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The second edition of NLWave, the international showcase presenting upcoming Dutch features, documentaries and animation, is to launch NxtWave, presenting four shorts by rising Dutch filmmaking talent. With this new strand, the organisers aim to draw professional attention to Dutch filmmaking voices of tomorrow.

Mads Mengel’s award‑winning feature debut The Guest has secured a first wave of sales across key territories, including the United States.

Halkawt Mustafa’s No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman, starring Avan Jamal and Thorbjørn Harr, has been selected as Iraq’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature. The announcement lands just days before the Norwegian-Iraqi co-production makes its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, screening in the Venice Open/Out of Competition programme.