It’s been a whirlwind year for Cypriot filmmaker Myrsini Aristidou, whose 2026 started with a triumphant trip to Park City, where her debut feature, “Hold Onto Me,” won the audience prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance. Then, in September, the film made history when it was tapped to represent Cyprus in the
The 67th Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 5 to 15, has revealed the lineups of its Meet the Neighbors+ and >>Film Forward competition sections. Among the films in the Meet the Neighbors+ section are Blerta Basholli, who won at Sundance with “Hive,” and comes to Thessaloniki with Kosovan War coming-of-age drama “Dua,”
Mubi will theatrically release the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary “Nuisance Bear.” The release begins in Los Angeles on Nov. 6 and will open in New York, Canada and the U.K. on Dec. 4. Per the logline, “Nuisance Bear” “immerses viewers in the experience of a polar bear forced to navigate tourists, wildlife officers,
Stars Collective has acquired the Mandarin-language remake rights to “Thelma,” the 2024 Sundance Film Festival breakout that became Magnolia Pictures’ highest-grossing narrative feature, and is developing an adaptation titled “Grandma, Please.” In “Grandma, Please,” an 80-year-old grandmother is swindled out of her life savings by a scammer who uses AI to clone her late husband’s
