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Get ready for another riveting episode of “The Cuckoo” as Season 1 Episode 2 unfolds at 9:00 Pm this Tuesday, April 9th, on Channel 5. The intense drama continues as Sian’s manipulative behavior continues to wreak havoc on the family dynamics.

In this episode, viewers can expect the tension to reach new heights as Sian’s calculated actions successfully destabilize the family. With each move she makes, the rifts deepen, and the consequences become more dire.

A pawn shop receipt becomes a catalyst for trouble, setting off a chain of events that threatens to unravel the fragile bonds holding the family together. As secrets are unearthed and loyalties are tested, the stakes are raised to dangerous levels.

To make matters worse, Alice finds herself suddenly thrust into a life-threatening situation, adding an extra layer of urgency and suspense to the already gripping storyline.

Tune in to Channel 5 at 9:00 Pm this Tuesday,...

One of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest sales forces, Film Factory Entertainment has swooped on sales rights to thriller “Two” (“Duo”), directed by Mar Targarona and the latest production from top Spanish genre auteur producer Rodar y Rodar.

Producer of two milestone titles of Spain’s genre auteur scene – J.A Bayona’s “The Orphanage” and Guillem Morales’ “Julia’s Eyes,” Targarona has built her own directorial career on suspense thrillers that prove unexpected and unpredictable in tone and resolution, such as 2016’s “Boy Missing” and “The Photographer of Mauthausen” – part true-events inspired record, part edge-of-set entertainment – in particular drawing strong notices. “Two” looks no exception. Its singular premise sees two strangers, a man and a woman in their 30s, wake up in an unknown place, naked and glued to each other by their stomachs. They struggle to understand how and why they got there – becoming increasingly terrified as they discover clues and the truth emerges.

Three or so years ago, a new generation of directors, many women, were beginning to break out in Catalonia. That was no flash in the pan.

Following on Nely Reguera’s “María (and Everybody Else)” and Carla Simón’s Berlinale Generation Kplus pic “Summer 1993,” first features by Diana Toucedo (“Thirty Souls”), Meritxell Colell (“Facing the Wind”), Neus Ballús (“The Plague”) and Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”) have set the film festival circuit alight, garnering bullish reviews and a slew of prizes. Many of these women are now on to their second or third features: Simón with “Alcarrás,” Ballús (“The Odd-Job Men”), Colell, Rico (“The Little Loves”), Pilar Palomero (“La maternal”) and Reguera (“The Grandson”), among others.

Now, women producers are taking center stage: Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho Producciones (Lucía Alemeny’s “The Innocence”), Patricia Franquesa at Gadea Films (Laura Herrero’s “La Mami”) are succeeding. Many...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As the 46th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival ended Wednesday night, the audience award for favorite narrative feature was shared by two films -- the Maori fable Whale Rider, by New Zealand director Niki Caro, distributed by Newmarket Films, and The Cuckoo, Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin's anti-war comedy distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. As the favorite documentary, moviegoers selected Lisa Denker and Charlotte Lagarde's look at female surfing pioneer and community activist Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn, titled Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai. Runner-up for documentary favorite was Franny Armstrong's Drowned Out, a study of the devastation caused by India's Narmada River dam project. The festival concluded with a screening of Mark Decena's San Francisco-based feature Dopamine at the Castro Theatre. Since its April 17 opening with Alan Rudolph's marital comedy, The Secret Lives of Dentists, the festival drew a record 94,500-plus attendants -- up 5% from last year -- to its 200 films from 46 countries.

MOSCOW -- Los Angeles-based Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's Dom Durakov (House of Fools), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Venice festival, has been chosen as Russia's official submission for the Academy Awards. The film, which was picked up in September by Paramount Classics for U.S. distribution, narrowly beat Kukuschka (The Cuckoo) as the country's entry for the foreign language Oscar, members of Russia's academy of cinematography, arts and science said late Thursday in Moscow. Konchalovsky's film, based on a true story about inmates of a lunatic asylum caught up in the Chechen war after their doctors and nurses abandon them, was chosen after the selectors had "carefully studied American tastes and priorities" for Oscar nominees, said director Vladimir Menshov, head of the selection committee.