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Seriesmakers’ Second Edition Features New Projects From Kevin Macdonald, Kaouther Ben Hania, Mikko Myllylahti (EXCLUSIVE)


Mijke de Jong, Hajni Kis, Yorgos Zois, Barbara Albert, Erik Matti, Guy Myhill, Amir Manor also make the cut.

Returning for its second edition as speakers are “Game of Thrones” triple Emmy Award winning executive producer and director Frank Doelger, also behind “The Swarm”; Israel’s Hagai Levi (“Scenes From A Marriage,” “In Treatment”) and Germany’s Stefan Arndt (“The White Ribbon,” “Babylon Berlin”). Directed by veteran Albert whose films have screened at Venice (“Nordrand,” 1999), Locarno (“Free Radical,” 2003) and Toronto (“Mademoiselle Paradis,” 2017), in a coastal town in Eastern Germany, children are inexplicably falling into a mysterious condition. Instead, multiple titles are broadly political, questioning authority, expressing a skepticism about public policy, for example, in “Doctor’s Oath” and its vision of the commoditization of radical activism, or asking about the probity of U.S. military practice, in both “Freedom Academy”·and “George Blake.” Is that coincidental?

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