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Dames, right? It's the quiet ones you have to watch, although the more flamboyant also require a vigilant eye, especially if said dame is packing a pistol. Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta) is the self-effacing secretary to a senior judge in Santiago, Chile; Maria Carolina Geel (Francisca Lewin) is a murderer. The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will host the world premiere of American Coup: Wilmington 1898, about a forgotten chapter in American history that saw a white supremacist mob terrorize Black residents of a North Carolina city, overthrowing an elected city government. The film…

The modern workplace is the focus of Laura Carreira's hypnotic debut On Falling, a sobering study of a woman's attempt to stay afloat in contemporary Glasgow. Produced by Ken Loach's Sixteen Films production company, it has plenty in common with the British…

EXCLUSIVE: When Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner handed RaMell, the visual artist and filmmaker, Ross Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Nickel Boys — the story of Black boys beaten, tortured and worse at a notorious state-run reform school in the Florida Panhandle — he knew he was…

Some people are just better off dead. That's the ultimate conclusion of the prolific French filmmaker François Ozon's new domestic drama When Fall Is Coming, receiving its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival this week, but delivered with such sly delicacy, such slippery grace — no, actually…

It’s a surprise to find out that director Audrey Diwan had never seen the original Emmanuelle — a gauzy soft-porn feature that got la toute France hot and bothered when it was allowed to be shown in normal cinemas in 1974 — before she was approached to do this remake, which opens the San Sebastian Film Fes…

The inaugural Climate Film Festival unspools tonight leading into the opening of New York Climate Week with hundreds of events across the city as the United Nations General Assembly comes to order. Look for a celeb actor (under wraps until Monday) staffing a vegan hot dog truck near Union Square courtesy…

French director Audrey Diwan is opening the San Sebastian Film Festival this evening with third feature Emmanuelle, in the company of its star Noémie Merlant and supporting cast members Will Sharpe, Chacha Huang and Jamie Campbell Bower. Diwan, who won Venice's Golden Lion for abortion drama Happening…

The fall festival trifecta of Venice/Telluride/Toronto traditionally have been venues for the serious start of Oscar season. But that kind of awards-season mojo has been shifting, however slowly, with the most recent Best Picture winners, Oppenheimer and Ever…

EXCLUSIVE: ARP Sélection has acquired French distribution rights for Jiří Mádl's historical thriller Waves, which was recently announced as the Czech Republic's entry to the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. Set during Prague Spring of 1968, the drama follows a…

José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Film Festival, has just over a week until opening night when he sits down for an interview with Deadline, and he is still plagued by one niggling organizational issue.  "It's always so difficult to close the jury," Rebordinos explains as he rushes…

In keeping with its historical support of Latin American cinema throughout the years, the San Sebastian International Film Festival will this year make an extra push for Argentina's cinema industry, which has been in a state of crisis since March after its newly-elected far-right leader Javier Milei moved…