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Sep222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Golden Leopard Winner Miyake Sho on Adapting Tsuge Manga for Busan Competition Title ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’

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By Jenny S. Li According To The variety Japanese writer-director Miyake Sho‘s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” is currently screening in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, following his Locarno Golden Leopard win, offering audiences an adaptation that weaves together two separate manga by legendary artist Tsuge Yoshiharu. Drawing from Tsuge’s 1967 and 1968 short stories, the film follows a screenwriter named Lee (played by Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung) as she embarks on contrasting seasonal journeys — a summer encounter at a seaside town and a winter retreat to a remote mountain lodge. “One day the image came to me, as if it were a poster with summer and winter landscapes placed side by side,” Miyake tells Variety. “By presenting two contrasting seas...

Sep212025 by cineverseNo Comments

San Sebastián’s Development Program Ikusmira Berriak Sees 34% Increase in Applications in a Year of Outstanding Success

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By Rafa Sales Ross According To The variety San Sebastián’s Ikusmira Berriak residency program is back for its 11th year with a crop of exciting new projects in development. Created in 2015 to promote emerging talent and delivered in partnership with the Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) training centre, the initiative offers five residencies to filmmakers each year. The program consists of a stay of eight weeks divided into two stages comprising a seven-month mentoring program between March and September, culminating during the festival dates. During the festival, the filmmakers complete the last two weeks of their residency at the Tabakalera building and participate in professional activities that inc...

Sep172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford and the ‘Pure Joy’ of Making ‘The Way We Were’ Together: ‘One of the Finest Actors Ever’

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By Ellise Shafer According To The variety Barbra Streisand is sharing her misty watercolor memories of “The Way We Were” co-star Robert Redford. “Every day on the set of ‘The Way We Were’ was exciting, intense and pure joy. We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie,” Streisand wrote in a tribute post on Instagram. “Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting— and one of the finest actors ever. The last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings. He was one of a kind and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.” Redford, the iconic actor and ...

Sep172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Busan, San Sebastián Title ‘Shape of Momo’ Boarded by Celluloid Dreams (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide sales rights to “Shape of Momo” (“Chhora Jastai”), the debut feature from India’s Tribeny Rai. The film is world premiering at the Busan International Film Festival and will have its European premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Set in the Himalayas, “Shape of Momo” follows Bishnu as she returns to her mountain village after quitting her job, only to face mounting family pressures and societal expectations. As tensions rise with her pregnant sister’s arrival and a budding relationship with a “suitable” boy from her community, Bishnu must choose between conforming to tradition or claiming her independence. The project marks a feature debut fo...

Sep162025 by cineverseNo Comments

Toronto Hit ‘The Condor Daughter,’ a High Andes Drama, Gets a First Trailer From Bendita Film Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

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By John Hopewell According To The variety Arguably the biggest buzz title at Ventana Sur and well received by those who caught it on its Sept. 9 world premiere at last week’s Toronto Festival, Bolivian identity drama “The Condor Daughter” (“La Hija del Condor”) now has a trailer, shared in exclusivity with Variety by the film’s sales agent, Spain’s Bendita Film Sales. Written, directed and produced by Empatia Cinema’s Álvaro Olmos Torrico, a key figure on Bolivia’s cinema scene, “The Condor’s Daughter” was chosen by Variety among 20 International Titles to Track at TIFF. Produced by Empatia Cinema, with Peru’s Ayara Producciones and Uruguay’s LaMayor Cine, “The Condor Daughter” turns on Clara, 16, part of the Totorani Quechua community and her midwife moth...

Sep132025 by cineverseNo Comments

Hamnet,’ ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘No Other Choice’ to Screen Texas Premieres at Austin Film Festival – Film News in Brief

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By Jazz Tangcay, Leia Mendoza, Andrew McGowan, Giana Levy According To The variety Austin Film Festival has announced the second wave of screenings set to premiere during this year’s festival lineup. The festival will run Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. Newly added Texas premieres will include Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice,” and the U.S. premiere of “Sacrificios.” his year’s world premieres are Kelly Kipscomb’s “Bite To Bite,” Jared Bonner and Josh Flanagan’s “Pickleheads,” following the world of pickleball, “Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin,” the short bio-documentary about a concert poster artist who helped create the Austin musi...

Sep92025 by cineverseNo Comments

Geek Girl’ Star Emily Carey, ‘A Kind of Spark’s’ Lola Blue Lead Autistic-Centered ‘The Birth of a Mall Goth’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Two prominent autistic actors, Emily Carey (“Geek Girl“) and Lola Blue (“A Kind of Spark”), topline the short film “The Birth of a Mall Goth,” marking a rare project where neurodiverse talent controls the creative process both on-screen and off. Writer-director Samantha Locock developed the script around her fascination with goth subculture, though she didn’t realize until after receiving her autism diagnosis that the story reflected her own neurodivergent experience of seeking understanding in an often confusing world. “When I wrote this script, I don’t think I fully understood why I was so deeply intrigued by why people suddenly become goths,” Locock said. “Now, I see the film as the autistic need to try and make...