Venice-Bound Ukraine War Documentary ‘Trenches’ Boarded By Films Boutique (EXCLUSIVE)

Marta Balaga Currently looking for funding and partners to complete post-production, Aida Begić’s fourth feature “A Ballad” is set to take a bow at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Work in Progress section after picking up the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the event back in 2015.

EXCLUSIVE: A collection of documentaries from acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Sachs is coming to the Criterion Channel in October. 

's Mike and Natalie's marriage is pretty much over. In this exclusive clip from part one of this season of 's tell-all special airing on Sunday, Mike and Natalie talk about the status of their relationship after their intense fighting all season long, and it definitely hasn't improved.Mike and Natalie got married last season just hours before her visa was set to expire — after he initially called it off at the last minute — just so that Natalie wouldn't have to return to Ukraine.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Daphne Patakia has inked with Artist International Group for management.

Will Thorne Staff WriterLegendary French actor Denis Lavant, best known for his collaborations with “Annette” director Leos Carax, has found the latest role he will disappear into.Lavant is set to star in “Blood Burn,” a French-Georgian gangster thriller which is currently being presented in the Locarno Film Festival’s Alliance 4 Development program.The film hails from first-time feature director Akaki Popkhadze and is based on his own experiences of immigrating from Georgia to the “poor

Angelina Jolie is currently in Italy and we have some new photos of her looking so glamorous!

Tom Hanks has joined the next Wes Anderson film, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is expected to shoot in Spain.

, Mike calls Trish after an especially bad fight with Natalie, and she tells her son that he needs to leave Natalie before she leaves him.Mike and Natalie haven't been getting along all season after deciding to get married at the last minute because Natalie's visa was set to expire, and Mike didn't want her to return to Ukraine. Their problems only intensified after getting married, resulting in Mike having a meltdown on Sunday's episode and stopping filming.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent“Madeleine Collins,” the buzzy psychological drama directed by France’s Antoine Barraud (“Portrait of the Artist”) and toplined by popular Belgian actress Virginie Efira who plays the lesbian nun in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” is among ten competition titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first

Manori Ravindran International EditorWestEnd Films is launching worldwide sales on crime drama “Rhino” from Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov (“Numbers,” “Gamer”), which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section.Produced by Denis Ivanov (“The Tribe,” “Donbas”) and Sentsov, the film centers on a young man nicknamed “Rhino,” who starts out as a petty thief before rising in the ranks of Ukraine’s criminal underworld in the 1990s.

, Mike and Natalie's relationship continued to be tense due to their continuous fighting and Mike actually stopped filming and walked out after yelling at Natalie.Natalie and Mike have been arguing all season long after getting married at the last minute solely because Natalie's visa was set to expire and he didn't want her to have to go back to Ukraine.

Naman Ramachandran Keshet International has completed further pre-sales on “Surviving 9/11,” Top Hat Productions’ feature-length documentary for the BBC.The BBC had commissioned the film to mark 20 years of the tragedy, which falls this year.Keshet has finalized license deals with The Seven Network in Australia; Globo in Brazil; CBC in Canada for both the CBC network and its French network Société Radio-Canada; TVNZ in New Zealand; DPG Media in Belgium; RTV in Slovenia; NRK in Norway; Sky

Jamie Lang Beyond Rights has kept the momentum going in distributing the popular property show “Love It or List It,” announcing two new versions being produced in Finland and France. In France, M6 licensed the format and is now in pre-production on its own version, while Finland’s Rabbit Films is producing an initial 10-episode run for broadcaster Nelonen, set to premiere Aug.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Deauville American Film Festival is set to reteam with Cannes to showcase five movies that have played on the Croisette during its next edition and will launch a mini-strand dedicated to anticipated French movies.Cannes joined forces with Deauville last year following the cancellation of its physical edition due to the pandemic.

her fourth round 2019 US Open match, which she lost to Belinda Bencic. On her way out of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the defending champion walks by a plaque quoting Billie Jean King that reads, “Pressure is a privilege.” Osaka doesn’t see it that way. The current world No.

withdrawing from the French Open for the sake of her mental health.

Addie Morfoot ContributorGarrett Bradley’s three-part Netflix docuseries about Japanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka arrives on the streamer at a particularly fraught time in the athlete’s career.Named simply “Naomi Osaka,” it debuts one week before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, where the 23 year old will compete after having recently withdrawn from the French Open and Wimbledon.

Lise Pedersen “Isaac”, the debut feature by Catalan producer-director duo Ángeles Hernández and David Matamoros, has been acquired by France’s top Queer cinema distributor Outplay Films for France, Austria and Switzerland.The deal was put through by the film’s sale agent Alief Films at this year’s Cannes Film Market.Hernández and Matamoros, the co-producers of Netflix horror hit “The Platform (El Hoyo”, 2019), also produced “Isaac” via their Barcelona-based shingle Mr.