German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s mesmerizing, mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — reason to check oneself into rehab — as Sam Riley’s Tom ...

BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - British actor Sam Riley, who shot to fame playing Ian Curtis in 2007's "Control", said he could relate to the feelings of wasted potential that plague his character in ...

Sales, finance and production outfit Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales alongside Augenschein Sales for Jan-Ole Gerster's thriller "Islands," starring Sam Riley ("Control," "Firebrand"), ...

There have been relatively few biopics about choreographers, but it’s hard to think of a better one than “John Cranko,” about the late South African who made his name in England and Germany. Steering ...

Set around a luxury hotel in the Canary Islands, Jan-Ole Gerster’s drama follows a Brit tennis coach whose inertia is shaken up when he gets entangled with a guest after her husband goes missing. By ...

One of the featured debuting in cinemas this week is Islands, a new drama set in the Canary Islands with Sam Riley among the cast of the film, along with Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing. To coincide ...

‘Islands,’ Jan-Ole Gerster’s thriller that first bowed in the Berlinale earlier this year to critical acclaim, has secured key distribution deals for Protagonist Pictures and augenschein Sales.

The appearance of a woman from his past and the subsequent disappearance of her husband force a beach-bum tennis coach to confront the mystery of what he’s hiding from. Over the course of a lean but ...