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Sylvie Pialat (“Timbuktu”), the producer of Cannes’ opening night movie “Leave One Day” directed by Amelie Bonnin, is on the roll. The Cesar-winning producer, who runs the Paris-based banner Les Films du Worso, is currently developing a raft of new projects from renown European auteurs and up-and-comers, including Alain Gomis, Emmanuelle Bercot, Atiq Rahimi, Hu Wei and Felipe Gálvez.

Pialat will be working for the first time with Emmanuelle Bercot, the critically acclaimed French actress and filmmaker whose directorial effort “Leaving” world premiered at Cannes in 2021 and earned Benoit Magimel a best actor prize at the Cesar Awards in 2022. Bercot also had her 2015 movie “Standing Tall” open the Cannes Film Festival.

Bercot’s untitled next movie, which will reteam Pialat with Pathé Films, her partner on “Leave One Day,” is an adaptation of the book called “L’Enragé,” written by journalist Sorj Chalandon. The movie will tell the gripping true story...

Mining the same harrowing history as his Chilean and Latin American contemporaries (more recently El Conde) — from Argentina to Uruguay, Paraguay and beyond, Felipe Gálvez confronts the enduring shadow of Augusto Pinochet during his end days. Deadline reports that the filmmaker will direct Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Gálvez has quite the international producer backing for the sophomore film. We can’t wait for casting news.

Adapted by Gálvez, Mariano Llinás (must see 2018’s La Flor) and re-teaming with The Settlers scribe Antonia Girardi, this is based on the book 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands, it follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest.…...

Exclusive: Chilean writer-director Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature The Settlers premiered in Cannes in 2023, has set his second feature film as Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The film, which is based on the upcoming book 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands, follows an ex-spy hired to prevent the escape of the Chilean dictator after his capture in London unleashes geopolitical unrest. Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in Chile by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón before he was arrested in 1998 at the London Bridge hospital. He was held under house a rest for a year and a half before being released by the UK government in 2000.

Impunity is adapted by Gálvez, Mariano Llinás and Antonia Girardi and is produced by international outfit Rei Pictures and Quiddity in the UK, along with co-producers Les Films du Worso in Paris,...

“Pain and Glory” director Pedro Almodovar, “The Nun” actor Isabelle Huppert and “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino are among a galaxy of 70 film, television, literature and eminent personalities from other walks of life who have signed an open letter expressing “outrage” over the repression of the LGBT+ community in Poland.

Addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the letter states: “We, the undersigned, express our outrage at repressions directed against the LGBT+ community in Poland. We speak out in solidarity with activists and their allies, who are being detained, brutalized, and intimidated. We voice our grave concern about the future of democracy in Poland, a country with an admirable history of resistance to totalitarianism and struggle for freedom.”

Other signees include Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, whose “Ida” won an Oscar, “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, “Vera Drake” director Mike Leigh, and actors Ed Harris and James Norton.

A challenging and disturbing documentary looking at how the sons of two Nazi war criminals have dealt differently with their father’s actions

This outstanding documentary about history and guilt from author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands concerns the two elderly sons of prominent officials in Nazi Germany. It entirely upends what I confess were my own preconceptions about what such a film would be: that is, a placid, consensual study, ruefully brooding on the sins of the fathers. This is far more challenging – and more disturbing.

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★★★★☆ David Evans' My Nazi Legacy (2015) opens with a potent challenge - to imagine what it would be like to grow up as the child of a mass murderer. This hard proposal is just the beginning of what is a harrowing, complex documentary that expertly explores the legacy of the Holocaust through the intertwining history of three men. Philippe Sands is a human rights lawyer, who when researching into the Nuremberg Trials discovered that a son of a Nazi governor was still alive.

In many places and for many people, the legacy of World War II still hangs heavy. The war in both the Pacific and Europe ended by the early fall of 1945, but several of the countries involved remained caught in desperate power plays for decades afterward (some formerly Soviet block countries still are). But for many, the longest shadows cast by the war are the inexpressibly dark remembrances of the Holocaust, filled with dismayed wonder at how such a catastrophe ever happened. Philippe Sands is a lawyer and professor of international law at University College London. The author of several books, in 2012 Sands took on the task of writing about The Nuremberg Trials. In the process, he met Niklas Frank, the son of prominent Nazi governor, Hans Frank. Niklas introduced Sands to Horst von Wächter, son of Otto von Wächter, another prominent Nazi. What Sands — a Jew whose grandfather barely survived...

Watch a clip from the documentary following renowned lawyer Philippe Sands as he meets the sons of two prominent German officials who had been instrumental, during the Holocaust, in the murder of his own family. Here Sands, along with Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter, visit a commemoration of a Waffen SS division largely made up of Ukrainian volunteers, where they find locals openly supportive of Nazism.

• My Nazi Legacy screens at the UK Jewish film festival and is released in UK cinemas on 20 November. It is released as What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy in Us on 6 November

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Read More: Meet the 2015 Tribeca Filmmakers #44: What It Means to Have a Nazi Father Explored in 'A Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did' After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, David Evans' ("Downtown Abbey") documentary "What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy" has finally found a home with Oscilloscope Laboratories. The distribution company has acquired all Northern American rights to the non-fiction feature, which takes on the difficult feat of reexamining one of history's most atrocious events and exploring what is left of it.  The official synopsis reads as follows, courtesy of Oscilloscope: "A poignant, thought-provoking account of friendship and the toll of inherited guilt, 'What Our Fathers Did' explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of very high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Eminent human rights lawyer Philippe Sands...