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Gaston Pavlovich, famed for producing Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” and “The Irishman,” is joining Sophokles Tasioulis, producer of Terrence Malick’s “Voyage of Time,” to produce “The Hague.”

The feature is set up at Tasioulis’ Sophisticated Films banner in Germany and Pavlovich’s Mexico-based international production banner Fábrica de Cine.

“The Hague” is based on a story and treatment by Ilan Ziv, an Israeli who fought as a young man in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, before becoming a documentary director whose “Capitalism,” a six-part series, was broadcast on Franco-German broadcaster Arte.

In active development, the producers are currently discussing the script adaptation with several top writers. With a screenplay underway, the film is scheduled to go into production in 2022, shooting in multiple European and original locations.

The Hague’s International Criminal Court is best known for bringing to justice and indicting African war criminals such as the Democratic Republic...

Above: French poster for A Grin Without a Cat.Starting today, the Metrograph in New York will be launching an extensive series celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of the most dedicated, unsung heroes of U.S. film distribution: Icarus Films. Founded in 1978 by filmmaker Ilan Ziv and sold two years later (in exchange for a video camera) to Jonathan Miller who has run the company ever since, Icarus has become one of the leading repositories for aesthetically challenging, politically engaged documentary cinema. The two-week long series contains 56 films by some of the most important names in documentary film: Chantal Akerman, Jean Rouch, Peter Watkins, Chris Marker, Marcel Ophuls and Wang Bing, to name just a few.Finding posters for a lot of these films was not easy. Many of the titles were never really theatrical material (they range in length from 44 minutes to 345) and so a theatrical poster would...

In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, Mark Stroman began “hunting Arabs” in order to avenge the deaths in the Twin Towers. In total, he shot and killed two people — a Pakistani immigrant and an Indian immigrant — and partially blinded Rais Bhuiyan, a young man from Bangladesh. He was arrested before his planned massacre of Muslim worshipers at a local Dallas Mosque and was sentenced to death in 2002. Director Ilan Ziv began filming Stroman from 2004 up until his execution in 2011 and discovered a man rife with contradictions, who not only renounced his Islmophobia but also befriended Bhuiyan, who fought to spare Stroman the death penalty in an act of religious forgiveness. Watch a clip from the resulting film “An Eye for an Eye” below and check out the film’s poster as well.

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Ziv has previously directed many documentaries, including “Six Days in June,...