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Famed Argentine director Daniel Burman’s new feature “Transmitzvah,” his first in nearly eight years, will receive a Cinéma de la Plage world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Burman first broke out internationally with a double Berlin Silver Bear win in 2004 for his fourth feature, “Lost Embrace,” and became one of Latin America’s most exportable box office draws in the following years. However, founding Oficina Burman, which was incorporated into The Mediapro Studio, his attention has shifted to creating and producing series for the past seven years, most notably Prime Video’s “Yosi, the Regretful Spy,” reckoned by many as the best title playing Berlinale Series in 2022.

“For 20 years, I made films. In my twenties, thirties, forties, I made a film every two years,” he recalled in a recent conversation with Variety. “Now, I went seven years only making series. When I went back to the...

Yosi, The Regretful Spy will go deeper into the international intelligence world on Amazon Prime Video.

The streamer has given the green light to a second season of the show, which is from Daniel Burman’s Mediapro Studios-owned production company Oficina Burman (Pequeña Victoria).

Set in 1994, the second season will deal with the attack on the Amia building, the bloodiest ever terrorist attack in Argentina, which left hundreds of people dead and injured. Protagonist Yosi has become a fugitive determined to go public with the help of a famous journalist, when the Israeli intelligence service asks him to investigate the best kept secret of Argentine arms traffickers: the Condor missile.

Israel’s Moran Rosenblatt (Fauda, Hit & Run) and Itzik Cohen (Fauda) join the Argentina and Uruguay cast, which includes Natalia Oreiro, Gustavo Bassani, Mercedes Moran, Alejandro Awada and Carla Quevedo. Burman will return as Showrunner, sharing directing duties with Sebastian Borensztein,...

Film Factory Entertainment has picked up international sales rights to Cristian Bernard’s thriller movie “Ecos de un crimen” (“Echoes”), successfully released in Argentina by Warner Bros Pictures and HBO Max.

Barcelona-based Film Factory, which previously handled hit Latin American titles such as “Wild Tales,” “La Llorona” and “The Clan,” will introduce “Echoes” to international buyers at next week’s Cannes Film Market.

After a Jan. 27 theatrical release, “Echoes” sold more than 105,000 tickets, becoming the biggest local hit at the Argentine box office since March 2020, the beginning of Covid-19 quarantine.

“Echoes” is produced by Particular Crowd, the original content label of WarnerMedia Latin America, alongside Buenos Aires-based Tieless Media, the production company founded by Fernando Abadi.

The film turns on Julian Lemar, an internationally renown suspense novel writer under pressure from his publisher to complete the last novel in his massively successful franchise, who goes on vacation with his family -– his supportive wife Valeria,...

The program announcements continue for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, with the Series and Generation strands both unveiling today, as well as the line-up for the Co-Production Market. Scroll down for the lists of titles.

The Berlinale Series selection, which is increasingly becoming a more high-profile part of the festival, again boasts several buzzy titles.

Premiering in Berlin will be Amazon Prime Video’s Argentinian series Yosi, The Regretful Spy, the Swedish show Lust from HBO Max, Sky’s UK series The Rising, and Lone Scherfig Danish show The Shift, which comes from local broadcaster TV2.

The Generation strand, which features youth-focused cinema, includes 14 features this year. The selection marks the last of long-time Generation head Maryanne Redpath.

Elsewhere, the European Film Market has confirmed titles for its Co-Production Market, which like the rest of the industry activity will take place virtually this year.

The Berlinale runs February 10-20 this year,...

Natalia Oreiro (“I’m Gilda”), Gustavo Bassani (“Separados”) and Mercedes Moran (“Spider) head the cast of Argentine Amazon Original “Iosi, El Espía Arrepentido,” one of Amazon Prime Original’s biggest bets to date in Latin America.

The series, an espionage thriller, will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Showrun by Daniel Burman, a leading light of the New Argentine Cinema and recent Cannes Un Certain Regard jury member, “Iosi, El Espía Arrepentido” is produced by Oficina Burman, part of The Mediapro Studio, whose credits include “Pequeña Victoria” and “Pequeñas victorias, perdidxs en la Tierra,” both produced with Vis, with the latter acquired for Latin America by Amazon Prime Video.

Burman serves a series creator and showrunner on a banner project for the writer-director, which was one of the two he presented in person at Berlin Festival in 2017 when Mediapro confirmed it had taken a substantial stake in Oficina Burman.

Stars: Daniel Alvaredo, Federico Bal, Guido D’Albo, Sofía Del Tuffo, Gustavo Pardi, Carla Quevedo, Marcelo Sein | Written by Nora Leticia Sarti | Directed by Hernán Findling

Directed by Hernan Findling, this Argentinian thriller has an intriguing set-up in its central idea of a detective tasked with solving impossible crimes. However, it quickly becomes clear that the film has precisely zero interest in solving said crimes, instead choosing to tell a painfully over-familiar story that most viewers will guess immediately.

The story centres on Lorenzo Brandoni (Federico Bal), a detective who appears to be the world’s unluckiest man. First, he loses his sister to cancer, and then he crashes his car on the motorway, killing his wife and child. To escape his pain, he throws himself into investigating a series of impossible crimes, such as a woman who’s apparently drowned in a closet. Then a young nun (Sofia del...

When it comes to Crime Thriller, Argentina is one the most epic crime thriller movie making of all time, specially movies like "The Aura", "Carancho" and the Oscar winner "Secret in their eyes".   Story: Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin) and his boss and friend Irene Hastings (Soledad Villamil) are two legal counselors that investigate crimes with the police, in a 1970s Argentina when the government were poor and the authorities were corrupt or paid by mafia. One case becomes personal for Benjamin when he investigate a murder of a young girl named Liliana Coloto (Carla Quevedo) and when he relies the judge dropped the case, than he take action in his own hands. Eventually he finds the murderer and arrest him, only to be ordered...

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This is the trailer for The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella and starring Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín, Carla Quevedo, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Bárbara Palladino and Rudy Romano. With The Secret In Their Eyes, Argentinean writer—director—editor Juan Jose Campanella has created a multi—layered and poignant thriller interweaving the personal lives of a state prosecution investigator and a judge, with a manhunt spanning twenty—five years. Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin (Ricardo Darin), decides to write a novel based on a twenty—five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him.

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Hollywoodnews.com: The Secret in Their Eyes (***1/2 out of 4)

The 2010 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language film, Juan Jose Campanella’s “Secret” illustrates how the brutal rape and murder of one young woman impacts a handful of disconnected strangers over one year, then five years, then a decade, and then several decades. Her death is a stone dropped into a placid lake. Waves ripple out, and no matter where you are parked, eventually they are going to rock your boat.

Campanella tells two interlocking stories, which feature the same characters but are separated by generations. One focuses on the early days of the investigation into Liliana Coloto’s (Carla Quevedo) murder. The second lays out a futile lack of progress that has occurred decades later. To their credit, the same actors play both young and old convincingly.

When he first learns of the crime, Esposito (Ricardo...

Director: Juan Jose Campanella Writers: Juan Jose Campanella, Eduardo Sacheri Starring: Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin), a retired criminal court investigator and divorcee, decides to try something novel with his spare time – write a fictionalized book based on a 25-year old cold case that has been incessantly lodged in his memory ever since. The dreamily pixilated and ever so slightly slow-moed opening of The Secret in Their Eyes stutters with its fits and stops as Benjamin attempts to find his starting point and his voice for said story. (The footage is visually stimulating, but narratively it is an annoying Brechtian technique to remind the viewer time and time again that this is a fictional story from Benjamin’s perspective.) Once Benjamin finds his authorial voice, the visuals promptly shed their artsyness and the flashbacks are differentiated from the present only by way of...

It's little wonder that the stunning crime thriller The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Argentine import, opening Friday at the Arbor, is all at once lyrical, brutal, poignant and provocative, an intimate and personal journey with much broader implications about the nature of justice.

Equal parts police procedural, psychological thriller and love story, The Secret in Their Eyes is the story of recently retired criminal investigator Benjamín Esposito (Ricardo Darín), who in 1999 decides to write a novel based on a 25-year-old rape and murder case that still haunts him. The story is told largely in flashbacks to 1974, following Esposito and his colleagues as they investigate the crime.

Like many horrific crimes, the murder claims many victims beyond Liliana Coleto (Carla Quevedo), the young woman who is brutalized and killed. Her husband, Ricardo Morales (Pablo Rago), lives...