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The 12 Latin American titles compete for a €35,000 prize

Lila Aviles’ Totem and Felipe Galvez’s The Settlers are among the films selected for the Horizontes Latinos strand of the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The 12 Latin American titles are competing for the Horizontes Award of €35,000 which is split between the director and the Spanish distributor.

Totem first premiered at Berlinale earlier this year, picking up the Ecumenical jury prize before collecting further awards at Hong Kong and Jerusalem. The Mexican drama is told from the perspective of a seven-year-old girl as her family descends into crisis around her.

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold defends the film's wild science-fiction ending. After playing the character in four movies across as many decades, Harrison Ford finally hangs up his hat as the intrepid archeologist in Mangold's sequel. The new film features Indy and his companions hunting for a lost relic that has the power to predict fissures in time, with the third act seeing the characters travel back to more than 2000 years in the past.

Now, in a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Mangold defends the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ending. According to the director, the film's lean into more mystical elements fits with how previous franchise entries approached their own climactic sequences. Check out Mangold's full comment below:

"Well, certainly myself and my co-writers on the picture, we discussed it a lot.

FireFollowing a successful but necessarily impersonal virtual edition in 2021, the Berlin International Film Festival returned to in-person activities this year, drawing skepticism in some quarters but ultimately quieting the naysayers with a safe and efficient event that put the movies back where they belong: on the big screen. With mandatory daily Covid tests, 2G plus vaccination protocols, ticket reservations, assigned seating, and half-capacity venues, the Berlinale’s typically convivial vibe was sterilized and regimented in a way that’s already become familiar in an era of masks and social distancing. But no matter: the program, overseen by Carlo Chatrian in his third year as artistic director, while never quite reaching the skyscraping heights of recent editions (in which films like Days and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? confirmed the new regime’s dedication to auteur-driven art cinema), provided a deep and rewarding wellspring of work...

Not since Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent “The Ring” has there been a boxing film quite so quiet as “Small, Slow But Steady,” a gentle but hard-edged study of a flyweight female pugilist in suburban Tokyo. More concerned with the wear and tear of everyday life than pummeling sound and fury, director Shô Miyake’s measured, unsentimental adaptation of a memoir by Keiko Ogasawara — who turned professional despite the difficulties of lifelong deafness — turns out to be somewhat aptly described by its own title, though none of those adjectives quite conveys its rare and delicate grace. A highlight of the Encounters program at this year’s Berlinale, this unassuming gem should turn the heads of specialist distributors and further festival programmers, despite its general avoidance of crowd-courting tactics.

In adapting Ogasawara’s book “Makenaide!” — which translates, with an imperative urgency the film doesn’t share, as “Do Not Lose!” — Miyake and...

The buyers’ mood, how many festival attendees really caught Covid-19 and Cannes were among the hot topics this year.

The 72nd edition of the Berlinale (February 10-20) was supposed to have marked the film industry’s physical return to a large-scale festival and market as the world emerged from the Coronavirus pandemic.

The surge in Covid-19 cases worldwide from late December to early January, linked to the more contagious Omicron variant, however, forced the festival to rethink its plans at the eleventh hour.

The management team determinedly pushed on with a physical event, reducing its core dates, scaling back its...

Featuring characters from Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell's Mr. Higgins Comes Home and Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox, the new graphic novel Falconspeare is now available from Dark Horse Comics. To celebrate its recent release, we caught up with writer/artist/colorist Johnson-Cadwell in a new Q&a feature to discuss teaming up with Mignola, bringing this sinister story to life, and further fleshing out the wonderfully haunted world of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and friends!

Below, you can read our full Q&a with Johnson-Cadwell as well as preview pages from Falconspeare, and to learn more about this new graphic novel, visit Dark Horse Comics!

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Warwick, and congratulations on the release of Falconspeare! This new graphic novel features the return of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox, and Ms.

Top prizes for Hong Sangsoo’s ‘The Novelist’s Film’, Claire Denis’ ‘Fire’.

Carla Simon’s Alcarras won the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale, in a ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast this evening (Wednesday 16).

“I feel like I should just move here, because every time I come here something amazing happens,” said Simon on accepting the award.

Alcarras: Berlin review

The award was presented by Competition jury president M. Night Shyamalan, who praised the film “for its extraordinary performances from the child actors to the actors in their 80s and for the ability to show the tenderness and comedy...

Filmmaker Ashley McKenzie (“Werewolf”) returns to the Berlinale this year with her second feature, “Queens of the Qing Dynasty,” premiering in Encounters on Tuesday. The writer-director stands out as an emerging Canadian talent, backed by the Toronto Film Critics Assn., who awarded her debut film the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award in 2017.

An impressive new offering, “Queens” showcases McKenzie’s flair for loose, floating narratives and complex characters hoping to break free from their ennui. Protagonist Star (Sarah Walker) navigates life after a suicide attempt with the help of a special kind of babysitter, hospital volunteer An (Ziyin Zheng). An idiosyncratic friendship blooms and Star finally begins to feel a sense of kinship in her life, supported by a vibrantly queer individual who stands apart from the beige monotony of her experiences in the outside world.

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French-Canadian returns to Competition after last year’s Encounters prize.

France’s Shellac has boarded worldwide sales on French-Canadian director Denis Côté’s Berlin-bound That Kind Of Summer in the run-up to next month’s festival and market.

Larissa Corriveau, who starred in Côté’s 2019 Golden Bear nominee Ghost Town Anthology, Laure Giappiconi and Aude Mathieu play the leads in Montreal-based Metafilms’ French-language Competition entry about three women invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues.

As they co-exist under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a...

The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival has confirmed its various juries, including who will be joining M. Night Shyamalan to award the International Competition prizes.

Alongside International Jury president Shyamalan will be Karim Aïnouz (Brazil / Algeria), Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany), Saïd Ben Saïd (France / Tunisia), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan), and Connie Nielsen (Denmark / USA).

In the competitive Encounters program, a three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award: Director of Content Chiara Marañón (Spain), artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers (United Kingdom) as well as producer, screenwriter and director Silvan Zürcher (Switzerland).

Elsewhere, the Gff Best First Feature will be awarded to one debut film across Berlin’s various sections, and will be decided by a three-person jury: Gaia Furrer (Italy), Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) and Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan).

The Berlin Documentary Award jury this year are: Wang Bing (People’s...