JD Linville
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Australian Director Darren Dale Bows True Crime ‘2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback,’ Acquired by Netflix for the World, Just Before TIFF (opens the original)
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‘2.6 Seconds’ has just been acquired by Netflix in a worldwide acquisition Australian docuseries “2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback,” which world premiere at Toronto Sept. 10 as part of TIFF‘s Primetime strand, has just been the subject of a preemptive Netflix buy for the world. That speaks well for a four-part series examining the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker by Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe in the remote community of Yuendumu, tracing how the 2.6 seconds bet
Stefano Knuchel Premieres Final Chapter in 20-Year Hugo Pratt Trilogy with ‘Hugo in Venice’ (opens the original)
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Stefano Knuchel‘s “Il desiderio di essere inutile – Hugo a Venezia” (“A Longing to Be of No Use – Hugo in Venice”) will premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 12, in a special screening jointly presented by La Biennale di Venezia, the International Critics’ Week and the Giornate degli Autori. The film is the third and final installment in Knuchel’s trilogy on Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt, following “Hugo in Africa” (2009) and “Hugo in Argentina” (2021), with its premie
Levan Koguashvili Brings ’90s Georgia to Venice With Comedic Drama ‘Guria’ (opens the original)
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Levan Koguashvili‘s “Guria” will world premiere in Venice’s Spotlight section on Sept. 9. The black-and-white tragicomedy, set in the western Georgian Guria region, follows Zuriko, a 45-year-old widower and farmer as he struggles to find love, as well as a fair price on hazelnuts. “Guria” is a co-production between Georgia‘s Kino Iberica, Switzerland’s Cineworx, Luxembourg’s Tarantula and Bulgaria’s ArtFest, with support reaching further afield, including Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Thomas Heise’s Final Documentary ‘Übergang,’ a Potential Locarno Highlight, Reflects on Time and Transience (opens the original)
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Thomas Heise‘s final film, “Übergang,” arrives at the Locarno Film Festival as both a portrait of one of Germany’s most influential documentary filmmakers and the completion of a project left unfinished by his death. Premiering in the festival’s out of competition section, the film traces Heise’s life through newly shot footage, archival material and photographs, sewing together a meditation on time and transition. Heise, whose body of work chronicled the lives of ordinary people across East Ger
Low Light Films Boards Locarno Competition Thriller ‘O Jacaré,’ Basil Da Cunha Celebration of Lisbon’s Vibrant Reboleira District (EXCLUSIVE) (opens the original)
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Deep in the mazework neighborhood of Reboleira, Lisbon, someone is hiding €180,000 ($200,000), and Portuguese-Swiss writer-director Basil Da Cunha allows the characters of “O Jacaré” to use any and all means to find it in his new feature film competing at Locarno. Produced by Thera Production (Switzerland) and co-produced by Continue Walking (Portugal) and RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, “O Jacaré” wastes no time dropping its audience in the middle of a vibrant, interwoven community, using Cape Ver
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