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Exclusive: Darío Yazbek Bernal, star of the hit Netflix series La Casa De Las Flores, has signed with Gersh.

Besides La Casa De Las Flores, he was most recently seen opposite Willem Dafoe in Olmo Schnabel’s Pet Shop Days, which earned rave reviews when it premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

He can be seen as a series lead in the Apple show, Now and Then. He also starred in the Neon feature New Order for director Michel Franco, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival in 2020.

He also starred in a lead role in the Netflix miniseries, The Search. Other noteworthy credits include Daniel and Ana and Los Paisajes.

He is repped by Anonymous Content.

Michel Hazanavicius’s latest offering transports mechanic Djibi and his child from a Paris tower block to a fantasyland

Few directors this century have suffered a more precipitous decline in their critical reputation than Michel Hazanavicius. It was less than a decade ago that – hot off his terrific Oss spy spoofs, and newly flush with Weinstein Company support – Hazanavicius carried The Artist to Oscar glory. However, both his immediate follow-up The Search and Godard biopic Redoubtable were met with near-universal shrugs. The Lost Prince, a family-targeted fantasy sees the film-maker returning to the basics, possibly drawing on his personal experience as a father and bedtime storyteller: it’s very sweet, and quietly corrective not just in centralising a black father-daughter pairing, but plugging them into the kind of storybook universe western movies once deemed off limits to performers of colour.

The plot turns on a feeling of being excluded. In...

For many of the visitors who descended on the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, packing their day planners with meetings at the Gropius Bau and red-carpet premieres at the Berlinale Palast, there was a surreal sense of business as usual. But with coronavirus already ravaging Italy—and soon to be sweeping across the rest of Europe—Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra knew that he and his team had little time to spare.

“We started immediately to think what to do with our festival,” Purivatra told Variety on the eve of Sarajevo’s 26th edition, which runs Aug. 14-21. Even though the festival’s opening night was still months away, “we had [in mind] the worst-case scenario that it could be a bad situation with the numbers of Covid-19” cases in Bosnia.

As spring turned to summer, Purivatra and his colleagues were confident that a scaled-down version of the physical festival...

The Variety Steaming Room will present the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival’s Masterclass Aug. 17-21. The series features intimate hour-long conversations with award-winning international filmmakers and actors.

Featured speakers include Michel Hazanavicius, Director & Sff 2020 jury president; Bérénice Bejo, Actor,; Michel Franco, writer, director and producer; Rithy Panh, filmmaker, writer and producer; and Mads Mikkelsen, actor.

The Masterclass series, moderated by Variety journalists, will focus on the entire breadth of the creative talents’ career achievements. The conversations are at 17:30 p.m. Cet / 8:30 a.m. Pt daily.

The 26th annual Sff, running Aug. 14-21, is a leading festival focusing on Southeast Europe filmmaking.

The Variety Streaming Room is dedicated to presenting virtual conversations that span private screenings of upcoming projects in film and TV, exclusive Q&As with creators and talent and relevant B2B discussions with industry thought leaders.

Register for the free series at: variety.com/sarajevofilmfestival...

Together, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner make up more than half-century of romantic partnership and comedy gold. Their work together — Tomlin, the legendary actress and sketch comedian, and Wagner, the writer who has penned most of Tomlin’s famous characters, comedy albums and television specials — has shaped a specific, irreplicable canon in American social commentary. It’s heralded the kind of comedy that walks the fine line of racial performance in “Juke and Opal” to lay bare the alienations of addiction, race and class, or finds in a 5-year-old Edith Ann’s curiosity the ironies of American life.

“She expresses how I feel, which I have no ability to do,” Tomlin said of Wagner, her wife and longtime partner, on Tuesday. “She can express in words what I feel about the world, about humans, about the struggle that we’re in — and, presumably, not the inevitability of it all, something...