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“Enjoy Your Stay,” the Berlin Film Festival drama from “Goliath” director Dominik Locher and Filipino filmmaker Honeylyn Joy Alipio, has been acquired by Indonesian distributor Falcon and has its Indonesian premiere at Jakarta World Cinema. The film follows Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner at a Swiss luxury ski resort. “We heard about [stories of] Indonesian […]
Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to the drama “Prep,” based on the novel of the same name by Curtis Sittenfeld. The show is officially described as a coming-of-age story about “scholarship girl Lee Fiora’s high school years at Ault, a prestigious New England boarding school, and her journey to navigate friendship, crushes and class […]
A surreal legal battle unfolded last month in a courtroom in West Palm Beach, Fla., where a retired accountant faced off against a distributor of cult horror DVDs over ownership of a 1981 slasher film. The distributor, David DeFalco, goes by “The Demon” and taunted the accountant in a series of unhinged livestream videos, calling […]
German director and screenwriter Isabelle Stever’s “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming” has won the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Ethical Film Award. The award, set up in 2023 with sponsor Sumitomo Corporation, highlights films that shed light on issues such as the environment, poverty and discrimination. A jury picks the winner from three nominees drawn from […]
