#Locarno Film Festival Top Prize Goes to Lithuanian Drama ‘Toxic,’ the Feature Debut of Saule Bliuvaite

#Locarno Film Festival Top Prize Goes to Lithuanian Drama ‘Toxic,’ the Feature Debut of Saule Bliuvaite

Akiplėša (Toxic), the feature debut from Lithuanian writer and director Saulė Bliuvaitė that explores the human body and mysterious model agencies, is the winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s 2024 international competition, which was honored with the Pardo d’Oro, or Golden Leopard, in the Swiss town on Saturday. Locarno77 organizers called the movie “an incisive…

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#‘New Dawn Fades’ Explores Insanity as “a Social Construct,” With Istanbul as a Main Character

#‘New Dawn Fades’ Explores Insanity as “a Social Construct,” With Istanbul as a Main Character

Turkish writer-director Gürcan Keltek (Meteors, Gulyabani) has so far focused on shorter films and documentaries. On Thursday, he brought the world premiere of his fiction feature debut New Dawn Fades (Yeni șafak solarken), a contemplation on sanity, to the competition program of the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The film’s cinematographer is Peter Zeitlinger (Encounters…

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#‘Kinds of Kindness,’ ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Kneecap’ Among First Productions in the Running for 2024 European Film Awards

#‘Kinds of Kindness,’ ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Kneecap’ Among First Productions in the Running for 2024 European Film Awards

The European Film Academy has selected the first 29 productions in the running for the 2024 European Film Awards. The selection, announced Wednesday, is a list of this year’s festival highlights, including Jacques Audiard, Coralie Fargeat and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Cannes winners Emilia Pérez, The Substance and Kinds of Kindness, respectively; Rich Peppiatt’s Sundance hit Kneecap;…

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