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"Where are you from again?" The Match Factory has debuted the first official promo trailer for the indie drama Exile, also titled just Exil. This is a German film produced and made in Germany, but it's directed by a Kosovan filmmaker named Visar Morina. The film just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and is playing at the Berlin Film Festival now, seeking international distribution at the market. The sweltering (literally) drama is about a Kosovan man who now works as a chemical engineer in Germany. He starts to feel discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis. Starring Misel Maticevic and Sandra Hüller, along with Rainer Bock, Thomas Mraz, Flonja Kodheli, Stephan Grossmann, and Nicole Marischka. It's a complex, fascinating examination of how biased perspectives can warp the truth. Here's the first promo trailer (+ promo poster) for Visar Morina's Exile, direct from Tmf's YouTube:...

The Cinema Guild has picked up U.S.rights to "Everyone Else," which is written and helmed by Maren Ade ("The Forest of the Trees"). The story follows a young couple whose relationship is tested whilst on a vacation in Sardinia. Star Birgit Minichmayr took home the best actress award in Berlin and this is also the winner of the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize. Release date theatrically is some time next year. In the romantic dramedy, Chris (Lars Eidinger) is a struggling architect and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr) is a publicist of a rock group on the road to nowhere. Whilst on a ytip to Sardinia, their relationship seems to be doing well until they meet another couple who are on vacation close by. Hans (Hans-Jochen Wagner) is a successful architect and Sana (Nicole Marischka) is a respected artist. Hans likes to assert his dominance which threatens Chris who tries to push back,...

While we eagerly await more info (and trailers) for the films playing at Sundance (and hopefully news on where Cory McAbee's Stingray Sam is going), the first competition and out of competition titles have been announced for one of the other biggest fests on the planet, the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, and all I have to say is Wtf? Pink Panther II is playing out of competition?! Who's running this menagerie? They redid the entire program this year, so I hope they're still going to have the genre goods.

You can check out the real short list after the break or you can read the press release.

Alle Anderen Germany

by Maren Ade (The Forest for the Trees)

with Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka

World premiere

Rage Great Britain / USA

by Sally Potter (The Tango Lesson, Orlando)

with Dame Judi Dench, Jude Law, Dianne Wiest,...