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Exclusive: New features from Camila Beltrán and Jonas Bak are among the 10 projects selected for the fifth edition of the Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen.

Six of the films are in the development sector of the lab; with the other four in the First Cut Lab.

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Colombian filmmaker Beltrán will present Avant que la mer ne ferme les chemins, a drama produced by Lionel Massol of Les Films du Grand Huit and David Hurst of Dublin Films, both from France.

The lab includes its first Nouvelle-Aquitaine/Hessen co-production – Bak’s experimental drama Somewhere Between Sleep,...

Poland’s Warsaw Film Festival is celebrating its 40th edition, placing its bets on emerging, often debuting Polish filmmakers.

“This event often acts like a springboard,” says programming director Gustaw Kolanowski. But making a feature debut in Poland is still challenging.

“For me, this road wasn’t easy. It was difficult to meet a producer who would believe in a film that’s quiet and intimate, but also impactful,” says Monika Majorek, behind “Where Do We Begin,” where three siblings and their mother rebuild their lives after the death of their father.

“I’ve made certain career choices to be able to tell this story and waited a long time for this opportunity. I was advised to look for some loud, controversial subject, but this film comes out of real emotions. Maybe there’s a lack of quiet voices [in Polish cinema]? Those that listen instead of speaking?”

Dominika Montean-Pańków, director of “The Crossroads,...

Three German regional film funds - Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw, Fff Bayern and Hessen Film & Medien - have allocated more than €12m to new film and TV series projects in their latest funding sessions.

The fifth and final season of Babylon Berlin, scheduled to start production this autumn, received the largest sum of €2m from the funding committee of Düsseldorf-based Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw.

In total, the fund distributed €5.3m to 12 projects including Coin Film’s production of writer-director Jutta Brückner’s drama The Assistant, starring Corinna Harfouch and Sandra Hüller; Heimatfilm and Amour Fou’s co-production of Ulrike Ottinger...

German-language productions on offer at the Cannes Film Market present an eclectic mix of adult drama, biting social commentary, history, comedy, kids’ pics and animation from such high-profile helmers as Stefan Ruzowitzky, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Maria Schrader and Matti Geschonneck.

In Ruzowitzky’s atmospheric “Hinterland,” part of Beta Cinema’s lineup, a Great War veteran tracks down a killer in 1920s Vienna.

Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover’s 1960s-set animated comedy “Snotty Boy” follows a kid whose unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Sold by Picture Tree Intl., the pic was inspired by the life and work of late Austrian cartoonist and satirist Manfred Deix.

Rosenmüller’s other new comedy, “Lifeguard Off Duty,” centers on grumpy lifeguard Karl and his efforts to save the local swimming pool from closure.

Exclusive: M-Appeal closes series of deals on sales slate.

Berlin-based M-Appeal World Sales has confirmed a raft of sales on its current slate.

Among the deals, the company has sold Body Electric [pictured] by Marcelo Caetano and Discreet by Travis Mathews to Peccadillo Pictures for the UK and Ireland. Both titles are screening in Guadalajara at the moment, and Body Electric will screen at BFI Flare later this week.

“It’s a pleasure to be working with M-Appeal on the fabulous Body Electric which will have its UK premiere at BFI Flare and the astonishing Discreet by Travis Mathews. Body Electric adds beautifully to our catalogue of South American and especially Brazilian cinema, whereas Discreet demonstrates the outstanding talent of Travis Mathews,” Peccadillo Pictures’ managing director Tom Abell commented.

M-Appeal has also closed further deals on its slate of titles.

Jonathan by Piotr J. Lewandowski and Take Me For A Ride by Micaela Ruedahave have both gone to...

The 2017 Berlin Film Festival begins this week and will feature a host of world premieres, but there are still films from last year’s festival that have yet to be distributed or released in the United States. One of them is Piotr J. Lewandowski’s film “Jonathan,” about a young man who discovers his father’s long-repressed secret.

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The film follows farmhand Jonathan (Jannis Niewöhner) who devotes himself to looking after his terminally ill father Burghardt (André Hennicke), but when Burghardt’s long-lost friend Ron (Thomas Sarbacher) comes to town, Jonathan discovers the two were once deeply in love. Jonathan grapples with his father’s sexuality, along with his new relationship with young caretaker Anka (Julia Koschitz), and struggles to accept him before his death. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

Exclusive: Artcam has taken Raf Reyntjens’ film for the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

On the eve of the Efm, M-Appeal has sold its new feature Paradise Trips by Raf Reyntjens to Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Artcam).

The film marks Reyntjens’ debut as a feature director and is screening in the market today (Feb 11). Produced by Ivy Vanhaecke (Belgium’s “producer on the move” in Cannes last year), Paradise is the story of a holiday bus driver who has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south.

Stuck in retirement, bored with his wife and with life in general, he decides to go one final trip. This time his passengers are not pensioners, but partygoers on their way to a festival in Croatia.

Here in Berlin, M-Appeal has also announced its acquisition of Jonathan by debut director Piotr J. Lewandowski. The film screens in the Berlinale’s Panorama and has a market...

Films include Shepherds and Butchers with Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il.

The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.

A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.

Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer who faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself, in a case...

Films include Shepherds and Butchers, starring Steve Coogan; Don’t Call Me Son from Anna Muylaert; and a documentary about a director and actress who were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to make films.

The Berlinale (Feb 11-21) has completed the selection for this year’s Panorama strand, comprising 51 films from 33 countries. A total of 34 fiction features comprise the main programme and Panorama Special while a further 17 titles will screen in Panorama Dokumente.

A total of 33 films are world premieres, nine are international premieres and nine European premieres. The 30th Teddy Award is also being celebrated with an anniversary series of 17 films.

Notable titles include Shepherds and Butchers from South Africa, which is set toward the end of Apartheid and stars Steve Coogan as a hotshot lawyer faces his biggest test when he agrees to defend a white prison guard who has killed seven black men. What ensues is a charge against the death penalty itself...

Plus… Carol producer Christine Vachon to receive special Teddy Award.Scroll down for full list of new additions

Berlin Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced that its Panorama Special strand will open on Feb 12 with Daniel Burman’s The Tenth Man (El rey del once) and the previously announced War on Everyone by John Michael McDonagh.

Argentinian director Burman opened the main programme of Panorama in 1988 with his debut A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cinco Esquinas (Un crisantemo estalla en cinco esquinas). After presenting further works in Panorama and Competition, including Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido) which won two Silver Bears in 2004, Burman is to return with a portrait of multi-layered life in Once, the Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires.

Another Argentinian film in the Panorama is Maximiliano Schonfeld’s The Black Frost (La helada negra). In his second film, Schonfeld uses elegiac images to explore a world disconnected from time, where ancestors...