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		<title>Raindance Sets Full 34th Edition Lineup, Adds Best Horror Feature Prize as Festival Expands Competition Slate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 34th Raindance Film Festival has unveiled its complete program, with 85 narrative and documentary features, 112 short films and 27 immersive projects set for the June 17–26 run in London. Forty-eight of the features – 56% of the total – come from first-time directors, and a new best horror feature prize has been added [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Female Film Club Returns to Cannes With Expanded Short Film Fund (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Female Film Club has unveiled the second edition of its Global Short Film Fund at the Cannes Film Festival, with an expanded prize package worth €33,000 ($38,600) and three new industry partners: AI filmmaking platform IMGN.AI, post-production house Disauthority and virtual production company Mo-Sys. The fund – announced by Variety at Cannes 2025 – [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Karlovy Vary Film Festival Celebrates 80th Birthday With Special Cannes Luncheon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Ritman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 07:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival toasted its 80th birthday in style during the Cannes Film Festival with a bustling luncheon —&#160;complete with a giant birthday cake —&#160;on the beach. Variety participated in the event,&#160;held at Plage Des Palmes, in partnership with the festival. On hand to lead the celebrations were the Karlovy Vary chair [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jordan Firstman&#8217;s&#8217;Club Kid&#8217; Scores $17 Million Global Rights Deal From A24 After Heated Cannes Bidding War</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jordan-firstman-club-kid-sells-a24-cannes-bidding-war-1236751831/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Dunn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 07:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A24 is officially taking &#8220;Club Kid&#8221; home from the afters. Jordan Firstman&#8217;s dramedy, an official selection of this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, has notched a major sale &#8212; $17 million, per three sources &#8212; after a weekend of heated bidding in the South of France. Topic Studios financed and produced the project, and A24 has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Berlinale Title &#8216;Light Pillar&#8217; Acquired by Greenwich Entertainment for U.S. Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to &#8220;Light Pillar,&#8221; the debut feature from Chinese director and screenwriter Xu Zao. The Shanghai-based Fengduan Pictures production world-premiered in the Perspectives section of the Berlin Film Festival and will receive a theatrical release across the country early next year. The 2D animated film incorporates live-action sequences featuring [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kylie Minogue on Opening Up for a Netflix Docuseries, Refusing to Be &#8216;Boxed In&#8217; and Navigating &#8217;90s Tabloids: &#8216;Thankfully, I Gave Myself a Chance&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellise Shafer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kylie Minogue cannot be summed up easily. A three-decade career with era-defining tracks. An unmistakable aura that makes it feel like you know her. And a knack for constant reinvention that defies expectations, from “I Should Be So Lucky” to “Padam Padam.” So &#8220;Kylie,&#8221; out on Netflix Wednesday, does not try to do so. Instead, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From TikTok to Cannes: How &#8216;Elephants in the Fog&#8217; Made Nepal&#8217;s Historic Un Certain Regard Breakthrough</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/abinash-bikram-shah-elephants-in-the-fog-cannes-interview-1236752119/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During Nepal&#8217;s pandemic lockdowns, Abinash Bikram Shah found himself deep in a TikTok rabbit hole, watching videos posted by Kinnars &#8211; members of Nepal&#8217;s ancient third-gender community &#8211; dancing, joking, performing with unselfconscious joy. The comment sections beneath those videos were frequently vile. The Kinnars kept posting. &#8220;That really struck me,&#8221; Shah tells Variety. &#8220;I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Gloria’ Star Paulina García Preps Directorial Debut, ‘The Passion According to Carmen’ (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/global/paulina-garcia-debut-the-passion-according-to-carmen-1236750310/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Marie de la Fuente]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 06:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chile’s Paulina García, winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear for her performance in Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” is poised to direct her first feature, “The Passion According to Carmen&#8221; (“La Pasión según Carmen”). Described as “the coming-of-age story of an adult woman” it follows Carmen, a journalist, whose life appears – at least on the surface [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Palme d’Or Winner Juanjo Giménez Sets &#8216;Pínkala&#8217; With Pol López, Frida Films (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/global/juanjo-gimenez-pinkala-frida-films-cannes-1236751399/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emeza805]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 06:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spanish filmmaker Juanjo Giménez Peña, whose 2016 “Timecode” won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for best short and later earned an Academy Award nomination, is set to begin shooting his new feature “Pínkala&#8221; this July in Vigo, Spain. The supernatural love story stars Pol López and is produced by Frida Films alongside M-Films (Lithuania) and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Circle, Onassis ONX Launch XR Program, Name Emmy Winner Katerina Cizek Head of Studies (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/news/circle-expanded-orbit-xr-programme-onassis-onx-katerina-cizek-1236752109/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 06:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Circle, the training platform for women and gender-expansive filmmakers, is moving into XR and immersive media with a new international program developed alongside Onassis ONX. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentarian Katerina Cizek has been appointed head of studies for the initiative. &#8220;Circle Expanded Orbit&#8221; will run Nov. 21–26, in Athens, bringing together creators working across [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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