‘Felicité’ Director Alain Gomis on His Berlinale Competition Comeback ‘DAO’ Set Between France and West Africa

‘Felicité’ Director Alain Gomis on His Berlinale Competition Comeback ‘DAO’ Set Between France and West Africa

Nine years after winning the Silver Bear for “Félicité,” French director Alain Gomis is returning to the Berlin International Film Festival with “DAO,” his most personal work yet — a three-hour family saga set between France and West Africa. The helmer, who has Bissau-Guinean and Senegalese origins, wrote and directed the film which stars a…

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Same-Sex Japanese Dating Reality Show ‘The Boyfriend’ Leads Netflix Japan’s Unscripted Global Push

Same-Sex Japanese Dating Reality Show ‘The Boyfriend’ Leads Netflix Japan’s Unscripted Global Push

The breakout success of LGBTQ+ dating series “The Boyfriend” has turbocharged Netflix‘s Japanese unscripted slate, with Ota Dai, who oversees the streamer’s Japan unscripted division, crediting a deliberate rejection of conventional reality television formulas for its unexpected international resonance. The expanded slate now includes renewed series “Badly In Love,” which hit No. 8 on Netflix’s…

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Chile’s Maite Alberdi Re-Visits the Docu-Fiction Format in ‘A Child of My Own’

Chile’s Maite Alberdi Re-Visits the Docu-Fiction Format in ‘A Child of My Own’

Chile’s much-lauded documentarian Maite Alberdi, after making her first fiction feature “In Her Place,” has returned to her roots with her latest opus, “A Child of My Own” (“Un hijo propio”). Not unlike her Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent,” Alberdi toys with the docu-fiction hybrid format, but in “Child,” she also breaks the fourth wall in…

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Nancy Guthrie: ‘Law Enforcement Activity Is Underway’ at a House in Her Neighborhood, Police Say

Nancy Guthrie: ‘Law Enforcement Activity Is Underway’ at a House in Her Neighborhood, Police Say

A house in Nancy Guthrie‘s Arizona neighborhood is being investigated in connection to her disappearance, police said late Friday night. Nancy, the mother of “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for nearly two weeks. “Law enforcement activity is underway at a residence near E Orange Grove Rd & N First Ave related to the…

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FilmSharks Boards Romantic Drama ‘All That We Never Were’ (EXCLUSIVE)

FilmSharks Boards Romantic Drama ‘All That We Never Were’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has snagged international sales rights to the feature film adaptation of romantic bestseller “All That We Never Were” “(“Todo lo que nunca fuimos”) by Spanish author Alice Kellen.  Directed by Jorge Alonso, the film stars Maxi Iglesias (“The Cook of Castamar”), Margarida Corceiro (“Punto Nemo”) and Sebastián Zurita (“How to Survive Being…

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‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’

‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from “Eyes Without a Face,” Season 4, Episode 5 of “Industry,” now streaming on HBO Max. On “Industry,” heroes are hard to come by. But in the HBO series’ audacious Season 4, Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) is about the closest the show gets to one. Introduced in…

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