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Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has snagged world sales rights to Sandra Gugliotta’s upcoming “Irremediable,” a dramatic thriller lead produced by Argentina’s Magma Cine.

“We are delighted to partner once again as a key sales and financing partner with one of Latin America’s most dynamic production companies, showcasing a distinctive director and an intriguing storyline,” said FilmSharks CEO-Founder Guido Rud.

Inspired by real events, the drama sheds light on the shadowy world of illegal adoption, delving into the secrecy and corruption as it follows a desperate woman who will do whatever it takes to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother.

Starring Maricel Alvarez and Alberto Ammann, it centers on Carla (Alvarez) who’s eager to start a family. She meets Amanda, a pregnant young woman who wants to give up her baby. As they get caught up in the murky adoption process, Carla and her husband, Pablo (Ammann...

Players wanting to solve November 3rd’s Wordle answer will want to be a bit careful as today’s answer is not only uncommon but also features a repeating letter. Wordle isn’t specific when it comes to repeating letters as it does not have a separate color; therefore, finding the correct positions of repeating letters can be an arduous task. However, if you use relevant hints, you might be able to solve the problem faster.

Since there is a repeating letter, the best way to solve today’s answer is using Wordle’s hard mode. This mode makes it easier to identify repeating letters since you cannot reuse confirmed letters in random spots. While this mode is slightly more challenging for most players, it is the best way to develop strategies to tackle solutions such as today’s answer.

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France’s Manny Films, Austria’s Nabis Filmgroup and Bulgaria’s Ars Digital have boarded Sofia Exarchou’s “Animal,” the follow-up to the Greek director’s San Sebastian prize winner “Park.”

“Animal” takes place under the hot Greek sun and amidst the sweaty nights of an eternal summer. The story of a group of entertainers who work at an all-inclusive island resort unfolds amid games, dance shows and nightly encounters that take place quietly behind the scenes.

The film is produced by Maria Drandaki and Maria Kontagianni for Homemade Films, with the support of the Greek Film Center, Ert and Ekome. Exarchou’s first feature, “Park,” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won the New Directors Award in San Sebastian.

Speaking to Variety at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Exarchou said that Greece’s rapidly growing mass-tourism industry was her initial inspiration for “Animal.”

“Against the backdrop of this huge tourist ‘machine,...

France’s Manny Films has boarded Chilean feature “Maybe It Is True What They Are Saying About Us,” and will co-produce alongside leading Chilean independent label Storyboard Media and Argentina’s Murillo Cine, whose credits include Cannes sidebar entries “The Snatch Thief” and “Land of Ashes.”

“We are thrilled that Manny Films is joining as a co-producer on this exciting film,” Storyboard’s Carlos Nuñez told Variety. “Their involvement will go a long way in our continued efforts to promote this project internationally. Our idea is now to film later this year.”

Manny’s history of working with top Latin American talent is long and lauded. The company has co-produced award-winning fare such as Cannes players “Ardor” from Pablo Fendrik and “The Chosen Ones” from David Pablos, Venice competition player “Compañeros” from Alvaro Brechner and last year’s best film in a foreign language winner “Tragic Jungle” from Yulene Olaizola.

HBO Latin America’s latest production, “Entre Hombres” (“Amongst Men”), made with Argentina’s Pol-ka, also marks one of Latin America’s first series ever in the prestige Berlinale Series section.

It was worth the wait. Based on Germán Maggiori’s same-titled novel and adapted for the screen between the author and series director Pablo Fendrik, the show boldly plunges spectators into the crime world of 1990s Buenos Aires. A world of moral decay where only the most violent are fit to survive.

Fendrik whose “Ardor” – a pointed Amazon-set reworking of the Western, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Braga which hit Cannes in 2014 as a special screening – flexes his narrative skills in “Amongst Men” on the miniseries format, fresh off large success with the two-season “Bronze Garden,” regarded as one of the best series that HBO Latin America has ever made.

The result in “Amongst Men” is a highly kinetic,...

Madrid — Pol-ka’s banner titles straddle telenovelas and international-length series. Here are highlights, projects, productions and shows now screening packing one of the most ambitious slates of any Latin American company:

‘Argentina, Land Of Passion And Revenge’ (Pol-ka)

The big one, at least for free-to-air. A period piece, so far more expensive to shoot, so rarer as a production, and a potential event series. A portrait of Spain’s diaspora to Argentina after its Civil War, the tawdry ethics of the new (and old) homeland, betrayal, passion, poverty and ill-gotten gains. A big play by Pol-ka to snatch Telefe’s ratings crown for El Trece. Overseas co-production potential.

“The Bronze Garden 2” (HBO Latin America, Pol-ka)

A HBO Latin America original, and directed by Pablo Fendrik (“Ardor”) and Hernán Goldfrid (“Thesis on a Homicide”), a missing daughter thriller. Elevating the father of the child into a tragic hero via meticulous character development and cinema-standard direction,...