Berlin film festival first wave includes Denis Cote, Ira Sachs titles

2025 Sundance Film Festival Reveals 93 Projects for Feature Film and Episodic Programs

EXCLUSIVE: Memento International has boarded “Atropia,” the directorial feature of “Uncut Gems” actor Hailey Gates which is produced by “Queer” director Luca Guadagnino. The war comedy stars Alia Shawkat (“Blink Twice”), Callum Turner (“Masters of the Air”), Chloë Sevigny (“Bonjour Tristesse”) and Tim Heidecker (“Tim & Eric”). 

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe nominees Greta Lee (Past Lives) and Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) have inked deals to star in My Notes on Mars, a sci-fi romance marking the first English-language feature from renowned Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát (Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time).

Will Seefried’s confident debut feature tackles a devastating, overlooked history through queer romance in the 1920s.WWill Seefried’s confident debut feature tackles a devastating, overlooked history through queer romance in the 1920s.

‘Lilies Not For Me’ Clip: First Look At Romantic Drama Based On Historic Conversion Therapy Scandal Starring ‘Normal People’ Breakout Fionn O’Shea — Edinburgh Film Festival

Will Seefried’s Romance ‘Lilies Not for Me,’ Starring ‘Normal People’ Actor Fionn O’Shea and ‘Rings of Power’s’ Robert Aramayo, Boarded by Memento Intl. (EXCLUSIVE)

Edinburgh Film Festival Sets 2024 Competition Lineups And Events Including Gaspar Noé Masterclass

How Cynthia Erivo gives her desperate trauma survivor in ‘Drift’ pride and dignity

Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning triple threat talent Cynthia Erivo emotionally unzips herself for moving film “Drift,” the first project she has produced to be released.

MetFilm Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Drift, the English-language feature debut of filmmaker Anthony Chen, which stars in and is produced by Cynthia Erivo.

EXCLUSIVE: The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film has unveiled a new exclusive event, bannered the Cannes Investors Circle, aimed at connecting high-caliber, global feature film projects with private investors.

Utopia has landed the North American rights to “Drift,” an emotional drama starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat. The sale comes a few months after its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance: Anthony Chen’s lush, Greek-set feature explores how the past can seep into your bones.

Singaporean director Anthony Chen makes his first English-language feature with this slow-burn, Greek island-set drama about a refugee reeling from tragedy.

'Ilo Ilo' director Anthony Chen applies his gift for understatement to this too-tasteful-at-times survivor story about an African woman struggling to find her footing on an unfamiliar Greek island.

Established and new filmmakers will take a bow at the hybrid 2023 Sundance Film Festival as festival organisers announced 99 features selected from a record number of submissions. There is new work from Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Cynthia Erivo, We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor, Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim, Sophie Bathes and Brandon Cronenberg.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. who are shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking with Memento Films International founder Emilie Georges and producer Naima Abed about their company Paradise City, its slate and why now is the time to move into the management and branded content spheres.

Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) will lead cast alongside Being The Ricardos and Arrested Development star Alia Shawkat in Anthony Chen’s (Ilo Ilo) English-language debut Drift.

The film reunites Call Me By Your Name producers Emilie Georges and Peter Spears and exec producer Naima Abed. Spears won the Best Picture Oscar last year for Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland.