‘My Little Sister’ Co-Directors On How Star Nina Hoss Inspired This Year’s Swiss Oscar Entry – Contenders International

Gallery: 20 great movies you completely forgot about (Espresso)Nicole will act as executive producer on the project, alongside Bell and Blossom Films' Per Saari. The original movie, starring Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgard, was selected to receive the European Cinemas Label Award for Best Film in the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section and Sodahl was nominated for Best Director at the 2020 European Academy Awards.

blended-family. The film focused on the drama surrounding 12 days of the family spending Christmas together, during which time a marriage unravels.

The team behind new PBS legal documentaryBelly of the Beasthas released a lyric video for the original song "See What You've Done," written by Mary J. Blige, Nova Way and DJ Camper and performed by Blige.

Anna Marie de la Fuente It’s been a banner year for Latin American cinema where 18 countries, including newcomer Suriname, have submitted films to vie for the international feature Oscar. Half of this year’s crop are by women, many of them debuts.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“Minyan,” an acclaimed tale of sexual and spiritual identity directed by Eric Steel, has sold to Strand Releasing in North America.The film, starring stage breakout Samuel H. Levine of Broadway and the West End’s “The Inheritance,” played in the official selection at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and went on to win Outfest’s grand jury prize for U.S.

“I’m sick of stories about frustrated couples who rip each other apart and explore their sexuality to escape boredom,” says Lisa (Nina Hoss) in My Little Sister. While there is plenty of frustration, and some sex, in Switzerland’s International Feature Film Oscar entry, this is not that story. It’s the tender tale of theatrical German twins brought closer by cancer.  


is shaping up!Netflix announced the first 10 cast members to be joining the spinoff on Tuesday. Sam Corlett (), Frida Gustavsson (), Leo Suter (, Bradley Freegard (), Jóhannes Jóhannesson (), Laura Berlin (), David Oakes () and Caroline Henderson () will star in the series.

Vikings spin-off series on Netflix, Viking: Valhalla, has confirmed its core cast members.The show will feature Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, Leo Suter, Bradley Freegard, Jóhannes Jóhannesson, Laura Berlin, David Oakes and Caroline Henderson among others.Valhalla takes place in the early 11th century, and will focus on “the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson, Freydis Eriksdotter, Harald Hardrada and the Norman King William the Conqueror,” a

Netflix has set the cast for Vikings: Valhalla, a sequel to History’s hit series, from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and studio MGM Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible) and Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) are set to star in action-thriller Black Site from the producers of John Wick, Hotel Mumbai and Bait.

direct to your inboxManchester council is urging members of the public to have their say on plans to regenerate parts of Piccadilly and create a ‘modern and welcoming’ public space.The major thoroughfare is the busiest part of the city with shops, pubs, restaurants, offices and public transport packed in and around Piccadilly Gardens.Work to rejuvenate the Gardens started last year when part of Tadao Ando’s much-maligned modernist structure - dubbed by some as ‘the Berlin Wall’ - was torn

Attending summer camp is a joyous time for many kids. For filmmaker Jim LeBrecht, it was life-changing.

Romanian director Alexander Nanau joined Deadline’s Contenders International awards-season event to talk about his searing documentary Collective, one of the year’s most acclaimed films as winner of the European Film Award for documentary. It is also Romania’s official entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race, as well as a strong contender in the Documentary Feature competition too.

Drawing attention to the colorful and challenging lives of the elderly, genre-bending The Mole Agent is a film that changed completely from initial concept to final product.

Never Gonna Snow Again co-directors and co-writers Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s professional collaboration is an unusual one — the pair are ex-husband and wife. But Szumowska says their enduring partnership shows “collaboration is possible.”

Greek dramedy Apples was one of the buzz films of last year’s depleted festival circuit, debuting in Venice where it opened the festival’s Horizons section. It’s now Greece’s entry into this year’s International Feature Oscar race.

With Dara of Jasenovac, executive producer Michael Berenbaum spotlights a little-known concentration camp in Croatia, where 20,000 Serb, Jewish and Roma children were killed. Directed by Peter “Gaga” Antonijevic, the first cinematic portrait of the Jasenovac complex follows a courageous 12-year-old, surrounded by horrific violence, as she fights to ensure the survival of her younger brother.

Andrei Konchalovsky’s acclaimed historical drama Dear Comrades! is inspired by the true story of a state-sponsored massacre in the Russian city of Novocherkassk in the early 1960s.