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In this instalment of Screen’s Cannes Close-Up interview series, Spanish documentary producer Beli Martinez - of Filmika Galaika - shares her aims for the festival, the best place to get a coffee and why patience is the key to a good Cannes.

Martinez is at the festival looking for co-producers on several documentary projects including Carla Andrada’s The Mountain On My Wall, Carlos Casa Krakatoa and Eloy Enciso’s Endless Prison.

“I’m trying to find other producers with the same view and understanding of cinema and the process of cinema,” she says.

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The U.S. lineup at Mubi next month has been unveiled, featuring films by Claude Chabrol, Paulo Rocha, Ulrich Köhler, and more. Notable new releases include Pedro Costa’s striking Locarno winner Vitalina Varela as well as the Julia Fox-led Pvt Chat (check out our extensive interview with director Ben Hozie here.).

As part of their series Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors, the Martin Scorsese favorite Wake in Fright joins Mubi, along with Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia, Nicolas Winding Refn’s underseen Fear X, and Ben Wheatley’s trippy A Field in England.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

October 1 | Alléluia | Fabrice Du Welz | Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors

October 2 | Styx | Wolfgang Fischer

October 3 | The Green Years | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 4 | Change of Life | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 5 | Your Day Is My Night | Lynne Sachs

October 6 | Hey, You!

Lab open to global filmmakers. Prior projects include 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week entry Land Of Ashes.

Mexican project lab Catapulta, whose prior submissions include Yulene Olaizola’s 2020 Venice selection Tragic Jungle, has set March 24-27 for its online third edition during the 11th Ficunam film festival in Mexico City.

Whereas Catapulta only showcased films in post-production in its first two outings, the lab is expanding this year to encompass development projects with a $10,000 award on offer for the winner.

Catapulta First Cut will select up to six fiction, animation or documentary features in the editing or post-production stage.

The section will award a $5,000 prize,...

On the Names of the Goats, Las facultades, Serpentarius and Bait also received awards at the Galician gathering. The successful fourth edition of Novos Cinemas (Pontevedra International Film Festival) was held in Pontevedra, Spain, from 10 to 15 December. The gathering founded by producer and screenwriter Daniel Froiz, producer Suso Novás and filmmaker Ángel Santos (The High Pressures) was opened last Tuesday, in Pontevedra’s Teatro Principal, with a showing of Arima by Galician director Jaione Camborda. The list of winners of the fourth edition of Novos Cinemas was announced this Sunday, moments before closing the festival with Endless Night by Galician director Eloy Enciso. The International Jury, made up of Lucero Garzón, Misha Bies Golas and Carlos Reviriego, bestowed the Novos Cinemas Award for Best Film in the Official Section to Just Don't Think I'll Scream by French director Frank Beauvais. The Latexos Jury,...

The Portuguese event will showcase 303 films from 48 countries across its 11 sections, and feature a rich industry section with numerous projects at various stages of development. The 17th Doclisboa International Film Festival (17-27 September) will officially open with the Locarno competition title Endless Night by Eloy Enciso. This choice would certainly suggest that the "Doc" in the festival's name should be taken with a pinch of salt. Doclisboa is known as one of those European festivals where fact and fiction are always intertwined, and the programme concept does not vary between the forms – nor does it pay much heed to running times, as all sections include pictures of all lengths. In the International Competition, there are 14 films, out of which four will be having their world premieres in Lisbon: Christian Haardt's A New Environment: Heinrich Klotz on Architecture and New Media (Germany), Thunska Pansittivorakul's Santikhiri Sonata...

Outside of Pedro Costa and Ted Fendt, it’s been hard to detect the aesthetic influence of radical filmmaking duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet on contemporary cinema. But the addition of Eloy Enciso’s Endless Night to the rather small canon frankly makes sense for the moment we’re in, politically speaking. As an attempt to reckon with a lingering sense of fascist takeover in both Europe and North America today, the film takes us to Galicia, Spain during the Franco regime, as the wandering Anxo (Misha Bies Golas) returns home amidst turmoil. Taking place over chapters; we see long, talky encounters on public transit, in bars or the countryside between workers, peasants and those in the highest echelons of power. The poor are getting boots to their asses, what else is new?

While there’s no doubt that the text-driven approach is indebted to the beliefs in depicting...

Vitalina VarelaBy its nature, the cinema has the power to make the past the perpetual present: living before us forever is what once was. This is true as much for Cary Grant’s sly grin as it is for the rubble-strewn Berlin of Germany, Year Zero, equally embalmed for later re-animation. Among the most powerful films premiered at the Locarno Film Festival this year were those that made this extraordinary yet intrinsic facet of the art the focus of their resonance, the thrust of their representational politics, and the boldness of their forms.Eloy Enciso’s Endless Night pointedly blurs the line between past and present to evoke the continuity between today’s Spain—economically unstable, politically uneasy, historically blinkered—and Galicia of the Franco dictatorship following the Civil War. In the first of three chapters, we see scenes of dialogs between various people encountered in Galicia as an anonymous...

The Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso has garnered attention for his previous film Arraianos (2012). Now with his new feature, Endless Night, his work continue sto explore the use of texts with non-professional actors to invite the viewer to a dark and mysterious journey through fascism during the post-Civil War years in Spain.We interviewed the writer-director about Endless Night at its world premiere as part of the International Competition at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival.Notebook: Endless Night seems to explore the social and political foundations of fascism. Could you please elaborate on your decision to set the film in the post-Civil War years in Spain?Eloy Enciso: When this project started, back in 2013–14, Spain was going through a deep economical and political crisis. I was myself having a bad time, almost broke and with no job. This situation was all around: in the conversations, in friends and relatives losing their jobs,...

Tiff Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente added several more films in the Gala and Special Presentations sections of the 44th Toronto International Film Festival that runs September 5-15.

Here are the new ones:

Gala Premieres

The Tom Harper-directed Aeronauts will make its Canadian premiere, with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne starring.

The Giuseppe Capotondi-directed Burnt Orange Heresy will make its North American premiere.

Special Presentations

The Kenny Leon-directed American Son makes its world premiere.

The Quentin Dupieux-directed Deerskin ( Le Daim ) makes its international premiere.

The Gregor Jordan-directed Dirt Music makes its world premiere.

The Geetu Mohandas-directed The Elder One makes its world premiere

Guns Akimbo, directed by Jason Lei Howden, makes its world premiere

Human Capital, directed by Marc Meyers, makes its world premiere;

Jungleland, directed by Max Winkler makes its world premiere;

Lucy in the Sky, directed by Noah Hawley, makes its world premiere;

Lyrebird, directed by Dan Friedkin,...

Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso returns to Switzerland’s Locarno Festival after seven years with his third film Longa Noite (“Endless Night”), the only Spanish feature in the main international competition.

Fílmica Galaika, the production company behind it, has just released a trailer – days ahead of its premiere at Locarno.

Accompanied once again by the filmmaker and Dp Mauro Herce, who is also presenting his own film, short “Lonely Rivers,” out of competition at Locarno.

Enciso maintains a filmmaking style already present in prior film “Arraianos” that lies between the hazy lines of fiction and documentary.

A hybrid, as he calls it, with a formal approach that avoids any “stylistic fireworks,” as he recognizes, “Endless Night” frames long, sustained shots that portray a post-Civil War Galicia lying between a narrative filmmaking that draws on literary tradition and one far which is more pictorial and invites the audience to observe.

As in 2012’s “Arraianos,...

Celebrating its 72nd edition this year, the Locarno Film Festival has been the birthplace for the finest in international arthouse cinema and this year’s lineup looks to continue the tradition. Ahead of the festival, running August 7-17, the full slate has been announced.

Top highlights include the world premieres of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela (pictured above), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562, Ben Russell’s Color-blind, Denis Côté’s Wilcox, Fabrice Du Welz’s Adoration, as well as a new 12-minute short film from Yorgos Lanthimos titled Nimic and starring Matt Dillon. Other titles that have caught out eye are Echo, from Sparrows director Rúnar Rúnarsson, and A Girl Missing, from Harmonium director Koji Fukada.

The festival will also kick off with some star power as Patrick Vollrath’s 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will premiere. Check out the lineup below,...

This year’s Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7 -17) lineup includes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plane thriller 7500, which gets its world premiere at the Swiss showcase. Scroll down for major category lineups.

The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming artistic director Lili Hinstein who has taken over from Carlo Chatrian. As ever, there is a strong contingent of European and Asian arthouse movies and the Piazza Grande section includes a handful of titles with more mainstream appeal, such as Tarantino’s Cannes pic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which rolls out globally in August.

Alongside Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the open air Piazza Grande screenings will include the world premieres of German-produced hijack thriller-drama 7500, Carice Van Houten starrer Instinct, UK comedy actor Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, French director Stéphane Demoustier...

Cannes — Spain’s Oliver Laxe returns to Cannes for the third time with“Fire Will Come” (O Que Arde), competing in Un Certain Regard— the first time a Galician-language film is selected for Cannes.

He has pedigree. His first time round, in 2010, Laxe snagged a Fipresci nod for his Directors’ Fortnight title “You All Are Captains”. His second out, he won the Grand Prize at the 2016 Critics’ Week with “Mimosas”.

Shot in the village of the director’s grandparents, the film follows Amador, who returns to his mother’s house after having been accused of and jailed for arson. Amador is just starting to settle into a peaceful life until a fire breaks out nearby.

Sold by Paris’ Pyramide International, “Fire Will Come” is a co-production of Galicia’s Miramemira, France’s 4 A 4 Productions, the Basque Country’s Kowalski Films and Luxembourg’s Tarantula.

Mauro Herce serves as d.

Barcelona— Germany-based Patra Spanou has taken international rights on “Trot,” the feature debut of Galician director Xacio Baño. World-premiering in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present, the competitive showcase often featuring new or rising talent, “Trot” will also participate in the upcoming San Sebastian Zabaltegi-Tabakalera sidebar competition.

Baño has previously participated at Locarno’s Pardi di domani with his shorts “Eco” (2015) and “Ser e voltar” (2014). He was selected by Variety as a top Spanish talent in 2015 and snagged a Slamdance nomination and a win at the Aspenshorts Fest with “Anacos” in 2013.

‘Trot’ is produced by Frida Films, with Lithuanian Ciobreliai Films co-producing. An independent arthouse production outfit based out of Santiago de Compostela, Frida Films productions include Adán Aliaga’s “The Ethernaut’s Wife” and Nely Reguera’s “Maria (and the Others),” best film in Miami’s HBO Ibero-American Competition.

Frida Films is also developing “Three,” the feature debut...

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The news that Francis Ford Coppola was moving back to the Paramount lot was exciting enough, but now it sounds like the director has some big plans in store:

"I have a secret investor that has infinite money. I learned what I learned from my three smaller films, and wanted to write a bigger film. I’ve been writing it. It’s so ambitious so I decided to go to L.A. and make a film out of a studio that has all the costume rentals, and where all the actors are. My story is set in New York. I have a first draft. I’m really ready for a casting phase. Movies are big in proportion to the period. It starts in the middle of the ‘20s, and there are sections in the ‘30s and the late ‘40s, and it goes until the late ‘60s."

The winners of...

Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...

While Cannes’ Quinzaine struggles to reframe its identity, its former artistic director Olivier Père continues to impress in his new job at the Locarno Film Festival. On Wednesday, he and his programming team unveiled a lineup that is absolutely salivatory, a who’s who for high-minded cinephiles. Perhaps most impressive of all, he has managed to once again nudge the festival’s selection aesthetic even deeper into esoteric ‘experimental’ territory without seeming all that radical. More than any other festival, Locarno is the home for the edgy projects that are too sophisticated for Cannes, whose cold shoulder to avant-garde narrative filmmaking becomes more glaring with each passing year. Check out the complete line-up at the bottom of this page.

In their International Competition, in which films compete for the increasingly prestigious Golden Leopard, we have a collaboration between João Pedro Rodrigues and his partner João Rui Guerra da Mata called...