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Upcoming British comedy, “The Infidel,” about a Muslim taxi driver who discovers he’s Jewish, has been pre-sold to a number of regions, including the Middle East. Samantha Horley heads up London-based sales and financing outfit, The Salt Company and confirmed the sales following a push at Cannes.

Written by David Baddiel, “The Infidel” is about an identity crisis focused on Mahmud Nasir, a blue-collar Muslim cabbie who discovers that he is adopted — and Jewish. The supposed “comedy of ethnic proportions” stars Omid Djalili and Richard Schiff. The film is currently in post-production and is produced by Slingshot with Revolver.

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"Death In Love"

Writer/director Boaz Yakin examines the effects of the descendants of those who survived the Nazi concentration camps in “Death In Love”.  A then young Jewish woman (Jacqueline Bisset) manages to live through her excruciating stretch in a Nazi concentration camp by seducing the doctor who carried out experiments on the prisoners.

She moves to New York and starts a family. Years later, her two grown sons become casualties of her desperate past. Her eldest son works at a deceitful modeling agency that benefits from the dreams of fame seekers. His charming young co-worker helps him to realize that he must embrace change in order to survive. In the meantime, the extremely unsettled mother and her younger son have are in a compulsive, co-dependent cycle that endangers them both. Rated R. Opens July 17.

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