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Christopher Vourlias Serbian drama “The Family,” which swept the newly launched Heart of Sarajevo TV Awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Monday, has sold to North America, Variety can reveal.Directed by Bojan Vuletić (“Requiem for Mrs.

Marta Balaga Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger, who won a Sundance best director award for “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” expected a bigger fallout following the release of his latest film, “The Mole: Undercover in North Korea,” he admitted during his CineLink Talk at Sarajevo Film Festival.His documentary, focusing on two men embarking on a mission to expose the secrets of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) and its Spanish president, is shown at the festival in the Dealing with the Past section,

Following the departure of Cinephil founder Philippa Kowarsky, who joined the BBC as Storyville Commissioning Editor last week, the Tel Aviv-based sales outfit is joining forces with fellow sales company WestEnd Films to form a joint venture.

Ben Platt is embarking on a North American tour!

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAltered Innocence has picked up North American rights to Bertrand Mandico’s sophomore feature film “After Blue (Dirty Paradise),” which just had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival. The film will make its North American premiere at Toronto Film Festival in the Midnight Madness sidebar, and the U.S.

Dale Mehmet had an emotional reunion with his mum and family after he arrived back from the villa to Glasgow. Dale, who left the show along with Abi in a double elimination, flew back to Edinburgh airport before heading back to the family home.

JD Linville Lee Won-tae’s thriller “The Devil’s Deal” reveals how revenge can twist anyone into something else when political hopeful Jeon Hae-woong (Cho Jin-woong) breaks bad after a stolen election. Betrayal and murder punctuate the film, set in the economic skin game of early ’90s Busan.Debuting at Fantasia, “The Devil’s Deal” is produced by Seo Kang-ho and Billy Acumen.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefProducer Lynda Obst (“Interstellar,” “Hope Floats”) and Miky Lee (executive producer of “Parasite”) have joined forces to tap into the Korean music wave. They will produce “K-Pop: Lost in America,” a feature-length road movie to be released in 2023.The CJ ENM production has tapped JK Youn, director of two of the biggest Korean movies of all time, to helm the project.

Love Island has bid farewell to another Scot as Dale Mehmet has been dumped from the villa. Abigail Rawlings, who was coupled up with Dale, was also dumped as the islanders decided to send the pair home in a brutal dumping.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNadav Lapid’s thought-provoking film “Ahed’s Knee,” which just world premiered at Cannes and won the jury prize, has been acquired by Kino Lorber for North American distribution.“Ahed’s Knee” will have its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section at Toronto.

Love Island fans have branded the show as unfair as they reckons Scots contestant Dale Mehmet will be asked to leave the villa by his fellow islanders tonight - along with his love-interest Mary. ITV presenter Laura Whitmore broke the news to the contestants on Sunday night that they would have to choose to dump a boy and girl from the island.

It was a triumphant second weekend for indie Stillwater from Focus Features, which hit the $10 million mark in 2,611 theatres (up by 80) and 233 DMA’s in North America, where it was no. 5.

Love Island star Dale Mehmet finds himself on the wrong side of fellow islander Faye Winter on tonight's episode of the hit ITV2 show, with carnage set to erupt amid the fallout from Casa Amor. As well as engaging in a barney with the Scot, Faye also looks set to rip into Jake Cornish as his behaviour is brought to light by the movie night challenge.

Love Island villa have been nothing short of carnage, with couples being switched around and broken up all over the place. And it looks like this theme is set to continue, with Scotland’s own Dale Mehmet taking centre stage, OK Magazine reports.

Love Island Scot Dale Mehmet has decided to pair up with Abigail Rawlings in tonight’s dramatic recoupling. Last night’s episode saw the Glasgow barber firmly in the friend zone with Chloe Burrows after the pair failed to find that spark in one another.

Love Island winner Amber Rose Gill has admitted she likes Scots born barber Dale Mehmet as she watches this year's show.. And as Amber complimented him online, fans reckons that the heavily tattooed Conor McGregor lookalike actually prefers Kaz to his current love interest Chloe.

Love Island Scot Dale Mehmet looks to have taken a step closer to securing a longer stay in the Majorca villa. The Glasgow barber was seen cracking on with Chloe Burrows - and he suggested that she was the only woman that he was getting on with in the villa.

EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Japan Society has unveiled the full line-up for the 15th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival Of New Japanese Film, the largest celebration of Japanese cinema in North America.

Christopher Vourlias Mubi, the London-based streamer and theatrical distributor that’s been on a buying spree this week in Cannes, has acquired the rights for North America, U.K., and a host of other territories for Kira Kovalenko’s “Unclenching the Fists,” which took home the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Variety can reveal.Set in a former mining town in Russia’s North Ossetia region, “Unclenching the Fists” is the story of a young woman, played by Milana