#International Cinema

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Neon Adds To Cannes Competition Coffers With Na Hong-Jin’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Hope’ — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Neon has nabbed its fifth film in the Cannes Competition with Na Hong-Jin’s Hope. Neon has taken North American and English-language rights to the next film by the The Wailing director. Neon is said t...

  Related: #Film Distribution, #Film Festivals
• 🇺🇸 Neon Buys Korean Thriller ‘Hope,’ Starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, Ahead of Cannes Premiere (EXCLUSIVE) — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  “Hope,” a sci-fi thriller from Korean auteur Na Hong-jin, has sold to Neon ahead of its Cannes Film Festival premiere. According to the logline, “Hope” follows a police officer who is alerted to the n...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Distribution
• 🇺🇸 Vietnam Comedy ‘Zero Meets Hero’ Gets Global Push From Mockingbird Pictures (EXCLUSIVE) — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Vietnamese distributor Mockingbird Pictures has boarded “Zero Meets Hero,” the latest film from director Huynh Lap, and will present the title to international buyers at the Beijing International Film...

  Related: #Film Distribution, #Cultural Export
• 🇺🇸 Cannes’ Nepalese Thriller ‘Elephants in the Fog’ Boarded by Best Friend Forever (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  “Elephants in the Fog,” a Nepalese thriller set to bow at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, has been boarded by Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever. “Elephants in...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Film Festivals
• 🇺🇸 Korean Auteur Na Hong-jin’s Long-Gestating Thriller ‘Hope,’ Starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, Headed to Cannes — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A decade in the making, the director's follow-up to his cult supernatural thriller 'The Wailing' pairs Korean and Hollywood stars — and reportedly carries the biggest budget ever committed to a Korean...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Cultural Production
• 🇺🇸 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Cactus Pears’ Sets U.K. and Ireland Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  “Cactus Pears” (Sabar Bonda), the Marathi-language drama that made history at Sundance as the first Indian fiction feature to win the World Cinema Dramatic grand jury prize, will open in U.K. and Irel...

  Related: #Film Distribution, #Cultural Achievement
• 🇺🇸 Anonymous Content Signs Sundance-Winning ‘Hold Onto Me’ Director Myrsini Aristidou — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Anonymous Content has signed Cypriot filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou for representation. Aristidou comes to Anonymous after premiering her debut feature, Hold Onto M...

  Related: #Film Industry, #Career Milestones
• 🇺🇸 Spanish Queer Drama ’Maspalomas’ Wins Top Prize at Sonoma Film Festival as Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers’ Takes Audience Award — 29/03/2026 [USA]

  The 29th Sonoma Intl. Film Festival wrapped March 29 with Spanish film “Maspalomas” winning the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature. In a statement, the jury noted that directors Aitor Arregi ...

  Related: #LGBTQ+ Representation, #Film Festival Culture, #Awards Recognition
• 🇺🇸 New Indies Pop With Rose Byrne In ‘Tow’, Sergei Loznitsa’s Latest, Bestseller Kids Franchise, Big Bollywood Sequel & ‘Dead Lover’ In Smell-O-Vision — Specialty Preview — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Dhurandhar is making a Bollywood splash, Rose Byrne is back in Tow. Viva Films looks to family audiences with animated The Pout-Pout Fish. And the specialty market is livelier than it’s been in weeks ...

  Related: #Indie Films
• 🇺🇸 Chinese Hit Satire ‘Johnny Keep Walking!’ to Get French Remake Through Master Movies (EXCLUSIVE) — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  French production company Master Movies has acquired the French remake rights for the 2023 Chinese comedy feature “Johnny Keep Walking!” The deal was struck with Chinese film company Tiger Pictures En...

  Related: #Film Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Vietnam Box Office Sensation ‘Bunny!!’ Lands International Theatrical Release Via 3388 Films (EXCLUSIVE) — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Specialty distributor 3388 Films has acquired international rights to “Bunny!!,” the latest hit from Vietnamese filmmaker and actor Tran Thanh. It will roll the title out across more than a dozen coun...

  Related: #Film Distribution
• 🇺🇸 Cannes 2026 Predictions: What’s In The International Mix? — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The Cannes Film Festival was part of the awards season conversation once again this year having world premiered Best International Feature Film winner Sentimental Value as well as rival nominees It Wa...

  Related: #Film Festival
• 🇺🇸 Málaga Festival: ‘The Garden We Dreamed,’ ‘I Won’t Die For Love,’ ‘Iván and Hadoum’ Sweep Top Prizes — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Hailed by Variety as a standout at this year’s Panorama program at Berlin, Joaquín del Paso’s “The Garden We Dreamed” took best picture, direction, cinematography (Gökhan Tiryaki) at the Malaga Festiv...

  Related: #Film Awards, #Festival Culture
• 🇺🇸 ‘Desert Warrior’ Trailer: Long-Delayed Saudi Epic Will Finally Hit U.S. Screens On April 26 — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Vertical have unveiled the first trailer for Rupert Wyatt’s Saudi Arabia shot epic Desert Warrior and announced it will hit U.S. screens on April 26 some five years after the production was first unve...

  Related: #Film Release
• 🇺🇸 Berlinale Punk Dramedy ‘Matapanki’ Gets North American Deal For Italy’s Minerva — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to Matapanki, the debut feature from Chilean filmmaker Diego “Mapache” Fuentes. The film recently had its European premiere in the Gener...

  Related: #Film Distribution
• 🇺🇸 Tokyo Film Festival, TIFFCOM 2026 Dates Set — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The 39th edition of Asia's biggest film event will once again take place in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-MarunouchiGinza area of Japan's capital.

  Related: #Film Festivals, #Cultural Events
• 🇺🇸 Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Look Back’ Acquired by Gkids for North America, U.K. and Ireland Distribution — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Gkids has acquired the U.S., Canadian, U.K. and Ireland distribution rights to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new feature “Look Back.” Adapted by Kore-eda, the project marks the first live-action version of Fuji...

  Related: #Film Distribution, #Animation
• 🇺🇸 Swiss Period Drama ‘Silent Rebellion’ Takes Top Honors at Joburg Film Festival — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Swiss director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s “Silent Rebellion,” a period drama that follows a rape survivor’s defiant journey of self-discovery, won the top prize at the 8th Joburg Film Festival on Saturday. ...

  Related: #Film Awards
• 🇺🇸 Iranian Protagonist Of Oscar-Nominated Doc ‘Cutting Through Rocks’ Will Not Make It To Academy Awards — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Sara Shahverdi, the protagonist of Iranian Oscar-nominated documentary Cutting Through Rocks, will not make it to the Academy Awards ceremony on March 15, the filmmakers have announced. Co-directors o...

  Related: #Cultural Exchange, #Geopolitical Impact
• 🇺🇸 Vietnamese Family Drama ‘Scent of Pho’ Sets International Theatrical Release With 3388 Films, Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Specialty distributor 3388 Films has dated Vietnamese family dramedy “Scent of Pho” (“Mùi Phở”) for an international theatrical bow beginning March 13. The film, which marks the directorial debut of V...

  Related: #Cultural Representation, #Film Distribution
• 🇺🇸 ‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Joachim Trier on Oscar-Contending ‘Sentimental Value,’ His Oslo Trilogy and Why “Tenderness Is the New Punk” — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  The latest film from the Danish-Norwegian, who recorded this episode in front of film students at Chapman University, is nominated for nine Oscars, more than all but three other non-English-language f...

  Related: #Filmmaking Achievement, #Awards Recognition
• 🇺🇸 Césars 2026 Updating Live: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best International Film — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  The 51st edition of France’s top Césars awards is getting underway in the storied L’Olympia concert hall in central Paris this evening and Deadline is following the event live. In early prizes, Paul T...

  Related: #Film Awards, #French Culture
• 🇺🇸 France’s 2026 Cesar Awards Announced (Updating Live) — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  The Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars and BAFTA’s, is unfolding this evening at the Olympia theater in Paris. This 51st edition could have a Hollywood flavor with Richard Linklater’s “No...

  Related: #Film Awards, #Cultural Recognition
• 🇺🇸 Park Chan-Wook Named As 2026 Cannes Jury President — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  South Korean Old Boy and No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook has been named as president of the jury for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, running from May 12 to May 23.   The director, screenwriter ...

  Related: #Cultural Recognition, #Film Festival Leadership
• 🇺🇸 Park Chan-Wook to Preside Over 79th Cannes Film Festival Jury — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The celebrated South Korean director, screenwriter and producer will succeed French actor Juliette Binoche, w...

  Related: #Film Festivals, #Cultural Representation
• 🇺🇸 On A Night Of BAFTA Surprises, Was ‘Boong’ The Biggest? — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  While Robert Aramayo’s BAFTA Best Actor win for I, Swear surprised many, there was discussion before the awards that it could come to pass. Marty Supreme pitching a record-equalling shutout was anothe...

  Related: #Film Awards, #Upsets
• 🇺🇸 ’One Battle After Another’ wins best film at the BAFTAs — 22/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Film Awards, #Industry Recognition
• 🇺🇸 2026 BAFTA Awards Winners List (Updating Live) — 22/02/2026 [USA]

  The biggest night in British film is often a key predictor of major Oscar races.

  Related: #Film Awards, #British Film Industry
• 🇺🇸 İlker Catak’s ‘Yellow Letters’ Wins Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival: Full List of Awards — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Berlin: The 76th Berlinale concludes with an awards ceremony that reveals all the winners from president Wim Wenders' competition jury.

  Related: #Film Awards, #Political Controversy, #Artistic Achievement
• 🇺🇸 ‘Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars’ Wins Fipresci Honor, ‘Moscas’ Wows Ecumenical Jury — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  The independent juries picked their favorite titles from across every section of the 2026 Berlinale.

  Related: #Film Awards, #Festival Highlights