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Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...

There is also Uli Edel, who, three decades after his groundbreaking junkie pic Christiane F. and after recently spiking up the German Red Army Fraction in The Baader Meinhof Complex, is looking to take on the unconventional Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (Remembering the Future), a biopic for and about controversial Swiss alien scientist Erich von Däniken which has not taken off since at least 2007 when an initial script was allegedly put together by New York based scribes.

Can't say there are many surprises with today's list, we discussed possible spots for Jacques Rivette, Michael Moore, Werner Herzog, Michele Placido, Todd Solondz, Jaco van Dormael, Patrice Chereau, Fatih Akin, Claire Denis and John Hillcoat's The Road (yes, there is a Santa Clause) beforehand.

Screen Daily has gathered some more details on the upcoming financing slate for the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund. The FFHSH is a film funding entity that...

Kitchen Soul is a Hamburg-set comedy that THR says “centers on a restaurant owner whose life has entered a rough patch.” Not much to go on there. We do know that Akin regular Adam Bousdoukos plays the beleaguered restaurateur with his Head-On co-star also playing a part. German superstar Moritz Bleibtreu (Das Experiment) will play an undisclosed leading role in the film.