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Mexican director David Zonana's Michel Franco-produced first feature Workforce, exploring exploitative work practices through a building site accident, made waves on the festival circuit in 2019, after debuting at Toronto followed by San Sebastian. His second feature Heroic, which world premieres in…

Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas' third feature The Box debuted in competition at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and has been selected as Venezuela’s entry for the 2023 Oscars. The film follows Hatzin, a young teenager who travels to collect his father's remains from a communal grave in northern Mexico…

EXCLUSIVE: Marking her first feature since she won a Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain and Dopesick and The Batman star Peter Sarsgaard have just wrapped on Michel Franco’s (New Order) new film, which we can reveal is called Memory. Plot details are being kept under lock and key but the…

Bleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Sundown, the latest film from Mexican writer-director Michel Franco that world premiered this fall at the Venice Film Festival. A 2022 theatrical release in the U.S. is in the works for the tense family drama. Tim Roth reunites with Franco (he starred in Franco’s…

After last year's explosively angry New Order, the prolific Mexican director Michel Franco returns to the Venice Film Festival with Sundown, the minor-key story of a man who decides to abandon his life in favor of getting drunk and shacking up with a cheerful local woman in Acapulco. It is his second collaboration…

As Deadline continues to expand its footprint internationally, we launch International Critics Line as a way to incorporate regular reviews of the fine local-language films being made outside of America. These films always have served as a seed bed to break new directors and stars in Hollywood, and we intend to spend m…

Neon has taken North American rights to Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's latest feature New Order, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. Conceived six years ago, Franco's timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome…

At the Venice Film Festival's annual press lunch today, Artistic Director Alberto Barbera offered further insight into down-to-the-wire preparations for what has so far been a very successful mounting of the pandemic era’s first major industry event. He also talked about some of the titles that were still under…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some compelling first footage of Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s (After Lucia) feature New Order (Nuevo Orden), which will play at Venice and Toronto this week. The buzzed-about Spanish-language film is the dystopian story of a revolution that hits in the midst of an upper-class wedding in Mexico…

Protagonist Pictures and mk2 films have come aboard to jointly handle worldwide sales on Michel Franco's April's Daughter (Las Hijas de Abril), which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard lineup. The Spanish-language feature from Mexico is Franco's fourth film to be invited to the festival. The story follows…

Chronic, the 2015 Cannes favorite that won the best screenplay award and was written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco (After Lucia, Daniel and Ana), has finally found its way into U.S. theaters and will bow September 23. The story centers on David (Tim Roth), an in-home nurse who works with terminally…

The winner for Un Certain Regard, the Cannes Film Festival’s second-most prestigious competition, will be announced Saturday. And if what has happened to 2012 winner Michel Franco (for After Lucia) is any indication, that filmmaker could be in for some big things ahead. Franco, just three years later, is in the main…