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Locarno: ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers' & ‘Hair, Paper, Water…' Take Top Prizes
Tabi to Hibi, the latest feature from Japanese filmmaker Sho Miyake, has won the Pardo d'Oro, the Locarno Film Festival's main competition award. Miyake is the fourth Japanese winner of the top prize in the festival's history after Masahiro Kobayashi's The Rebirth (Ai no yokan) in 2007, Akio Jissoji's This Transient Life (Mujō), which was one of four films to share the prize in 1970, and Teinosuke Kinugasa's classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) in 1954. More from Deadline International Insider: Paramount's Week One; Cillian On 'Steve'; Channel 4 Chuckles Truong Minh Quy And Nicolas Graux On The Story Behind Their Locarno Title 'Hair, Paper, Water...' & How Technological Shifts Are Affecting Filmmaking: "The Language Of Cinema Has Changed" Locarno Open Doors: Nigerian, Zimbabwean & Ivorian Projects Among Winners The festival's awards were announced this afternoon. Tabi to Hibi is based on the manga Mr. Ben and His Igloo, A View of the Seaside by Yoshiharu Tsuge. The film was produced by Masayoshi Johnai. The official synopsis reads: In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo. Their conversations rarely connect, yet they set off on an unexpected adventure. In Locarno's parallel competition, Concorso Cineasti del Presente, Hair, Paper, Water…, a documentary co-directed by Truong Minh Quy and Nicolas Graux, won the top prize. Shot over three years on a vintage Bolex camera, the film is a rich portrait of an elderly, unnamed woman who, born in a cave more than 60 years ago, now lives in a village caring for her children and grandchildren. The film captures her daily life and the transmission of her fragile native language, Rục, to the younger generations, as she dreams of her deceased mother calling her home to her mountain cave. Hair, Paper, Water… was produced by Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff of Petit Chaos, the company behind Payal Kapadia's groundbreaking feature debut All We Imagine As Light, alongside Julie Freres. Italian-based sales company Lights On is handling the project. Elsewhere, White Snail by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, which competed in the main Competition, won the Special Jury Prize, and Abbas Fahdel won Best Director for Tales Of The Wounded Landed. Scroll down for the full list of this year's winners in Locarno. Discussing the crop of winning titles, Locarno head Giona A. Nazzaro described this year's festival as an event that celebrated 'the enduring and gentle power of cinema and its manifold ways of bringing communities together to share the wonderful gifts of peace.' 'We are grateful to all the directors who trusted the festival with their works. It allowed us to create a forward-looking edition, with its gaze firmly set in the future,' said in a statement. 'We are certain these works will stand the test of time and become beacons of hope for young talents that are just starting to dream the films they want to make tomorrow. A festival is like building a better tomorrow. One film at the time'. Full winners list: Concorso Internazionale Pardo d'Oro – Grand Prize of the Festival and City of Locarno to () by Sho Miyake, Japan Special Jury Prize – Cities of Ascona and Losone to by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, Austria/Germany Pardo for Best Direction – City and Region of Locarno to Abbas Fahdel for , Lebanon Pardo for Best Performance to Manuela Martelli and Ana Marija Veselčić for () by Hana Jušić, Croatia/Italy/Romania/Greece/France/Slovenia Pardo for Best Performance to Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov for by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, Austria/Germany Special Mention by Alexandre Koberidze, Germany/Georgia Concorso Cineasti del Presente Pardo d'Oro – Concorso Cineasti del Presente to () by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium/France/Vietnam Best Emerging Director Award – City and Region of Locarno to Cecilia Kang for , Argentina/France Special Jury Prize CINÉ+ to () by Margherita Spampinato, Italy Pardo for Best Performance to Aurora Quattrocchi for () by Margherita Spampinato, Italy Pardo for Best Performance to Levan Gelbakhiani for by Jacqueline Zünd, Switzerland/Italy Pardi di Domani Concorso Corti d'Autore Pardino d'Oro WePresent by WeTransfer for the Best Auteur Short Film to by Neo Sora, Japan/China Concorso Internazionale Pardino d'Oro Arts3 Foundation for the Best International Short Film to by Altay Ulan Yang, USA Pardino d'Argento Arts3 Foundation for the International Competition to by Mohamed Mesbah, France Pardi di Domani Best Direction Award – BONALUMI Engineering to by Aria Sánchez and Marina Meira, Cuba/Spain/Brazil Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award to by Angel WU, Taiwan Concorso Nazionale Pardino d'Oro SRG SSR for the Best Swiss Short Film to () by Felipe Casanova, Belgium/Brazil/Switzerland Pardino d'Argento SRG SSR for the National Competition to by Francesco Poloni, Switzerland Best Swiss Newcomer Award to by Camille Surdez, Switzerland Locarno Film Festival Short Film Candidate – European Film Awards () by Felipe Casanova, Belgium/Brazil/Switzerland First Feature Swatch First Feature Award to by Sophy Romvari, Canada/Hungary Pardo Verde Pardo Verde to by Ben Rivers, United Kingdom/France/Canada Special Mentions () by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý, Belgium/France/Vietnam () by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, France/Mongolia Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Everything We Know About Prime Video's 'Legally Blonde' Prequel Series 'Elle' Solve the daily Crossword
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Paolo Sorrentino On Maradona's Influence & Why He Doesn't Put Violence In His Movies: 'I Don't Like When A Character Suffers Too Much'
In advance of the Venice premiere of his latest film La Grazia, Paolo Sorrentino touched down at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday where the writer-director talked at length about his career, influences and why movies 'saved' his 'sad life'. Speaking with Serbian filmmaker Ognjen Glavonić at the Bosnian Culture Center, the Italian filmmaker told a packed audience about his great fondness for Diego Maradona, noting that when the late Argentine soccer legend arrived in Naples to play for the city's local club in 1984, it made a huge impression on the young director. 'When I was 14 and Maradona arrived in Naples, for the first time I understood what a show was,' he said. 'Maradona told us – told me, told the Napoiltan people – what is a big, unbelievable show. And I found out the same thing through cinema – the opportunity to put on a big show.' More from Deadline International Insider: Paramount's Week One; Cillian On 'Steve'; Channel 4 Chuckles Books, Gaming & TV Series: How Sarajevo Film Festival's Industry Strand Is Adapting To The Ever-Changing Content Business Sarajevo Film Festival Director Talks Upcoming Edition & Why Culture Must Prevail In Times Of Political Turmoil: "We Have To Be Fearless, Fierce And Safeguard Our Independence" Sorrentino is also set to receive an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award this week for his contribution to cinema and will present a retrospective of his films during the festival. When quizzed about how he gets inspiration for his next projects, he said: 'I don't love the idea that I have to do new things. I stay at home without doing anything and then suddenly something comes up in my mind that becomes an obsession and then I say, 'OK, let's do a movie about this obsession.'' The director was asked about the relevance of violence in films and he admitted that while he liked violence at times in other directors' movies, he found it 'very tiring to shoot violent scenes – mostly I'm too lazy.' He added: 'Another reason I don't put violence in is I don't like when a character suffers too much. I like more Disney movies where everything is good. I never put characters in a condition where life is so desperate. It's a little bit desperate but not too much, and violence brings a big desperation.' Sorrentino went on to credit Martin Scorsese as one of his favourite directors and when quizzed about which actors he would like to work with one day, Sorrentino quipped, 'There are many actors and actresses I would like to work with, but the optimum would be a movie without actors and actresses.' When asked about the role that films and audiences can play 'in solving genocide' and the situation in Gaza, Sorrentino remarked: 'No film can prevent these kinds of things.' Born in Naples in 1970, Sorrentino's credits include The Consequences of Love and The Family Friend, both of which competed for the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2004 and 2006 respectively. His film Il Divo won the Jury Prize in 2008 and in 2011 he returned In Competition in Cannes with This Must Be the Place and two years later with The Great Beauty, the latter of which won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as three European Film Awards. His last feature Parthenope debuted at Cannes in 2024. When asked whether he was working on anything new, Sorrentino remained vague saying, 'Probably I am going to do worse, like many directors.' The 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival takes place August 15-22, 2025. Best of Deadline Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years Deadline Studio At Sundance Film Festival Photo Gallery: Dylan O'Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & More TIFF People's Choice Award Winners Through The Years: Photo Gallery
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20-06-2025
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What Are The Critics Saying About ‘28 Years Later'?
Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, and producer Andrew Macdonald launched 28 Years Later, the latest addition to their seminal zombie franchise, last night in London. In the pic, written by Garland, it's been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory. And now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. More from Deadline International Insider: '28 Years Later' Arrives; Landmark Netflix-TF1 Deal; NHK At 100 Danny Boyle Says He Would Never Make Oscar-Winner 'Slumdog Millionaire' Now Amid "Cultural Appropriation" Concerns '28 Years Later' $5M+, 'Elio' $2.5M-$3M Previews - Thursday Night Box Office The film stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jack O'Connell. The buzz has been big on the threequel. Late last year, Sony reported that an early trailer for the flick, in its first week of release, became the most watched horror trailer in 2024 at 60.2M global views and the second biggest trailer of all-time behind It Chapter Two (96M views). But what are the critics saying about the film? Deadline's Damon Wise said the film is 'by far the most political of the three films' and offers a 'particularly scathing' commentary about 'Brexit Britain and its little-islander mentality.' 'Alex Garland's script makes great play of how life in Britain has become stunted,' Wise wrote. 'Flirting with folk horror, he makes the islanders little better than the infected, inviting comparisons with The Wicker Man as they carouse in the community center while a faded portrait of Her Majesty the Queen looks down.' Aussie film magazine Filmink said 28 Years Later boasts 'uniformly excellent' performances with 'Taylor-Johnson and Comer both doing fine work, and Ralph Fiennes absolutely wonderful as poetic, death-obsessed Doctor Ian Kelson.' 'However, it's young Alfie Williams who steals the show, giving us a likable and nuanced young tacker to root for and hope that he manages to survive,' the magazine concluded. Empire Magazine described the film as a 'pure horror experience' full of 'ferocious, fizzing with adrenaline.' 'The film's opening half, in particular, is phenomenal — an electrifying exercise in terror, amplified by Young Fathers' astonishing score,' the magazine wrote. In a review titled '28 Years Later Is Totally Nuts,' Vulture said the film 'carries on the tradition of using genre as a Trojan horse to explore the sensation of life today.' But the outlet notes that some 'horror fiends will find themselves disappointed with a movie that's too weird, too somber, too unresolved to deliver on the promised thrills.' Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson wrote that he found himself 'confused by the film's unexpected tone, but also captivated by it.' 'Knowing that another film in the series has already been shot goes a long way toward softening the blunt impact of the film's sudden, ambiguous ending,' Lawson wrote. Time Magazine also zeroed in on the film's ending. 'There's much that's terrifying and wonderful about 28 Years Later, but the ending is jarring and dumb, in a kick-ass heavy-metal way, and it breaks the mood,' Stephanie Zacharek wrote for the magazine. 'It's as if Boyle had gotten cold feet about ending the movie on too solemn a note. But this ending, no matter how you feel about it, is really just a beginning. Boyle and Garland have two follow-up movies in the works. The next, already filmed, is directed by Nia DaCosta, of Candyman and The Marvels; Boyle will return for the third.' Genre site Fangoria, however, said the threequel was 'the best film in the franchise.' '28 Years Later, by comparison, incorporates the world-building of its predecessor but retains the intimacy of the original film,' the magazine wrote. 'Garland's script rightfully observes that a few expository intertitles do more than enough to establish the world into which the audience and the film's characters are plunged into, and then dials into the lives of a family that's doing its best to navigate an unimaginable situation both environmentally and interpersonally.' The film is certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 95%. Sony will release the film is in theaters on June 20. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
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20-05-2025
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ITV To Cut 220 Jobs In Major Daytime Overhaul
ITV has just finished briefing staff on a major overhaul of its daytime schedule, which will dramatically scale back the airtime devoted to shows like Loose Women and Lorraine. ITV will make more than 220 redundancies under the sweeping changes, but it has promised to reinvest all savings into more streaming-friendly content, including drama and sport. More from Deadline International Insider: Cruise In Cannes; Standing Ovations; Chinese Box Office Future ITV Says Studios Arm Will Grow "Faster Than The Global Content Market" This Year Amid Sale Speculation & Q1 Results Suranne Jones & Jodie Whittaker ITV Drama 'Frauds' Adds Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth Berrington & Christian Cooke That 220 figure represents around half the 450 employees who produce output across ITV Studios-produced Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women. Under the plans, ITV will scale back Loose Women and Lorraine by at least 42%, meaning they will go from broadcasting 52 weeks of the year to 30 weeks. Furthermore, Lorraine's run time will be halved to 30 minutes. ITV is planning to move Good Morning Britain to ITN, which produces ITV News. The hope is that this will reduce overlap between the two services and improve newsgathering. More follows Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
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22-03-2025
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Netflix Comedy Star Katherine Ryan Diagnosed With Cancer For Second Time, Credits ‘RHOBH' Star For Diagnosis
Katherine Ryan has announced that she has been diagnosed with skin cancer for the second time. The Canadian stand-up and TV comedy star shared on her podcast and on social media that she had recently had a cancerous mole removed from her arm, and will have a follow-up procedure next week to remove any remaining cancerous tissue. More from Deadline International Insider: The Adult View On 'Adolescence'; CJ ENM Interview; Hillary Clinton On Ukraine War Karla Sofía Gascón Comes Out Swinging After Tweet Storm Derailed Her 'Emilia Pérez' Oscar Hopes: "It's Clear There Was A Campaign Against Me" 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming BBC News reports that the star of Netflix show The Duchess was first diagnosed with the same condition in 2004, when she had what she described as a 'golf ball-sized lump' removed from her thigh. This time, Ryan shared that her concerns had been initially dismissed by a doctor, but tests confirmed her mole to be 'early melanoma.' Ryan said: 'If you know about melanoma, you'll know it is a deadly form of skin cancer. It does spread quickly, and I just felt like this mole wasn't right.' And she urged listeners with any concerns to get themselves tested, saying: 'You have to make space in your day for these appointments. 'It just feels crazy to me, what could have happened, if I hadn't been my own advocate – and I will continue to be my own advocate.' Ryan also credited Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp for talking about her own melanoma. Ryan said: 'God bless that woman for being so transparent about her journey.' Ryan was born and raised in Canada but has become a big comedy name in the UK where she has lived since 2008. Besides her Netflix show, she is a regular contributor to TV panel shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, A League of Their Own and Have I Got News For You. Best of Deadline How To Watch 'Wicked: Part One': Is The Film Streaming Yet? All The Songs In 'Severance' Season 2: From The Who To Ella Fitzgerald 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
