Film

Premiering at Sundance, Macon Blair’s new film also features Mason Thames, Peter Dinklage, Kiernan Shipka and Nicholas Braun.

In ‘I Love LA,’ she’s a manic TikTok striver. In ‘Marty Supreme,’ she’s a combustible climber keeping up with Timothée Chalamet. In reality, Hollywood’s newest It Girl is a baggy jeans-wearing homebody with three roommates, seven pets and a complicated family legacy.

Longtime fest director Tiina Lokk will focus on overall strategic and developmental direction and remain CEO of PÖFF, while Dhanushka Gunathilake and Malaika Bova will take on new roles.

Polish filmmaker Łukasz Ronduda explains where the Tear Dealer project in the Rotterdam-premiering film came from and why he, yet again, features artists as characters in his new narrative movie.

Melania Trump’s film is still getting what’s likely to be the widest release of all time at the global box office for a doc, including a revised location count of 1,778 locations in North America and as many as 3,000 cinemas globally.

Xu Zao’s sci-fi feature is set in the distant future in a nearly deserted film studio.

Total ticket sales revenue jumped 32 percent to a record 274.45 billion yen ($1.79 billion) as local megahits drove the world’s third-largest film market past its prior pre-pandemic peak.

Also picked for preservation: ‘The Thing,’ ‘Before Sunrise,’ ‘Frida,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘The Hours,’ while Ken Burns makes the list for the first time.

In his new film, premiering at IFFR, Dutch writer-director Tom Fassaert follows his father and uncle as they look for signs of their long-lost father and explores the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

Adrian Goiginger’s new feature, based on Barbara Pachl-Eberhart’s bestselling book, stars Valerie Pachner and Robert Stadlober, and will debut in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.