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Radu Jude s Berlin Competition Title Bad Luck Banging Snapped Up by Heretic Outreach (EXCLUSIVE) Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety can reveal. Jude’s latest film is the story of a schoolteacher, Emi (Katia Pascariu), whose life is turned upside down after a sex video shot with her husband is leaked on the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to give in, instead confronting the hypocrisy and prejudice behind Romanian society’s attitudes toward sex. More from Variety “Bad Luck Banging” is produced by Ada Solomon of Romania’s microFILM, in co-production with Paul Thiltges Distributions (Luxembourg), endorfilm (Czech Republic) and Kinorama (Croatia). Photography is by veteran cinematographer and long-time Jude collaborator Marius Panduru (“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” “Aferim!”). ....
Human Factors. Klemens Hufnagl/Sundance Institute This year’s Sundance Film Festival was like no other. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic, the usual red-carpet premieres were replaced by at-home streaming supplemented by screenings at a handful of small venues and drive-ins around the country. That’s not the way most attendees preferred to experience the movies, of course. But the festival’s 2021 selections were still true to the spirit of Sundance, which fosters independent cinema and innovative voices: They served up exciting stories from around the world, mostly of the kind that Hollywood often skips over. The fiction films that made it to Sundance in this weird year ranged from thrillers to dramas to heartwarming comedies; soon, many of them will be (or already have been) bought by distributors and streaming services. ....
(The article continues below - Commercial information) This new drama, penned by the director himself, revolves around a wealthy, cosmopolitan family from an unnamed German city – probably Berlin – headed by parents Nina ( Sabine Timoteo) and Jan ( Jule Hermann) and her younger brother Max ( Wanja Valentin Kube), the owner of a small pet rat called Zorro. In the first few scenes, we see the family getting ready to spend a weekend in their holiday home, when their getaway is suddenly interrupted by a burglary, after which Zorro mysteriously disappears. From the very beginning, both the actors’ performances and the gloomy visual atmosphere instil in the viewer the feeling that something very wrong is going to happen imminently and that the protagonists have a wealth of secrets to hide. Except for the sudden burglary – which we don’t see happening on screen, but which we do hear through Nina’s screams and someone’s footsteps – the first third of th ....
Human Factors Director Ronny Trocker on Social Media Malaise and Multi-Language Moviemaking Nick Vivarelli, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director Ronny Trocker, whose second feature “Human Factors” world-premiered at Sundance on Jan. 29 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, was born in Bolzano, Italy, capital city of the autonomous province of South Tyrol where German is the first language of most of the population. Early in his career, Trocker moved to Berlin where he worked as a sound engineer before studying film in Argentina, followed by more film studies in France. He now lives and works mainly in Brussels. Just like the family in which Trocker grew up, different languages are spoken throughout this pic, which follows a French-German married couple both work in advertising whose both lives are disrupted by a mysterious break-in at their country getaway. Trocker spoke to ....