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In The Best Heart Attack of My Life, Ariel confronts more than a medical crisis—he battles an outdated masculine stereotype that no longer fits. A middle-aged ghostwriter trapped in emotional and physical decline, he represents the archetype of a lost, self-destructive man once glorified in media.

Unlike dramatic antiheroes from past narratives, Ariel’s challenges lack glamorous veneer. His personal struggles—divorce, self-neglect, fading purpose—stand exposed, compelling him toward an unavoidable personal reckoning.

His relationship with Concha, a passionate flamenco dancer, deepens this exploration. While Ariel remains stagnant, Concha embodies pure energy and resistance against societal expectations. Their connection transcends typical romantic ideals, rooted instead in shared weariness with prescribed social roles.

The series explores television’s evolving gender representations, subtly challenging traditional narratives about intellectual male characters. Still, by maintaining Ariel as the central focus, the story poses a critical question: Does it truly subvert established patterns...

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has snagged comedy “The Unexpected Joker” (“El Metodo Tangalanga”) by Mateo Bendesky, a buzzy comedy produced by prominent Argentine producer Diego Dubcovsky under his production banner, Varsovia Films.

Disney’s new theatrical distribution banner, Star Distribution, will release the film in Latin America in January 2023.

Comedy had its world premiere at Argentina’s Mar del Plata Film Festival where it first sparked interest among various sales agencies. Deal is one of many to emerge from Ventana Sur, now back in full force as an in-person event after made to go online by the pandemic.

Dubcovsky and FilmSharks have previously collaborated on Berlinale Panorama title, “The Tenth Man” (“El Rey del Once”) and “The Mystery of Happiness,” both directed by Dubcovsky’s former Bd Cine partner Daniel Burman. His extensive producing career includes leading Latin directors such as Anahi Berneri, Walter Salles and Burman, whose “Lost Embrace” clinched...

For a story where faith plays a pivotal role, it’s appropriate that two of the pivotal characters in “The Tenth Man” are perpetually off-screen. Just as writer/director Daniel Burman asks us to understand people and ideas we cannot see, the story of a middle-aged Jewish man’s Buenos Aires homecoming becomes defined by what keeps its attention. Focusing on the personal, it keeps its scope small, to mostly compelling effect.

Home from New York for the week before Purim, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) spends most of his days reconnecting with the Jewish neighborhood in the Argentinian capital, forestalling an eventual reunion with his estranged father Usher. As the days pass before the holiday, Ariel offers his time at Usher’s charity, making deliveries to hospital patients and negotiating with the local butcher. Through his efforts to help out, Ariel spends more time with Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), a young woman...

The Tenth Man (El rey del Once) Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: C Director: Daniel Burman Written by: Daniel Burman Cast: Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Elvira Onetto, Andrían Stoppelman Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 7/19/16 Opens: August 5, 2016 There is evidence that writer-director Daniel Burman, who is of Polish-Jewish descent and was born and raised in Buenos Aires, believes that secular Jews are “lost” but can be “saved” if they return to the fold of orthodoxy. His movies lend comparison to Woody Allen’s, who is one of Burman’s heroes, though he denies much stylistic connection to the great American director. Still, “The Tenth Man” [ Read More ]

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“The Tenth Man” follows Ariel (Alan Sabbagh), who returns to his hometown of Buenos Aires after years away to reconnect with his father Usher (Usher Barilka). Usher has recently founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth. As Ariel tries to see his father and gets entangled in his various charitable commitments, he meets Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), an independent spirit who convinces him to come to terms with important traditions that once divided his family. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.

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The film is written and directed by Daniel Burman, who previously directed “Lost Embrace,” which follows a grandson of Holocaust-era Polish refugees on a complex search for his personal and cultural identity. The film won many awards on the festival circuit, including...

Plus: Kino Lorber moves The Tenth Man; Warner Bros dates three; TWC moves The Founder deep into awards season

The first Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival launches this September in Miami with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The festival will take place from September 29- October 2 at O Cinema Wynwood and will showcase features and shorts.

The event was founded by Third Horizon, a Miami-based collective of Caribbean creatives whose first short film, Papa Machete, received its world premiere in Toronto 2014.

The festival is being staged in partnership with the Caribbean Film Academy, a Brooklyn-based non-profit whose core mission is to support and distribute the work of Caribbean film-makers.

Sponsorship comes from Caribbean telecoms company Flow and the non-profit Green Family Foundation

Kino Lorber has moved up the Us release of Daniel Burman’s The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once). The Argentinian drama, which opened the Berlinale’s Panorama strand back in...

Plus: Warner Bros dates three and TWC moves The Founder deeper into awards season

Kino Lorber has moved up the Us release of Daniel Burman’s The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once).

The Argentinian drama, which opened the Berlinale’s Panorama strand back in February, has moved into the August 5 slot.

It will open in Los Angeles and New York followed by nationwide roll-out. Alan Sabbagh and Julieta Zylberberg star in the tale of a man who reconnects with his roots in the Jewish neighbourhood of Once in Buenos Aires. FilmSharks handles international sales.

Warner Bros head honchos have dated three Untitled WB Event Film slots. The trio are set for June 8, 2018, August 2, 2019, and August 7, 2020.On the hunt for what would be his first best picture Oscar win in five years, Harvey Weinstein has affirmed his faith in The Founder and moved back the story of McDonald’s entrepreneur Ray Kroc starring Michael Keaton from August...

Writer-director Daniel Burman (The Lost Embrace, The Mystery of Happiness) is continuing his combination of drama and comedy with The Tenth Man, a story about a son returning to see his father after years of estrangement. In the process, he reconnects with his Jewish roots and grapples with “notions of identity, home, and the father-son relationship.”

The Argentine drama, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and Kino Lorber picked it up for a release this July. The trailer demonstrates the blending of compositional styles between an almost cinéma vérité approach and more austere, static wide shots that suggests the film will mesh the subjective and objective. See the full trailer below for the film starring Alan Sabbagh and Julieta Zylberberg.

Award-winning director Daniel Burman returns with The Tenth Man, a well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father son relationship. After years away,...

Exclusive: FilmSharks has licensed further key territories on Daniel Burman’s recent Berlin Panorama opener The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once).

Jiff has taken all rights for Australia and New Zealand and plans a fourth quarter theatrical release. Cinecolombia has picked up the Buenos Aires-set family story for Colombia.

The Tenth Man, which earned Alan Sabbagh the juried best actor award at the Tribeca Film Festival last month, previously sold to Kino Lorber for the Us.

Buena Vista International holds South American rights and Fox+ acquired pay-tv and Svod for Latin America.

FilmSharks chief Guido Rud said discussions were ongoing for France, Germany, Japan and Spain.

One of the final films that I got to see last week at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival was also ironically the best of the bunch. That film was Dean, the cinematic writing and directorial debut of actor/comedian Demetri Martin. Not only was it absolutely fantastic, it was also declared an award winner at the festival, taking home the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. That’s a big feather in this one’s cap as it begins to plan for a release in theaters, presumably later on this year. I know I can’t wait for you to see it, though I’ll have more on it later. For the moment, this will also be a piece highlighting all of the award winners, so let’s do that now! Quickly though, a bit on the film itself. As mentioned, Martin writes, directs, and stars in this dramedy about grief.

David Byrne is all smiles as Bill Ross lV and Turner Ross' Contemporary Color captures two awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Contemporary Color, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne's color guard extravaganza, has scored twice at this year's Tribeca Film Festival awards.

Us Narrative Competition winners

Dean, directed by Demteri Martin; Actor Dominic Rains in Ian Olds' The Fixer; Actress Mackenzie Davis in Sophia Takal's Always Shine; Cinematography - Michael Ragen for Justin Tipping's Kicks; Screenplay - Ingrid Jungermann for her Women Who Kill. The Nora Ephron Prize - Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills; Albert Maysles Award - David Feige for Untouchable. Best New Narrative Director - Priscilla Anany for Children Of The Mountain.

The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival juried awards ceremony on Thursday evening rewarded a wide roster of selections as organisers honoured separate Us and international narrative competition categories for the first time.

In the Us Narrative Feature Competition, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Dean (pictured) by Demteri Martin, who receives $20,000, sponsored by At&T, and the art award Waking Up In The Painted World by Stephen Hannock.

Best actress in a Us Narrative Feature Film went to Mackenzie Davis in Always Shine, while Dominic Rains of The Fixer earned the best actor award.

The best cinematography prize went to Michael Ragen for Kicks along with $50,000 in post-production services donated by Company 3. Screenplay honours and $2,500 sponsored by Freixenet Cava were awarded to Ingrid Jungermann for Women Who Kill.

In the International Narrative Feature Competition categories, Udi Aloni’s Junction 48 earned the best international narrative feature prize along with $20,000 sponsored by Netflix, and the...

The distributor has picked up Us rights from FilmSharks to Daniel Burman’s recent Panorama opening night selection in Berlin.

The Tenth Man (El Rey Del Once) stars as a man who returns to his Jewish childhood neighbourhood of Once in Buenos Aires and reconnects with his roots.

Alan Sabbagh and Julieta Zylberberg star in the film, which receives its Us premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival set to run in New York from April 13-24.

Kino Lorber plans an autumn theatrical release after key festival appearances.

“We fell in love with Daniel Burman’s warm, funny, crowd-pleasing The Tenth Man at Berlinale,” said Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. “The Tenth Man’s bustling Buenos Aires Jewish community is a rich frame filled with delectable details as one man pursues a return to his roots – a sweetly poignant universal tale.”...

Argentine director Daniel Burman will premiere his latest work "The Tenth Man" (El rey del Once) as part of the Berlinale's Panorama section on February 12, 2016. Burman's previous directorial effort "The Mystery of Happiness" became a local box-office success when it opened in Argentina back in 2014 and was distributed in the U.S. by Strand Releasing.

"The Tenth Man" stars Julieta Zylberberg and Alan Sabbagh. International sales are being handled by FilmSharks International. U.S. Rights are still available. 

The official synopsis reads as follows:

Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher who runs a Jewish aid foundation in El Once, the close-knit old Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires, summons him back to his native city. What ensues is a comedy of errors, of missed and found people and connections, and a rumination on the extent to which we can ever really leave our past behind.

Here is the list of "The Tenth Man" screenings during this year's Berlinale

12.02Fri19:00Zoo Palast 1 (Premiere)13.02Sat10:00CinemaxX 713.02Sat15:00market screening - Cinestar 214.02Sun14:30Cubix 919.02Fri19:00Zoo Palast 1...

FilmSharks heads into Ventana Sur with a couple of key deals under its belt on the Argentinian director’s upcoming dramatic comedy El Rey del Once (The Tenth Man).

Guido Rud has closed deals with Buena Vista International for South American theatrical rights and Fox+ for premium Pay TV and Svod.

Burman, one of Argentina’s most renowned directors who won the 2004 Silver Bear in Berlin for Lost Embrace, is in post on the film.

El Rey del Once is styled as a dramatic comedy about a man who returns from New York to the Buenos Aires suburb of his youth to take over his family’s charitable foundation.

Alan Sabbagh and Julieta Zylberberg star. Burman’s credits include Family Law and The Mystery Of Happiness.

“This is a brand new Burman that will travel to festivals and play well for distributors because it is in the best tradition of his crossover films like Lost Embrace,” said...