
‘Our Village From the Moon,’ courtesy of IDFA
Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, two Gen Z creatives-led horror stories, have proven the concept that viral online video creators can conquer the box office. And Pedro Pina, vp, YouTube, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), thinks that they will be followed by more successful moves from the online into the cinema world.
He shared that forecast on the opening day of the sixth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria in Spain’s capital, Madrid, on Tuesday in a keynote appearance entitled “YouTube: The Strategic Ally of the Audiovisual System.”
“We can see that creators are defining and shaping the culture. As a result, the cultural impact that we have is phenomenal,” Pina touted. “And you also see, from a cinema standpoint, a huge impact. [The creators of] Obsession and Backrooms, as you know, were YouTubers who decided to go into the box office [business] … – and they were a tremendous success this year. And I would expect to see more and more of these examples [at] the Emmys and Oscars” in the coming years.
Pina on Tuesday also explained YouTube’s recent focus on positioning itself as a partner to media and entertainment content companies. “The objective of being here at this event, as well as so many others … is to really show up and really explain how our model works,” he highlighted. “The majority of people in the industry, unfortunately, don’t understand it as much, and that’s 100 percent our fault. We never spent enough time explaining to the industry how we work, how you can monetize.”
The result? “To a point, a lot of people were afraid of YouTube. They had fear of YouTube mostly because they did not understand how the platform works, how their content could be protected, how it could reach new audiences, and why it works to monetize,” Pina continued. “Once you start breaking down that information and providing examples and showing the way, you see more and more people starting to look at this. So we started this journey roughly three years ago.”
And YouTube has seen the benefit of making its narrative heard. “The amount of content uploaded by traditional players is increasing now,” Pina concluded.
Earlier in the Iberseries day, Amazon MGM Studios executives discussed the success of the Mercedes Ron young adult novel adaptations and Spanish zombie horror film Apocalypse Z, while Parrot Analytics shared data trends and estimates for the subscriber impact of Netflix’s Argentina hit series The Eternaut. The industry gathering runs through Friday.
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Saturday Night Live UK has gone big with its trio of next hosts.
Danny Dyer, James Norton and three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo will take the reins of the next episodes of Sky’s hit, taking it up to the mid-season break before more eps in 2027.
Having recently won a BAFTA for Sky’s Mr Bigstuff, Rivals actor Dyer’s star has been on the up of late. Norton’s credits include Happy Valley, McMafia and House of Guinness, while Erivo has been three-times Oscar nominated and is best known for her leading role in the Wicked films.
The trio will be joined by musical guests Sasha Keable, The Streets and Blossoms respectively.
Now into Season 2, SNL UK is establishing itself on Sky on Saturday nights. Guests hosts so far this season have been Jeff Goldblum, Jamie Demetriou and Amela Dimoldenberg.
Last week’s Dimoldenberg-hosted ep kicked off with cold open in which Prime Minister Andy Burnham almost joined Oasis, before discovering the Gallagher brothers were Russian spies.
SNL UK is produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio’s UK production team and Broadway Video for Sky and NOW. Lorne Michaels serves as EP. James Longman is lead producer. UTAS UK Productions is overseen by Helen Kruger Bratt. Andy Charles Smith serves as lead producer for UTAS UK Productions with Shanna Baynard as exec in charge of production alongside Hannah Peddar, production executive. SNL UK was commissioned by Phil Edgar-Jones, Alex Moody and Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
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The 2026 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which takes place Nov. 12-22, has added more than 100 films to its program, including in its IDFA Competition for Short Documentary.
The Dutch doc fest has also added to its Best of Fests, Signed and Paradocs programs, while unveiling first projects for its new media program DocLab.
The IDFA Competition for Short Documentary “celebrates the versatility of the form, with 15 films that use creativity and imagination to push the boundaries of short documentary,” organizers said on Tuesday. “Together, they form a mosaic of styles, themes, and perspectives, driven by ambitious directors with singular cinematic voices and strong artistic visions.”
Among the titles are a tragicomic portrait of humanity and its fallibility, The Bus of Broken Hearts by Björn Carlberg and Johan Palmgren, which follows the world’s biggest cross-country ski race, where thousands of disheartened participants fail to make it to the finish line. Several titles turn their attention to the act of looking itself, including Perihan Incegöz’s Our Village From the Moon, set in the aftermath of an earthquake in southern Turkey, and PICNIC – In Light Invisible to the Human Eye by Jan Ijäs, which “follows Israeli tourists who travel to the border of Gaza to make a spectacle of the devastation of the Palestinian people.”

‘Our Village From the Moon,’ courtesy of IDFA
IDFA DocLab, in its 20th anniversary edition, will feature two films that the Netherlands Film Fund and IDFA DocLab have selected for the 2026 Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant: The Love Files by Sanne De Wilde and Samir Veen, which invites audiences to step inside and critically review a “love file” application for a residence permit, and All the Downtime by Ant Hampton, immersing audiences in an algorithm-led distribution center, just as a power outage disrupts the order and gives way for creative disorder.
Also set for the IDFA DocLab and Tamara Shogaolu’s The Invisible Woman, a VR opera that recovers the story of Francisca de Angola, a 17th-century Black woman in Amsterdam, and Polymorf’s Microbiome Restaurant, with two sensory experiences exploring the human body as an ecosystem. Other projects include Orgasmagoria and Archive Arcade.
Signed “showcases the latest cinematic adventures of some of the most original filmmakers of our time,” and its selection of films “celebrates those with a unique artistic signature, beyond the canon,” IDFA highlighted. “The selection reflects on lives lost, those left behind, and what remains after upheaval.”
Among this year’s Signed films are Michal Marczak’s Closure, following a father in search of his missing son along the Vistula River near Warsaw, Ava DuVernay’s 14th, tracing the legacy of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Guillaume Massart’s Detention, about a French prison officers’ training school, and They’re Here by Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller, an account of the show of force by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
And in Wild Asparagus, Avi Mograbi returns to his archives of a visit to Palestinian village Saffuriya with his friend Ali Al-Azhari, giving new meaning to decades-old footage.
Meanwhile, IDFA’s Best of Fests section will present 59 titles spanning diverse styles and genres and engaging with some of the world’s most pressing topics. Among them are Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals for a Revolution, Ahmed Hassouna’s Citizen Osama, Lukas Marxt’s >1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World, The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer by Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Concrete Land by Asmahan Bkerat.
Paradocs, in which visual artists and filmmakers
present their explorations in non-fiction filmmaking, will this year feature 16 titles exploring the world “through bold formal experimentation,
genre-bending, and unexpected perspectives,” Amsterdam organizers said. “A hedonistic escape to a melting glacier is interrupted by apocalyptic climate change and existential anxiety in Susanne Regina Meures’s Eternity – adapting Florentina Holzinger’s performance art to the screen. In The Case Against Space, Graeme Arnfield offers a reconstruction of the first ‘strike’ in space, reframing the astronaut hero through a critical lens on capitalism and surveillance.”
Also, Johann Lurf’s Forever…Forever presents a vision of the cosmos in motion, with an ever-accelerating timelapse of the sun’s path filmed over 22 months. Plus, Ãsheghetam by Filmsaaz blends computer animation, fiction, and documentary in a kaleidoscopic portrait of queer love in Tehran, while in Together, ecofeminist art collective Neozoon uses archival and social media footage to explore the tension between communal life and the desire for private property.
Check out all the titles selected for the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and Signed below.
IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
all that appears solid is built on blood, dir. Izdihar Afyouni, Gelare Khoshgozaran, (Palestine/United Kingdom/United States), 11’ – International Premiere
All the Hands I’ve Let Go, Laura Chará (Colombia/France), 23’ – International Premiere
Another Sky, Evi Cats (Belgium), 15’ – World Premiere
The Bus of Broken Hearts, Björn Carlberg, Johan Palmgren (Sweden/Finland), 34’ – International Premiere
Canina, Néstor López (Spain), 17’ – World Premiere
Certainties, Calum Walter (United States), 14’ – International Premiere
Eye Sun, Maricé Castañeda (Peru), 19’ – World Premiere
From a Vertebral Collapse Mountains Arose, Giovanni Benini (Italy/Belgium), 11’ – World Premiere
Man of Seed, María Abenia (Spain), 33’ – World Premiere
One Early Morning, the Alligator Swallowed Me, Nicolás Palacio (Colombia), 16’ – World Premiere
Our Village From the Moon, Perihan Incegöz (Switzerland/Turkey), 14’ – World Premiere
PICNIC – In Light Invisible to the Human Eye, Jan Ijäs (Finland), 26’ – International Premiere
Six Weeks, 3 Days, and All the Years Before, Ankita Gusain (India), 15’ – World Premiere
Spectators, Stanislavs Tokalovs, Betija Zvejniece (Latvia), 18’ – World Premiere
The Unabsorbed Past, yietnu (Yi Zhang, Nu Ha) (France/China), 26’ – World Premiere
Signed
14th, Ava DuVernay (United States) – Dutch Premiere
Alea, Jacarandas Hassen Ferhani (Algeria, France) – Dutch Premiere
Bára – Diary of a Rockstar, Helena Třeštíková (Czech Republic) – Dutch Premiere
Becoming Bird, Jan van IJken (Netherlands) – Dutch Premiere
Boatbuilders, Luke Lorentzen (United States) – Dutch Premiere
Closure, Michal Marczak (Poland) – Dutch Premiere
Dao, Alain Gomis (France, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau) – Dutch Premiere
Detention, Guillaume Massart (France) – Dutch Premiere
Elegy for the Forgotten, on an Endless War, Bani Khoshnoudi (Iran, France) – Dutch Premiere
Father’s House, Adam Nielsen, Eva Mulvad, Andreas Koefoed (Denmark) – Dutch Premiere
Flamenco Sketches, Isaki Lacuesta (Spain) – International Premiere
For the Moon, Éric Baudelaire (France) – Dutch Premiere
Ghazal-e Sorkh, Maryam Tafakory (Iran, United Kingdom) – Dutch Premiere
Going Home, Kamal Aljafari (Germany, Palestine) – Dutch Premiere
Hanabi, Ana Vaz (France, Brazil) – Dutch Premiere
Holy Wood Dust, Victor Kossakovsky (Italy, Spain, Germany) – Dutch Premiere
Letters From the Silenced Country, Andrei Kutsila (Poland, Lithuania, Germany) – Dutch Premiere
Lo que en nosotros calla, Carmen Castillo (France, Chile, Switzerland) – Dutch Premiere
Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, Kamal Aljafari (Germany, France, Japan) – Dutch Premiere
My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile, Julia Loktev (United States) – Dutch Premiere
Once Upon a Time in Harlem, William Greaves, David Greaves (United States) – Dutch Premiere
The Price of the Sun, Jérôme le Maire (Belgium, France) – Dutch Premiere
The Revolution Against Death, Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Sweden) – Dutch Premiere
Revolutionaries Never Die, Mohanad Yaqubi (Palestine, Belgium, Qatar) – Dutch Premiere
A Stolen Movie, Camilo Restrepo (Colombia) – Dutch Premiere
They’re Here, Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Mueller (United States) – Dutch Premiere
Time and Water, Sara Dosa (Iceland, United States) – Dutch Premiere
Tutu, Sam Pollard (United Kingdom) – Dutch Premiere
Union Town, Barbara Kopple (United States) – Dutch Premiere
Wild Asparagus, Avi Mograbi (Portugal, France) – Dutch Premiere
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Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he his thinking about life after Diddly Squat Farm.
The British presenter has just wrapped Season 6 of Clarkson’s Farm for Amazon Prime Video, but said he was uncertain about whether the show would continue for another season (though he did not completely rule out a renewal).
Speaking at the Royal Television Society London Convention, Clarkson said his thoughts had turned to developing a new “unbelievably ambitious” show, though he did not offer any specifics.
“We wrapped Season 6 of Clarkson’s Farm final yesterday, and Season 7 is kind of [like]: ‘What are we going to do?’” Clarkson said he is thinking about “fewer, bigger, better” ideas that can cut through with audiences.
“We’re currently thinking about what we do after Clarkson’s Farm, and it’s going to have to be something bigger to stand out to protect us from this onslaught from [social media content] underneath. It has to be unbelievably ambitious,” he said.
Clarkson added: “It’s very difficult to make a television show work unless you’re cooking on the moon or doing something incredible, and that’s where I think television has to get bigger, lose scheduling, and get bigger.”
The former Grand Tour and Top Gear host added that British broadcasters, including the BBC and Channel 4, have to consolidate to survive. He advocated for a “BritFlix” streaming service, which can carry clout with UK audiences.
Clarkson’s Farm has become one of Amazon Prime Video’s biggest UK success stories. Season 5 followed Clarkson as he was diagnosed with cancer and suffered a heart scare. He later said his cancer was in remission.
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