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Mia’s under house arrest for the crime of miscarriage, but must also contend with the lingering, suspicious death of her husband Adam. He was found dead in the vet clinic they once ran together.  Mia was exhonerated from any murder charges but there are still suspicious locals and shock radio podcasters looking for delicious sound bytes lurking outside her door.    Mia has reconnected with Marc, an old friend who has popped back into her life. Marc loves Mia and wants to protect her. But then suspicious things begin to happen inside her house. Marc’s things go missing and Mia’s feels like she is being attacked by an unseen force. Mia is confident that the culprit is supernatural, but Marc’s convinced that humans are the…

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Edward Berger’s Oscar-bound follow-up to ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rosellini.

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Authoritarian dystopian futures, as imagined by writers, artists, and filmmakers, often have familiar tropes, usually about the neutralization of individuality, the importance of conformity, and how it eventually becomes impossible to keep the brightness and individuality of the human spirit contained. Something of the hero’s journey is often followed by a protagonist (or two), though it’s how these stories find their own unique perseptive and cultural specificity that makes them stand out. First a graphic novel, then a short film, now a feature length story, Ishan Shukla’s Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust tells such a story, but with that different perspective that is often lost in more western dystopian tales. Focusing more on how elements of community, queerness, and embracing the strange and wild, and…

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Our friends at FilmSharks have been hard at work securing territorial rights for the Argentine animated film, Dalia and the Red Book (Dalia y el Libro Rojo) since screening at Sitges this year.    When Dalia is a little girl, her father includes a character in the novel he’s writing as a tribute to her: a goat. Years later, after her father dies leaving the book unfinished, Dalia is kidnapped by the book’s main characters, who introduce her into the world of fiction through a portal. The only ally she has there to overcome the challenges she faces is her faithful goat.   ScreenDaily has the rundown of territories sold so far.    Warner Bros Discovery has picked up East European rights, Alfa Pictures and…

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