Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani didn’t expect to wind up in competition at Berlin. The duo behind Golden Bear contender “Reflections in a Dead Diamond” are avowed cult filmmakers, having spent the past decade honing a giallo-influenced style to the delight of a loyal,
German production company Augenschein has just added “The Weight,” starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe, to its slate. Company founders Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo talk to Variety about how they made the shift from foreign-language arthouse fare to English-language elevated genre movies, with stars
FilmSharks has scored several new distribution deals, including in North America, for David Bisbano’s Argentine animated pic “Dalia and the Red Book” ahead of the film’s global rollout. Vision Films has acquired all North American rights, with plans for a 2025 release in the second
Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his third feature, “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” which premieres Feb. 20 in the Berlinale Special strand. A deeply autobiographical work, the film is an artful meditation on dislocation and belonging that blurs the lines
It was welcome — perhaps even surprising — news for Hungarian moviegoers to discover that two home-grown productions were sitting at the top of the box office at the start of the year: “Gone Running,” Gábor Herendi’s local remake of the Czech romantic comedy “Women on
On a recent winter morning in Fót, on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán presided over a parade of officials and film industry luminaries at the ribbon-cutting of the new-look NFI Studios, the historic state-run complex that celebrated its official relaunch after a years-long push to
One of France’s foremost doc feature producers, Paris-based Les Films d’ici, has boarded “Who We Are” (“Qui som”). A buzz title at Berlin’s Spain in Focus showcase, “Who We Are” is being presented by its Spanish producers Materia Cinema, which co-financed Ira Sachs’ Sundance/Berlin player
Alex Kahuam, director of the one-take thriller “Failure!,” starring Ted Raimi, has officially launched a new Los Angeles-based shingle, Kahuam Films. Kahuam, who premiered “Failure!” at the Cannes Film Market’s Fantastic Pavilion Gala Screenings in 2023, is currently finishing up work on his fifth feature