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Or Sinai’s debut feature, Mama, tells a story of geographic and emotional displacement that resonates with a long tradition of global cinema focused on migrant labor. The film introduces us to its protagonist, Mila, a Polish woman whose life is neatly, if painfully, bisected. We first meet her in Israel, working as a live-in housekeeper within the bright, spacious, and modern home of a wealthy family.

The power dynamics are a masterclass in subtlety; her employers, Yaffa and Gideon, treat her with a casual kindness that barely conceals her station as a paid servant. The arrangement recalls the complex employer-servant relationships often explored in Indian cinema, where affection and obligation are intertwined with class hierarchy. A simple line from Yaffa, “my dress looks good on you,” is delivered with a smile but lands with the weight of ownership, a quiet reminder that Mila’s very appearance is borrowed.

Yet...

Evgenia Dodina and Martin Ogbu in Mama. Or Sinai on the migrant workers she spoke to when researching her script: 'They build these temporary identities – her life is full, even in Israel' Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

The two worlds of a Polish migrant worker are explored in Or Sinai’s impressive debut film Mama. Mila (Evgenia Dodina), works for an upper middle-class couple in Israel, a long-standing arrangement which has also seen her strike up an affair with the gardener (Martin Ogbu), but after a minor accident, she is sent home to Poland to recuperate, where she finds reconnecting with her husband (Arkadiusz Jakubik) and young adult daughter Kasia (Katarzyna Łubik) is not as simple as she had hoped. Sinai’s film explores familial love and the stresses placed upon it by migrant work from an unusual angle that retains sympathy for all the characters involved. We caught...

“Mama,” director Or Sinai’s first narrative feature, proves the filmmaker as a keen character observer. Inspired by stories she heard from migrant Eastern European women working in Israel, the film follows Mila (Evgenia Dodina), a housekeeper for a rich family providing for those she left back in Poland. When an unexpected accident forces her home, she discovers that her family doesn’t need her as much as she thought they did. But while “Mama” is a revelatory character study of a fascinating woman, it resorts a few too many times to melodramatic flourishes that undercut where its power lies.

Above all, Sinai’s film is a social drama, concerned with its characters’ economic plight and attuned to what rights are denied to them. Mila is first shown in the big, lavish house owned by the family she serves. Her position there becomes apparent to the audience by the dismissive,...

While current topics tend to occupy our attention and drain the creative juices of the filmmakers trying to stay on top of the trends, others, more universal ones, often get neglected for a period of time. Sometimes, only sometimes, the most authentic and universal things remain hidden in plain sight, often behind a generic title. Both of the claims from previous sentences stand firmly in the only Israeli-led co-production at this year’s Cannes, Mama, which premiered in Cannes Special programme.

For her first fiction feature, Or Sinai reunites with Evgenia Dodina, the lead actress of her award-winning short Anna (2015). Dodina steps in the titular role of Mila, the main breadwinner for her Polish family. We meet her in Israel, where she works for a wealthy couple, Yaffa (Cheli Goldenberg) and Gideon (Meir Swisa), as a housekeeper. At the moment, she is also having a clumsy, but gentle fling with.

Exclusive: Italian sales firm Intramovies has boarded world sales rights excluding Israel and Poland on Or Sinai’s Mama, which was selected as a Cannes Special Screenings title in the Official Selection yesterday.

Mama is the only Israeli title in Official Selection at Cannes this year. The Hebrew- and Polish-language film follows Mila, a woman forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion – and her secret romance – to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.

Adi Bar Yossef produces the film, which is a co-production between her Israeli company Baryo,...

Exclusive: At this month’s London TV Screenings, Keshet International (Ki) will launch international sales on a global thriller it is describing as its “most ambitious drama in terms of budget and scale” to date.

Inspired by true events, Keshet 12’s Unconditional from Dana Idisis charts how a mother-daughter vacation turns into a nightmare when 25-year-old Gali (Talia Linne Ronn) is arrested for drug smuggling in Moscow. Her mother, Orna (Liraz Chamami), refuses to accept the charges— but her fight for Gali’s freedom pulls her into a deadly web of crime and corruption.

The series was announced a couple years back on a weighty Keshet scripted slate and the Israeli major’s distribution boss Kelly Wright describes the show that filmed in India, Georgia and Israel as its “most ambitious drama in terms of budget and scale.” Sales of both finished tape and format will launch with an episode...

Jodie Comer is killing it at the Emmys. For her turn as the skilled, maniacal assassin Villanelle/Oksana Astankova on BBC America’s “Killing Eve,” the actress just scared up her second consecutive (and career) nomination in Best Drama Actress, the category in which she took home the statuette for the series’ sophomore installment at last year’s awards. Now, Comer is gunning to assassinate her competition once more with her submission to Emmy voters, “Are You from Pinner?,” season 3’s fifth episode.

In this installment, Villanelle travels to Russia to visit her offbeat extended family, which is both surprised and suspicious upon her surprising arrival. While Villanelle – or more suiting, Oksana – bonds with her hermit-like brother Pyotr (Rob Feldman) and her Elton John-obsessed half-brother Bor’ka (Temirlan Blaev), tension between her and her mother Tatiana (Evgenia Dodina) is instantly detectable. That doesn’t, however, stop her from playing a “bloody” prank on her,...

The Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-Winning Global Sensation Killing Eve, Season 3 from BBC America will be available on DVD and Blu-ray September 15th with exciting bonus features including behind-the-scenes featurettes. Now you can win the Win the DVD of Killing Eve, Season 3. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite Sandra Oh performance is. (mine’s Sideways It’s so easy!)

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Starring Acclaimed actors Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess)

AMC Networks’ Rlje Filmsfeatures the DVD/Blu-ray debut of BBC America’s must-see drama Killing Eve, Season 3 on September 15, 2020. Nominated for eight Primetime Emmys® (including Outstanding Drama Series and two nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series), this thrilling 8-episode series is the...

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Killing Eve” Season 3, Episode 5, “Are You from Pinner?”]

Most famous actors get used to fans screaming “I love you!” or seeing similar affections pop up on social media. But after breaking out as the beguiling assassin in BBC America’s hit drama “Killing Eve,” Jodie Comer gets slightly more targeted requests.

How does the actress behind Villanelle respond when fans ask her to “stab me to death with those stilettos?”

“I don’t!” Comer said, during a phone call with IndieWire. “The thing is: I couldn’t be more different from her. I’ve got no coordination, and I’m so clumsy and fall on my own feet. So if they want me to kill them, it would not be as cool as Villanelle. It would be awful.”

As for her violent character’s mysterious allure, Comer thinks she offers viewers a vicarious thrill.

“There’s always that element of,...

The following contains major spoilers for Killing Eve season 3 episode 5.

Just about every week on Killing Eve is a big, momentous occasion. Still, it’s not every week on Killing Eve that someone (This Is Your Final Spoiler Warning) kills their own mom…or mum if you prefer. And on Mother’s Day no less!

That’s exactly what happens in Killing Eve season 3 episode 5 “Are You From Pinner?” when Oksana Astankova a.k.a. Villanelle visits her old Russian stomping grounds (with Romania serving as a stand-in for “Mother Russia”) and tries to reconnect with her family. Suffice it to say, some reunions go better than others.

“Obviously what happens is enormous to her in terms of who she is and her upbringing,” Killing Eve season 3 lead writer Suzanne Heathcote told Den of Geek prior to the season’s premiere, in a masterclass of understatement.

This Russian interlude is...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Are You From Pinner?” the fifth episode of the third season of “Killing Eve.”

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) just committed her most personal murder to date. But it was not one she took lightly.

In the fifth episode of the third season of “Killing Eve,” the spotlight was entirely on Villanelle as she returned to Russia and reconnected with her mother (Evgenia Dodina), brother Pyotr (Rob Feldman) and their extended family, which now included a stepfather and stepbrothers. By the end of the episode she had deeply bonded with the youngest in the family, Bor’ka (Temi Blaev) — but murdered her mother and caused an explosion in the house.

But, it was a murder that was kept off-screen. The episode went from seeing Villanelle reluctantly tell her mother, “I think I have to kill you” to seeing her mother’s...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the fifth episode of “Killing Eve” Season 3.)

“Killing Eve” antiheroine Villanelle has spent the better part of the last two and half seasons searching for a real home, and up until the final moments of Season 2 that meant being around Eve. And where is she to go after plans fall through except back to the beginning?

Sunday’s episode, titled “Are You From Pinner?” reunited the offbeat assassin with her offbeat family, including the mother who dumped her at an orphanage when she was a child, a dopey brother who sleeps in a barn and an Elton John-obsessed young half-brother. It goes well — for the most part.

“It was so important to me that the audience go on this journey with her and experience all the emotions she’s feeling,” Comer said of her character’s trip back to Russia in an interview with TheWrap.

This Killing Eve review contains spoilers.

Killing Eve Season 3 Episode 5

Stepping away from the world of The Twelve and MI6, “Are You From Pinner?” serves up Villanelle reluctantly trying to remain herself while her mother and others try to force her back into Oksana, the identity she shed years ago. The result is something far more personal than we’ve ever seen before, including a look at her brother and step-brother, who might be her only possible weaknesses other than Eve and Konstantin. Admittedly, since she has now shot both of them, it’s something of a dubious honor.

Killing Eve spends much of this episode toying with us, in a way that must be close to what Eve feels like when Villanelle toys with her. It’s a little dangerous, a little exciting, you sort of hope she won’t kill the kid, but murder in general feels inevitable and almost fun,...

When will Villanelle and Eve collide in the third season of the Killing Eve TV show on BBC America and AMC? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Killing Eve is cancelled or renewed for season four. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the third season episodes of Killing Eve here.

A BBC America comedy-spy thriller series (which is simulcast on AMC), Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Sean Delaney, Owen McDonnell, Dame Harriet Walter, Danny Sapani, Gemma Whelan, Camille Cottin, Steve Pemberton, Raj Bajaj, Turlough Convery, Pedja Bjelac, and Evgenia Dodina. Season three continues...

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Airing on the BBC America cable channel (and simulcast on AMC), Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Sean Delaney, Owen McDonnell, Dame Harriet Walter, Danny Sapani, Gemma Whelan, Camille Cottin, Steve Pemberton, Raj Bajaj, Turlough Convery, Pedja Bjelac, and Evgenia Dodina. Season three continues the story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their...

We don't have to wonder if Killing Eve will be cancelled or renewed for a fourth season since it's already been renewed on BBC America. However, based on what's happened to other shows, that does leave one to wonder if season four will be the end. Will there be a fifth year? Stay tuned.

A dark comedy-spy thriller series, Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Kim Bodnia, Sean Delaney, Owen McDonnell, Dame Harriet Walter, Danny Sapani, Gemma Whelan, Camille Cottin, Steve Pemberton, Raj Bajaj, Turlough Convery, Pedja Bjelac, and Evgenia Dodina. Season three continues the story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle (Comer), the assassin without a job, Eve (Oh) is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6...

The third season of Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, got off to a solid start, averaging 1.1 million viewers across BBC America and AMC in its Sunday premiere, 424,000 of them in the adults 25-54 demographic, 330,000 adults 18-49.

That was down -9% in viewers from the season two premiere on April 7, 2019, down -4% in 25-54 and up +1% in adults 18-49.

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Vs. Killing Eve‘s Season 2 average, the season 3 premiere was up +4% in total viewers, up +8% in adults 25-54 and up +12% in adults 18-49, marking the only season-over-season growth of any returning cable drama during the 2019/2020 TV...

BBC America’s critical and fan darling Killing Eve is returning for a third season! Of course, there wasn’t even time for doubt, since the Killing Eve Season 3 announcement was made in April at the AMC Networks Summit (BBC America is co-owned by AMC and BBC Studios), only one day after the second season premiere. Interestingly enough, the network continued its preemptive renewal strategy in January 2020, giving an early order for Season 4!

Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, and Fiona Shaw star in the series that follows MI6 operative Eve (Oh) as she tracks psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Comer)—or is it the other way around? It is based on Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle book series.

Killing Eve Season 3 is on its way shortly, and here’s everything we know!

Killing Eve Season 3 Release Date

Killing Eve Season 3 is now set to arrive on Sunday, April 12 at 9 p.m.

This new, earlier,...

Killing Eve Season 3 is arriving earlier than expected – two weeks early, precisely.

BBC America, by way of mothership company AMC Networks Entertainment Group, has moved up the release date of the much-anticipated third season premiere—a simulcast on sister channels BBC America and AMC—of the Emmy-winning Killing Eve to Sunday, April 12 at 9 p.m. from its original release date of April 26, on which it was scheduled for 10 p.m.

News of the date shift also arrived with the first proper trailer for Killing Eve Season 3 after months of teasers.

As Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios, explains of the move in a statement:

“We know how adored this series is and we know how keen people are for great content right now,” adding, “This season of Killing Eve digs deep psychologically, and with actors like Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and Fiona Shaw the results are nothing short of astonishing.

Great news “Killing Eve” fans, AMC has announced it is moving up the season 3 premiere by two weeks.

The acclaimed Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer series will now debut its third season on Sunday, April 12. The move comes as networks, cablers and streamers all contend with the programming and scheduling nightmare being caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

AMC, for instance, was forced to suspend production on both “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead,” meaning a substantial zombie-shaped hole will likely need to be filled in the network’s schedule.

“We know how adored this series is and we know how keen people are for great content right now,” said Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios. “This season of ‘Killing Eve’ digs deep psychologically, and with actors like Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and Fiona Shaw the results are nothing short of astonishing. We literally...

Fans of Killing Eve, the Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer-fronted psychopath drama, are in for an early thrill after AMC Networks moved the show’s third season premiere forward by two weeks.

AMC Networks Entertainment Group will now launch the Phoebe Waller-Bridge-created drama on Sunday April 12 as opposed to its previous premiere of April 26. The eight-part series will be simulcast on BBC America and AMC.

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“We know how adored this series is and we know how keen people are for great content right now,” said Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios. “This season of Killing Eve digs deep psychologically, and with actors like Sandra Oh,...

“Killing Eve” is the latest show to see its new season’s premiere date moved around amid production shutdowns and delays for other series due to the coronavirus pandemic. The third season of the Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh-led drama will now premiere two weeks earlier than previously scheduled, AMC Networks announced Friday.

“Killing Eve” Season 3, which was set to launch Sunday, April 26, will now debut Sunday, April 12 at 9/8c on BBC America and AMC. As had been previously announced, all eight episodes of the new season will be simulcast on both cable channels.

For AMC, “Killing Eve” will be filling the hole “The Walking Dead” has left in the network’s schedule, following the announcement that post-production could not be completed on the zombie apocalypse show’s Season 10 finale, so it will now air later this year as a special.

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BBC America will premiere the third season of its acclaimed drama series Killing Eve on Sunday, April 26 at 10 Pm. The network also released a Valentine’s Day teaser for the upcoming season of the series, based on the Codename Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. Check it out below.

Killing Eve, which has already been renewed for a fourth season, continues to grow in ratings. Season two had the highest rate of growth of any returning TV drama since the final season of AMC’s Breaking Bad in 2013, doubling its season one audience in Live+Sd, according to Nielsen stats.

The third season continues the story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle (Comer), the assassin without a job, Eve (Oh) is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight,...

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Surprise! A certain title character is doing just fine in the exciting new photos released for Killing Eve season 3.

Well that's one way to wish fans a happy Valentine's Day!

AMC and BBC America have confirmed the release date for the much-anticipated Killing Eve season 3. The third installment of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's feminist femme fatale spy series will premiere on Sunday, April 26 at 10 p.m. Et. Just like last season, episodes will air on both AMC and BBC America.

The two networks also released an appropriately romantic Valentine's greeting to accompany the announcement.

Video of Happy V Day | Killing Eve Returns Sunday, April 26 | BBC America

And if both a release date and a video weren't enough AMC and BBC America have also revealed the first batch of first-look photos for Killing Eve season 3. The refreshing news here is that the show isn't even bothering to indulge the...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Friday, February 14, 2020.

BBC America's Killing Eve is getting a later than usual start.

Killing Eve Season 3 is slated to debut Sunday, April 26, at 8/7c.

It will be simulcast on AMC.

If you watch Killing Eve online, you know Killing Eve Season 2 wrapped with Eve bleeding out after Villanelle opened fire on her.

Eve's fate was left up in the air, but the dynamic between Eve and Villanelle is vital to the show's success, meaning that there is a slim chance either of them dies before the series finale.

"Eve (Sandra Oh) has survived being shot by Villanelle (Jodie Comer) in Rome, but her current status with MI6 remains unknown after being manipulated by Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) in the events of last season’s finale," reads the official logline from BBC America.

"And it’s clear that...

BBC America has officially set a date with Villanelle and Eve for Sunday, April 26 at 10/9c, when Season 3 of the critically-acclaimed Killing Eve premieres, it was announced via the above teaser.

New cast additions for the upcoming season include Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones’ Yara Greyjoy), Pedja Bjelac (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent), Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9), Raj Bajaj (A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding), Turlough Convery (Ready Player One) and Evgenia Dodina (One Week and a Day).

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Courtney B. Vance will play father to a music icon in the Aretha Franklin installment of National Geographic’s anthology series Genius.

Vance, who won an Emmy Award for playing defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, will take on the role of C.L. Franklin, an influential reverend and civil rights activist known as the “Million Dollar Voice.” C.L. and his daughter Aretha (portrayed as an adult by Harriet‘s Cynthia Erivo) shared a close but fraught relationship as he supported her throughout her career.

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BBC America's Killing Eve returns for Season 3 in April with a new showrunner steering the spy drama.

BBC America's critical and fan darling Killing Eve is returning for a third season! Of course, there wasn’t even time for doubt, since the Killing Eve Season 3 announcement was made in April at the AMC Networks Summit (BBC America is co-owned by AMC and BBC Studios), only one day after the second season premiere. Interestingly enough, the network continued its preemptive renewal strategy in January 2020, giving an early order for Season 4!

Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, and Fiona Shaw star in the series that follows MI6 operative Eve (Oh) as she tracks psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Comer)—or is it the other way around? It is based on Luke Jennings' Codename Villanelle book series.

Killing Eve Season 3 is now in production, and here's everything we know!

Killing Eve...

Polish actor Andrzej Chyra and Israeli actress Evgenia Dodina also star.

Agata Kulesza, who rose to international prominence after her role in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning drama Ida and also appeared in his Cold War, has boarded the cast of Aleksandr Mindadze upcoming drama Parquet.

Kulesza stars alongside Andrzej Chyra, whose credits include 2013 Berlinale Competition selection In The Name Of, and Evgenia Dodina, whose credits include 2016 Cannes Critics’ Week title One Week And A Day.

The film is the story of three dancers, the creators of the tango à trois, who reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up.

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Going in Style (comedy; Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin; rated PG-13) The Circle (drama-thriller; Emma Watson, Tom Hanks; rated PG-13) The Lovers (romantic comedy; Debra Winger, Tracy Letts; rated R) One Week and a Day (drama-comedy; Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina; not rated) Phoenix Forgotten (horror/sci-fi; Florence Hartigan, Josh Bishop, Ashley Foster; rated PG-13) The Ottoman Lieutenant (war drama; Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar; rated R) Colossal (sci-fi comedy; Anne...

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Festival reveals the award winners from its 34th edition.

Scaffolding has won the best Israeli feature film prize at the 34th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival.

The debut feature from director Matan Yair – produced by rising Israeli production outfit Green Productions – takes home a prize worth $28,000 (100,000 Ils).

Scaffolding also scooped the best actor prize for debutant Asher Lax and an honorary mention in the best cinematography category for DoP Bartosz Bieniek.

A jury consisting of Elle producer Saïd Ben Saïd, artist Yael Bartana, cinematographer Agnès Godard and Cíntia Gíl, director of film festival Doclisboa, said of the film: “For a film that combines the reality of a group of teenagers and the will of questioning cinema and the role of filmmaking. For its capacity of capturing the tenderness sometimes behind these kids’ violence, their capacity for love, their surprising imagination, in a society that places them in a marginal role forever.”

The festival...

Micro-budget Death Of A Poetess set for world premiere.

Female film collective Kinoclan makes its feature debut at Jerusalem Film Festival (Jff) with Dana Goldberg and Efrat Mishori’s Death Of A Poetess, which premieres tonight (July 14) in the Israeli feature competition section.

The black-and-white, micro-budget film – made for less than $28,500 (Ils 100,000) – is the first feature-length production made under the Kinoclan banner since its creation 18 months ago.

In the film, Evgenia Dodina and Samira Saraya, best known internationally for her role in Shira Geffen’s Self Made, play 50-year-old Israeli researcher Lenny Sade, who is passing through the last day of her life, and Yasmin, a nurse hailing from the Arab community in Jaffa. Their paths become intertwined by a strange turn of events.

Directorial duo Goldberg and Mishori set up Kinoclan in 2016 with the aim of creating works of art across all media representing the female experience through women’s eyes.

“It was founded...

Tuesday, June 6, at 1 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema

Israel; in Hebrew, English, German, and Polish with English subtitles; 110 minutes

Two sisters uncover their father’s secret past in the true story-based Israeli mystery Past Life, one of the films playing as part of the annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The film is also set to return to the Plaza Frontenac Cinema on June 9 for a longer theatrical run.

The film is an intriguing look into Israel in the late 1970s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and crumbling of European communism, when many survivors of the Holocaust did not speak about their wartime experiences as they focused on building their young nation.

In 1977, young Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger), an Israeli music student with a lovely soprano voice but ambitions to be a composer, travels to West Berlin for a concert with her school choir. After the concert, an elderly...

Tuesday, June 6, at 1 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema

Israel; in Hebrew, English, German, and Polish with English subtitles; 110 minutes

Two sisters uncover their father’s secret past in the true story-based Israeli mystery Past Life, one of the films playing as part of the annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The film is also set to return to the Plaza Frontenac Cinema on June 9 for a longer theatrical run.

The film is an intriguing look into Israel in the late 1970s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and crumbling of European communism, when many survivors of the Holocaust did not speak about their wartime experiences as they focused on building their young nation.

In 1977, young Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger), an Israeli music student with a lovely soprano voice but ambitions to be a composer, travels to West Berlin for a concert with her school choir. After the concert, an elderly...

One Week And A Day (Shavua ve Yom) Oscilloscope Laboratories Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Asaph Polonsky Written by: Asaph Polonsky Cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Tomer Kapon, Alona Shauloff, Sharon Alexander, Carmit Mesilati-Kaplan, Uri Gavriel Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/14/17 Opens: April 28, 2017 Jewish burial customs are different from […]

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Following a premiere at Cannes last year, a U.S. trailer has arrived for One Week and a Day (Shavua ye Yom), the feature debut of writer-director Asaph Polonsky. The film centers around a mourning Jewish family who have just lost their son. However, once the traditional week of mourning ends, Eyal (Shai Avivi) cannot adjust back to normal life in the way his wife, Vicky (Evgenia Dodina) wants or needs.

Through a matter-of-a-fact aesthetic approach and a clever use of titles, the trailer demonstrates the balancing act of darkly funny and incredibly saddening that Polonsky seems to be shooting for. Hopefully it pays off with a poignant and satisfying drama and marks him as a talent to watch out for. See the trailer below, along with a synopsis and poster.

As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to...

Past Life (original title Ha-Khata’im, “The Sin”) Director: Avi Nesher Written by: Avi Nesher Cast: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Evgenia Dodina, Doron Tavory, Tom Avni, Rafael Stachowiak, Muli Schulman, Katarzyna Gniewkowska That films revolving around the Holocaust continue to be made—good ones at that—is a sign that the tragedy ranks as among the most revealing […]

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We’ve seen so many tales told from the perspective of those caught up in the devastation of the Second World War, but rarely do we then catch up with them later on in life, when you would presume that their fight has now been fought. These are the characters that make up Matti Geschonneck’s In Times of Fading Light, though the central, hardline communist is evidently never without another battle to engage in, for this tale is set in the very final days of East Germany, despite how ardently he believes the wall will never fall.

Set merely days before David Hasselhoff was dancing on the concrete to celebrate the tearing down of the wall that separated the residents of Berlin – it’s the 90th birthday of communist Wilhelm Powileit (Bruno Ganz) who still fervently believes in his idealistic, socialist values, albeit a fantasy that...

X-Men spinoff and Trainspotting sequel to play Out of Competition.

A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.

There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.

Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...

After an initial line-up that included Aki Kaurismäki‘s The Other Side of Hope, Oren Moverman‘s Richard Gere-led The Dinner, Sally Potter‘s The Party, and Agnieszka Holland‘s Spoor, the Berlin International Film Festival have added more anticipated premieres. Highlights include one of two (maybe three) new Hong Sang-soo films this year, On the Beach at Night Alone, along with Volker Schlöndorff‘s Return to Montauk with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss, as well as the high-profile world premiere of James Mangold‘s Logan and the international premiere of Danny Boyle‘s T2: Trainspotting.

With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.

Competition

Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)

South Korea

By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)

With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...

It’s 1977 and you’re the lead soprano in your first international concert. Rapturous applause and a flawless performance later you find yourself hobnobbing with classmates and audience members alike, the famed German composer Thomas Zielinski (Rafael Stachowiak) even enters to the crowd’s delight. But rather than let the electricity of the moment overwhelm you and bask in the glory of a successful evening, you can’t help noticing an older woman walking towards you with a scowl on her face. She asks your name, inquires whether your father is Dr. Baruch Milch (Doron Tavory), and subsequently grabs your arm while screaming in German about meeting the daughter of a murderer. Your name is Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger) and everything you’ve known about your parents is about to change.

You cannot deny the intrigue in what Avi Nesher has crafted with Past Life, a Holocaust film that takes...

Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based production and sales outfit has acquired worldwide rights to Avi Nesher’s historical drama heading into the Toronto International Film Festival.

Past Life will receive its world premiere in Contemporary World Cinema on September 12 and is inspired by the 1977 trans-European odyssey of two sisters.

The Israeli film follows the siblings – an introverted, ambitious classical music composer and a combative liberal magazine editor – as they try to unravel a wartime mystery that has troubled their lives.

Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory and Evgenia Dodina star.

Nesher directed Past Life from his own screenplay inspired by Baruch Milch’s autobiography Can Heaven Be Void?

David M. Milch, David Zilber, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Ruth Cats and Nesher serve as producers.

Bleiberg’s Toronto sales slate includes the thriller Back In The Day with William DeMeo and Alec Baldwin, and family film Ace The Case starring Susan Sarandon.

Bleiberg currently...

Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based production and sales outfit has acquired worldwide rights to Avi Nesher’s historical drama heading into the Toronto International Film Festival.

Past Life will receive its world premiere in Contemporary World Cinema on September 12 and is inspired by the 1977 trans-European odyssey of two sisters.

The Israeli film follows the siblings – an introverted, ambitious classical music composer and a combative liberal magazine editor – as they try to unravel a wartime mystery that has troubled their lives.

Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory and Evgenia Dodina star.

Nesher directed Past Life from his own screenplay inspired by Baruch Milch’s autobiography Can Heaven Be Void?

David M. Milch, David Zilber, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Ruth Cats and Nesher serve as producers.

Bleiberg’s Toronto sales slate includes the thriller Back In The Day with William DeMeo and Alec Baldwin, and family film Ace The Case starring Susan Sarandon.

Bleiberg currently...

New Europe Film Sales secures further deals in Europe and Asia.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired Us rights to One Week And A Day, Asaph Polonsky’s black comedy that debuted in Critics’ Week at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Oscilloscope, which last year acquired Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner Embrace Of The Serpent, will release One Week And A Day in theatres followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.

Jan Naszewski from New Europe Film Sales, who brokered the deal, also revealed to Screen that additional agreements have been signed for Denmark (Ost for Paradis) and Taiwan (Swallow Wings) following sales during the Cannes Marche.

The film, which marks the debut of Israeli-American writer-director Polonsky, won the Gan Foundation Award in Cannes’ Critics’ Week competition and an award from the French cinema owners association, Afcae.

One Week And A Day tells a story of a grieving father, who finishes a week of mourning for his late...

Exclusive: Asaph Polonsky’s black comedy has gone to Brazil and Italy.

New Europe Film Sales has scored a brace of sales on Cannes 2016 Critics’ Week selection One Week And A Day.

Brazil (Imovision) and Italy (Parthenos) have picked up the feature debut of Us-born, Israeli filmmaker Asaph Polonsky.

As previously announced, all Australian rights went to Jiff Distribution and French rights were sold to Sophie Dulac Distribution. New Europe also has further offers on the film from Us and European buyers.

Polonsky is an AFI graduate, whose graduation film Samnang was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013.

One Week And A Day tells a story of a grieving father, who finishes a week of mourning for his late son and is urged by his wife to return to their routine. He instead gets high with a young neighbour and sets out to discover there are still things in life worth living for.

The cast of...

The 2016 Cannes Film Festival is under a week away from getting started, and Indiewire continues to get ready with an exclusive poster premiere from Israel's official entry, "One Week And A Day." Marking the debut feature of Asaph Polonsky, the film centers around the final days of a Jewish family sitting Shiva for the loss of their 25-year-old son. The cast includes Shai Avivi and Evgenia Dodina. Read More: 9 Shockers From the 2016 Cannes Film Festival Lineup: Snubs & Surprise The official synopsis reads: "A married couple edging into the back half of middle age, Eyal and Vicky find themselves reacting to the end of Shiva in markedly different ways. A return to routine seems to be in order for Vicky, a teacher, as she finds herself back at school trying to abruptly kick out the substitute assigned in her stead. Meanwhile, shopkeeper Eyal opts for a total abdication of routine, as...

Exclusive: Black comedy to play in competition at Critics’ Week.

New Europe Film Sales has picked up Asaph Polonsky’s black comedy One Week and a Day and sold all French rights to Sophie Dulac Distribution.

The feature debut of Us-born, Israeli filmmaker Polonsky was yesterday named as a competition title in the Critics’ Week sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).

Polonsky is an AFI graduate, whose graduation film Samnang was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013.

One Week and a Day tells a story of a grieving father, who finishes a week of mourning for his late son and is urged by his wife to return to their routine. He instead gets high with a young neighbour and sets out to discover there are still things in life worth living for.

The cast of the film includes well-known Israeli actors Shai Avivi and Evgenia Dodina as the married couple and Tomer Kapon as the...

Peter Webber to head jury, David Puttnam to deliver lecture during fifth edition of the Ukranian festival.

Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice and the Camera D’Or recipient Party Girl [pictured] are among the 12 films selected for the International Competition at the fifth edition of the Odessa International Film Festival (Oiff), which runs July 11-19.

UK director Peter Webber will head the jury composed of Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa, Israeli actress Jenya Dodina, Belorussian actress-director Olga Dykhovichnaya and French actor-critic Jean-Philippe Tessé.

The other films in the running for the Golden Duke award are:

Bryan Reisberg’s social and psychological drama Big Significant Things (Us)Levan Koguashvili’s feelgood film Blind Dates (Georgia)Director and painter Lech Majewski’s Field of Dogs (Poland)Alonso Ruizpalacios’ road movie debut Güeros (Mexico)Valentin Hotea’s social and psychological drama Roxanne (Romania)Anna Melikyan’s Kinotavr award-winner Star (Russia)Maximilan Erlenwein’s psychological thriller Stereo (Germany)Tribeca winner [link=nm...