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If you’re already experiencing The Last of Us withdrawals after the finale, let Screambox fill the post-apocalyptic void in your life with The Island.

Known internationally as Sløborn, the series combines elements of disaster thriller, coming-of-age drama, dystopian sci-fi, and survival horror. The German-Danish co-production was created by filmmaker Christian Alvart, who directed the genre films Pandorum, Case 39, and Antibodies before creating Netflix’s Dogs of Berlin.

It’s never been easy to be a teenager, but it’s particularly difficult for Gen Z, who are doomed to reckon with fears of the future — or lack thereof. As 15-year-old Evelin Kern (Emily Kusche) puts it in The Island‘s opening voice over, “Ever since I can remember, the world has been ending. Species extinction, deforestation, economic crises, environmental pollution, terrorism, and climate change. Happy days. Somewhere there is always the next crisis, the next war, and mankind has...

Exclusive: German public broadcaster’s latest drama is to be a remake of the 2019 Australian thriller mini-series Safe Harbour after a deal with distributor NBCUniversal Formats.

Titled Liberame – Nach dem Sturm (Liberame – After the Storm), the drama is set around a sailing trip on the Mediterranean, an overcrowded refugee boat and a catastrophe that changes the lives of everyone.

All episodes will be available to stream on streaming service ZDFmediathek on July 30and will begin broadcasting on Zdf on August 29.

The original show was produced for Australian cultural broadcaster Sbs and came from Universal International Studios’ Sydney-based producer Matchbox Pictures.

Here’s a synopsis for the Zdf remake: “Jan (Friedrich Mücke) and Caro (Johanna Wokalek) are on a sailing trip on the Mediterranean Sea with Jan’s sister (Natalia Belitski), her friend Daniel (Marc Benjamin) and Helene (Ina Weisse) when they encounter a broken-down boat with refugees in distress. The...

The Ground Beneath My Feet (Der boden unter den fuessen) Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Marie Kreutzer Screenwriter: Marie Kreutzer Cast: Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hoerbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin, Alex Sichrovsky Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/26/19 Opens: At IFC in New York […]

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"Everyone makes mistakes." "Not you." Strand Releasing has debuted the official Us trailer for acclaimed Austrian film The Ground Beneath My Feet, also titled Der Boden unter den Füßen in German (which translates exactly to the English title). This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in competition earlier this year, and has played at a few other international festivals. This new film from filmmaker Marie Kreutzer is "taut psychological thriller reminiscent of Repulsion", about a businesswoman who struggles to keep herself grounded while always on the go trying to manage clients. Valerie Pachner (who also headlines Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life) stars as Lola, along with Pia Hierzegger, Mavie Hörbiger, Michelle Barthel, Marc Benjamin, Dominic Marcus Singer, and Meo Wulf. I caught this film at Berlinale and it's very good, a brutally honest look at how the business life can swallow people up and suck all the life out of them.

Austria, World premiere, Competition, directed by Marie Kreutzer (fourth feature) and starring slim, austerely sexy, Valerie Pachner in a lesbian tale disguised as a workaholic drama that grinds the viewer down into submission, little by little.Director and cast on the Red Carpet

It would have been better placed in the Lgbt Teddy section although it is as strong overall as many other competition entries. If you’ve wondered how lesbians get it on one of the bedroom scenes demonstrates that the Missionary Position is at least one favored technique. The two lovers, both slim blondes, look so much alike I couldn’t quite tell who was on top but it was definitely a hot scene that ended in a screaming orgasm for the supine member that looked totally authentic and not the least bit faked (as it were).

Of course there is lots more to this movie than the all female sex but,...

Nine titles announced for Berlinale, which runs Feb 7-17.

The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.

The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).

The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.

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The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first wave of titles for its competition lineup, including new films from François Ozon, Marie Kreutzer, Denis Côté and Fatih Akin. Charles Ferguson’s Watergate documentary is among the Berlinale Special titles.

The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.

Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.

Dance music icon Benny Benassi has announced his first studio album in five years. Titled Danceaholic, Benassi’s new record is set to be released later this month, packed with sixteen tracks and a number of high profile collaborations.

Danceaholic weighs heavy with featured artists, with the likes of Chris Brown, David Zowie, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and more all gracing the effort. A new edit of “Dance The Pain Away” with John Legend is slated to make the cut on Danceaholic as well.

To promote the upcoming album, Benny Benassi has released a trailer which features a man in a self-help group who admits that he is a proud “danceaholic.”

Danceaholic will be released July 15 on Ultra Music, and you can check out the tracklist below to see what’s in store.

Tracklist:

01 Benny Benassi & Chris Brown – Paradise

02 Benny Bennasi – Danceholic

03 Benny Benassi feat. Richard Judge...

PARK CITY, Utah -- Art imitates life and life imitates art. In Marc Levin's "Slam", art attempts to rehabilitate life. The thin line between art and life, between documentary and fictional filmmaking, is examined in the winner of the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Renowned for his award-winning documentaries, Levin explores familiar territory in "Slam" with new navigational equipment: a script which is something like a map. This film wasn't scripted in the traditional sense. Levin, it appears, merely chose the territory to be covered and the explorers, and then turned the camera on.

Real actors play prisoners and real prisoners play actors in this movie about a talented black poet who gets arrested in Washington for possession of marijuana. Brace yourself for a slam-dunk of a movie, in an in-your-face cinema verite-style that makes Godard's "Breathless" seem like a cartoon.

The story behind the story is as interesting as the cinematic story itself and further evidence of the incestuous relationship between art and life. Bonz Malone, who plays a prison gang leader in "Slam", has served time in prison but is now a regular columnist for several national magazines.

The stars, Saul Williams and Sonja Soh, were discovered at a "Slam" -- where urban poets perform -- and created much of the poetry in the movie. Many of the extras are actual prisoners in District of Columbia jails. Even D.C. Mayor Marion Barry -- in a moment that is only comic because of his own real-life conviction on drug charges -- plays a judge who, at the arraignment for Ray Joshua, lectures about the evils of drugs. With its documentary style and topicality, "Slam" hits uncomfortably close to home.

During its expedition across the urban jungle, "Slam" wrestles with D.C.'s demons, from overcrowded jails to the demise of the black male. From these struggles, art emerges via poetic performance as an amoral compass by which one can escape the social ills that stalk society.

Performing at a Slam saves the "reel" fictional Ray Joshua from despair in the face of his upcoming trial and rewards the "real" actor Saul Williams as one of the country's premiere performance artists.

One of the film's producers, Richard Stratton, as well as Bonz Malone, found art to be salvation from a life of crime. "Slam" could very well become the poster child for Sundance inasmuch as independent filmmaking could find no higher ground than a film with an innovative style and social conscience that delivers the message: art redeems life.

SLAM

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Producers: Henri M. Kessler, Richard Stratton, Marc Levin

Director: Marc Levin

Screenwriters: Marc Levin, Richard Stratton,

Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn

Director of photography: Marc Benjamin

Editor:: Emir Lewis

Music: Paul Miller

Black-and-white/stereo

Ray Joshua: Saul Williams

Lauren Bell: Sonja Sohn

Hopha: Bonz Malone

Jimmy Huang: Beau Sia

Running time -- 100 minutes...