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Spangled by stars – Steven Bauer in “My Uncle’s Movie,” Alba Flores in “The Shepherdess,” Larraín regular Alfredo Castro in “Dog Legs,” – the projects brought to Locarno’s networking confab Match Me! underscores the wealth of riches offered by emerging non-English language filmmakers from around the world.

Featuring slates from 36 producers, this year’s lineup also takes in next titles from Matīss Kaža, co-writer of Gints Zilbalodis’ Cannes hit and Annecy multiple winner “Flow,” and Chile’s Oro Films, France’s Wrong Films and the Dominican Republic’s Mentes Fritas Film Production, who backed respectively Argentine genre auteur standout “To Kill the Beast,” Sundance Sundance Jury Prize winner “Animalia” and SXSW Audience Award laureate “Bionico’s Bachata.”

A quick take on 2024’s Match Me! also underscores how how a global arthouse sector is increasingly – and excitingly – ever more mixing it up.

That cuts multiple ways. Doc/fiction titles and genre tropes and blending abound.

“The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine,” a documentary that is among the competing Chilean pics at the 20th Santiago Intl. Film Festival, sparkles as it follows a father and son who seek to better their lives.

Toto, one of the few remaining artisanal gold miners in the country’s remote Tierra del Fuego, claims to be 56 years old but he looks decades older. After years toiling in the cold and wet, he moves stiffly, his health failing. He’s afraid he won’t live to see his son finish building a gold harvesting machine that would ease their lives, especially his.

The international trailer of “The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine,” bowing exclusively in Variety, opens with Toto speaking aloud as he writes in his journal, a habit he has formed in case he dies while working alone out in the field.

Its director, Alfredo Pourailly, spent years visiting Tierra del Fuego...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled the five projects it will showcase to sales agents and distributors at this year’s Cannes market.

This is the fourth year PÖFF has participated in the Goes to Cannes programme, which aims to spotlight work-in-progress projects by promising talent. The projects will be presented on 18 May. The films are without sales agents and aiming for a festival premiere.

Three of the films are by directors whose previous films premiered at PÖFF. Eeva Mägi is presenting Estonian drama Mo Papa. Her previous film Mo Mamma won the jury prize in the first...

Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) is back with his next horror offering, Immersion, which opens this year in Japan.

Bloody regular Fabien M. shot us over a brand new look at the latest that’s got all the atmosphere of a great Shimizu horror film.

In the film…

“Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There’s an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.”

Shimizu’s excellent Suicide Forest Village is also now streaming on Screambox.

Check out the wicked art below as well.

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The action adventure marks the latest from the director of Berlinale award-winners ‘Parade’ and ‘River’s Edge’.

Japan’s Isao Yukisada is adapting award-winning novel Revolver Lily as an action-adventure feature, which Toei Company is unveiling to buyers at the European Film Market.

Isao is best known internationally for titles including Go, A Day On The Planet, Parade and River’s Edge, all of which played in the Panorama strand of the Berlinale. Parade and River’s Edge both won the Fipresci prize at the festival in 2009 and 2018 respectively.

His latest takes place in 1924 and centres on Yuri, who killed 57 people...

Picked up by Latido Films at last year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, Chilean suspense-thriller “Immersion,” headed by Chile’s biggest star and Pablo Larraín regular, Alfredo Castro, has dropped its first trailer, which Variety bows exclusively.

Nicolás Postiglione’s debut feature, which he co-wrote with fellow filmmakers Agustín Toscano (“The Snatch Thief”) and Moises Sepúlveda (“The Illiterate”), revolves around a father, Ricardo, who has taken his two teen daughters to their rundown family home by a lake in southern Chile. While out sailing, they spot a sinking boat with three local fishermen shouting for help. Despite his daughters’ entreaties, he refuses to help the trio who he thinks look suspicious.

The trailer opens on that scene at the lake, followed by subsequent scenes that grow in tension and suggest that his fears may not have been unfounded after all. Or perhaps, that his prejudices may have triggered otherwise innocent...