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Germany’s Christoph Hochhäusler, the acclaimed director of “Till The End of The Night” which premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, returns with his latest film, “Death Will Come.” The crime piece is set to debut at the Locarno Film Festival, produced by Heimatfilm in collaboration with Amour Fou Luxembourg and Tarantula.

Sold by Italy’s True Colors, the film sees Tez, a hitwoman played by Sophie Verbeeck, tasked to avenge the death of a crime boss’s courier. The boss (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) who hired her has motives more nuanced than they seem.

Tez remains an enigma, with the story only scratching the surface of what makes her tick as she goes about her work. For Hochhäusler, the mystery is intentional. “I believe spectator and character must meet. As a spectator, I am usually willing to go to greater lengths, investing in the fiction so to speak, if the...

Mélanie Thierry, Lyes Salem and Félix Moati head the cast of the director’s second feature, produced by Deuxième Ligne Films and Petit Film, and sold internationally by Le Pacte. After beginning on 7 October, filming on Fabien Gorgeart’s second feature La Vraie Famille, after the well-received Diane Has The Right Shape, has entered its final stretch and will conclude on 11 December. Standing out in the cast are Mélanie Thierry, Lyes Salem (appreciated recently in Abou Leila and Honey Cigar) and Félix Moati (nominated for the 2013 and 2016 Most Promising Actor César awards for Télé gaucho and All About Them, very well received in Gaspard at the Wedding and Some...

Over the past five years, French actor Felix Moati has made a name for himself playing the lead in artsy dramedies like All About Them, Some Like it Veiled and Gaspard at the Wedding. Skinny, pale as a ghost and sporting a perpetual five o’clock shadow, he’s often cast as a clever if rather naive 20-something loser, gradually winning us over with his studied innocence and nonchalant charms.

It’s this combination, plus a touch of true melancholy, that Moati brings to his promising debut as a director, Father & Sons (Deux fils), which follows a family of three men facing three ...

Over the past five years, French actor Felix Moati has made a name for himself playing the lead in artsy dramedies like All About Them, Some Like it Veiled and Gaspard at the Wedding. Skinny, pale as a ghost and sporting a perpetual five o’clock shadow, he’s often cast as a clever if rather naive 20-something loser, gradually winning us over with his studied innocence and nonchalant charms.

It’s this combination, plus a touch of true melancholy, that Moati brings to his promising debut as a director, Father & Sons (Deux fils), which follows a family of three men facing three ...

A Paris Education (Mes Provinciales)‬ director Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I had the idea for the film after seeing the Marlen Khutsiev film of which we see an excerpt in the film. It's called La Porte D'Ilitch [I Am Twenty]." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

When was the last time Novalis (writer of the early Romantic movement and champion of the blue flower) was quoted in a film? Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (shot by Pierre-Hubert Martin, edited by Louise Narboni), starring Andranic Manet (Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living) with Sophie Verbeeck (Jérôme Bonnell's All About Them), Diane Rouxel (Frédéric Mermoud's Moka), Jenna Thiam (Cédric Kahn's Wild Life), Gonzague Van Bervesseles, and Corentin Fila, illuminates the sundry elements of what actually constitutes education.

Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I think there's a parallel there with the end of Flaubert's Sentimental Education where the characters say, what we lived that was most powerful, is something that happened before.