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Cannes Film Festival: New Projects and Interviews
French auteur Claire Denis is developing the cannibal crime drama ‘The Soap Maker’ for production. Meanwhile, director Jia Zhang-ke discusses his short film ‘Torino Shadow’ at Cannes, reflecting on cinema’s role in an AI-dominated world.
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Variety
The idea for “Torino Shadow” came to Jia Zhang-ke not while he was making a film, but while he was avoiding one. Exhausted from wandering the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, he would sink into a chair in the vast central lobby and simply listen to the voices drifting from the surrou
2026-05-17 05:20 UTC
Variety
Claire Denis is moving forward with cannibal crime drama “The Soap Maker,” which the French auteur is now set to write and direct. The project, which was first shopped around in 2025 at Berlin’s EFM, has now gained traction with producers Sacha Ben Harroche (“Butterfly Jam”) and Ivy Free
2026-05-17 05:25 UTC