The Playmaker Munich Drops ‘Wolka’ International Trailer Ahead of Haugesund (EXCLUSIVE)

K.J. Yossman Venice Film Festival contender “Leave No Traces” will represent Poland at next year’s Academy Awards.The feature, directed by Jan P.

EXCLUSIVE: Poland has become the first European nation to make its official submission to the International Oscar race this year, with Jan P. Matuszynski’s Leave No Traces selected to compete.

French TV event Series Mania came to a close yesterday with the handing out of its awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Naman Ramachandran Michal Aviram, one of the writers of global hit series “Fauda,” has created six-part drama thriller series “Munich Match” (working title).The series is set in 2022, 50 years after the Munich Massacre, a terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. On the anniversary of the attack, Munich is hosting a friendly soccer game between an Israeli and a German football club.

Sky has ordered a terrorist drama series about an incident in Germany set 50 years after the Munich massacre.

Christopher Vourlias New Europe Film Sales has closed several deals for “Leave No Traces,” from Polish director Jan P. Matuszyński (“The Last Family”), which has its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Manori Ravindran International EditorLeonine Studios has picked up six-part event series “Herzogpark,” one of the first big-budget offerings commissioned by German broadcast giant RTL’s streaming service TVNOW.Leonine will handle worldwide sales, and is set to launch global distribution at next month’s Mipcom market in Cannes.

Special Jury Mentions went to “The Staffroom,” actress Vinette Robinson for “The Boiling Point” and cinematographer Jelena Stankovic for “As Far as I Can Walk.”In the East of the West competition, a separate slate of films from Eastern Europe, the winner was “Nuuccha,” with a special jury prize to “Sisterhood” and a special mention to the documentary “Intensive Life Unit.”The jury that chose the main awards consisted of Argentinian producer Benjamin Domenech, Danish filmmaker Eva Mulvad, Polish

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Annika Pham After the Viking conquest at July’s Cannes Festival, where Norway (“The Worst Person in the World”), Finland (“Compartment No. 6”) and Iceland (“Lamb”) collected kudos, more than 60 possible gems from the North are to be unveiled at the hybrid market New Nordic Films which will unspool over Aug.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Koch Media has acquired German and Italian VOD rights to Russian filmmaker Anna Zaytseva’s feature debut “#Blue_Whale” ahead of its Aug. 17 world premiere at the 25th Fantasia Int’l Film Festival.“Searching” and “Profile” creator and Screenlife format pioneer TimurBekmambetov is a co-producer of “#Blue_Whale.”The cautionary tale is inspired by a news story Zaytseva came upon years ago which was later presented to her as a treatment.

Ethan Shanfeld Netflix released a trailer for the sixth and final season of “Lucifer.”The end of Season 5 saw Lucifer (Tom Ellis) almost becoming God. Season 6 will follow the Lord of Hell as the world unravels without a God.“Lucifer” also stars Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, D.B.

Netflix dropped the trailer for the upcoming sixth and final (for real this time) season of “Lucifer” on Tuesday, revealing that Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) and Chloe Decker (Lauren German) are having a hard time letting go of their normal(ish) life in Los Angeles and heading up to the Silver City so the once-Devil can take his rightful place on the throne after earning the title of God.“What’s the rush? Becoming God is a big job.

Director Chad Stahelski is a busy man, he’s currently shooting “John Wick 4” in Germany with Keanu Reeves back in the lead role, and Lionsgate already has plans for “John Wick 5.” But he’s lining up even more beyond the world of ‘Wick.’ Deadline reports that Warner Bros. and Stahelski are teaming to develop a new incarnation of the 1979 novel “Shibumi” written by Trevanian (“The Eiger Sanction“) with the possibility that it could turn into a directing vehicle.

Naman Ramachandran Warner Bros. International Television Production Germany (WBITVP Germany) has acquired the exclusive international rights to bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson’s “Dark Iceland” series of crime novels and will co-produce with Herbert L.

EXCLUSIVE: Last Of The Right Whales, Nadine Pequeneza‘s recently completed documentary about the fight to save the titular sea mammal, has been picked up by Off The Fence, the distribution and production company behind Oscar winning doc My Octopus Teacher.