sign in sign up
<<
Home , Catherine Frot, Jeanne Balibar, Miyavi, Mysterious Woman, Screen International

EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

FOR EXTENDED JAPAN AND BUZZ, SEE PAGE 44

As the European Film Market ramps up for its latest edition, Screen highlights the buzz titles ready to tempt international buyers BUZZ for a client played by Rebecca Ferguson. the Ireland-set story of a reluctant stran- (Pictured from left) All My Loving (), AMERICAS Westworld showrunner Lisa Joy makes ger tasked with driving a corpse to a bur- Monos (), Light Of My Life (US) her feature directing debut. Kilter Films, ial, evading the police, fi nding love and By Jeremy Kay Michael De Luca Productions and Film- fi xing family relations along the way. are producing, and backers are Screen Ire- Nation Entertainment are producing. Cinema Management Group teams land, Epic Pictures, Telefi lm, Wrap Fund Director Neil Burger turns his eye to Endeavor Content handles US sales. up with Uncommon Pictures on thriller and Creative Europe. young-adult sci-fi in Voyagers for AGC Voltage Pictures brings thriller Follow William, a sci-fi from Tim Disney (great- FilmSharks has sales on English- and International, a story about a Lord Of The Me, starring Keegan Allen and Holland nephew of Walt) about two academics Spanish-language animation Dalia And Flies-type mission to reach a newly dis- Roden in the story of a social-media who extract DNA from a frozen Neander- The Red Book 3D, about a girl left to fi n- covered planet that is now casting ahead celebrity’s trip to that turns into thal man and birth a child. Waleed ish her deceased father’s novel who of a scheduled spring start. a fi ght for survival. Zuaiter and Maria Dizzia star. Disney enters the world of the characters as they IMR International arrives at EFM with Vice Media and Fox will be in produced with Bill Haney, Jonathan fi ght for the book’s lead role. David Bis- Black Flies, a drama starring Tye Sheridan looking for distribution partners on Gen- DuBois and Amar Balaggan, while Peter bano (Rodencia And The Princess Tooth as a rookie paramedic who teams up with erations 14Plus entry Goldie, a drama Newman serves as executive producer. 3D) directs. Mel Gibson’s experienced medic to work from Sam de Jong about a teenager living The Exchange has Seacole starring Myriad Pictures will continue sales the mean streets of ’s inner city. in a family shelter who wages war on the Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sam Worthing- through its Scoundrel Media label onIron Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (A Prayer Before system. Slick Woods, George Sample III, ton in the tale of Jamaica-born nurse Sky: The Coming Race, which screens to Dawn) will direct. MadRiver Pictures is Danny Hoch, Khris Davis, Marsha Steph- Mary Seacole, who entered the frontlines buyers for the fi rst time. Timo Vuorensola fi nancing and producing, with CAA and anie Blake and Gbenga Akinnagbe star. of the Crimean War to treat the wounded returns to direct, and the fi lm stars Udo Endeavor Content handling US rights. XYZ Films reunites with and save the man she loves.The Help pro- Kier, Tom Green, Julia Dietze, Vladimir Endeavor Content (formerly Bloom) and Mandy producer SpectreVision on ducer Brunson Green is on board. Burlakov, Stephanie Paul and Lara Rossi. has the Aretha Franklin concert docu- Color Out Of Space, based on an HP Love- Epic Pictures arrives with worldwide DDI has Girl from debutant writer/ mentary Amazing Grace, which played craft novella about a family who witness rights to The Winter Lake, in which a director Chad Faust, a thriller starring well at Doc NYC and has its European a meteorite crash near their farm. withdrawn teen makes a dis- Bella Thorne about a woman returning to premiere in Berlin. Neon holds US rights. Montreal-based Seville International turbing discovery in a her small hometown to kill her abusive Sierra/Affi nity has Casey Affl eck’s fea- will be talking up The Last Right to buyers lake and must con- father, and learning that someone beat ture directing debut Light Of My Life in and represents all international rights to front a malign pres- her to it. CAA represents US sales. Panorama. The post-apocalyptic father- the comedy-drama exclud- ence. Emma Mackey -based Raven Banner has daughter survival drama also stars Elisa- ing the UK, and from Netfl ix’sSex Edu- thriller The Prey, Cambodia’s fi rst million- beth Moss and Anna Pniowsky. New Zealand (eOne). cation stars with Anson dollar action fi lm starring Gu Shang Wei Lionsgate will launch sales on Rian Michiel Huisman, Boon, and the project is as an undercover cop in a remote jungle Johnson’s modern murder mystery Knives Niamh Algar, Samuel due to shoot in Ireland. prison where he is targeted by a corrupt Out, which stars Daniel Craig and opens Bottomley, Colm Phil Sheerin directs warden who invites wealthy businessmen through the studio in the US over the Meaney, Brian from the screenplay to hunt his criminal charges. Jimmy Hen- November Thanksgiving holiday. Cox and Jim by David Turpin. derson directs and XYZ Films represents FilmNation flies in with worldwide Norton star in Ruth Treacy and North American rights. rights to Reminiscence, a sci-fi starring Julianne Forde of Magnolia Pictures International Hugh Jackman as a private eye who falls (Right) The Prey Tailored Films handles sales on Sundance selection »

24 at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

Hail Satan?, Penny Lane’s film about the rise of The Satanic Temple and its call for a Satanic revolution to save the soul of the US. Magnolia plans a spring By Tom Grater US theatrical release. Storyboard Media will be in town HanWay Films’ buzz title for EFM is Richard with Line Of Descent, a crime thriller Press’s Farnsworth House. Maggie Gyllenhaal starring Prem Chopra, Ronit Roy, and Ralph Fiennes star in the love story, set in Neeraj Kabi, Abhay Deol and Brendan 1940s Chicago, about an ambitious woman’s Fraser in the story of an undercover project to build the first glass house with the officer who infiltrates a strife-ridden revolutionary Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies mafia clan. Rohit Karn Batra directs. van der Rohe. Gyllenhaal is producing with Visit Films has international sales Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa and Matt Flanders. excluding , Spain, Andorra The Sharks ICM Partners is handling the US sale. and Uruguay to The Sharks, about the Embankment Films will show footage from sexual awakening of a 14-year-old resi- writer/director Jessica Swale’s Summerland. dent of a beach town where shark stars with Gugu Mbatha-Raw sightings are spreading panic. Romina and Tom Courtenay in the Second World War- Bentancur stars and director Lucia era drama. Guy Heeley and Adrian Sturges pro- Garibaldi just won the World Cinema duce. Embankment is co-representing the US Dramatic Competition directing award sale with Gersh. in Sundance. Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on Highland Film Group launches Monday, the latest feature from Argyris worldwide sales on the Bella Thorne Papadimitropoulos, whose credits include Sun- crime story Southland, about a small- tan. Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough star in town diner employee and her recently the story of what happens after a weekend’s paroled boyfriend who embark on a romantic fling. Christos V Konstantakopoulos crime spree, courting fame by posting American Dreamer produces with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Damian their exploits on social media. Joshua Jones and Deanna Barillari. Caldwell is set to shoot this spring. Bankside Films has a first promo of Craig Shoreline Entertainment has Soren Roberts’ Eternal Beauty. Sally Hawkins stars as a from writer/director Juan Carlos Val- woman who, rejected by life, spirals into a cha- divia, a Bolivia-set romance about two otic, schizophrenic world. Adrian Bate produces people’s seemingly perfect union until through Cliff Edge Pictures while Pip Broughton the title character turns up. Willy is an executive producer. Cartier, Alejandra Lanza and Romel Rocket Science brings The Queen Mary to Vargas star. EFM. Directed by Gary Shore (Dracula Untold), Film Mode is selling crime thriller the horror film will be shot onboard the iconic Crypto starring Alexis Bledel, Kurt Rus- ocean liner. White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair sell, Liam Hemsworth and Beau and Nicholas Ferrall are producing with Brett Knapp. A young investigator’s probe Tomberlin and Mali Elfman for Imagination into small-town corruption leads to a Design Works and Thorsten Schumacher and world of intrigue and danger. John Abe Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science. Stalberg Jr directs and Grindstone Altitude Film Sales has UK supernatural acquired US rights at the AFM. Blue Fox International has family who raised her. Pollyanna McIntosh thriller The Power. The film stars Rose Williams Toronto-based V71 returns to Berlin comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp directs and Andrew van den Houten and is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson with Loud Krazy Love, a hard-rock doc- (Stranger Things) in the story of a and Greg Newman produce. and Rob Watson. Set in 1970s , Williams umentary that chronicles the harrow- 12-year-old aspiring chef living in APL Film is in town with the plays a young nurse who is forced to work the ing story of Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Brooklyn who sneaks off to Manhattan thriller Chameleon starring Joel night shift in a crumbling hospital while electri- Welch, who walked away from the band to work with an innovative street chef Hogan (Open Water 3: Cage Dive) and cal blackouts rollout across Britain. to face his demons and be a father to his with dreams of uniting his half-Israeli, Alicia Leigh Willis in the story of a Mister Smith Entertainment is in post newborn child. The film premiered on half-Palestinian family through food. struggling ex-con and his unpredict- on George Nolfi’s The Banker, which has an Showtime in the US last December. The film premiered at Sundance and able accomplice who scam superficial A-list cast including Anthony Mackie, Samuel L Bleiberg Films has Coyote Lake, a screens here in the market. trophy wives and their rich older hus- Jackson and Nicholas Hoult. It is the true story Latina-led thriller in post from first- Premiere Entertainment Group lands bands in a self-obsessed . of a group of men who challenged the banking time director Sara Seligman starring with international rights to American Marcus Mizelle directs. establishment and turned American real Riverdale’s Camila Mendes and Oscar- Dreamer starring Jim Gaffigan, Robbie Red Sea Media arrives with thriller estate on its head. Brad Feinstein and Joel Vier- nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) as a Jones and Tammy Blanchard. Saban Hell On The Border, which has begun tel produce. » mother and daughter with a dangerous Films holds North American rights to shooting and stars Frank Grillo and secret who run a bed-and-breakfast on the thriller from Derrick Borte about a Ron Perlman. the US- border where two down-on-his-luck rideshare driver who Screen Media arrives with thriller unwanted guests arrive. becomes involved in the kidnap of a Stray starring Karen Fukuhara, Chris- Octane Entertainment holds world- drug dealer’s daughter. tine Woods and about an wide rights to thriller The Black String, MPI Media Group has lined up a orphaned teen who teams up with a in which a slacker’s life begins to market premiere and first screening for detective to investigate her mother’s unravel after a reckless encounter with Darlin’, about a feral teenager who is murder and uncovers supernatural a mysterious woman. Brian Hanson indoctrinated into a strict religious life, forces. Screen Media Films will release directs the feature. unleashing hell from the wild woman in North America in March. Summerland »

26 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

Continued from previous page film follows Alex Honnold as he becomes the first person to climb Cornerstone Films will be talking up Yosemite’s 3,000ft El Capitan rockface Animals following the film’s well- without ropes. received premiere in Sundance. Sophie Evolutionary Pictures has interna- Hyde directs Holliday Grainger and Alia tional sales for female-driven monster Shawkat in the story of two partying movie Rootwood. Directed by Marcel buddies whose hedonistic existence falls Walz and produced by Ruediger W Kue- under the creeping horror of adulthood. mmerle, the film follows two student Producers are Hyde, Sarah Brocklehurst, hosts of a podcast about paranormal Cormac Fox and Rebecca Summerton. phenomena and urban legends, who are WestEnd Films has The Banishing on hired by a Hollywood fi lm producer to its EFM slate. and shoot a horror documentary. Sean Harris star in the 1930s-set horror Carnaby International’s slate features film from director Christopher Smith, Animals Valentine, which is having its market pre- which follows a young reverend and his miere here at EFM. The Indonesian wife as they move into a manor that has superhero action film was directed by a horrifying secret. WestEnd is also pro- Ubay Fox and Agus Pestol and stars ducing the project in-house with Jason Estelle Linden and Matthew Settle in the Newmark and Laurie Cook. story of an unassuming waitress who Independent will be talking up Sacha embarks on an adrenaline-fuelled adven- Polak’s Dirty God, which has its market ture. North American rights have gone to premiere in Berlin following well- Shout! Studios. received berths at International Film Reason8’s slate includes the newly Festival Rotterdam and Sundance. New- completed Let’s Dance. The Ukraine-UK comer Vicky Knight stars as a girl recov- film will have its market premiere ering from an acid attack. XYZ Films is screening in Berlin and will be released co-representing US rights. in the Ukraine in March by Multi Media Film Constellation has New Zealand Distribution. It features an original gang fi lmSavage , which is in post-pro- soundtrack by Ukrainian R&B and duction. Directed by Sam Kelly, the story Pink Wall dance musician Monatik. is inspired by real-life tales of the coun- Cinestaan International Sales has try’s fearsome streets gangs from the after an idyllic childhood with a foster motion hybrid for a family audience The Eulogy, Janine Hosking’s feature 1960s to 1980s. Jake Ryan, John Tui and mum in rural Lincolnshire, is moved to from the team behind Hoodwinked. Todd documentary that unravels the life and Chelsie Preston Crayford star. inner-city London to live with his birth Edwards and Timothy Hooten are career of Geoffrey Tozer, one of the STXinternational has The Friend, mother. ICM Partners is co-representing directing; Katie Hooten is producing. world’s most brilliant but least under- Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s drama starring North America rights. Film Seekers has detective thriller stood concert pianists. The film pre- Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Dogwoof, the documentary specialist, Winter Ridge on its slate. Dom Lenoir miered at last year’s Melbourne Affl eck about a couple who, after learning has Halston, Frédéric Tcheng’s portrait directs Matt Hookings as a young detec- International . one of them has six months to live, get of fashion designer Roy Halston Frow- tive who hunts a serial killer targeting Film Republic has Far From Us on its support from their best friend when he ick, who rose to global fame in the 1970s. the elderly while struggling to keep it sales slate. Written and directed by Laura moves into their home. Scott Free and The fi lm premiered at Sundance, where together after his wife falls into a coma. Bierbrauer and Verena Kuri, the fi lm is Black Bear Pictures are producing. its US rights sold to 1091 Media’s The Kaleidoscope will be screening 20 an Argentinian drama about a woman AMP International’s buzz title is Pink Orchard Film Group. CNN Films has minutes of animated family feature Star- who returns to her home village after Wall, the feature directing debut of Week- North American broadcast rights. dog And Turbocat at Berlin. The film’s years away. It is having its premiere in end actor Tom Cullen. Starring Tatiana SC Films will launch UK-China ani- voice cast features , Nick the Berlinale’s Forum sidebar. Maslany and Jay Duplass, the fi lm will be mation Neighbourhood Pet Watch at Frost, Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy. Devilworks has After The Lethargy, presented to buyers at EFM ahead of its EFM. The fi lm follows a puppy and his Delivery is scheduled for August. Marc Carreté’s sci-fi/horror about a premiere at SXSW in March. best friend who team up with local Parkland Pictures’ sales slate includes young journalist who travels to the site of Celsius Entertainment is in pre-pro- neighbourhood pets to thwart an evil Snap Shot. Directed by Marcus Warren, an alien abduction. Soon after her arrival, duction on Heart Of Darkness, an adapta- gang attempting to take over their city. the fi lm is a suspense thriller she is hunted by a terrifying hybrid extra- tion of Joseph Conrad’s book, which SC Films developed the starring Adrian Paul terrestrial family. Andrea Guasch, Mark inspired Apocalypse Now. The film is project in-house and about a group of friends Schardan and Joe Manjon star. billed as the world’s fi rst sand animation Flame Node Enter- who reunite for a birth- Kew Media Distribution is handling feature. Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys tainment — the Chi- day party and hunting sales on Julius Amedume’s Rattlesnakes. and Andrew Scott lead the voice cast; nese entity behind trip for the first time The film is a neo-noir psychological Sheen is also an executive producer. the successful Mon- since the death of an thriller starring Jimmy Jean-Louis and Metro Films will be screening Richard key King: Hero Is unknown man on a Jack Coleman in the story of a Califor- Gray’s Robert The Bruce, starring Angus Back — is on stag shoot two nian life guru. Jean-Louis produces, with Macfadyen as the titular king in a role he animation years before. Nik Powell an executive producer. reprises from Braveheart. Eric Belgau duties with Park Circus is Jinga Films has horror title Echoes Of wrote the screenplay with Macfadyen, Paintfree. handling theatrical Fear. Directed by Brian Avenet-Bradley, who also produces. Kevin Riley is sales outside of the the movie picked up best-fi lm prizes at Great Point Media is screening Shola directing. UK and North America US genre festivals Shriekfest, Women In Amoo’s The Last Tree following its pre- GFM Films has on Oscar- and Bafta-nomi- Horror and Apocalypse Later in 2018. miere at Sundance. Sam Adewunmi stars Spirits, a CGI/stop- nated documentary Free Solo. Trista Robinson stars as a woman who in the coming-of-age story about a young Directed by Jimmy Chin and inherits her grandfather’s house and British boy of Nigerian heritage who, (Right) Halston Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the must probe the mystery of his death. »

28 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

trailer for Peter Mackie Burns’ Rialto, FRANCE starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as a mar- ried man and father under emotional By Melanie Goodfellow strain, who fi nds comfort in a young man (Tom Glynn-Carney). Elle Driver kicks off sales on feelgood tale Le Pacte is handling Alejandro Landes’ Fahim, based on the true story of Bangla- Panorama title Monos about a group of deshi refugee and chess prodigy Fahim Colombian child soldiers left in charge of Mohammad. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a kidnapped American doctor. a life-changing chess teacher. The com- Les Films Du Losange is selling Lau- pany will also show fi rst images of Cédric rent Micheli’s drama Lola, starring Kahn’s family reunion drama Happy Benoit Magimel as a father who recon- Birthday, starring , nects with the transgender child he and is handling Golden Bear contender rejected following the death of his wife, Piranhas and out-of-competition title Fahim her mother. The company also has a pair Marighella. of Cannes hopefuls: The Audition by Ina Pathé International launches play- Weisse and Wonders In The Suburbs by wrights Matthieu Delaporte and Alexan- . dre de La Patelliere’s The Best Is Yet To Luxbox will show a new promo for Come, their second feature after What’s In Bruno Dumont’s Jeanne, a dramatic A Name?. Fabrice Luchini and Patrick sequel to his Joan Of Arc musical Jean- Bruel co-star as friends making up for lost nette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc. The time after a misunderstanding. Pathé will company is also selling Israeli director also show a new promo for Alice Wino- Nimrod Eldar’s father-daughter drama cour’s Proxima, starring Eva Green and The Day After I’m Gone, which premieres Matt Dillon, and market premiere subma- in Panorama. rine drama The Wolf ’s Call, starring Omar Bac International will market pre- Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb, Fran- miere a full-length rough-cut of family cois Civil and Paula Beer. animation Terra Willy and show a new France TV Distribution has taken on promo for romance Remember Me, star- world sales for ’s love story Wet Season ring Bruce Dern as a man trying to woo Lisa Redler, starring Stacy Martin, Benoit an old fl ame who has Alzheimer’s. Hot Magimel and Pierre Niney. It is also han- projects include kidnap-heart transplant dling André Téchiné’s out-of-competition drama Visceral, starring Georgina Camp- title Farewell To The Night, starring Cath- bell, Toby Kebbell and Faye Dunaway. erine Deneuve as a woman who discovers SND’s slate includes Anthony Mar- her grandson is headed to Syria. ciano’s feelgood comedy Play about a Memento Films International contin- man who has fi lmed every aspect of his ues pre-sales on Berlinale regular Martin existence since being given a video cam- Provost’s 1960s-set women’s-lib comedy era as a teenager in the 1990s. It will also How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette market premiere an English-language Binoche, and Claus Drexel’s drama version of hit animation Asterix: The A Winter’s Tale, starring as Secret Of The Lost Potion and show fi rst a homeless woman travelling with a lost images of Nicolas Vanier’s family adven- boy across ’s underground migrant ture Spread Your Wings, which is about an world. It will also show fi rst images of Sin- ornithologist who attempts to teach gapore filmmaker Anthony Chen’s Wet Pompéi orphaned geese how to migrate. Season, about a teacher who fi nds comfort Hot productions on the Pyramide in a student at a diffi cult point in her life. interest on Ivan Calbérac’s upcoming Dion, drawing on details of her life as International slate include Danielle launches sales on Chinese fi lmVenice Calling . well as her greatest hits. Arbid’s Passion Simple, a tale of unre- director Zhao Fei’s drama Where It Begin, Orange Studio has taken over sales of Jour2Fete sells Anna Falgueres and quited love and obsession starring Laeti- about a group of former small-town class- ’ Cuba-set spy thriller John Shank’s drama Pompéi, co-starring tia Dosch and Sergei Polunin. The mates, still digesting events of their youth; Wasp Network, starring Penelope Cruz, Garance Marillier (best known for her company is also handling Macedonian Ladj Ly’s Paris-set Les Miserables, drawing Gael Garcia Bernal and Edgar Ramirez. performance in Raw) as a troubled, filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska’s parallels between the angry youth of EuropaCorp will be focusing on Guil- young woman who shakes up the lives of Competition title God Exists, Her Name today with Victor Hugo’s street kids; and laume Canet’s Little White Lies 2, the two lonely brothers, and Icelandic direc- Is Petrunija. Beanpole, a drama set against the rubble sequel to his 2010 hit, reuniting the origi- tor Runar Runarsson’s third feature SBS International is selling in-house of 1945 Leningrad, the latest film from nal cast including , Echo, a portrait of modern society production and Golden Bear contender Closeness director Kantemir Balagov. Gilles Lellouche and Valérie Bonneton. against the backdrop of Christmas. Synonyms by Israeli director Nadav Studiocanal has sales on Benjamin The Gaumont launches sales on actress The Bureau Sales premieres a first Lapid. Other hot upcoming titles include Elephant, a live-action adaptation of Ger- and director Valérie Lemercier’s Ira Sachs’ Portugal-set family man children’s favourite Benjamin Blüm- provisionally titled The Power vacation drama Frankie, starring chen, and documentaries Wonder Boy, Of Love, which it describes as a , Brendan Gleeson, about fashion prodigy Olivier Rousteing’s fictional homage to Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and search for his biological mother, and Cap- Canadian singer Céline Jérémie Renier. ital In The 21st Century, based on Thomas WTFilms launches sales on Genera- Piketty’s bestselling book on the impact of (Right) Asterix: The tion 14Plus selection Knives And capitalism. It is also reporting strong Secret Of The Lost Potion Skin, a feminist teen noir »

30 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

Continued from previous page thriller by Chicago-based fi lmmaker Jen- nifer Reeder, and Vicente Amorim’s Rio de Janeiro-set crime thriller The Division. Hot titles on the Kinology slate include Mathias Malzieu’s fantasy romantic com- edy A Mermaid In Paris, starring Reda Kateb and Clémence Poésy, and Mia Hansen-Love’s Bergman Island, which is due to shoot final scenes with John Turturro this spring. Doc & Film International is handling Panorama documentary Midnight Traveler about a family fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, which arrives in Berlin from Sundance with rave reviews. The company’s drama line-up is topped by Lucas Belvaux’s Algerian War legacy drama Des Hommes, starring Gérard Depardieu. Who You Think I Am New titles on the mk2 Films slate include comedy-drama Arab , about a woman who believes her new- starring Golshifteh Farahani as a psycho- born baby did not die but was stolen. The analyst in post-revolutionary Tunisia, and company also has new images from Cro- Robert Guédiguian’s Marseille-set social atian director Dalibor Matanic’s drama drama Gloria Mundi. The company is The Dawn, about a rural community also handling out-of-competition title awaiting the arrival of an unsaid threat. Varda By Agnes and end-of-days Indie Sales market premieres Matteo dystopian drama Jessica Forever, which Rovere’s eagerly awaited Romulus & premieres in Panorama. Remus — The First King as well as Norwe- TF1 International launches comedy gian box-offi ce hitPsychobitch . It is also The Morning After, starring Alexandra hoping to seal deals on documentary Lamy as a woman nursing a broken heart Memory: The Origins Of Alien, following on a weekend vacation in Corsica, who is its buzzy premiere at Sundance. mistaken for the long-term girlfriend of a Versatile will continue sales on Ninja dead one-night stand by his fearsome Thyberg’s racy coming-of-age tale Jessica, mother played by Miou-Miou. Other new Delphine & Carole following a Swedish girl’s attempt to films include Julien Rappeneau drama break into the Los Angeles adult film Of Love And Lies about a boy who industry. pretends he has been selected for the MPM Premium launches sales on Bel- youth team of a top football club to please gian pop star Hendrik Willemyns’ debut his alcoholic father. feature Birdsong, about a young woman Alpha Violet has taken over sales of caught up in the dark underbelly of the Israeli filmmaker Yaron Shani’s drama music world in , and documentary Chained, the second fi lm in his Love tril- Delphine & Carole, exploring 1970s femi- ogy, from Celluloid Dreams. It is also han- nism through the personalities of actress dling Forum title Monsters, a first Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole film by Marius Olteanu, who was the Roussopoulos. first assistant director to Cristi Puiu on Doc specialist Wide House handles Sieranevada. Panorama’s Talking About Trees by Suhaib Charades market premieres French Gasmelbari and Forum title What We Left breakout hit Les Invisibles, revolving Unfinished, exploring Communist-era around a women’s shelter, which has fi lmmaking in Afghanistan. drawn more than 1 million spectators at Varda By Agnes Loco Films launches sales on drama home. It will also show promo reels for Paper Flags, starring Guillaume Algerian War-set drama My Traitor, My life. It is also handling Golden Bear mentary Chichinette — How I Gouix as a man who heads to Love, starring Vincent Lacoste and Vicky contender By The Grace Of God and Accidentally Became A Spy, his estranged sister’s home Krieps as star-crossed lovers, and Suicide -starring gala fi lmWho about 98-year-old on being released from Tourist, and is handling Panorama titles You Think I Am. Marthe Cohn, a French- prison. Shooting The Mafi a and Buoyancy. Other Angle unveils Ruben Alves com- Jewish spy in the Sec- Wide Distribution is Upcoming fi lms on thePlaytime slate edy Miss, about a young man who wants ond World War. private screening Mohanad include Atom Egoyan’s father-and- to become Miss France, and market pre- Cercamon handles Hayal’s Haifa Street, a daughter drama Guest Of Honour, star- mieres love triangle comedy Just The Serbian director drama unfolding on one of ring David Thewlis and Laysla De Three Of Us, starring Daniel Auteuil and Miroslav Terzic’s Pano- Baghdad’s most infamous Oliveira, and Valérie Donzelli’s comedy Catherine Frot. rama title Stitches, sniper alleys in 2006. It is also Our Lady Of Paris, in which she also stars Urban Distribution International will selling youthful Panorama as an architect juggling her complicated hold a private market screening for docu- (Right) Birdsong titles Acid and Easy Love. »

34 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire

4X4

reuniting the team behind the critically SPAIN acclaimed Ixcanul; and Spanish produc- tion Staff Only. The latter is the second By Elisabet Cabeza feature from Catalan filmmaker Neus Ballus and is a coming-of-age story star- Mack The Knife: Brecht’s Threepenny Film Latido Films’ EFM line-up includes the ring Sergi Lopez. The -based market premiere for Mariano Cohn’s company is also showing the fi rst promo Batra’s Berlinale Special entry Photo- 4X4. Cohn, who co-directed The Distin- for Alejandro Amenabar’s While At War, GERMANY graph. Buyers will be intrigued by The guished Citizen with Gaston Duprat, which is set at the start of the Spanish Match Factory’s feature doc Stieg Lars- embarks on his first feature as a solo Civil War in Salamanca when celebrated By Geoffrey Macnab son: The Man Who Played With Fire, director. The Spain (Mediapro) and writer Miguel de Unamuno visited Gen- about the bestselling author. Also new Argentina (Television Abierta) co-pro- eral Franco. Karra Elejalde and Eduard Beta Cinema is premiering Panorama on its slate is Gyorgy Mor Karpati’s duction tells the story of a car thief who Fernandez star in the fi lm, which is in title All My Loving by Edward Berger, debut feature Guerilla, produced cannot get out of the vehicle he planned post-production. (Patrick Melrose), a drama about three through the Hungarian Film Fund’s to steal. Also on Latido’s slate is Hari Animation features strongly on siblings trying to come to terms with innovative ‘incubator’ programme. Sama’s This Is Not Berlin, fresh from Filmax International’s slate. The Barce- life’s challenges, starring Lars Munich-based sales outfit Global Sundance, as well as Panorama pre- lona-based outlet is showcasing The Lun- Eidinger, Nele Mueller-Stöfen and Screen has taken on rights to Constan- miere Holy Beasts, directed by Laura nis And The Great Fairy Tale Adventures, Hans Löw. Beta is also handling Nora tin pair The Collini Case, a Second Amelia Guzman and Israel Cardenas based on popular characters from Span- Fingscheidt’s Competition entry Sys- World War drama directed by Marco (Jean Gentil) and starring Udo Kier and ish children’s TV; and Bikes, a Spain- tem Crasher, about a wild nine-year- Kreuzpaintner with Elyas M’Barek, Geraldine Chaplin. The latter previously China co-production in which bicycles old girl and the loving mother who is and German hit How About Adolf?, worked with the directors on 2014’s are the stars of the show. Both have mar- terrified of her. Also on the slate is directed by Sönke Wortmann. The Sand Dollars. ket screenings. Filmax is also selling Joachim A Lang’s Mack The Knife: company also has children’s fi lmCleo Film Factory Entertainment is han- Between Two Waters by Isaki Lacuesta, Brecht’s Threepenny Film about the — If I Could Turn Back Time, Erik dling two Panorama titles: Tremors, Golden Seashell winner at last year’s San Bertolt Brecht musical The Three- Schmitt’s feature debut that opens a Guatemala-France co-production Sebastian International Film Festival. penny Opera, which also stars Generation Kplus, and Petra Eidinger. Upcoming titles include Lüschow’s 1980s comedy-drama Caroline Link’s When Hitler Stole Pink Good Girl Gone Bad. Rabbit; Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Narcissus Arri Media gives a market premiere And Goldmund; and a new adapta- to Marcus H Rosenmüller’s family tion of Berlin Alexanderplatz by fi lmDouble Trouble — The Magical Burhan Qurbani. Mirror. It continues pre- The Match Factory’s slate is sales on Gipsy Queen. full of titles in offi cial selec- Atlas International tion including Fatih has sci-fi dramaCrea- Akin’s serial-killer tors: The Past directed drama The Golden by Piergiuseppe Glove, Turkish direc- Zaia with the tor Emin Alper’s intriguing cast of A Tale Of Three Sis- William Shatner and ters and Wang Xia- Gérald Depardieu. The oshuai’s So Long, My company also has Second Son, all in Competi- Double Trouble — World War submarine tion; and Ritesh The Magical Mirror fi lmU-235 (aka Torpedo). Staff Only »

36 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

NORDIC REGION

By Wendy Mitchell

TrustNordisk has recently boarded Mor- tal, a fantasy adventure inspired by Nor- wegian myths, starring Nat Wolff and directed by Trollhunter’s Andre Ovredal. The fi lm is in post and TrustNordisk will show a promo at EFM. New promo foot- age is also available for upcoming fi lms Valhalla, The Perfect Patient, Paradise War and Lake Of Death. Also fresh to the slate is Thomas Vinterberg’s untitled next fi lm — which is now in development — about four friends who embark on an experi- ment to remain constantly drunk. Fin- ished fi lms include Hans Petter Moland’s Out Stealing Horses in Competition, and market screenings for Queen Of Hearts and Sonja — The White Swan, both fresh from Sundance. Mortal SF Studios is having a first market screening for its hotly anticipated explorer (which premiered at Göteborg Film Festi- biopic Amundsen, directed by Kon-Tiki’s val) and Frederikke Aspöck’s Out Of Tune Espen Sandberg. The company also has (fresh from International Film Festival Rot- market screenings for Tuva Novotny’s Britt- terdam), and a promo for Jesper Ganslandt’s Marie Was Here starring Pernilla August thriller 438 Days, based on the true story of

Amundsen

animation that has been a record- setting box-offi ce hit in Denmark; and Hacker, a family film about a 13-year-old boy who discovers that his mother did not die in an acci- dent as he was previously told. Michael Werner’s Eyewell will have market screenings for Polish fi lmmaker Adrian Panek’sWere- Aurora wolf, about a group of children liberated from a concentration Swedish journalists camp who go on to find more imprisoned in Ethiopia. horror in an abandoned mansion LevelK will host the in a forest; and Camilla Strom fi rst market screening of Henriksen’s Norwegian drama Finnish romantic drama Phoenix, which premiered at Aurora, Göteborg’s open- Toronto International Film Fes- ing film, about a Finnish tival and has just screened in party girl who meets an Ira- Göteborg. nian refugee in Lapland. The Yellow Affair’s slate The company also hosts the includes Stupid Young Heart, fi rst market screenings for Selma Vilhunen’s Finnish Checkered Ninja, a family drama, which premiered at Toronto and is showing in here (Right) Werewolf Generation 14plus.

38 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN

REST OF THE WORLD

By Geoffrey Macnab

Austrian outfitEastWest is giving mar- ket debuts to Second World War love story Land Of Hope and Finnish drama Time Out. Vienna-based doc specialist Autlook has Beniamino Barrese’s feature The Disappearance Of My Mother on its slate. Fresh from screening at Sundance, the film is about the direc- tor’s own mother, feminist fashion model Benedetta Barzini. Autlook is also presenting Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s feature documentary Earth. Budapest-based Luminescence is introducing animated feature My Sweet Monster: Cutie And The Beast From Maxim Volkov (Sheep & Wolves), which is due for release in early 2020. Other animated titles on its slate include The Land Of Hope Big Trip 3D and Pinocchio: A True Story, the latter in production and due for release in late 2020. The Hungarian National Film Fund will give a market premiere to Gabor Reisz’s Bad Poems, fresh from festival screenings at Toronto and Tallinn Black Nights film festivals. Luke Corradine and Yannick Rudyn- ski’s French-Austrian sales and produc- tion outfit Fizz-e-Motion recently picked up irreverent Hungarian ani- mated feature Dirty Fred Strikes Back from director Ferenc Varsanyi. Also new on its slate is Rock‘N’Roll Eddie, a Polish-made family adventure film Cuban Love Take Me Somewhere Nice that will be released in Poland in March. Philippe Bober’s Coproduction about a girl with a mystery illness, and Woodworth and Peter Brosens’ The women symphony-orchestra conduc- Officeis presenting post-modern com- Secret Weapon, another wartime drama Barefoot Emperor, their follow-up to tors; Stijn Coninx’s top-performing edy Aren’t You Happy? from director about Russian soldiers trying to conceal King Of The Belgians. The company is Belgian thriller Don’t Shoot, and Susanne Heinrich. a secret weapon behind enemy lines. also giving a market premiere to IFFR Mathieu Mortelmans’ psychological Poland’s New Europe Film Sales is New Russian outfitAntidote Sales is title Golden Youth by Eva Ionesco with thriller Bastard. bringing Greek drama The Miracle Of launching Alexander Zolotukhin’s Isabelle Huppert and The Best Of Dorien Swiss doc specialists First Hand The Sargasso Sea from director Syllas debut directing feature, A Russian B by Anke Blondé, as well as Tour De Films will be presenting Hampus Tzoumerkas, which screens in Pano- Youth, produced by Alexander Sokurov France feature doc Holy Tour by Valéry Linder’s The Feminist, which tells the rama, and children’s movie Jacob, and screening in the Berlinale’s Forum. Rosier and Méryl Fortunat-Rossi. story of feminist trailblazer Gudrun Mimmi And The Talking Dogs. The The company also has a UK title on its Dutch Features is courting buyers Schyman, founder of Europe’s first fem- company recently picked up another slate, Rachel Maclean’s Make Me Up. with romantic comedy Cuban Love, due inist party. On the eve of Berlinale, US Icelandic title, A White, White Day by Art Pictures Studios will be selling for release in the Netherlands on Febru- and Canadian rights to the film were Hlynur Palmason. Fedor Bondarchuk’s sci-fi blockbuster ary 14, and is pre-selling coming-of-age sold to Herflix. ’s Central Partnership will be Attraction 2 and will also be presenting drama Promise Of Pisa. The company From Australia, Michael Favelle’s presenting the first 35mm footage of space drama Sputnik. also has several family titles: Bears Love Odin’s Eye Entertainment is showing Billion, about an influential banker who Animation specialist Wizart is pre- Me! about an eight-year-old who goes buyers English-dubbed versions of loses all his money and has to rely on senting Sheep & Wolves: Pig Deal and to the US to see the wild bears, which is Korean 3D filmDino King and Chinese his estranged children to steal it back. The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands. produced by Topkapi; and Mirjam de animation Foodiverse. The company Central Partnership will also have foot- Fresh from its premiere at Interna- With’s Taiki, about a youngster who will also be premiering the completed age of horror filmBaba Yaga, Terror Of tional Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), reluctantly goes on his family’s digital Australian sci-fi drama Quanta and The Dark Forest, directed by Svyatoslav Ena Sendijarevic’s debut feature Take detox holiday. screening new footage from Tales From Podgaevsky and starring Maryana Spi- Me Somewhere Nice is headlining Greek Dutch sales outfit Incredible Film Sanctuary City, now in production. ns vak (Loveless). outfitHeretic Outreach’s EFM slate. will present three market premieres at Mars Media, which has done roaring Pamela Leu’s Brussels-based Be For EFM 2019: Maria Peters’ The Conduc- See tomorrow’s issue for a selection business on Russian box-office hitT-34 , Films is pre-selling Frédéric Fonteyne’s tor, based on the true story of Nether- of key titles brought to market from will be introducing buyers to Oksana feature Filles De Joie, Pierre Jolivet’s lands-born US musician Antonia Brico China and Hong Kong Karas’s High Above, a romantic thriller comedy Victor & Celia and Jessica who, in the late 1920s, was a pioneer for

40 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019