Photo: Coen Dijkstra / IDFA
The Dutch director of The Clearing took the €50,000 (about $55,300) award on IDFA’s opening night in Amsterdam, before the world premiere of a Canadian documentary about Myanmar’s armed resistance.
Photo: Ondine Goat, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
UK cinemas sold 15% more tickets in the first nine months of the year, while spending on new UK film shoots fell 37%. ITV is cutting programme budgets, and France may cap its film fund.
Read the analysis: Cinema ticket sales are up in 2026, but money to make new films is falling in the UKUK and France, figures published 9–11 November 2026
Cinema ticket sales are up; production budgets are down or facing cuts
Different measures and markets, shown side by side, not added together. The CNC cap is a proposal, not law.
Sources: BFI; ITV plc; Cour des comptes. Full data and method below.
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Box office outside North America and China is back in dollars, not tickets. Who’s winning?Photo: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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Mexico supplies nearly half the regional total for the once-shelved Looney Tunes film. Digital rental comes next, then Telecine in Brazil and Prime Video.
Spain’s Oscar entry faces films by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Coixet and Marta Matute for best film. The producers’ awards, which open Spain’s awards season, are handed out in Madrid on 19 December.
The ARK FSB Funcine will put about 30% into each of at least seven ARK films, starting with a Carmen Miranda biopic. Fund data shows it has no investors yet.
The four-part Portugal–Brazil series about the 2006 killing of a trans woman in Porto drew €90,761 from Portugal’s cash rebate, a third of its calculated award, state records show.
The first film in the series since 2009 is financed by the rights owners themselves, with Cineverse taking North America. Nobody has yet been named to sell it in the rest of the world.
The Finnish director wants a first film in 2027 and seven to 10 within five years, with Colin Trevorrow and Tim Miller as advisers and fans able to invest through Republic Film.
The 57th International Film Festival of India runs 20–28 November. Its 15-film competition reportedly includes three Indian titles, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar each co-produced six listed films.
A Georgian film in post-production and a North Macedonian project in development took the top prizes at the Thessaloniki festival’s industry awards. Projects from Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon–Jordan won five of the ten co-production forum awards.
MD Pictures’ Danur: The Last Chapter and Janur Ireng lead the package, with releases across North and South America through 2027. No price was disclosed.
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