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For much of her career, composer Lolita Ritmanis dreamed of tackling an "epic" Latvian film, in tribute to her heritage as a Latvian-American. In 2019, she finally was able to do so with Blizzard of Souls, penning deeply affecting music, which landed her on the Oscars' shortlist for Best Original Score. Directed by…

UPDATED with video: This year's International Oscar entry for Switzerland, My Little Sister, follows a woman who has largely given up on her ambition to be a playwright and returns to Berlin to look after her twin brother, a famous actor with a terminal illness. It is directed by long-term collaborators and…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer/directors Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, whose My Little Sister is Switzerland's entry to the Oscar’s International Feature Film category this year. Both women are also accomplished actresses who have previous directing credits that include 2010's multi-award-winning The Little…

EXCLUSIVE: The Noah Hutton-directed sci-fi dramedy Lapsis has been acquired by Film Movement. The pic is set to debut via virtual cinema in Q4 of this year and followed by a release on all home entertainment and digital platforms. Marking Hutton’s feature debut, Lapsis was a nominee for the 2020 SXSW Grand Jury Award…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the debut U.S. trailer for Corpus Christi, Jan Komasa's Polish drama that was Oscar shortlisted this week. Film Movement has North American rights to the pic and is opening the film on February 19, initially at New York's Film Forum. The film has been a box office hit in its native Poland, attracting…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the U.S. trailer for A White, White Day, the Icelandic Oscar submission that Film Movement is releasing domestically in February. Directed by Hlynur Palmason, the pic is set in a remote Icelandic town, following an off-duty police chief who begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with…

Poland's Oscar submission this year for Best International Feature Film, Corpus Christi was inspired by real events that one would never think are real. Directed by Jan Komasa, from a script by Mateusz Pacewicz, the drama centers on Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia), a 20-year-old who experiences a spiritual awakening while…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has picked up North American rights on Jan Komasa's Polish drama Corpus Christi, which is the country's entry to the 2020 International Oscar race. Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg struck the deal at the recent MIA market, held during Rome Film Fest, with Jan Naszewski's Warsaw-based N…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. arthouse buyer Film Movement has picked up North American rights to seven movies for its classics label, including John Woo's first contemporary action film Heroes Shed No Tears (1984) and Viggo Mortensen starrer The Reflecting Skin (1990) by Philip Ridley (U.S. rights only). Also new to the label are…

U.S. distributor Film Movement is growing its TV footprint with the acquisitions of four TV movies from Beta Film and documentary series Hidden History (which will be renamed Nazi Junkies) from Paris-based outfit #Edith Paris. "Although we've long built our catalog with award-winning feature films from around the…

Film Movement has secured all U.S. rights to Jasper Jones, an Australian drama from director Rachel Perkins. Adapted from Craig Silvey’s novel, the film will be released this winter. Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and Aaron McGrath co-star in the pic that follows Charlie Bucktin, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Film Movement has picked up U.S. rights to Andrei Konchalovsky’s Paradise which is shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The Russian-German co-production is set during WWII and looks at the Holocaust from the perspective of three characters. Paradise debuted at the Venice Film Festival last…