Cineastes Award and Bridging the Borders Award. The Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature will be announced on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 12.

The Fipresci jury members were Canadian film critic Brian D. Johnson, Brazilian film critic Marcelo Janot and Italian film critic and Paola Caseslla. This special jury reviewed 35 of the official submissions for the Academy Awards International Feature Film category that were selected to screen at this year’s festival.

See the full winners list below.

Following Fernanda Torres’ surprise Golden Globe win last Sunday, Walter Salles’ political bio-drama “I’m Still Here” is picking up steam going into Oscars voting as it has now also received the Fipresci Prize for Best International Feature Film at the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Salles’ film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir of the same name and follows a mother and activist as she comes to terms with the forced disappearance of her husband, a dissident politician fighting against the dictatorship in Brazil at the time.

Of the film, the Palm Springs jury said in a statement, “To ‘I’m Still Here,’ for conveying the horror of encroaching dictatorship from the intimate perspective of a mother defending not just her family of five, but her dignity. Evoking the severity of the violence without resorting to melodrama, director Walter Salles captures a critical moment of history in scrupulous and compelling detail.

From long-awaited sequels like “Gladiator II” to gritty historical dramas like “Blitz,” Variety’s FYC Fest: The Shortlist provides a lens into the artistic subtleties of filmmaking through dynamic conversations with the creatives behind the camera.

Led by the magazine’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, chief film critic Peter Debruge and senior entertainment technology & crafts editor Carolyn Giardina, these conversations illuminate behind-the-scenes insights on directing, visual effects, music composition and other craft elements in films such as “Gladiator II,” “Vermiglio,” “Room Taken” and “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.”

‘Gladiator II’ Conversation With Composer Harry Gregson-Williams

“Gladiator 2” composer Harry Gregson-Williams wrote over 100 minutes of music for the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 200 epic, “Gladiator.”

In approaching the film’s sequel, Gregson-Williams and Scott early conversations centered around Paul Mescal’s Lucius. “We talked about what we might do with him and how we might help tell the...

Vue has hired Eve Gabereau, the founder and former CEO of Modern Films, to run its newly established distribution arm, Vue Lumière.

“I’m delighted to be joining Vue and to be part of launching Vue Lumière at such an exciting time for both Vue and the industry,” Gabereau said of her appointment. “I am looking forward to bringing more stories to audiences across the UK and Europe.”

Gabereau joined the company on January 6 and reports to Turton, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Vue.

Gabereau founded and led Modern Films, a London-based distribution, production, and digital exhibition company. Established in 2017 with the release of Manifesto starring Cate Blanchett, Modern Films pics include Oscar-winning Drive My Car and this year’s awards contenders: Vermiglio (Venice Silver Lion winner) and the stop-motion animation Memoir of a Snail. Before this, Gabereau co-founded Soda Pictures/ Thunderbird Releasing, an independent distribution company for UK and Ireland...

With Oscar voting starting today, double Oscar-winner Jane Campion is championing young Italian director Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” Italy’s contender in the international film category.

The intimate period drama, set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters, has made Delpero a new international indie darling after “Vermiglio” won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion in September.

Delpero’s sophomore film later segued from Venice to Toronto and a slew of other fests around the world. The director had previously made a splash with “Maternal” which takes place in an Argentinian refuge for teenage mothers run by nuns.

“Vermiglio,” which after Venice sold widely around the world, was released in the U.S. on Dec. 25 by Sideshow and Janus Films.

Below is the full text of Campion’s letter praising “Vermiglio” to audiences,...

Goteborg Film Festival has unveiled the programme for its 48th edition, with 22 feature world premieres and four feature competition sections.

World premiere titles include Asier Urbieta’s Spanish thriller Pheasant Island in the international competition section. The debut feature from Spanish filmmaker Urbieta sees a young Basque couple’s relationship put to the test when a dead body is found on the mysterious titular island.

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It is one of 18 films in the international competition, alongside 2024 festival favourites Santosh, To A Land Unknown and All We Imagine As Light.

The nine-strong Nordic competition includes three world premieres.

Awards season has kicked off with a bang for 2025 with the arrival of the winners for the year’s Golden Globe Awards.

Hollywood congregated in force at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to see the biggest winners on the film stage, including ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Perez’. ‘The Brutalist’ won for best film (drama), best actor (drama), and best director. In contrast, Emilia Perez won Best Film (Comedy/Musical), Best Non-English Film, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Song.

Here’s the full list of winners and nominees:

Also in news – BAFTA announces longlist of nominees for 2025

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner: “The Brutalist” (A24)

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

“September 5” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Winner: “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“Anora” (Neon)

“Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)

“A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures...

The 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, held on January 5, 2025, at The Beverly Hilton, marked an electrifying start to the awards season. Hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the ceremony celebrated an array of stellar performances and groundbreaking projects across film and television. Glaser, known for her sharp wit, kept the evening lighthearted and inclusive, ensuring the focus remained on the honorees.

The French musical-comedy Emilia Pérez emerged as the evening’s biggest winner, sweeping four categories, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Director for Jacques Audiard. Meanwhile, the epic historical drama series Shōgun dominated television, claiming awards for Best Television Series – Drama and individual acting accolades for Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada.

Demi Moore secured her first Golden Globe win for her captivating performance in The Substance, while Adrien Brody took home Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for The Brutalist. Other notable victories included Flow,...

Zoe Saldaña accepts the award for Female Supporting Actor – Motion Picture at the 2025 Golden Globes

Emilia Pérez went into the 82nd Annual Golden Globes with the most film nominations (10), and The Bear topped the television side with five nominations. When the sometimes cringe-worthy, occasionally funny (Nikki Glaser killed it), and mostly uncomfortable ceremony was over, Emilia Pérez emerged as the top film winner while Shōgun was the most-awarded television series.

The Golden Globes voters spread the wins around, with films including The Brutalist, Conclave, A Real Pain, A Different Man, The Substance, I’m Still Here, and Flow going home with trophies. Television wins went to Baby Reindeer, Hacks, The Bear, The Penguin, and True Detective: Night Country.

The 2025 Golden Globes aired live on CBS on Sunday, January 5th.

2025 Golden Globes Nominees and Winners

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner: The Brutalist (A24)

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)

Conclave (Focus Features)

Dune...

The 82nd Golden Globe Awards have wrapped and the complete 2025 Golden Globes winners list has been revealed. We now know just how much momentum the leading films have going into the rest of Oscar season, what to keep an eye on over the summer in the lead-up to the Emmys, and that host Nikki Glaser may well become one of Hollywood’s go-to emcees.

“Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set Netflix musical, won the most prizes of any film with four: Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Non-English Language Film, Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, and Best Original Song “El Mal.” There’s still a full two months of awards season left, but the stage sure seems set for “Emilia Pérez” to be going head to head with “The Brutalist” for Best Picture at the Oscars. Brady Corbet’s multi-hour immigrant drama won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama,...

The 82nd Golden Globes ceremony took place at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 5), whenThe Brutalist andEmilia Pérez won the top film awards.

All 2025 Golden Globes winners appear below in bold:

Film

Best picture - drama

The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Nickel Boys September 5

Best picture - musical or comedy

Anora Challengers Emilia Pérez A Real Pain The Substance Wicked

Best director

Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez Sean Baker - Anora Edward Berger - Conclave Brady Corbet - The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat - The Substance Payal Kapadia - All We Imagine as Light

Best screenplay...

And the Golden Globes are a wrap. Overall, it was a fast-paced show, with Emilia Pérez, Shogun, Hacks and The Brutalist the night’s big winners. There were some nice surprises, with Sebastian Stan getting an unexpected nod for A Different Man and Demi Moore winning for The Substance. Otherwise, efficiency was the philosophy of the night, although outside of Vin Diesel’s pointed “Hey Dwayne,” there weren’t many memorable moments, with host Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue playing fairly safe outside of one zinger aimed at Ben Affleck that got some decent laughs. After host Jo Koy got into some hot water for a few very mild jokes last year, Glaser avoided anything too controversial. Political jokes were kept to a minimum (outside of a mild dig at Rfk Jr), with even P Diddy only getting the mildest treatment. If anyone was expecting a repeat of her Roast of Tom Brady jokes,...

There were so many shocking surprise wins at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and we have the full winners list right here!

The awards show honored the best in film and television on Sunday (January 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Shogun was the big winner in the television categories, taking home all four awards it was nominated for this year.

The Brutalist and Emilia Perez were among the big winners in the movie categories!

Make sure to check out our Best Dressed list and see a roundup of every single celebrity who stepped out on the red carpet.

Head inside to check out the full winners list from the Golden Globes…

Keep scrolling to see the full winners list from the Golden Globes…

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez – Winner

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Brutalist – Winner...

One of the most lauded films of the year, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez has just scooped the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language.

In accepting the prize, Audiard, speaking through a translator, wished the audience a “Happy New Year, health and nerves of steel — because in 2025 you’ll need it.”

He noted that he never had a sister and said that was perhaps the reason he made this film about sisterhood. “If there were more sisters in the world, it might be a better place.”

Related: Nikki Glaser Strikes Balance Between Roast And Tribute In Golden Globes Opening Monologue: Watch

Audiard went on to thank “all my sisters” including Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Pathé’s Jérome Seydoux, the team at Why Not Productions and “of course Roeg Sutherland, big sister to us all.”

In these troubled times, Audiard continued, “I hope Emilia Pérez will be a beacon...

It’s been a difficult few years for the Golden Globes, but the ceremony is back in the spotlight tonight as awards season shifts into overdrive. Deadline is updating the winners live as they are announced; see the list below.

Kieran Culkin won Male Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in Searchlight’s A Real Pain. Zoe Saldaña took the first award of the night — and the first of Globe her career — Female Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for Netflix’s Emilia Pérez.

Jean Smart, star of Max’s Hacks, scored the night’s first TV win for Female Actor in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy. It’s Smart’s second Golden Globe for the role, which also has earned her three Emmys. Hiroyuki Sanada later nabbed Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

for FX’s Shōgun. He won a...

“Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Shōgun” were the big winners at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, jump-starting a busy and competitive awards season just five days into the new year.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” the Spanish-language musical from France that’s set in Mexico, won four awards from its Globes-leading 10 nominations, including best musical-comedy film, best song, best international film, and best supporting actress for an emotional Zoe Saldaña.

“The Brutalist,” a three-and-a-half hour epic about an architect in 1950s Pennsylvania, won best drama, best actor for Adrien Brody and best director for former actor Brady Corbet. In a surprise win, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres took home best actress in a drama for Walter Sallas’ “I’m Still Here” 26 years after her mother Fernanda Montenegro won the same award for Sallas’ “Central Station.” (Montenegro also has a cameo in the film.)

Kieran Culkin scooped up the award for best...

As awards season heats up, From Ground Zero, Palestine’s Oscar entry that’s on the shortlist for Best International Feature, debuts this weekend at about 70 AMC locations in top 20 markets and select arthouses including the Quad in New York and Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles.

The documentary from Watermelon Pictures is a series of 22 video diaries by Palestinian filmmakers commissioned and assembled by Gaza native Rashid Masharawi that show what it’s like on the ground in Gaza trying to survive and keep families safe, fed and sheltered amid Israeli bombardments. Mostly shying away from politics, From Ground Zero is a view of life in hellish conditions that also finds hope in small moments of normalcy. Masharawi, who currently lives in France, set up a fund early in the Israel-Hamas war to support filmmaking in Gaza.

Watermelon and parent MPI Media took a risk opening soon after Oscar shortlists were unveiled,...

We’re days away from the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and the show will mark the official beginning of awards season this year!

The annual event honors the best in film and television, so you can expect your favorite stars from both mediums to be in attendance.

This year, Emilia Perez received the most film award nominations with 10 total, while The Bear leads the TV nominations with 5.

Nikki Glaser is hosting the show, which airs live on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the U.S. as well. Make sure to tune in on Sunday (January 5) at 8/7c!

So, who do we think will win?

Keep reading to find out more…

Keep scrolling to see our winner predictions in every category…

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Anora

Challengers

Emilia Pérez

A Real Pain

The Substance

Wicked – Predicted Winner

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave – Predicted Winner...

The Golden Globes are just around the corner.

In other words, Hollywood will be rolling out red carpets all over town before, during and after the big show on Sunday.

Here, Variety presents the ultimate Golden Globes party guide.

Friday, Jan. 3

Golden Gala: A Celebration of Excellence

Viola Davis receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award from Meryl Streep and Ted Danson is presented with the Carol Burnett Award by his wife Mary Steenburgen.

Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills

7-9 p.m.

Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards

Honorees include Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet (Chairman’s Award), Kieran Culkin, Colman Domingo, Ariana Grande (Rising Star Award), Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman (International Star Award), Mikey Madison, Denis Villeneuve (Visionary Award), “Conclave” (Ensemble Performance Award) presented to Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Lucian Msamati, “Emilia Pérez” (Vanguard Award) presented to director Jacques Audiard and Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña,...