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The kids in Ilkay Idiskut’s third grade class are, as they let you know within about five minutes of Ruth Beckermann‘s delightful Berlin Encounters…

Austrian director Ruth Beckermann's "Favoriten" delivers a vibrant portrait of a Viennese grade-school class over the course of three years.

10 potential standouts at Valladolid, from the better known – ‘All of Us Strangers’ – to the currently unknown in multiple Spanish premieres.

Courtesy of Lou Scramble; Thomas Niedermueller/WireImage The Canadian auteur rarely strays from a fixed-camera tableau and socially distanced characters on screen, even though his 13th film has been six years in the making, well before the COVID-19 crisis. Denis Cotes absurdist French language comedy Social Hygiene opens with a wide shot of Antonin, a philosopher-cum-petty thief, standing in a field more than two meters from his long-suffering sister Solvieg in a scene dominated by a lush Queb...

Gagarine Sales Agent Totem Films Boards Berlin Competition Entry Ballad of a White Cow (EXCLUSIVE) John Hopewell, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Paris-based Totem Films announced Friday that it is handling sales on Iranian Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam’s Berlin Film Festival competition entry, “Ballad of a White Cow.” Totem Films will bring the drama onto the market at early March’s European Film Market (EFM). The pick-up is sure to draw attention. Launched in 2019 by Agathe ...