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Islands (2025 Film)
''Islands'' is a 2025 German film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster from a script he wrote with Blaž Kutin and Lawrie Doran. It stars Sam Riley, Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing. The film premiered at 75th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlinale Special on 16 February 2025. Premise ''Islands'' tells the story of Tom, a one-time tennis pro who, years ago, washed up on the holiday island of Fuerteventura. Now he’s the coach at a hotel resort, hitting countless balls over the net to tourists who come to escape their everyday lives. Living an endless summer, Tom fills the emptiness inside with booze and brief affairs. He’s still kidding himself that he’s in paradise, but it is beginning to dawn on him that he’s wound up in hell. When he crosses paths with a particular tourist family, it seems he’s found an escape of his own. Cast * Sam Riley * Stacy Martin * Jack Farthing * Dylan Torrell * Fatima Adoum Production The film is directed by Jan-Ole Gerster from a script ...
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Jan-Ole Gerster
Jan-Ole Gerster (born 1978 in Hagen) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life Gerster works as a film director and screenwriter in Germany. He was a TorinoFilmLab AdaptLab participant in 2016. Filmography * 2004: ''Der Schmerz geht, der Film bleibt'' (documentary film, director) * 2006: ''A Friend of Mine (2006 film), A Friend of Mine'' (actor) * 2012: ''A Coffee in Berlin'' (director and screenwriter) * 2019: ''Lara (film), Lara'' (director) * 2025: ''Islands (2025 film) , Islands'' (director and screenwriter) Awards * 2013: Deutscher Filmpreis * 2013: Romy (TV award), Romy * 2013: New Faces Award * 2019: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival * 2019: Les Arcs Film Festival * 2019: Filmfest München External links * References * Blankenship, Robert and Jill E. Twark. "'Berliner Sonderschule': History, Space, and Humour in Jan Ole Gerster's ''Oh Boy'' (''A Coffee in Berlin''). ''Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies''. 53.4 (November 2017) ...
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Pájara
Pájara is a municipality in the southwestern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands as well as the name of its largest town. Its population is 20,931 (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística
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and the area is 383.52 km2. Pájara is both the southernmost and the westernmost municipality on the island. Pájara is also the largest municipality on the island. The largest towns in the municipality of Pájara are and Costa Calma, both situated on the coast. ...
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German Drama Films
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2025 Films
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ...
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ...
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Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the continent being 100 kilometres (62 miles) away. The islands have a population of 2.25 million people and are the most populous overseas Special member state territories and the European Union, special territory of the European Union. The seven main islands are from largest to smallest in area, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro. The only other populated island is Graciosa, Canary Islands, La Graciosa, which administratively is dependent on Lanzarote. The archipelago includes many smaller islands and islets, including Alegranza, Islote de Lobos, Isla de Lobos, Montaña Clara, Roque del Oeste, and Roque del Este. It includes a number of rocks, including Roque de Garachico, Garachico and Roques de ...
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Corralejo
Corralejo () is a town and resort located on the northern tip of Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands, facing the smaller Lobos Island, islet of Lobos. It is in the municipality of La Oliva. It is surrounded to the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, by dunes to the south and by arid desert land to the west that leads to the western coast and El Cotillo. Once a traditional fishing village, the town has grown significantly and today is one of the two main tourist towns on the island of Fuerteventura. Thanks to the large expat population, the town has a diverse population that varies from the local Spaniard, to the Italian, Irish, British, German and Finnish people who have settled in the resort. The area has of fine sand starting outside of Corralejo, alongside some smaller bays across the coast. In addition, there are several miles of sand dunes located nearby, which have been designated as a nature reserve. The waters around Corralejo are clear and an intense shade of blu ...
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Sam Riley
Samuel Peter W. Riley (born 8 January 1980) is an English actor and singer.James Mottram: The only people for me are the mad ones. ''Independent on Sunday: The New Review'', 30 January 2011, pp 10–13 He is best known for his performance in the 2007 biographical film '' Control'' about the life of Ian Curtis, as protagonist Sal Paradise in the 2012 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel '' On the Road'', and as Diaval in the 2014 film '' Maleficent''. Riley received renown for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2016 film '' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''. Early life and education Riley was born in Menston, Bradford, West Yorkshire, the son of Amanda, a nursery school teacher, and Andrew Riley, a textile agent. He was educated at Malsis School, an independent school in the village of Cross Hills in North Yorkshire, and at Uppingham School, an independent school in the market town of Uppingham in Rutland. Career Acting His breakthrough performance came when he p ...
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Fatima Adoum
Fatima Adoum is a French actress. Biography She studied language sciences, performing arts and holds a PhD in Cinema – at La Sorbonne, Paris 1. Filmography Film * 2002: ''Irréversible'' de Gaspar Noé * 2002: ''Funeral'', Newton I. Aduaka * 2004: '' Les Anges malicieux'', Frédéric Monpierre * 2004: '' Wild Side'', Sébastien Lifshitz * 2005: '' Temps morts'', Eléonore Weber * 2008: '' La Louve'', Bruno Bontzolakis * 2009: '' Benicio'', Eric Borg * 2010: '' Infantania'', Eric Borg * 2010: '' One Man's Show'', Newton I. Aduaka * 2010: ''Stabat mater'', Jean-Luc Herbulot * 2010: '' À tout prix'', Yann Danh * 2010: '' Lili's Got Talent'', Nur Sadiq * 2011: '' L'Assaut'' Julien Leclercq * 2011: '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'', Guy Ritchie * 2012: '' Judy and Jim'', Ben Fellows * 2012: '' A Place in the Sun'', Peter Flinth * 2013: '' Un p'tit gars de Ménilmontant'', Alain Minier * 2013: '' Munster cake'', Jean-Luc Herbulot * 2013: ''The Mark of the Angels – ...
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Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, geographically part of Macaronesia, and politically part of Spain. It is located away from the coast of North Africa. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2009. Fuerteventura belongs to the Province of Las Palmas, one of the two provinces that form the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. The island's capital is Puerto del Rosario, where the Insule Council is found (the government of the island). Fuerteventura had 124,152 inhabitants (), the fourth largest population of the Canary Islands and the third of the province. At , it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife. From a geological point of view, Fuerteventura is the oldest island in the archipelago. Toponymy The island's name is a compound formed by the Spanish words ''fuerte'' (either "strong" or "fort") and ''ventura'' ("fortune"). Traditionally, Fuerteventura's name has incorrectly thought to have been a ...
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