Visar Morina’s ‘Exile’ Wins Top Prize at Sarajevo Film Festival

Manori Ravindran International EditorMalgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s “Never Gonna Snow Again,” one of the buzziest titles out of the Venice Film Festival, has found distribution in the U.K., Italy and Germany.Following what’s understood to have been a competitive process with wide interest, Picturehouse Entertainment has swooped for U.K./Eire rights. I Wonder has bought the film for Italy, and Real Fiction are on board for Germany.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After the critical success of Netflix’s Unorthodox, series director Maria Schrader is teaming with Dan Stevens on Ich bin dein Mensch (I Am Your Human).

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Ed Meza @edmezavarJapanese filmmaker Tomoko Kana is revisiting the legacy of nuclear catastrophe in a new feature film project that brings together survivors of Fukushima and Chernobyl.Kana and producer Mari Mukai are looking for primarily German partners for the project, which they presented at this year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market and which will shoot to a large extent in Germany.“A Picture Book” is a very personal project for Kana that reflects her own experiences, according to Mukai,

Dennis Ruh will take over as the new boss of Berlin's European Film Market, replacing Matthijs Wouter Knol, who is leaving to join the European Film Academy. Ruh, currently an executive at film promotion body German Films, will take over his new job on Nov.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The Berlin International Film Festival is set to announce the new chief of the European Film Market. I hear that name will be Dennis Ruh, who is joining from German Films.He takes over from the long-serving Matthijs Wouter Knol, who is leaving to join the European Film Academy.

There are no heroes in Final Account, no one to empathize with. What makes it uniquely worth watching is its cast of octogenarians and nonagenarians who were eyewitnesses and in some cases active participants in the horrors of the concentration camps.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentRussian World War II drama “Saving Leningrad” has sold to several major territories, including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea and China.The film was sold to Capelight for Germany and the U.S., Signature Entertainment for the U.K., Kinovista in France, New Select in Japan, iQIYI in China, Super Vision Trading in Taiwan, W&W Investments Holding in Poland, Eagle Pictures in Italy, Studio Show Entertainment in Sweden, and

Brad Pitt is currently in the south of France with his rumored new flame, German model Nicole Poturalski, and they’re reportedly visiting Chateau Miraval!

Brad Pitt is currently making headlines after being linked to German model Nicole Poturalski, and they’ve been seeing each other longer than we realized.

Puppy Love, a comedic drama from Canadian director Michael Maxxis, will open the 2020 Oldenburg International Film Festival, Germany's leading independent film fest. The debut feature from the music-video helmer stars Hopper Penn (Sean Penn's son) as a prophetic young dishwasher with brain-damage who falls for a homeless prostitute, played by Paz de la Huerta (Enter the Void).

Bora Dagtekin, Germany's most consistent hitmaker, has extended his exclusive deal with local mini-major Constantin Film through to 2025. Under the deal, announced Wednesday, Dagtekin will deliver three more features for Constantin, all of which will be produced by his long-term production partner Lena Schömann.

Lucifer. Way back in the Before Time — a.k.a. January — I visited one of the Warner Bros.

Acclaimed film director William Friedkin will be honored with a lifetime retrospective at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival. The 84-year-old director of such genre classics as The Exorcist, The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A., will not be able to attend the German independent festival but will participate in a live Q&A that Oldenburg will stream worldwide.

Lucifer. Way back in the Before Time — a.k.a. January — I visited one of the Warner Bros.