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Nobody Knows I'm Here - ***
Nobody Knows I’m Here – ***
Nadie sabe que estoy aquí (Gaspar Antillo, 2020) – Global Acquisition – Arthouse Drama
Memo (Jorge García) lives a hermit-like existence on a small sheep farm in a remote rural area in Chile. He lives there with his uncle Braulio (Luis Gnecco) and passes the time sneaking into his neighbors’ homes. He also harbors a dark secret about has past as a singer. As a child, he sang the vocal tracks for…
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Unknown Origins - ***1/2
Unknown Origins – ***1/2
Orígenes secretos (David Galán Galindo, 2020) – Global Acquisition – Comedy/Thriller
Reported Budget: €3.5 million ($3.9 million)
David (Javier Rey) has just made rank as a homicide detective on the Madrid police force when he and his partner Cosme (Antonio Resines) make a gruesome discovery: a murder victim posed in ways that recall the origin story of a famous superhero. Soon other bodies…
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The Platform - ****½
The Platform – ****½
El hoyo (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) – Some Foreign Rights – Horror
Reported Budget: “A little more than €1 million”
In a bid to obtain a graduate degree that will open up better employment opportunities, Goreng (Ivan Massagué) volunteers to spend 6 months in a center euphemistically dubbed by its managers as the “vertical self-management center”. Once he enters, however, Goreng discovers it…
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Airplane Mode - **
Airplane Mode – **
Modo avião (César Rodrigues, 2020) – Full Original – Comedy/Romcom
Ana (Larissa Manoela) is a Sao Paolo-based influencer who works for a trendy fashion label, an arrangement that includes a scripted relationship with fellow influencer Gil (Eike Duarte). In part because of her job, she is constantly on her phone and monitoring her various social media accounts, habits that have led to multiple car…
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Como caído del cielo - ****
Como caído del cielo – ****
Como caído del cielo (José Pepe Bojórquez, 2019) – Full Original – Musical Comedy
The late, great Mexican ranchera singer and actor Pedro Infante (Omar Chaparro) finds himself in the afterlife, stuck in purgatory. The angels cannot decide if he deserves to go to hell for how badly he treated women during his lifetime – he was a notorious womanizer – or if he should go to heaven for all the good…
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Live Once, Love Twice - ***½
Live Once, Love Twice – ***½
Vivir dos veces (María Ripoll, 2019) – Some Foreign Rights – Family Drama/Road Movie
Reported Budget: €1.3 million (IMDB)
Emilio (Oscar Martínez) is a retired, curmudgeonly Mathematics professor living in Valencia, Spain. After he is diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, he enlists his adult daughter Julia (Inma Cuesta), son-in-law Felipe (Nacho López) and granddaughter Blanca…
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Perdida - ***½
Perdida – ***½
Perdida (Alejandro Montiel, 2017) – Some Foreign Rights – Mystery Thriller
Reported Budget: $20 million (IMDB)
Pipa (Luisana Lopilato) is a detective with a special unit in the Buenos Aires police force that looks for missing persons. Like many onscreen detectives before her, she is very good at her job but also aggressive and reckless. She is driven by a mix of guilt and sadness over the tragic…
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How to Get Over a Breakup - ****
How to Get Over a Breakup – ****
Soltera Codiciada (Joanna Lombardi and Bruno Ascenzo, 2018) – All Foreign Rights (Outside of Peru) – Romcom
Mariá Fé (Gisela Ponce de León) is a twentysomething advertising agency copywriter living in Lima, Peru. When her boyfriend of six years Matías (Andrés Salas) – who has gone to Madrid to do a Master´s degree – dumps her over Skype, she goes in a spiral of heartbreak and self-pity. Her best…
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