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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…

Deal-making in Toronto may be moving slowly but that hasn't stopped New York-based speciality distributor Film Movement, which has picked up US and English-speaking Canadian rights to Bulgarian tragicomedy Glory. The film, which is directed by The Lesson filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is described…

New York-based distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to French filmmaker Clément Cogitore's feature directorial Neither Heaven Nor Earth, formerly known as The Wakhan Front. The France-Belgium production was nominated for a César in the Best First Film category, and it played Cannes Critics…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Cosmos, the first feature film in 15 years from Polish director Andrzej Żuławski, whose horror pic Possession starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani played at Cannes in 1981. The indie distributor plans a theatrical release this summer before a VOD rollout in the…