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Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: Alain Gomis’s ‘Dao’
[ad_1] Mike Etienne and D’Johé Kouadio in Dao by Alain Gomis. © 2026 – Les Films du Worso – Srab Films – Yennenga Productions…
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‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton Deftly Reframes Painful Indigenous Australian Experience Through the Lens of Classic Western Archetypes
[ad_1] An experienced cinematographer before he turned to directing, Warwick Thornton has a feel for the Central Australian desert and the craggy MacDonnell Ranges…
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Spanish Streamer Filmin and Belgium’s Boucan Board ‘Robbery, Beating & Death’ from ‘This is Not Sweden’ Producer Funicular Films (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Spanish streaming platform Filmin and Belgium’s Boucan Film Production have boarded the series “Robbery, Beating & Death” (“El pitjor atracament de la historia”)…
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‘Lost Embrace’ Creator Daniel Burman on ‘So Far, So Good,’ Male Crisis, Butterflies and What We Leave Behind
[ad_1] Even Pope Francis has a hardback copy of his graphic novel. He has a loving relationship with his glamorous wife, who travels the…
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‘Rosebush Pruning’ Review: Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning Serve up Shallowness With Style in Mixed-Bag Satire
[ad_1] The Pet Shop Boys’ synth-pop banger “Paninaro” is a tongue-in-cheek anthem to hedonistic Italian youth culture of the 1980s, its label-whore obsessions and…
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As Hollywood Shoots Like ‘The Odyssey’ Sail to Morocco, Local Films Venture Into International Waters: ‘We Are a Country of Stories’
[ad_1] Moroccan talent will step into the spotlight at this year’s EFM, crowning a generational growth spurt for the country’s film industry. Long prized…
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Basque Cinema Gets Its Goyas Moment
[ad_1] Ask any Spaniard you know, and they’ll tell you the same thing: The country has its own version of the Oscars, and they’re…
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‘Lali’ Is a Proudly Pakistani and Colorful Film at Berlin, But Dissects a Universal Institution, Marriage
[ad_1] For those gray, dreary Berlin February days, the Berlinale this year is offering a colorful fever dream of a cinematic antidote courtesy of…
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Black Mandala, Red Owl Set Eight Genre Titles for EFM (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Black Mandala Films and Red Owl Films are loading up for Berlin’s European Film Market with eight genre titles spanning Lovecraftian horror, queer…
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‘Only Rebels Win’ Review: Hiam Abbass Brings Her Trademark Elegance to a Familiar May-December Romance
[ad_1] For her latest drama Only Rebels Win, Lebanese-French writer-director Danielle Arbid (Simple Passion, Parisienne, A Lost Man) dusts off an old filmmaking technique,…
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‘Rosebush Pruning’ Producer Gold Rush Pictures Opens German Office, Taps Feo Aladag as Director (Exclusive)
[ad_1] International independent production company and financier Gold Rush Pictures (GRP) is ramping up its European presence with the opening of a new office…
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Queer Southeast Asian Ballroom Doc ’10s Across the Borders’ Boarded by Germany’s Rise and Shine (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] German sales agent and distributor Rise and Shine has picked up international sales rights and German-speaking territories’ distribution rights to “10s Across the…
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MetFilm Boards Sundance Awards Winner ‘To Hold a Mountain’ for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] MetFilm Sales has acquired international sales rights to Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić’s feature documentary “To Hold a Mountain,” which recently received its…
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Sebastian Brameshuber’s ‘London’ Boarded by Square Eyes Ahead of World Premiere at Berlin Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has secured international rights to Sebastian Brameshuber’s “London,” which will have its world premiere in the Panorama strand…
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Berlinale Unveils New Selection Committee
[ad_1] The revamped Berlin International Film Festival continues to take shape, with new festival director Tricia Tuttle on Thursday unveiling a new four-member selection…
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Filmotor Nabs World Sales for Berlinale Title ‘Shahid’ Ahead of Visions du Réel Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
[ad_1] Berlinale Forum entry “Shahid,” the debut feature of Iranian-German filmmaker Narges Kalhor, has been picked up by Prague-based doc specialist Filmotor ahead of…
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In Berlinale Film ‘Paradises of Diane,’ a Woman Abandons Her Baby but Finds Herself: ‘We Don’t Want to Judge Her’
[ad_1] “Paradises of Diane,” which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, came out of an exploration of the “dark side…
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‘No Other Land’ Review: A Frank, Devastating Protest Against Israel’s West Bank Occupation
[ad_1] It is any parent’s hope that their children won’t inherit their battles, or at the very least, that they can pass the generational…
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Isabelle Huppert On The “Unique Experience” Of Working Without A Script On Hong Sangsoo Berlin Title ‘A Traveler’s Needs’
[ad_1] “This might sound very irresponsible, but I don’t know what I’m doing,” South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo told a Berlinale presser this afternoon…
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Emeraude Toubia’s Horror Film ‘Rosario’ Sells to Key World Markets (Exclusive)
[ad_1] Highland Film Group has sold the horror film Rosario to a slew of international territories as the Berlin Film Festival and its market…