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• ‘At Night’ review: Experimental, allusive UK debut explores women’s shared experiences

  08-08-2026 20:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Beatrice Gibson’s Paris-set Locarno premiere features cinematography from filmmaker Ben Rivers
  
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• ‘Skintown’ review: Sparky, engaging friendship drama is set against the backdrop of Troubles-era Northern Ireland

  16-08-2026 23:20 via screendaily.com
  
  Jack Rowan and Chris Walley head the impressive cast of Kieron J Walsh’s Edinburgh competition premiere
  
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• ‘First Zone’ review: Striking Dutch survival thriller proves an Edinburgh competition highlight

  16-08-2026 22:45 via screendaily.com
  
  Thom Lunshof’s dystopian debut plays out in a largely flooded Netherlands
  
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• ‘Sacred Creatures’ review: Canadian siblings have a bizarre trip to Italy in ambitious, erratic magical realist debut

  16-08-2026 21:15 via screendaily.com
  
  Frieda Luk’s bold drama makes its bow in Edinburgh competition
  
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• ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ vaults to number four in all-time US box office rankings

  16-08-2026 20:20 via screendaily.com
  
  ‘The Odyssey’ surges past $500m in fifth session; Black Bear opens ’The Rivals Of Amziah King’.
  
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• Kenneth Branagh urges “caution and vigilance” around class representation in acting

  16-08-2026 19:02 via screendaily.com
  
  Branagh recalled working on ‘Harry Potter’ with “the entire British film industry”.
  
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• ‘The Mad World Of Harvey Kurtzman’ review: Breezy, insightful portrait of influential MAD magazine founder

  16-08-2026 18:00 via screendaily.com
  
  Bart Simpson’s Edinburgh competition doc is executive produced by filmmaker and Kurtzman colleague Terry Gilliam
  
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• BFI CEO Ben Roberts: “We have to find a way to get more money into the system”

  16-08-2026 13:45 via screendaily.com
  
  Roberts talks incoming funds director Isabel Davis; defends BFI funding application forms.
  
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• ‘Fatherland’ filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski on his love of tight running times and the “genius” of Sandra Hüller

  16-08-2026 13:04 via screendaily.com
  
  Pawlikowski was speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where ‘Fatherland’ was the opening night film.
  
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• ‘Snapshot’ review: A killer stalks Victorian London in inventive but stilted period found-footage horror shot through a pinhole lens

  16-08-2026 11:54 via screendaily.com
  
  Joseph Archer’s feature debut premieres in Edinburgh before heading to FrightFest
  
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• ‘Mission’ review: George MacKay gives a committed performance in propulsive, overwrought mental health drama

  16-08-2026 00:23 via screendaily.com
  
  MacKay reteams with his ’For Those In Peril’ director Paul Wright for Edinburgh competition title
  
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• ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ review: Locarno Golden Leopard winner is tense, slow-burn study of Romanian masculinity

  15-08-2026 20:33 via screendaily.com
  
  Florin Serban’s cool, clinical drama about a strained father-son relationship will next play Sarajevo
  
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• Inside the ‘Trainspotting’ live event at Edinburgh film festival

  15-08-2026 18:25 via screendaily.com
  
  Bucket hats, beer cans, and shouting “shite being Scottish”: an evening that resembled a rock gig.
  
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• ‘Capsized’ review: Rhys Ifans and Lily Rabe find themselves in troubled waters in modest, bittersweet US debut

  15-08-2026 16:05 via screendaily.com
  
  Lindsey Ryan’s Edinburgh competition premiere follows an American family battling financial hardship
  
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• Florin Serban’s ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2026

  15-08-2026 15:45 via screendaily.com
  
  Romanian filmmaker takes top prize at festival, with other prizes for South Korean director Hong Sangsoo as well as actor Monica Bellucci.
  
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• Paramount claims merger has satisfied all regulators, would close “today” but for state AGs

  15-08-2026 00:33 via screendaily.com
  
  “This transaction is lawful, pro-competitive and raises no antitrust concerns.”
  
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• ‘Love Lessons’ review: A retired teacher finds he has a lot to learn in Martin Provost’s light, unsurprising French drama

  14-08-2026 23:25 via screendaily.com
  
  Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet star in the Locarno Piazza Grande premiere
  
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• ‘The State Of Us’ review: A boisterous Bradford night out turns sentimental in dewey-eyed UK debut

  14-08-2026 20:50 via screendaily.com
  
  Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s first feature follows a pair of Northern friends coping with terminal illness
  
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• ‘Projet K’ starring Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Tim Roth starts filming in France, Belgium, Bolivia for Netflix

  14-08-2026 20:02 via screendaily.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Majority French-language feature based on true story of Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfield.
  
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• ‘9 Temples To Heaven’ set to open 2026 Bangkok film festival

  14-08-2026 17:59 via screendaily.com
  
  BKKIFF set to run from September 13-27.
  
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• ‘Out There’ review: Intermittently charming Welsh sci-fi relies on a committed cast including Michael Sheen and Aneurin Barnard

  14-08-2026 17:40 via screendaily.com
  
  Simon Ryninks’ debut premieres in Edinburgh competition
  
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• Austria picks ‘Rose’ starring Sandra Hüller as Oscars submission

  14-08-2026 16:55 via screendaily.com
  
  The film premiered in at the Berlinale, where Hüller won the Silver Bear for best leading performance for her role.
  
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• Christine Vachon on resurrecting Todd Haynes’ ‘De Noche’ with Pedro Pascal

  14-08-2026 16:24 via screendaily.com
  
  Vachon discusses how Pedro Pascal came to the film after Joaquin Phoenix stepped away.
  
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• ‘Nowhere To Lay My Eyes’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s latest proves sparse, minor-key family drama

  14-08-2026 16:06 via screendaily.com
  
  The prolific South Korean filmmaker debuts his new work in Locarno competition
  
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• ‘The House On The Moon’ review: Singapore’s Nelson Yeo turns Chinese moon goddess myth into ponderous flight of fancy

  14-08-2026 15:43 via screendaily.com
  
  The filmmaker returns to Locarno competition after 2023 Golden Leopard win for debut ‘Dreaming & Dying’
  
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• Oscars best international feature 2027: Austria picks ‘Rose’, Switzerland selects ’Who Is Still Alive'

  14-08-2026 15:23 via screendaily.com
  
  Screen is profiling each contender on this page.
  
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• UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘The End Of Oak Street’ races into 648 cinemas

  14-08-2026 13:57 via screendaily.com
  
  George Jaques’ ‘Sunny Dancer’ and Anthony Bordain biopic ‘Tony’ are also out.
  
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• Koji Fukada, Boo Junfeng, Jakrawal Nilthamrong projects win Asian Cinema Fund grants

  14-08-2026 13:51 via screendaily.com
  
  Titles include ‘Grateful’, ‘Trinity’ and ‘Rhizome’
  
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• Neon to directly release Na Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’ in UK-Irish cinemas

  14-08-2026 13:16 via screendaily.com
  
  The US studio is understood to be scaling up its UK-Irish distribution operations.
  
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• ‘The Rivals Of Amziah King’ review: Matthew McConaughey serves up his trademark Southern charm in unpredictable beekeeping thriller

  14-08-2026 13:07 via screendaily.com
  
  Andrew Patterson’s tonally uneven film features a strong performance from Indigenous newcomer Angelina LookingGlass
  
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