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On a recent winter morning in Ft, on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn presided over a parade of officials and film industry luminaries at the ribbon-...

It was welcome - perhaps even surprising - news for Hungarian moviegoers to discover that two home-grown productions were sitting at the top of the box office at the start of the year: "Gone Running,"...

Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his third feature, "Ancestral Visions of the Future," which premieres Feb. 20 in the Berlinale Special strand. A deeply au...

FilmSharks has scored several new distribution deals, including in North America, for David Bisbano’s Argentine animated pic “Dalia and the Red Book” ahead of the film’s global...

German production company Augenschein has just added "The Weight," starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe, to its slate. Company founders Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo talk to Variety about how...

Directors Hlne Cattet and Bruno Forzani didn't expect to wind up in competition at Berlin. The duo behind Golden Bear contender "Reflections in a Dead Diamond" are avowed cult filmmakers, having spent...

After winning the Palme d'Or and the Queer Palm at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for his strangers-in-the-night short film "The Distance Between Us and the Sky," Greek director Vasilis Kekatos makes h...

Chinese superstar Yao Chen is steering her production banner Bad Rabbit Pictures into premium short-form television with an ambitious limited series centered on Mazu, the legendary sea goddess who was...

As countless locals fled the French capital in the lead-up to last year's Olympic games, actor and filmmaker Valentine Cadic hunkered down, putting her hands on a camera, assembling a small crew and t...

The Culps made a special appearance for Friday night’s "SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” to perform another jaw-dropping medley of today’s hits. Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer reprised ...