Grimmfest 2025: UK Genre Fest Reveals Full Line-up

Our friends at Grimmfest have revealed the full lineup for this year’s festival, to be held at the Oden Great Northern in Manchester, from October 9th through to the 12th. Always a perfect primer for spooky season this year’s seventeenth edition comes with the expected thrills and chills the festival is known for.    This year’s festival boasts four world premieres including locally made thriller Past Life, directed by  the festival’s director himself, Simeon Halligan. The thing that we appreciated about Grimmfest’s lineups is that they don’t go for all the greatest hits from the festival circuit, rather choosing a lot of titles that we’re not familiar with, yet.   Two titles that do jump out to us are Don’t Leave Kids Alone, the LatAm horror…

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos by Jake Schreier. Currently Jake Schreier is Hollywood’s (and especially Marvel’s) new go-to-guy, after the moderate success of Thunderbolts, and being tapped for the X-men-reboot. However modest his beginnings, with the small indie-drama Robot and Frank and the young adult-adaptation Paper Towns, he was the buzz of the town because of some of his music videos. His music videos show a singular voice and vision that doesn’t necessarily translate that well to his feature film work, but the echoes of which still can be felt in some instances. Let’s go over why Jake Schreier’s music video work is well worth…

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Ben Rivers’ film envisions a quietly unsettling world shaped by children, offering a reflective counterpoint to conventional post-apocalyptic stories.

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Jacqueline Zünd´s fiction debut, set in a nocturnal world rendered uninhabitable by climate collapse, follows a professional emotional surrogate whose carefully managed detachment begins to unravel when he’s hired to play the father of a withdrawn young girl.

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Locarno’s First Look industry showcase turned its 14th edition spotlight on Canadian cinema, unveiling six diverse works in progress that underline the country’s growing ambition and international reach.

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New generation of filmmakers unveiled projects that blur fiction and documentary, reclaim overlooked histories, and probe urgent social questions, offering international partners early access to bold, globally resonant storytelling at Locarno’s Story Lab Pitching Session.

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Producer Ed Guiney and director Radu Jude offered international film professionals a candid set of lessons on how trust, transparency, and the creative use of constraints can define, and ultimately strengthen, the producer-director relationship.

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Jackie Chan’s Locarno talk offered a rare, practical breakdown of how creative control, cultural awareness, and long-term strategy can shape a sustainable career.

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Canada used its spotlight at Locarno Pro to signal that international co-production is no longer an exception but a growing norm, backed by modernized treaties, robust financing, and globally competitive tax incentives.

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Eduardo Casanova, the evocative director of a ScreenAnarchy favorite, La Piedad/La Pieta, has set out unto the World their new project, Silence.   Silence reimagines the vampire myth to explore queer identity, HIV stigma, and social silence, spanning the Black Death and the AIDS crisis in 1980s Spain.   Casanova is returning to Fantastic Fest with a series this time, and a queer vampire one at that. Silence premiered at the 78th Locarno Film Festival last weekend and they will bring it to the 20th anniversary edition of Fantastic Fest where their last film, La Piedad won Best Film at the fest.    Casanova has evoked emotions with striking visuals in the past. Hearing that the director shot this series on 16mm just makes us…

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