WorldPingThe idea for “The Difficult Bride” traces back to a story Rubaiyat Hossain heard as a 7 year old, visiting a Dhaka beauty parlor with her mother. “There was a bride who died there,” Hossain says.
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WorldPingLav Diaz is developing a film about false prophets and a screen adaptation of José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” the Filipino auteur reveals, alongside details on “Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors” (“Makikiraan Po”), his Spanish colonization drama premier…
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WorldPing“The Echo Chamber,” Andrea Pallaoro’s drama starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon, has already landed distribution across a raft of key international territories ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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WorldPingBoth well-established and up-and-coming Swiss filmmakers are taking part in the Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge industry strand, where Switzerland will be one of the country’s in focus at the Gap-Financing Market.
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WorldPingLee Chang-dong has finally returned to feature filmmaking. The Korean filmmaker has been on an extended eight-year hiatus, which he blames on his “pathological timidity.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Loco Films has boarded sales on Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili’s drama Guria ahead of its world premiere in the Spotlight section of the Venice Film Festival and unveiled a first trailer.
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WorldPingPan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions and Egyptian multihyphenate Haitham Dabbour’s Irth platform dedicated to supporting standout writers across the Arab world announced a strategic partnership on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival that aims to boost…
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