Festivals
Thompson on Hollywood
A first trip to Middleburg, Virginia, inspired nostalgia for small festivals past and suggestions for Sundance's future.
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AFI Fest
Though the festival lacked red carpet premieres for Oscar frontrunners, the 2025 edition of the Los Angeles-based festival set the stage for some awards-season dark horses to make their case.
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Exclusive
Brennan Cusack's pilot "The Badlands Woman's Clinic" won the $10,000 grand prize.
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Enter to Win!
Create an Instagram reel showing how AmPav's Cannes Student Program could impact your life, and you could end up on the Croisette in 2026.
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Exclusive
Exclusive: "Seeds, "Mad Bills to Pay," and John Magaro in "Omaha" were also honored by jurors of the New Jersey film festival.
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From an exquisitely tender body swap drama to Fan Bingbing's long-awaited return to real drama, these are the most exciting movies premiering in Tokyo this week.
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Middleburg FF
The Oscar-winning duo behind "The Last Repair Shop" discuss their new collaboration, and using elements like talking drums and an IMAX camera to shape a story around lost Ghanaian history.
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Thompson on Hollywood
He plays a conspiracy activist and beekeeper who kidnaps a Big Pharma executive (Emma Stone), convinced she is about to destroy the earth. He tells IndieWire about a story that "exploded" even on the page.
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Film Review
Lanthimos and "The Menu" scribe Will Tracy remake the 2003 Korean sci-fi comedy "Save the Green Planet!" for America in the age of lone-wolf vigilantes — and with Stone as a possibly extraterrestrial CEO accused of trying to destroy the planet.
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Chicago ff
"The Voice of Hind Rajab" won the runner-up Silver Hugo prize, with acting honors awarded to Wagner Moura and Eszter Tompa, and best director to Mascha Schilinski.
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Hit the road
Festivals like the Woodstock Film Festival and Middleburg Film Festival are based in rural towns, but their rise in prominence show it's not just the big cities that have a large influence over the awards race anymore.
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Thompson on Hollywood
The German actress is an agent of chaos in Nia DaCosta's gorgeous '50s adaptation. She tells IndieWire how she made the most of a juicy, gender-swapped role.
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