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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)

More often than not, one-take films struggle to justify their gimmick. Whether shot in one go or utilizing an intensive editing process to appear like so, the technique almost always threatens to overshadow whatever story is at the center rather than emphasizing it. Used correctly, it can prove immersive in the exact same way as a theatrical production—breaking down barriers between performer and audience, who can see their work unfold in real-time. Unfortunately, the impracticality of telling a story this way is usually highlighted via several scenes of actors slowly walking between filming locations. – Alistair R. (full review)

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The Feast (Lee Haven Jones)

Lee Haven Jones’ slow-burn eco-horror The Feast may feature extended...

Fantastic Fest has already revealed an amazing lineup over the past month, but their newly announced final wave of programming should cause even more fans to make room on their calendars between September 22nd–29th.

Fantastic Fest's final wave of programming has several big treats in store for horror comedy fans, as Bruce Campbell will be in attendance for screenings of the first two episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead Season 2 (ahead of the first season's October 2nd premiere on Starz).

Another WolfCop, the sequel to 2014's WolfCop, will make its world premiere, and a special screening of the first episode of HBO's Westworld series will also take place.

The creature feature Colossal will be shown as the festival's closing film, and A Monster Calls and The Autopsy of Jane Doe are also scheduled to screen. For full details, we have the official press release below. Which film are you...

Projects include The Distant Barking of Dogs, from The Act of Killing production company Final Cut For Real.

The Nordisk Panorama Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries, to be held in Malmo, Sweden from Sept 18-20, has selected 24 documentary projects to be pitched to industry professionals.

They include Johan Von Sydow’s Swedish documentary about American musician Tiny Tim; Lea Glob’s Danish documentary about a female painter’s coming of age in Paris; Emil Trier’s feature debut about Norwegian con man Waleed Ahmed; and The Act of Killing production company Final Cut For Real’s new Ukraine-set project The Distant Barking of Dogs [pictured], directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont.

The full list of projects being pitched16, dir Kenneth Elvebaak, Fuglene (Norway)Adil and the Spy, dirs Randi Mossige-Norheim & Johan Palmgren, Mantaray Film (Sweden)Apolonia, Apolonia, dir Lea Glob, Danish Documentary (Denmark)Confessions of a Military Dictatorship, dir Karen Stokkendal Poulsen, Bullitt Film (Denmark...

Highlights include the UK premiere of Finding Dory and the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Highlander [pictured].Scroll down for competition titles

The line-up for the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been unveiled this morning by artistic director Mark Adams.

This year’s Eiff (June 15-26) will comprise a total 161 features from 46 countries including: 22 world premieres, five international premieres, 17 European premieres and 85 UK premieres.

Highlights include the UK premiere of Disney-Pixar animation Finding Dory, in-person events that include Us indie filmmaker Kevin Smith and Sex & The City actress Kim Cattrall, and the opening and closing gala world premieres of the previously announced Tommy’s Honour and Whisky Galore!.

Old classics will be re-imagined with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial live at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre and the world premiere of the newly-restored 4K version of Highlander, celebrating its 30th anniversary with star Clancy Brown in attendance.

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Exclusive: Andreas Johnsen’s documentary debuted at Tribeca.

Kino Lorber has snapped up Us rights from to Bugs, a documentary that investigates the growing cuisine trend of edible insects.

The film debuted at Tribeca and produced by Sigrid Dykear of Danish Documentary, with the deal secured by Autlook Filmsales.

Director Andreas Johnsen’s documentary sets out to unearth the role bugs will play in the future of agriculture and to break down the cultural barriers keeping insects off our plates.

Further sales include Canada (BlueIce/Kinosmith), Spain (Canal+), Norway (Nrk), Poland (Against Gravity) and Greece (Anemon). Japan, Italy and Australia are in discussions, while Cinema Delicatessen will release Bugs in The Netherlands.

Autlook CEO Salma Abdalla said: “Kino Lorber very successfully released El Bulli and we are happy to continue our work on another landmark food documentary.”...

Will maggot fat oust coconut oil as a foodie favorite? Is PepsiCo replacing the corn flour in its Fritos with ground cricket corpses? And, hey! Who doesn't want to bite into some chicken with garlic and saffron sauce topped with crumbled buffalo worms?

Answers: Possibly. Not yet. Less people than you might think.

Andreas Johnsen's Bugs, just one of the many enlightening documentaries featured at last week's Tribeca Film Festival, focuses on a team from the Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab, "a nonprofit organization investigating food diversity and deliciousness." The lead duo chaperoning us in this doc, Ben Reade and Josh Evans, are part of a three-year research project on edible insects. They travelled to Kenya, Japan, Mexico, Italy, and several other insect-infested destinations to unearth the culture and cooking techniques of a few of the two billion individuals who are already noshing on the creepy-crawlers that many of us buy Raid to exterminate.

Somewhere between Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Food, Inc., at the intersection of culinary adventure and social justice, Nordic Food Lab’s head chef Ben Reade and lead researcher Josh Evans are on a mission to bring sustainable, delicious and culturally appropriate foods to the planet’s underserved. Examining ratios like the efficiency of protein production the duo’s journey takes them to all over the world from Kenya to Australia with a stop in Japan as they hunt for the most delicious and nutritious bugs and the best ways to prepare them.

Andreas Johnsen’s hugely entertaining Bugs documents this open-ended quest as the pair work in collaboration with the locals to prepare culturally appropriate meals including tacos, maggot cheese gelato, cricket and grasshopper ravioli as well as insect-based coatings and flowers. The team spends its time making its case to the lab’s advisory board that these foods...

Exclusive: Netflix to launch Us-Danish documentary Knox in autumn; Screen speaks to key doc companies about their lineups.

The Danish documentary world has been going from strength to strength – and not just Joshua Oppenheimer’s Danish productions The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.

Screen spoke to three of Denmark’s most prominent documentary production companies last week in Copenhagen, to talk about their slates, which include a new Netflix title with exclusive access to Amanda Knox, two Syrian documentaries, and a Tribeca premiere about insects as a sustainable food source.

All the companies said Danish documentaries were booming thanks in part to generous support systems from the Danish Film Institute, which has specialist documentary funding consultants, to help them create such a range of work now.

As Signe Byrge Sorensen of Final Cut For Real says: “There is a long tradition here for documentary, and its also very diverse. People do all...

Top brass at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T have announced selections in the Us Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competition strands.

The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.

Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.

The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.

The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.

One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...

Nordisk Film & TV Fond backs five new projects including a thriller starring Emmanuelle Riva.

Amour’s 88-year-old Oscar-nominated actress, Emmanuelle Riva, has joined the cast of Icelandic thriller Alma, the comeback film for director Kristin Johannesdottir, whose last feature was 1992 Cannes selection As In Heaven.

Alma is the story of a woman imprisoned in a forensic psychiatric unit for murdering her lover (even though she has no recollection of the crime). After seven years behind bars, she discovers her lover is still alive and escapes to kill him for real.

Newcomer Snæfriður Ingvarsdóttir, daughter of Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (Jar City, Of Horses and Men), plays the title role and the cast also features Hilmar Snær Guðnason (101 Reykjavik) and Kristbjörg Kjeld (Of Horses And Men).

Alma – set for delivery early 2017 — is co-produced by Iceland’s Pegasus Pictures, with France’s Arsam Film International, Sweden’s Little Big Productions, the UK’s Berserk Films, in collaboration...

As Cph:dox launches today, Screen previews this year’s industry programme.

Two time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker (Waste Land, The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom) will see her new project presented at the Cph:forum (Nov 11-12), the international financing and co-production event at Cph:dox (Nov 5-15) in Copenhagen.

The film, titled SlumGods [pictured], will follow a hip-hop crew in Dharavi, Mumbai, one of the world’s largest slums and the setting for Danny Boyle’s 2008 Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionarie.

Produced by Sonita Gale for Galeforce Films, the project is currently in pre-production and is looking to raise $2m (€1.8m) in financing at the Forum.

Other projects at this year’s Cph:forum include a new film from local The Act of Killingn and The Look Of Silence producer Signe Byrge Sørensen titled Ghost Wives, about a Chinese man accused of murdering six women to sell their bodies for an ancient tradition known as ‘ghost weddings’.

There are a total...

Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship and Hany Abu-Assad’s Arab Idol among six international co-productions supported by the Netherlands Film Fund.

Six international co-productions are being backed by the Netherlands Film Fund through its special budget for selective funding for Dutch minority co-productions.

Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama have both been granted €100,000, while Catti Edfeldt & Lena Hanno Clyne’s Siv Sleeps Astray receives €150,000.

Hany Abu-Assad’s Arab Idol and Aktan Arym Kabut’s Centaur have been backed by the Fund with €75,000 and Andreas Johnsen’s documentary Bugs rounds off the selection with €50,000.

Full details are as follows:

Love and Friendship (feature)

Dutch co-producer: Revolver

Producer: Bl!nder Films (Ir)

Co-producers: Chic Films (F)

Director and script writer: Whit Stillman

Granted: €100,000

Arab Idol (feature)

Dutch co-producer: KeyFilm

Producer: Idol Film Production Ltd (UK)

Director and script writer: Hany Abu-Assad

Granted: €75,000

Zama (feature)

Dutch co-producer: Lemming Film

Producer: Rei Cine (Ar)[p...

On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.

On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.

The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”

The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and have filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...

On Screen Off Record from The Act of Killing producer Signe Byrge Sørensen.

On Screen Off Record, directed by Rami Farah and Lyana Saleh and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut For Real, has won the second annual Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €15,000 at Cph:forum - Cph:dox’s international financing and co-production event.

The jury said this project, reflective on the Syrian conflict in a media-saturated world, was awarded because of “the way familiar footage was presented, allowing deeper understanding of the complexities of the conflict that affects us on so many levels, for the quality of the project and the team, and the organic co-production structure.”

The film, now in development, will be a production between Syria, Denmark and France. There will be 55-minute and 90-minute versions.The story is about several young people in Syria who became citizen journalists and filmed the turmoil since the beginning, putting their lives...

Film selections include Paris of the North [pictured], Kon-Tiki and Hotel.

The Nordic Film Festival will run its third edition in the UK from Nov 26-Dec 7 in London followed by more touring in December 2014 to the Edinburgh Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre, Tyneside in Newcastle and Broadway in Nottingham.

Film company Day for Night runs the event, which includes features, documentaries and shorts.

Films selected include Iram Haq’s I Am Yours, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s Paris Of The North, Lisa Langseth’s Hotel, Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg’s Kon-Tiki, Ani Simon-Kennedy’s Days of Gray, Andreas Johnsen’s Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, and Petri Luukkainen’s My Stuff.

In London, the venues are the Ica, Hackney Picturehouse, Arthouse Crouch End, The Proud Archivist, Cafe Kaizen and Hotel St Ermin.

One new strand is about Architecture, Design & The City.

Cph: Dox will screen a shorts programme from their Cph: Lab.

Projects range from a film about centenarians to documentaries about renowned hunger striker Bobby Sands, Winnie Mandela, Ratko Mladic and Madonna’s backing dancers.Scroll down for full list of projects

Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has unveiled the 50 titles that will be presented at its international co-finance and production market, the Idfa Forum (Nov 24-26).

At the market, filmmakers and producers will present their documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other financiers with the aim of completing finance for their documentary projects.

A total of 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including new projects by Heddy Honigmann, Janus Metz and Vitaly Mansky.

The Idfa 2014 programme contains 17 documentaries that were presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.

Projects selected for this year’s Idfa Forum will be pitched in a variety of settings: the central pitches in the main auditorium of the Compagnietheater, the round table...

Danish director Andreas Johnsen's documentary Ai Weiwei The Fake Case follows the acclaimed Chinese artist from his release after an 81-day internment, through his house arrest, and his fight against trumped up tax fraud charges by the Chinese Government. The case is dubbed The Fake Case, which carries multiple meanings. The name of Weiwei's design company is Fake (Fake - Fa (development) Ke (class)) and considering the false allegations against Weiwei calling it The Fake Case is also appropriate. But it is not simply a money issue. Weiwei must also fight these allegations to protect his name and his legacy. At the beginning of his house arrest you can see how much the internment affected him. He has difficulty sleeping and looks exhausted. Weiwei also finds...

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Highlights include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Abel Ferrara’s controversial Dsk feature Welcome To New York.

The full line-up of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has been revealed this morning by artistic director Chris Fujiwara at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.

This year’s festival, which runs from June 18-29, will comprise 156 features from 47 countries, including 11 world premieres, eight international premieres, seven European premieres and 95 UK premieres.

New titles announced today include Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final performances that was first shown at Sundance in January.

Straight from its lively premiere in Cannes is Abel Ferrara’s controversial title Welcome To New York, inspired by the case of former Imf managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, starring Gérard Depardieu, which will receive its UK premiere at Eiff.

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While all studio eyes are on "Godzilla," a few indies are quietly making their way to theaters this weekend, too, and we're previewing them in terms of their box office potential. It's a rather underwhelming pack, with only James Gray's "The Immigrant" the one most definitely expected to impress. Clearly not with "Godzilla"-sized numbers (or even 1 percent of them), but with a promising start for one of the few well-reviewed alternatives to studio fare opening this weekend. Here's how things could shake down for it and three other new specialty releases (in alphabetical order):Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (International Film Circuit) Director:  Andreas Johnsen Cast: Ai Weiwei Criticwire Average: No grades yet. Where Is It Screening: Exclusively at New York's IFC Center. Box Office Expectation: Two years ago, Chinese artist and advocate Ai Weiwei got the documentary treatment in the financially successful "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,...

Notably paradoxical, Andreas Johnsen's documentary Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case manages to be both pointed and wandering throughout. The latest doc on the Chinese artist and dissident, The Fake Case catalogs Weiwei's life in the months after his release from prison.

Presented in vérité fashion — without narration, talking heads, or archival footage — The Fake Case comes to feel like a compendium of home movies taken by the artist's omnipresent companion. Since Weiwei is intelligent and witty, the film is often fascinating, such as when we observe Weiwei's sculptures that depict his imprisonment by the Chinese government, or when he mocks an English journalist pleading for an interview.

There's feeling as well, as in a scene wh...

Artist, provocateur and hero to many, Ai Weiwei's life and work has long been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government, even as his international profile and influence continues to grow. Even when attempts are made to silence Ai Weiwei, it can't help but shine even more light on the man and his career. And so, in April 2011 when Ai Weiwei was kidnapped by the Chinese authorities, detained, and released 81 days later under house arrest, Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen decided to get it on the film. The result is "Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case," which reveals the staggering pressure put on the artist by officials and authorities in China. Facing an absurd $2.5 million lawsuit, Weiwei also finds himself under constant surveillance with police on his tail and numerous cameras watching his home and following his movements. This all takes a toll on Weiwei, who begins losing sleep and suffering memory loss,...

Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-nominated film picks up four; Charlotte Gainsbourg honoured for Nymphomaniac.Scroll down for full list of winners

Oscar-nominated The Hunt (Jagten), from Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, added to its growing pile of trophies at the Danish Film Critics Association’s Bodil Awards on Saturday (Feb 1).

After collecting six Robert Awards from the Danish Film Academy last week, it picked up four Bodil statuettes at the annual ceremony at Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre.

The jury called the feature “an exquisite gem of a film,” which clocked up 672,512 admissions and was ranked second overall at the Danish box office charts in 2013.

It picked up Best Feature, Best Actor for Mads Mikkelsen, Best Supporting Actress for Susse Wold and Best Cinematography for Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

Mikkelsen, who plays a teacher wrongfully accused of child abuse in The Hunt, accepted his award via a video message in which he said: “Thanks to the Bodil committee, to my fantastic...

Mixed media artist Ai Weiwei is the rare Chinese iconoclast whose provocative output manages to circumvent countless efforts by the government to censor him, which is a particularly impressive feat given his current ubiquity. Last year, Alison Klayman's documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" followed Ai through the aftermath of his work on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his daring critique of government aid "The Sichuan Earthquake Names Project" and his eventual imprisonment by the government for 80 days. Now comes Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen's "Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case," which premiered this week at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. An unofficial follow-up to "Never Sorry," "The Fake Case" explores Ai's yearlong period of probation after his release in 2011. At the same, Ai himself has recently completed a documentary, "Stay Home!," a touching portrait of a strong-willed young woman with AIDS fighting the government for better care. The movie extends Ai's cinematic.

Other winners include Everyday Rebellion, Dirty Wars and A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness.

Algerian film Bloody Beans has picked up the Dox:Award for best film at Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox (Nov 7-17).

The directorial debut of Narimane Mari includes a large group of children who blend role play and trippy re-enactment to portray Algeria’s historical struggle for independence.

The film, which received its international premiere at the festival, was described as “radical, original and playful” by the jury.

The jury comprised Georgian filmmaker Tinatin Gurchiani, Danish filmmaker Janus Metz, Tate Modern flm curator George Clark, artist Angela Melitopoulos and MoMA film curator Lawrence Kardish.

They gave a special mention to Us drama-doc Stop the Pounding Heart, directed by Roberto Minervini. The film, about an illicit romance between two teenagers in a conservative, rural Texan community, debuted at Cannes and recently won a top prize at Dok Leipzig.

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Festival will take titles on tour to Edinbugh and Glasgow.

The Nordic Film Festival is returning to London for its second edition (Nov 25-Dec 4), focussing on films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

The 15-title strong programme will include five UK premieres and two London premieres. The line-up comprises family and youth dramas, crime thrillers, documentaries, animation, experimental film and shorts.

The festival will open with the UK premiere of Marcus Fjellstrom’s short noir animation series, Odboy and Erordog Suite, with live soundtrack performed by Swedish quartet The Pearls Before Swine Experience.

Other UK premieres include Rune Denstad Langlo’s Chasing the Wind; documentary My Stuff with a Q&A with director Petri Luukkainen; and documentary Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart with a Q&A with director Mika Ronkainen.

Other highlights include Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night and closing film You and Me Forever by director Kaspar Munk. The latter screening will be attended by lead...

Selection includes competition titles, a focus on Southeast Asia and a ‘Top 10’ compiled by director Rithy Panh.

The selection for the 26th Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has been unveiled and includes 288 titles – selected from more than 3,000 submissions – of which 100 will receive their world premiere during the festival (Nov 20 – Dec 1).

There will be a strand dedicated to documentaries from Southeast Asia titled Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia.

This year’s Idfa Top 10 is compiled by Cambodian director Rithy Panh, and a retrospective of his work will be screening at the festival.

Panh, whose doc The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes in May, has selected:

Alone

Wang Bing (Hong Kong/France, 2012)Don’t Look Back

D.A. Pennebaker (USA, 1967)Farrebique - The Four Seasons

Georges Rouquier (France, 1946)The Football Incident

Joris Ivens/Marceline Loridan-Ivens (France, 1976)I Am Cuba

Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Cuba/Russia, 1964)In Vanda’s Room

Pedro Costa (Portugal, 2000)A Man Vanishes...