Orlando Parfitt

6 days ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

The Cannes Film Festival has added four new titles to its Official Selection. Bi Gan’s Résurrection joins the Competition lineup. It is a sci-fi detective movie starring Jackson Yee and Shu Qi, with Les Films du Losange handling sales. Martin Bourboulon’s 3Days, 13 Nights will play out of competition. Based on the book by Commander Mohamed Bida, it follows the evacuation of the French embassy in 2021 when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. Roschdy Zem, Lyna Khoudri and Sidse Babett Knudsen star.

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Source: Peter Searle / Screen International Screen International, in association with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, has unveiled the filmmakers and actors selected for the 2025 Rising Stars Ireland talent spotlight. 10 emerging actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the verge of their major professional breakthrough have been selected. Those chosen are all either Irish nationals and/or based full-time on the Island of Ireland.

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Source: Aaron Poole / ©A.M.P.A.S. / Peter Searle / Screen International Will Poulter, Kit Connor and Manu Ríos will star in horror Rapture, the debut feature from Canadian playwright and director Jordan Tannahill. The film is set in a remote monastery in fourteenth-century England. The peaceful existence of ten monks is shattered by the arrival of a messenger with haunting news from the outside world and who shows symptoms of a mystery illness.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade will preside over the jury for short films and the La Cinef prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24). Also joining the jury are King Richard filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green, French actress, singer and songwriter Camélia Jordana, Spanish executive José María Prado, and Croatian filmmaker Nebojša Slijepčević. They will judge 11 titles competing for the short film prize and 16 student films in the La Cinef selection.

3 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton |Orlando Parfitt

Source: Excellent Cadaver / Scott Free Productions The Cannes Film Festival has updated its 2025 Official Selection with 16 new films, including two new Competition titles. Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s Mother And Child join the Competition line-up, bringing it to 21 films. The Un Certain Regard line-up adds a further four films, including Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology Of Water, and is now at 20 films.