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Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince and Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Unga Astrid picked for Berlinale Special.

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Steven Soderbergh, José Padilha

Five more films have joined the main lieups of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 15 - 25). A further six films have been selected for the programme of the Berlinale Special.

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane will get an out of competition world premiere. It stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple and was reportedly shot on iPhone.

Also premiering out of competition is José Padilha’s true story thriller 7 Days In Entebbe, starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl and Eddie Marsan.

New films from Lav Diaz and Alonso Ruizpalacios will play in competition.

Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince and Becoming Astrid by Pernille Fischer Christensen have been added to the Berlinale Special Gala section.

Read more: Robert Pattinson, Christian Petzold movies join Berlin Film Festival Competition

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The first ever Tridens First Features competition will include 14 titles, alongside two out of competition.Scroll down for the full list

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Features competition.

In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.

The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.

The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.

The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...

The first ever Tridens First Feature competition will include 14 titles, alongside two out of competition.Scroll down for the full list

The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has revealead the line-up for the inaugural edition of its new programme: the Tridens First Feature competition.

In total, there will be 14 world and international premieres shown, all helmed by debut directors, selected from diverse regions including Colombia, Australia and Iran.

The Colombian title be the world premiere of Delivery, the first feature from director Martin Mejira Rugeles. The film, shot on 16mm, follows a pregnant woman who lives in a remote village in a forest.

The Australian title is the international premiere of Pawno. Set in Melbourne, director Paul Ireland’s debut looks at an eclectic selection of the city’s inhabitants, all of whom are desperately looking for love.

The Iranian film, Two, is the directorial debut of actress Soheila Golestani. The feature...

The first stills of Tanner King Barklow and Gil Kofman‘s Israel-set romantic drama “The White City” have debuted via IMDb, giving us our first look at Thomas Dekker and Haley Bennett. The film, which marks King Barklow and Kofman’s second collaboration together since they first teamed up for the award-winning 2012 documentary “Unmade in China,” centers on an “emotionally charged love triangle between three young artists (played by Dekker, Bennett, and Bob Morley) that develops against the hot political climate of modern Tel Aviv.” In an interview with Thomas Dekker Source, Dekker revealed further details on the film, saying: “It’s [...]

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Screenwriter George Richards wrote Case Sensitive as “an American thriller with American actors for an American audience.” Director Gil Kofman (The Memory Thief) brought the script to producer Seth Scher, who had connections to a Chinese investor who was making films for the Chinese market. The film was greenlit and Kofman, who does not speak Chinese, traveled to Xiamen, China, to direct his second narrative feature. Soon afterward his friend, documentary filmmaker Tanner King Barklow, joined him and began documenting Kofman’s travails as he tried to navigate a colossal language barrier, bureaucracy, corruption, and cultural differences. Early in the documentary …...

Outsourcing to China has long been standard practice for American industries looking for cheaper labor and overhead costs, but with the country's film industry burgeoning like never before, could cinema become the latest free-trade frontier? Such is the question that Tanner King Barklow and Gil Kofman's doc Unmade in China explores, via the latter's experience shooting his thriller Case Sensitive in the country with an all-Chinese cast and crew. A tale of comic absurdity, Unmade details both the severe cultural differences and the sense of paranoia on the set that make filming a near impossibility. The director becomes increasingly frustrated as his screenplay goes through seven rewrites by a Chinese script doctor, each more incomprehensible than the last, and the ...

Documentaries about the production of a movie can go two ways. The film being filmed is completed without a hitch and the studio or distributor puts the “making of…” special on the DVD, or it’s a disastrous shoot and not exactly something executives want to flaunt in the form of a bonus feature. The latter can include docs on films that are miraculously finished (Burden of Dreams; Overnight; Hearts of Darkness) or unsurprisingly unfinished (Lost in La Mancha; It’s All True; the upcoming Death of “Superman Lives”). Either way, there’s usually good reason to isolate all that drama for a separately (or solely) released feature-length work. In the case of Unmade in China, the aim seems to have always been to cover a catastrophe. Director Gil Kofman (The Memory Thief) had already gone to the city of Xiamen to make the movie Case Sensitive, a YouTube-inspired thriller scripted by an American writer and intended...

The 6th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival, which was held back on Sept. 6-9, gave out a slew of awards to short films and features alike.

A two-member jury panel of Jane Mills and Alex Munt gave out awards to a half-dozen short films, recognizing many for their brutality and/or visual innovation. Two films by Emma Varker, Gashbag and White Russian, were notable for being a “very personal take on violence” and for “going the distance” respectively. Meanwhile, Rajee Samarasinghe’s 01.39411.999 “refuses to aestheticise violence” and Dylan Kohler’s Chilly is “creatively original.” All winners with full jury notes are below.

Also, there were three Director’s Choice awards given to feature films. Frankie Frain’s Sexually Frank won for being an “excellent indie film,” while Gil Kofman’s documentary Unmade in China — a work still in progress — was noted for being “a fascinating, train-wreck of a story” and another documentary,...

The 6th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is taking over all three screens of the Factory Theatre for a blow-out four-day event on Sept. 6-9.

Making it’s World Premiere at the fest on the 8th is the highly anticipated President Wolfman, the latest “green movie” by director Mike Davis that he’s cobbled together from public domain footage and feature films and set to an outrageous new soundtrack. The film looks like it promises to be a rollicking good time.

Other highlights of the fest include Guy Maddin‘s latest trippy film noir, Keyhole, about a mobster revisiting his homestead’s old memories; Bob Ray‘s documentary about Austin, Texas’ homegrown Total Badass; Bobcat Goldthwait’s media takedown God Bless America; Michal Kosakowski’s underground murder fantasy documentary hit Zero Killed; Richard Griffin’s funky The Disco Exorcist; and more.

Some of the extra special events of the fest...