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Something is wrong in Brazilian filmmaker Davi Pretto’s fourth feature, Future Future, which world premieres in the Proxima Competition program of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Wednesday, July 9. The title is a nod to the setting: a rainy near-future Brazil where AI advances coincide with a new neurological syndrome.

“A 40-year-old amnesic man named K is taken in by a 60-year-old lonely clickworker on the poor side of a rainy Brazilian city,” reads a synopsis for the movie. “After using an addictive AI device in a course for people with the strange [neurological] syndrome, K embarks on a tragic and absurd journey to find where he truly belongs.” AI threats, social inequality, and cognitive disruption are dissected through this sci-fi lens.

Described as “an unconventional political lo-fi sci-fi shot in guerrilla style for 16 days” on a tiny budget, the independent Brazilian production survived...

Mmm Film Sales has picked up Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “Black Snake” ahead of its premiere at Cannes’ Acid. Arp has taken distribution rights in France.

Acid’s closing film, shot in the Colombian desert, tells the story of Ciro, who returns to his home town after 10 years to tend to his dying mother, confront those he has abandoned as well as a legacy.

“In each of our family histories, there’s the question of inheritance. With ‘The Black Snake’, I want to show that it’s sometimes difficult to receive what we inherit from our ancestors or parents,” Vernhes-Lermusiaux told Variety.

“For fear of disappointing them, some people prefer to run away. Ciro’s family’s visceral attachment to a way of life can be seen as an obstacle. But behind this need to keep a tradition alive, it’s the intangible part of the heritage that interests me. The...

“Night Stage,” the gay erotic thriller by Brazil’s Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, has been acquired by German distributor Salzgeber, which will release the film in Germany and Austria. The film will world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar next week.

M-Appeal is handling international sales for the film, and has released the international trailer.

“We have followed the careers of filmmakers Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon since their first feature, ‘Seashore,’ premiered at the Berlinale in 2015,” Jakob Kijas from Salzgeber said. “In 2017, we released their miniseries ‘The Nest’ in Germany. Now we are delighted to welcome ‘Night Stage’ in our program – a bold and beautiful drama about love, sex, performances and politics, that takes risks and fully delivers.”

Salzgeber plans to release ‘Night Stage’ theatrically in autumn this year. The film joins the distributor’s upcoming slate alongside “Misericordia” by Alain Guiraudie, “Baby” by Marcelo Caetano (also represented...

Berlin-based M-Appeal will handle world sales for erotic thriller “Night Stage,” which will world premiere in Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar.

“Night Stage,” the latest film by Brazil’s Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, follows an ambitious actor and a successful politician who start a secret affair, and together discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the more they feel the urge to put themselves at risk.

The film is an erotic thriller with nods to Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven, but with a Brazilian twist. The cast is led by Gabriel Faryas as Matias, and Cirillo Luna as Rafael.

Matzembacher and Reolon told Variety: “We’ve always been interested in universes filled with desire, danger and tension, so making an erotic thriller was the natural way to go. However, this is a genre with a strong heterosexual dominance,...

Exclusive: The trailer for Continent has landed ahead of the world premiere of the horror-drama at the Munich International Film Festival on Thursday. A Brazilian, French, and Argentina coproduction, the movie is written and directed by Davi Pretto.

A car weaves through Brazilian countryside and one of its passengers remarks that it looks like the South of France. “I think it looks sad,” replies the car’s other occupant, Amanda (Olivia Torres). It transpires she is on a journey back to the isolated village in which she grew up. Amanda’s father is dying, and as events unfold, she becomes involved in a strange inheritance linked to a mysterious secret held by the villagers.

“If I were you, I’d get out of here,” Amanda is advised as the tension builds. “This place is harming you,” someone else tells her.

Continent is Brazilian Davi Pretto’s third feature – and he has just completed his fourth,...

Brazilian film editor, screenwriter and director Bruno Carboni tells a merged tale of human disconnection in “The Accident” (“O Acidente”), sharing an exclusive first-look trailer with Variety as the film begins to advance on the festival circuit.

Completed within the framework of the 2018 Torino Film Script Lab, Carboni’s reflective first feature has debuted in competition alongside seven other projects, including Eduardo Cassanova’s “La Piedad” and Carlos Lechuga’s “Vicenta B” at the 32nd Annual Cine Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil, which wraps today. It is also screening at the Festival do Rio and has just been selected for the Tallinn Black Nights First Feature Competition.

Shot in his hometown of Porto Alegre and co-written by Marcela Ilhar Bordin, the film analyzes the microscopic ways trauma unfolds under the surface and calls into question the hopeless nature of an ego-fueled society that espouses distrust rather than championing grace and communication.

Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is...

Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is...

Uruguayan filmmaker Manuel Nieto’s social thriller “The Employer and the Employee,” starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“Persian Lessons” and “Bpm” (Beats Per Minute), comes to the San Sebastian Film Festival to close the Horizontes Latinos sidebar on Thursday, Sept. 23. It’s a journey that began at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight where it world premiered after winning development prizes at Toulouse’s Latin Film Festival, Mar del Plata’s LoboLab and San Sebastián’s Wip Latam.

Picked up by Latido Films in the run-up to Cannes in July, “The Employer and the Employee” is Nieto’s third feature after his debut “The Dog Pound,” followed by “The Militant.” If there’s a thru line to find among his films, Nieto sees several: “The leads are masculine, the father figure is always present, they deal with youth in different stages and weights of responsibility and invariably touch on the concepts of legacy, identity,...