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New Honkai: Star Rail 3.0 leaks are hinting at what may be a superb free reward for players, which should also help them get used to a new gameplay system being introduced in the patch. Version 3.0 is still a few weeks away as Version 2.7, the final update in the turn-based RPG’s second year of content, has just commenced. While developer HoYoverse’s attention is still focused on the patch that is bringing Fugue and Sunday to the game, there have been several teasers for Version 3.0, such as the Amphoreus characters in Honkai: Star Rail.

In addition to the official teasers, several leaks are starting to emerge as the beta tests for Version 3.0 have also begun. The leaks have already started detailing the gameplay kits for The Herta, Aglaea, and the Remembrance Trailblazer, for instance, as well as the initial designs of Amphoreus, the next destination players will visit. There have...

Having to choose between Sunday and Jing Yuan Honkai: Star Rail 2.7’s Phase 1 banners can be a harsh task, especially when considering the limited number of Stellar Jade that one can acquire from gameplay, without purchasing more with real money. Version 2.7 has already been confirmed and detailed for HoYoverse’s turn-based RPG and, with them, the 5-star characters that will be made available in the gacha system for a limited time. The character banners for Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 have all been announced and they bring interesting new additions, as well as promising rerun characters.

Version 2.7 is the final patch before Version 3.0, which will kick off the RPG’s third year of content. HoYoverse has already confirmed that Version 3.0 will introduce a new playable Path, called Remembrance. This Path should be made available during the update with Aglaea and the Remembrance Trailblazer in Honkai: Star Rail 3.0. Remembrance’s specialty is summoning allies called memosprites,...

The character banners from Honkai: Star Rails Versions 3.0 through 3.2 have leaked, in addition to those teased by developer HoYoverse. The turn-based RPG is still a few months away from entering its third year of content as it gradually progresses through Version 2.6 and into Version 2.7. HoYoverse has already detailed the contents of the upcoming patch during the Version 2.7 livestream, which showcased the gameplay kits for both Fugue and Sunday in Honkai: Star Rail. The updates quests and events have also been presented, and the Astral Express will get an expansion with new areas.

As the titles contents start to cool off in preparation for the arrival of the games third year, several leaks about Version 3.0 and its subsequent patches are emerging. There has been a long series of leaks regarding Aglaea and The Herta as the new playable 5-star characters in Version 3.0, and these two units have been confirmed by the developer.

All the details about Honkai: Star Rail 2.7, including its release date, the new characters, their kits, the banners, and other pieces of playable content, have been confirmed and detailed by developer HoYoverse. As the turn-based progresses further into the last stages of Version 2.6, HoYoverse held a special livestream to present all the information about the upcoming patch. During the event, the developer showcased the gameplay kits for both Sunday and Fugue in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7, which had already been teased as the new playable support characters arriving in the patch.

While new characters often take up most of the time in the limelight, the Version 2.7 livestream also served as a stage to tease the new Trailblaze Mission Chapter, which had been leaked with a massive story spoiler unmentioned by HoYoverse as a means to keep its plot twist a secret. Furthermore, the events lined up for the update were also presented,...

The Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 livestream codes are already available for redemption for a limited time and, with them, you can get several rewards, including free Stellar Jade. Version 2.7 is the upcoming patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG and it should bring forth several pieces of content, including the already confirmed Fugue and Sunday. These two new 5-star playable characters will make their debuts following their introduction in the Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 livestream, though obtaining them may be difficult for players short on Stellar Jade reserves for pulls in the gacha system.

Stellar Jade is the main currency used to buy Star Rail Special Passes, which are used to try and obtain new 5-star characters from limited-time banners for reference, they are also used to pull for limited 5-star Light Cones. Luckily, Stellar Jade is given out for free on some occasions, including through livestream codes. These codes are a way of...

A new leak for Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 is hinting at a promising set of rewards, including a free 5-star character and an abundant amount of Stellar Jade, which could help players obtain more premium characters and Light Cones. Version 2.7 is the next major patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG, and it should not take too long to arrive. With Version 2.6 already in its second half, the game is gearing up for the Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 livestream on November 11, which will present all the new content for the upcoming patch confirmed to add two new characters.

Both Fugue and Sunday have already been confirmed by HoYoverse as the playable units added with Version 2.7, though the developer has not yet detailed what they will do. Nevertheless, several leaks have already outlined the characters gameplay kits and, if they are true, both units will be supports for team comps. Even though the majority of...

New story spoiler leaks about Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 have been shared, indicating that players may see Hertas true form in the game during the upcoming patch. Version 2.7 is set to arrive within a few weeks as the second half of Version 2.6 has already commenced. The next patch for the turn-based RPG has yet to be officially confirmed by developer HoYoverse, but following the games regular six-week schedule, it is possible to speculate that it will arrive in early December. The update will add Fugue and Sunday to Honkai: Star Rail, which has already been teased by HoYoverse.

Other than the new playable 5-star characters that are set to arrive, Version 2.7 is expected to add more content to keep players entertained. So far, leaks have shown that there should be at least one new Trailblaze Continuance Mission, as well as several events. Among the events are rumors of new areas on the Astral Express,...

The characters in the Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 banners have been leaked, giving players insight into what they can expect from the gacha system during the upcoming patch, including the possible 5-star Light Cones that will appear. Version 2.7 is the next major patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG as the game draws closer to the end of Version 2.6, the update that took players back to the planet of Penacony and introduced Rappa in Honkai: Star Rail. The developments of Version 2.6 are not too relevant, but they set the terrain for some of the new content in Version 2.7.

Other than teasing the two new characters, Sunday and Fugue, HoYoverse has not revealed more details about the patch. The leaks about Version 2.7s character banners have been mostly scarce up until now and, with the Version 2.7 livestream arriving soon, it should not take too long for players to have official confirmation on who they...

A new mechanic from Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 has been leaked and I am certain that it may actually make some of the games consumables utterly obsolete for a portion of the players. Version 2.7 is the next major patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG and it has already been confirmed that it will be the patch that will introduce Fugue and Sunday as playable characters in the game. While the developer has not officially announced other details, leaks are starting to emerge, like the possibility of a massive story spoiler in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 that could change the campaign.

A large portion of the contents for Version 2.7 have already been leaked. This includes the gameplay kits and materials for both Fugue and Sunday, as well as a free selector that may be unlocked upon reaching certain requirements during the updates flagship event. There have also been rumors of new map areas added to the Astral Express,...

There may be a new buff to the Path of the Erudition in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7, and it is likely an unannounced improvement for the future release of 5-star Herta as a playable character in the game. Version 2.7 is the next patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG, which just recently entered Version 2.6. The current patch is taking players back to the Planet of Festivities, Penacony, as they explore a set of new maps and engage in new Trailblaze Continuance missions. For reference, the current patch is also responsible for the introduction of Rappa in Honkai: Star Rail.

The details about Version 2.7 have not yet been announced as HoYoverse concentrates on the contents of Version 2.6, but the beta tests for the next update have started and, with them, leaked information about its contents is being shared. This includes the gameplay kits and materials for Fugue and Sunday, the two confirmed 5-star characters arriving in the patch,...

The Trailblazers room in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 has allegedly leaked and it already seems like the best part of the next update. Version 2.7 is the next major patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG. The update is already confirmed to bring both Fugue and Sunday as the new 5-star playable characters following a series of teasers about their introductions. As mentioned in some leaks, Fugue and Sundays materials in Honkai: Star Rail can already be farmed for players who eagerly anticipate pulling for the new characters to upgrade their team comps starting with the next patchs arrival.

While the new characters are very much the highlight of the update when it comes to core gameplay, there are leaks indicating that several new features will be added with the upcoming patch. This includes an expansion to the Astral Express map, which should allow players to visit new areas occupied by the Nameless. The...

A promising new customization mode in Honkai: Star Rail may be added with Version 2.7 if new leaks about the upcoming patch are to be believed. The turn-based RPG by HoYoverse has just entered Version 2.6, but the beta tests for the next update have started and, with them, information about the future contents is being shared. This includes the gameplay kits for Fugue and Sunday, the new 5-star characters in the patch, for example. Fugue and Sundays materials in Honkai: Star Rail have also leaked in Version 2.7s beta tests, allowing players to pre-farm.

New 5-star characters tend to always be under the spotlight as their releases are what most heavily impact the player experience. New characters can modify existing team comps and open up avenues for new types of parties, and both Fugue and Sunday are highly expected as they are popular characters in the story. However, other pieces of content have also been leaked,...

An unexpected character in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 may be the first one to receive an alternative skin, according to leaks about the upcoming patch. Version 2.7 is the next major patch for HoYoverses turn-based RPG. The game has just entered Version 2.6, a patch that takes players back to Penacony for adventures across new maps. The update is also responsible for introducing Rappa in Honkai: Star Rail. However, the beta tests for Version 2.7 have started and, with them, new information about the next update is starting to arise.

Naturally, the highlights of the leaks are Fugue and Sundays gameplay kits, the confirmed 5-star characters arriving in the patch. Both Tingyuns 5-star form and the playable version of Sunday have long been leaked and, now, players are getting some insight into how they will operate in team comps given the fact that their set of abilities, both active and passive, have leaked. In...

Free characters will be given out in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7, according to leaks about the upcoming patch for the game. HoYoverses turn-based RPG has just started Version 2.6, but with the beta tests for Version 2.7 well underway, a large portion of the next pieces of content are starting to leak. A lot of the information revolves around the two new 5-star characters, Fugue and Sunday. Their gameplay kits, for instance, have leaked, hinting at their roles in teams. Fugue and Sundays materials in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 have also leaked and, if correct, players can already pre-farm everything.

In addition to the new 5-star characters, which will likely be the highlight of the next update, there are also leaks surrounding other aspects of the patch. This includes certain events that may be added during the period, as well as system optimizations that may be included. Some rumors include an expansion to the...

Fugue is one of the newest characters added to Honkai: Star Rail's 2.7 update, but you can start gathering their Ascension and Trace Materials before they arrive. This 5-star rarity character masters the Fire combat type along the Nihility path. While not every detail surrounding the character has been revealed yet, it may be a good idea to start gathering the resources needed to upgrade Fugue early for a build.

Character banner leaks for update 2.7 anticipate that Fugue may be a Support-oriented ally when on the battlefield. However, this is not guaranteed to be the best way to use the character when they are officially released. You'll have to find out which builds work best, as well as what characters you should pair with Fugue on a team to win battles.

Ascension Materials To Farm For Fugue In Honkai: Star Rail Pre-Farm Everything You Need

Thankfully, all of Fugue's Ascension...

The Ascension and Trace materials for Fugue and Sunday in Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 have leaked ahead of their release, and players interested in pulling for them in the upcoming patch may already pre-farm the items so as to get them ready for battle as soon as they are acquired. Version 2.7s beta tests started shortly before the arrival of Version 2.6, the patch that takes players back to Penacony and introduces Rappa in Honkai: Star Rail. At the moment, players will resolve the new issues in the Planet of Festivities as they venture through new maps.

However, the Version 2.7 beta tests are already providing several pieces of information about the next big batch of content. This includes details about Fugue and Sunday, the new 5-star characters that have been confirmed for the update. New leaks about Version 2.7 have also highlighted some new events that players will partake in, new features to existing mechanics,...

The trailer has debuted for “Fugue” (Fuga), which is world premiering simultaneously at the Edinburgh and Lima film festivals. The hybrid feature is directed by Mary Jiménez and Bénédicte Liénard.

Lima will fete Jiménez with a tribute, screening three of her most celebrated works: “Del Verbo Amar,” “Loco Lucho” and “In the Name of Tania.”

“Fugue” takes place deep in the Peruvian Amazon, where the terrorist group Shining Path’s bloodthirsty violence and homophobia collide to devastating effect. A young shaman (Saor Sax) accompanies Valentina’s body back to the village for burial.

“Fuga” is the continuation of the filmmakers’ last film, “In the Name of Tania,” which was also shot in the Peruvian Amazon. They said: “’Fuga’ explores the stories of homosexuals persecuted by the Tupac Amaru and Shining Path terrorist groups during the ‘dirty war’ in Peru (1970-2000). This generation, which survived persecution in silence and shame, has...

On Saturday night, spoken-word poet Amanda Gorman took the stage at New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall with classical cellist Jan Vogler for a thrilling night of cross-disciplinary art.

Gorman, who made her name performing one of her poems at President Joe Biden‘s inaugural in Washington, D.C., might not seem like a tight fit with the works of Bach, who composed his cello suites in 18th Century Germany.

But Gorman and Vogler found a way to have their disparate arts speak in a dialogue with each other.

Gorman performed her works “An Ode We Owe,” “Fugue,” “New Day’s Lyric” and “The Hill We Climb” in between performances by Vogler of Bach’s Cello Suites No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5.

In an inspired finale, Gorman recited an energetic poem while Vogler played a final suite simultaneously.

It was a stimulating evening showing the possibilities of art when convention...

Squid have shared a new single called “Fugue (Bin Song),” an outtake from the sessions of their recent sophomore album O Monolith.

After implementing it into their live performances over the past few years, Squid recorded “Fugue (Bin Song)” in spring 2022 as they were making O Monolith alongside their longtime collaborator Dan Carey at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio. After its initial iteration didn’t make the cut on the record, Tortoise’s John McEntire re-mixed and edited the tune in late 2023, resulting in the version we hear today.

At nearly five and a half minutes, “Fugue” is a wandering jam that draws from elements of dance punk, post rock, and noise pop. You can hear a bit of McEntire’s influence as the song culminates into a furious coda, almost like “TNT” with a lot more shredding. Stream it below.

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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Maestro (2023)!

Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper, is a biopic based on the life and career of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. The film focuses on Bernstein's relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre, and explores his contributions to music and involvement in humanitarian causes. The soundtrack of Maestro includes some of Bernstein's most famous compositions, such as "Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs" and the Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish."

The inspiration for Bradley Cooper's new movie, Maestro, is the legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, who created many famous compositions throughout his career that are still well-recognized today. Nine-time Oscar nominee Cooper returned as director with the Bernstein biopic Maestro, which marked the second title he directed after 2018's A Star Is Born. Cooper co-wrote Maestro with Josh Singe, which they also produced, alongside Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. The biopic mostly focuses on Bernstein's relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre...

Rivalry, jealousy, loneliness, disappointment and betrayal are experiences that nearly every student must go through in order to grow. Gabriela Muskala’s feature debut The Clowns uses these subjects to create a compelling coming of age drama with a twist. Being a successful actress herself, the Polish director gets the best out of her actors, giving them the chance to depict the turbulent reality of drama school in their first appearance on the big screen.

The story centres on students from a Faculty of Acting who are supposed to make a graduation film. They are very excited to learn that they will be working with Gajda (Oskar Hamerski), a director notoriously famous for his extreme acting methods, whose task introduces biblical and Polish romanticism characters into their mundane life. The students need to portray Cain, who kills his brother Abel out of jealousy because God preferred...

The Clowns stands as a successful debut in the career of Polish director Gabriela Muskała, who distinguished herself in the film Fugue (2018), both as a screenwriter and as an actress. There is a distinct blend of electrifying fiction and real-life events, and it's evident that her work in this instance is deeply tied to a sense of personal involvement. This is exemplified by her collaboration with students from the Łódź Film School, who attempt to subvert the traditional coming-of-age paradigm by employing a broad spectrum of of classical texts.

The group of drama students learns during their acting classes that the prodigy-director, Gajda (Oskar Hamerski), freshly returned from Cannes, intends to hold auditions for his upcoming project. The unusual nature of the film takes shape during the audition and selection process, as two pairs of actors are chosen to portray the roles of Cain and Abel, as well as Balladyna.

Warsaw Film Festival sets out to spotlight a slew of new local releases, from “Anxiety” by Sławomir Fabicki – Oscar-nominated for his short “A Man Thing” – to this year’s opener “Song of Goats” by Andrzej Jakimowski.

The latter, featuring “Eo” star Mateusz Kościukiewicz and set in Greece, will show characters living close to an active volcano, exploring the question of how “each of us is responsible for maintaining our fragile heritage,” says the director.

“We are witnessing a war in a neighboring country [Ukraine], threats from a barbarian empire and rapidly growing populism that is devastating politics. It’s a dreadfully worrying mixture.”

As Poland braces for parliamentary elections on Oct. 15 and the controversy over Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” refuses to die down, emotions run high.

“What happened went beyond the accepted framework. There was no shortage of absurdity, like the attempt to force cinema managers to screen propaganda material before the film,...

New Project

Update: The title of Vannuccini’s sequel to “Commedia” has been changed to “Things and Other Things.”

Riccardo Vannuccini has set a sequel to his feature “Commedia.” Titled “Tarzan,” the project will see him again team up with “This England” star Greta Bellamacina, with whom he starred in “Commedia.”

The duo will reprise their roles as Rocco and Irene, this time in a post-industrial landscape. Manolo Cinti is on board as Dp. “Tarzan,” which begins shooting in Italy this November, is co-produced by Artestudio in Rome and Sulk Youth in the U.K.

“Commedia” is set to be released on Prime Video in the U.K. and U.S. this month.

“Our heroes have managed to mysteriously escape from where they were – but where were they?” says Vannuccini. “They are busy doing nothing, making small acts, to leave imaginative traces of their passage, imagined signs of being in the world.

Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour Series 1 – 9.

Endeavour’s blend of long-form storytelling and case-of-the-week thrills means that rewarding character moments are dotted throughout its ingenious murder mysteries. Its very best episodes strike a fine balance between the two. Satisfying puzzles, diverting investigations that make the most of the period setting, and enjoyable guest stars are one thing, but Endeavour’s success also lies in the simultaneous development of characters and relationships that have come to mean a great deal to fans over the years.

The 10 episodes below, listed in (an entirely subjective) order of greatness, achieve all of that. They could easily have been joined by half a dozen more – cases could certainly be made for ‘Sway’, ‘Harvest’, ‘Fugue’ and pilot episode ‘Overture’, to name just a few – from the 36 films totalling over 50 hours of drama from creator Russell Lewis and Mammoth Screen. If you find this selection wide of the mark,...

Staring into the Known: Smoczyńska Offers Low-key, Uncompromising Sophomore Feature

Surely not the follow up effort audiences might have had in mind from the creator of 2015’s mermaid horror musical The Lure, perhaps – and yet Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Fugue is striking in its understated and discomforting in its elegance. The story of a woman resurfacing from the darkness of a Warsaw underground tunnel with no memory of her previous life as a wife and mother in the Lower Silesia region of Poland, Fugue will surely frustrate those looking for the same extravagance that made with her Sundance hit debut The Lure (read review).…...

Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter. Her estranged husband and son do not recognize this woman who looks familiar and yet behaves like a stranger. Feelings of alienation, love and revelations rekindle her interior flame.   Agnieszka Smoczynska's Fugue, her follow-up to her breakout film Lure, has finally found its way to U.S. cinemas this month. After four long years Fugue will start out next Friday, March 10th in Los Angeles and end the month in New York on the 31st.   No word from its distributor Dekanalog if they plan to expand to other...

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Paris-based Petit Film has boarded “Hot Spot” by Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska.

The story, set in the near future, follows a disillusioned private eye Djonny, called to investigate a murder at a refugee camp. But he becomes increasingly unstable as he confronts a cyber witch who gradually takes control of his life.

Smoczyńska’s previous film, Cannes premiere “The Silent Twins” – based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons – earned Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance a BIFA [British Independent Film Award] for Best Joint Lead Performance.

“Agnieszka’s work does not derive from, or resemble, any existing films. That’s the first and foremost reason why I would not miss the chance to participate in one of them,” says producer Jean des Forêts, also behind Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” and Lucile Hadžihalilović’s English-language debut “Earwig.”

“Last year the opportunity arose and I seized it immediately. The project brings together a nice band...

Handel’s keyboard suites have remained strangers to most concert pianists. Seong-Jin Cho hopes that his latest album for Deutsche Grammophon will shed new light on some of the most heartfelt of all Baroque music. Out today, The Handel Project contains three of the 28-year-old South Korean pianist’s favourite suites from Handel’s first collection of Suites de pièces pour le clavecin. These are coupled with Brahms’s virtuosic Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, which Cho believes to be “the best variations that have ever been written”.

The artist was drawn to Handel’s keyboard suites after years of immersion in music from later periods. Having fallen in love with their wealth of musical ideas and wide-ranging melodic invention, Cho listened to recordings of the works on harpsichord, the instrument for which they were conceived, and refined his finger technique in order to give different tone...

Sistas With(out) Voices: Smoczynska Revisits Case Study of Antisocial Twins

Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English language debut with third feature The Silent Twins, based on British journalist Marjorie Wallace’s 1986 expose on June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical Welsh twin girls whose dysfunctional development led to a spate of crime and eventual indefinite incarceration. In a tale where foreignness plays a key part in lack of understanding, since the Gibbons family were of West Indian descent, Smoczynska doesn’t seem entirely inappropriate as a figure removed from either culture.

Based on her previous two films, there are intersecting similarities, such as the fantastical mermaid sisters of her celebrated debut The Lure (2015) and a woman suffering from memory loss struggling to accept the family who’s reclaimed her in 2018’s Fugue (read review).…...

A tale of two sisters and two halves, The Silent Twins, directed by celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska from Andrea Seigel’s adaptation of Marjorie Wallace’s 1986 book of the same name, centers on two real-life identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons, their uniquely idiosyncratic, imagination-rich lives, and their life-and personality-altering experiences inside oppressive educational and psychiatric institutions that repeatedly attempted to “rehabilitate” them into fully conforming British citizens. Both a cautionary tale and, in its limited way, a celebration of perseverance against a racist-tinged bureaucratic system that treated Afro-Caribbean immigrants, like the Gibbons family, as lesser than their melanin-challenged peers, The Silent Twins falters, sometimes badly, if not...

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The 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) is paying tribute to Chile’s most internationally renowned and arguably hardest working actor, the peripatetic Alfredo Castro who will attend Sanfic’s inauguration Aug. 14 to receive his lifetime achievement award and kick off a retrospective of his films.

Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish. “I haven’t worked in English but I certainly hope to one day,” he says. Meanwhile, he has won a boatload of awards from festivals and award events across the world.

Yet, he would also be high up the order of figures who have helped shape Chile’s post-Pinochet film, theater and now TV scene into one of the most vibrant, surprising and constantly questioning of any country in Latin America.

Denmark’s Jonas Alexander Arnby, France’s Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, and Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczyńska are among up-and-coming directors from across Europe whose latest projects will be presented at the 11th Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival.

This edition of Les Arcs Coproduction Village will showcase a total of 22 European projects spanning 19 countries. The forum is meant to help filmmakers and producers find sales agents, distributors, as well as co-production and financial partners.

A rising polish director, Smoczyńska, will present her English-language debut, “Silent Twins” about sibling who have spent 14 years in a high-security psychiatric hospital and have developed a unique way of communicating. The film will be produced by Madants. Smoczyńska previously directed a short in the omnibus horror film, “The Field Guide To Evil,” and the film “Fugue” which world premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week.

Gagnol and Felicioli, the directors pair behind the Oscar-nominated animated...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Agnieszka Smoczyńska's Fugue (2018), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from April 12 – May 11, 2019 in Mubi's The New Auteurs strand.Most people would empathize with a woman who lost her memory, but what if she preferred not to regain it? Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s second feature, Fugue,is a pronounced psychological exploration of trauma and personal choice of what not to be. Intertwined with dreams and fantasy sequences, the film reinvents the notion of (female) agency with the freedom of merging worlds, similar to the etherealness of Fugue’s genre-bending predecessor, The Lure (2016). In her astonishing debut, Smoczyńska weaved a universe of myth and social reality by presenting man-eating mermaids and their institutional bind to a performance cabaret. This time around, her sophomore feature is more self-contained and introspective, while eluding simple psychological diagnosis. The story...

Featuring eight segments of horror based on frightening folklore from countries around the world, The Field Guide to Evil is coming to theaters and VOD on March 29th, and you can now watch the new trailer for the eclectic horror anthology.

Read the official press release for additional details on The Field Guide to Evil, check here to read Heather Wixson's SXSW interview with some of the filmmakers behind the new movie, and you can get an idea of what to expect in the new trailer below.

Press Release: New York, NY --- Tuesday, February 19, 2019 --- On March 29th, the terrifying new horror anthology The Field Guide To Evil will be released to theaters across America and all digital platforms. A new poster and trailer for the film debut today at fieldguidetoevil.com.

In Field Guide, eight of the most exciting new voices in international horror were asked to...

First Cut Lab director Matthieu Darras is teaming up with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (Bekraf).

First Cut Lab director Matthieu Darras is teaming up with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (Bekraf) to launch two new film labs for project development and editing consultancy.

The two labs, which are aimed at local directors, scriptwriters and producers, will each last around one week, starting with an editing consultancy programme and followed by a project development workshop. They will also feature masterclasses open to larger audiences.

AFI Fest isn’t thought of as an acquisition festival, as most of its offerings are either world premieres about to enter awards season or high-profile selections from Cannes and Venice. Explore the program a bit, however, and you’ll discover any number of under-the-radar titles that have yet to find a home. That’s unsurprising, given how crowded the fall festival season has been, but dealmakers should seek out these worthy titles before it’s too late.

“Amateurs”

Gabriela Pichler’s debut as writer-director, the youth-in-revolt dramedy “Eat Sleep Die,” never got a theatrical release. That was a shame, and it’d be just as much of a disappointment if her follow-up met the same fate. Working from an appropriately zany premise — a small Swedish town attempts to woo a German superstore company into opening a new location via a promotional video — Pichler delivers clever scenarios and a surprising...

In the moody psychodrama “Fugue,” competing in the Polish films section at EnergaCamerimage, Agnieszka Smoczyńska explores memory loss and its devastating impact on family in her follow-up to “The Lure.” Utterly unlike her debut, which was a colorful, musical fantasy focused on mermaids, “Fugue” is a study in perception and emotion in which the lead and co-writer, Gabriela Muskala, is suddenly discovered wandering and returned to her family two years after disappearing.

What did you learn from your research into the woman who had gone through this actual breakdown?

It was a very strong experience. I was particularly struck by the fact that Maria never really came back from that “other world.” She was talking to us normally, she seemed to remember everything, and yet she seemed somehow suspended between two worlds: the real here and now and the one that wasn’t “real,” the one of her memories.

How...

Fantastic Fest has made two last-minute additions to its robust lineup of genre films. Richard Shepard’s horror-thriller The Perfection starring Girls alum Allison Williams and Dear White People star Logan Browning will make its World Premiere at the fest, and Fugue directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska is set to make its North American Premiere. Fantastic Fest kicks off Sept. 20 and continues through Sept. 27.

Deadline exclusively reported the casting of Williams and Browning in The Perfection last year. The film follows former cello prodigy (Williams) as she seeks out both her mentor (Steven Weber) and his new star pupil (Browning) with enigmatic — and twisted — intent. Shepard, Williams and Browning are set to attend the fest.

Smoczynska’s Fugue stars Polish actress Gabriela Muskala and follows a woman who is trying to reconnect with her family after being lost in a fugue state for several years. The film marks the follow-up to...

Paris-based sales agents Alpha Violet has announced that Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s second feature “Fugue,” playing at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has sold to Canada, China, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.

The sales company has two other films at the festival: Natalia Garagiola’s Venice Audience Award winner “Hunting Season” and Berlin Golden Bear nominee “Dovlatov” from Alexey German Jr.

In the film, an anonymous woman stumbles across train tracks and into a crowded station with no idea who she is, and no emotional attachments. Only when she is featured on a TV talk show years later is her family finally able to contact and bring her back.

However, when reintroduced to her parents, husband and young child she is not only unable to remember them, but fairly sure she doesn’t want her old life back. She is a new person and these...

Agnieszka Smoczynska, director of the strange, brilliant cannibal mermaid musical The Lure, has a new film: Fugue. This thriller focuses on a woman with amnesia who would be perfectly happy to never remember her old life. Watch the Fugue trailer below. Fugue Trailer It’s hard to tell what’s going on here based on this trailer, so here’s a […]

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After two years away, a woman emerges from the wilderness with a drastically different identity, with tics and recollections of her former self flashing only intermittently through, like glitches in an otherwise complete new entity. That’s the story of the protagonist in “Fugue,” an anxious, storm-brewing melodrama from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, though it could as easily describe its gifted director’s reemergence: Gravely composed and played in an aptly atonal minor key, it’s the last follow-up we could have expected to “The Lure,” the deranged adult mermaid musical with which Smoczyńska conspicuously debuted in 2016. Some will be disappointed by the lack of fishy flash and fancy in “Fugue,” but its controlled expansiveness of tone, psychology and camera mark its helmer — invaluably aided by writer-star Gabriela Muskała — as a stylist of considerable, unpredictable finesse. She could go anywhere from here; festival selectors, distributors and audiences would be wise to follow.

Arriving in the wake of her beloved goth mermaid extravaganza, “The Lure,” Agnieszka Smoczynska’s disappointingly unadventurous second feature begins much the same way as her first. A mysterious woman surfaces from the underground darkness of modern Poland, grabbing our attention as she stumbles into society. But where the twin sirens in Smoczynska’s debut emerged from a fairy tale, the lost and confused heroine of “Fugue” materializes from the shadows of an unaccountable two-year absence. Her name — she thinks — is Alicja (screenwriter Gabriela Muskala), and the camera follows her as she walks out of a Warsaw subway tunnel in an atomic blonde trench coat, climbs onto the busy platform, and casually pees all over the floor.

Memory loss is one of the oldest plot devices in the world, which makes it ripe for some kind of reinvention. The opening minutes of “Fugue” not only suggest that we’re in...

Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska left a lasting impression with her debut feature, the dark fairy tale about singing mermaids The Lure (review). Now the director is back with her second feature and it looks just as dark and alluring as her debut without the fantastic elements.

Fugue is written and stars Gabriela Muskala as Alicja, a woman who suffers from memory loss who has run off and created a new life for herself as a free spirit.

After two years in the wild she returns home and tries to re-assimilate herself into her old life as wife and mother but it's not an easy process for either her or her family.

I enjoyed The Lure but found it a bit messy...

"I really don't care who I was, I'm sorry." Screen Daily has released the first festival trailer for a surreal Polish film titled Fugue, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend in the Critics' Week sidebar. Fugue is the latest feature from director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, who last made the cult hit The Lure - a musical about mermaids. The film is about Alicja - a woman who has no memory and no knowledge about how she lost it. When her family finds her, she is forced to fit into the roles of a mother, daughter and wife, surrounded by what seem to be complete strangers. It's described as a story about a woman who comes to regret motherhood. The cast includes Gabriela Muskała and Łukasz Simlat. This looks mesmerizing and emotionally intense, dealing with some heavy topics (as is usual for Polish cinema). Have a look below.

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s sophmore feature is about a woman who comes to regret motherhood.

Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Fugue, the latest film from director Agnieszka Smoczynska which premieres in Critics’ Week at Cannes.

Smoczynska’s follow up to 2015 mermaid horror musical The Lure is about a woman who has experienced prolonged memory loss. When she comes to reunite with her family, the idea of motherhood is no longer an appealing one.

As announced by Screen last year, Alpha Violet handles sales on the project, which will premiere on May 15 at the Miramar.

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