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The Match Factory has closed multiple international deals for Miroirs No. 3, the latest feature from acclaimed German director Christian Petzold, ahead of its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival.

Les Films du Losange will handle French distribution of Miroirs No. 3, with Imagine Film Distribution releasing in Benelux, M&m International taking South Korea, Yeni Bir Film releasing in Turkey, Leopardo Filmes taking Portugal, Stadtkino Filmverleih handling Austria, Independenta film releasing in Romania, A-One Film for the Baltics, and Demiurg for the territories of Former Yugoslavia.

Metrograph Pictures has pre-bought the movie for North America.

Miroirs No. 3 follows Laura (frequent Petzold collaborator Paula Beer), a piano student from Berlin, who survives a car accident during a weekend in the countryside. Though uninjured, she is left psychologically shaken and is taken in by a local woman who witnesses the crash. As Laura becomes part of the...

The Directors’ Fortnight, the Cannes film festival independent sidebar focused on cutting-edge, auteur cinema, has unveiled its 2025 lineup.

Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo’s French drama Enzo will open the section on May 14, with Eva Victor’s Sundance hit Sorry, Baby as the closing film on May 24.

Acclaimed German director Christian Petzold (Yella, Barbara, Afire) will make his Cannes debut in the Directors’ Fortnight this year, with Miroirs No. 3. Petzold regular Paula Beer plays an aspiring pianist whose life is upended when she miraculously survives a car crash and is taken in by a family of strangers who offer to take care of her. Metrograph Pictures pre-bought the film for North America last year.

Other Fortnight highlights include Peak Everything from Canadian director Anne Émond, a bilingual rom-com about a kennel owner who falls in love with a customer service rep over the phone and sets off to find her; Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho,...

An adaptation of Edith Wharton novel The Custom Of The Country by Mary Queen Of Scots director Josie Rourke is among 16 new projects backed by the Düsseldorf-based regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw (Fms).

€600,000 in production funding was allocated by Fms to Rourke’s planned adaptation of Wharton’s 1913 novel.

The tragicomedy of manners about a Midwestern girl attempting to ascend in New York society is currently structured as a German-uk co-production between Cologne-based Mo Co-Production, a single purpose company set up by augenschein Filmproduktion, with Charles Finch’s Rabbit Foot Films.

Finch was recently a co-producer of the...

Easily one of the most successful contemporary music artists, Cardi B (aka Belcalis Marlenis Cephus) has managed to launch herself to admirable heights of success and fame with her aggressive flow and outspoken, clever lyrics. But as much as the rapper cum songwriter is loved worldwide, she is also being pulled under the limelight for all the wrong reasons as of late.

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According to exclusive reports, her husband Offset, with whom she decided to tie the knot back in 2017, has accused her of a cheating scandal that has been taking the internet by storm. While this isn’t the first time the pair have taken a knife to each other’s throats, it sounds more severe than before as things seem to be seriously escalating quickly in a hot turn of confessional events for both.

That said, following ‘Set’s accusations, a lot of speculation...

Mubi has unveiled their November 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty and Alain Gomis’ Thelonious Monk documentary Rewind & Play. Also in the lineup is three stellar earlier films from Christian Petzold––Yella, Jerichow, and The State I Am In––along with John Cassavetes’ Husbands and Gloria, a Hayao Miyazaki short, and a retrospective dedicated to Argentinian-born, French-educated filmmaker and theorist Nelly Kaplan.

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November 1

A Very Curious Girl, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

The Pleasure of Love, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Charles and Lucie, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Papa the Little Boats, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Yella, directed by Christian Petzold | Phantoms Among Us: The Films of Christian Petzold

Jerichow,...

Christian Petzold’s latest feature, “Afire,” takes a blacklight to the artistic ego and to the trope of the manic pixie dream girls who supposedly enshrine it.

The invigorated spin on what is typically that sort of character in a movie like “Afire” is realized in this deceptively light, Eric Rohmer-esque affair by Paula Beer. The German director Petzold discovered the 28-year-old German actress with her performance in French filmmaker Francois Ozon’s black-and-white World War I-era drama “Frantz,” for which Petzold supplied German translation services. They’ve since collaborated on postmodern World War II drama “Transit,” water nymph allegory “Undine,” and now this moving and bitterly hilarious film about an insecure, pretentious fiction writer named Leon (Thomas Schubert) and the alluring woman Nadja whom he’s sharing a summer vacation home with.

With Petzold and his former creative partner Nina Hoss on an indefinite and mysterious hiatus as...

Exclusive: The Match Factory has unveiled a slew of deals for German director Christian Petzold’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire.

The summertime comedy-drama, which world premiered in Berlin’s main competition, revolves around a disparate group of people thrown together in a holiday home on Germany’s Baltic coast against a backdrop of advancing forest fires.

European deals include France (Les Films du Losange), Italy (Wanted), Spain (Filmin), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Stadtkino), Scandinavia (Future Film), Poland (Aurora Films), Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia (Vertigo), Ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Romania (Independenta), Baltics (A-One).

Outside of Europe, the picture has been snapped up for South Korea (M&m International), Taiwan (Light Year Images), Turkey (Bir Film), Brazil (Imovision) and Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (Ifa Cinema).

A North American distribution deal is also closed and due to be announced soon. Further territories are currently in negotiation.