Norway has submitted Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) as its contender for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards (2026).
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Takahide Hori’s Stop-Motion ‘Junk World’ Enters Midnight Madness at TIFF | Trailers
Here is a trailer for Junk World, the latest film from stop-motion auteur Takahide Hori, set to make its International premiere in the Midnight Madness program at Toronto International Film Festival. The film is a prequel set more than a millennium before Junk Head, Hori’s underground cult hit.
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‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ wins LGBT Sebastiane Latino Award
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco) by Diego Céspedes The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco), the debut feature film from Chilean moviemaker Diego Céspedes, has won the Sebastiane Award given by Gehitu, the Basque Association of Gays, Lesbians, Transsexuals and Bisexuals, and presented at the upcoming San Sebastian Festival.
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Francis Ford Coppola to Honor Werner Herzog at Venice Film Festival
Francis Ford Coppola receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 1992 at the 49th Venice Film Festival. (courtesy Venice Film Festival) 
Werner Herzog (courtesy of Lena Herzog) Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Megalopolis) will honor director Werner Herzog with the “Laudatio” speech at the special ceremony where he will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the Opening Ceremony of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
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Satisfied Trailer – Hamilton Star Renée Elise Goldsberry Shares Personal Battles in Revealing Documentary
Here is the official trailer for Satisfied, an intimate documentary on the dual journey of Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tony and Grammy-winning star of Hamilton, as she battles the rigors of Broadway fame while striving to build a family. The film explores her life-changing experience originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, while simultaneously navigating her path to motherhood and balancing the competing demands of career and family.
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 Trailer – Raoul Peck Explores George Orwell’s Life in Haunting Documentary
In his latest documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Exterminate All the Brutes) explores George Orwell’s life, legacy, writing and its haunting relevance to our current times. The film features the voice of Damian Lewis as Orwell.
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Germany Submits ‘Sound of Falling’ for Oscar for Best International Feature Film
Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) by Mascha Schilinski Germany has officially selected Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) as its submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards. The announcement was made by German Films, the national cinema organization.
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‘The Lost Bus’ Trailer – Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera Saves School Children from California Fire in White-knuckle Thriller
Apple debuted the trailer for The Lost Bus, the survival thriller film starring Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez, Spencer Watson and Ashlie Atkinson.
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Thailand Submits ‘A Useful Ghost’ for Oscar for Best International Feature Film
Thailand earlier this week selected Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature A Useful Ghost (Phi Chidi Kha) as the country’s submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards.
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Yoav Potash’s ‘Among Neighbors’ WW II Holocaust Documentary Heads to Theaters | Trailer
Using hand-drawn animation to bring the past to life, the documentary Among Neighbors investigates the story of a small, rural Polish town where the longstanding peace between Jewish and Polish neighbors was shattered by World War II. The film focuses on one of the last living Holocaust survivors from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there — six months after the Nazis were defeated.
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