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Dead Language directors Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun with music producer/99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence: “We couldn't imagine any other song there.”

Reshuffling the syntax of couple behaviour may be the only way to bring the relationship back from the dead. This is a film of missed appointments and of 'letters' sent, to paraphrase Lacan, that despite all odds, always arrive at their destination.

Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun’s fearlessly original and smart Dead Language (a highlight in the Viewpoints programme of the 24th edition of the Tribeca Festival), evolving out of their Oscar-nominated short, Aya, begins in the arrival area of an airport, where Aya, instead of picking up her husband Aviad pretends to be the driver for the unwitting Mr. Esben (Ulrich Thompsen of Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen), who is in Jerusalem on a...

Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun’s fearlessly original and smart Dead Language (a highlight in the Viewpoints programme of the 24th edition of the Tribeca Festival), evolving out of their Oscar-nominated short, Aya, begins in the arrival area of an airport, where Aya, instead of picking up her husband Aviad pretends to be the driver for the unwitting Mr. Esben (Ulrich Thompsen of Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen), who is in Jerusalem on a business trip as a lighting designer.

Lars Eidinger, playing a hotel guest with the sang froid of a werewolf, at first not interested in whatever Aya is offering, functions as uncanny catalyst to desires as the plot unfolds in unpredictable ways, better left to enjoy...

Tribeca Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on David Verbeek’s The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard and Naomi Kawase, in the Spotlight program Matt Tyrnauer’s Nobu on chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and in Spotlight Documentary Ebs Burnough's Kerouac's Road: The Beat Of A Nation. Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin’s two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes is the Opening Night Gala selection.

Aviad (Yehezkel Lazarov) and Aya (Sarah Adler) dancing to Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence (imported by Ed Bahlman for the US) in Dead Language

The British bands Culture Club and Depeche Mode (first heard in the United States at music producer and 99 Records...

“Dead Language,” the feature adaptation of 2014’s Oscar-nominated short film “Aya,” is heading to Cannes, where WestEnd Films will launch world sales.

The film was recently announced as screening in Tribeca’s Viewpoint Section in June.

Shot under the radar, “Dead Language,” stars Sarah Adler, Ulrich Thomsen, Yehezkel Lazarov and Lars Eidinger. It was co-directed by husband-and-wife filmmakers Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun, based on their original short, which also starred Adler and Thomsen.

“Dead Language” tells the story of a chance encounter that propels Aya, a young woman waiting for her husband at an airport, to pick up a complete stranger instead. The intimacy that sparks between the two ends abruptly when the man disappears, leaving Aya with a key to his hotel room and a yearning that perhaps only a stranger can fulfill.

The film marks the director duo’s second feature following their award-winning debut “The Etruscan Smile,...

CBS hit series The Mentalist, produced by Warner Bros. Television and Primrose Hill Productions, is getting an adaptation for Russia and Ukraine, production company Star Media, which operates in both countries, unveiled Thursday. The 16-part series will be directed by Alexei Muradov and star Yehezkel Lazarov and Anastasiya Mikulchina. In Russia, the series will air on Channel One and TV-3 and is tentatively scheduled to launch in late 2017. These TV networks are not available in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian network that will air the Russian-language adaptation is expected to be announced later. "We are keeping in

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