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a potential young adult franchise based on the Vampire Academy books. Zoey Deutch of Beau- tiful Creatures stars with newcomer Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovsky. Shooting is set for early summer. Aldamisa International will introduce Infinity Polar Bear, a comedy-drama that JJ Abrams will pro- duce with -based Paper Street to star Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. Anima- tion writer Maya Forbes directs the story about a mess of a father who tries to win back his wife by taking care of their five feisty daughters. Cinema Management Group is looking to close out sales on its $15m 3D animation The Legend Of Sarila. The voice cast includes Christopher Plum- mer, Genevieve Bujold and Rachelle Lefevre. Meyers Media Group will start talks on Hang- man. Pete Travis directs and Arnold Rifkin pro- duces the about two detectives filming what is meant to be a reality TV show who are caught up in a ’s game. Shooting is set to begin this summer in Europe. Solution Entertainment Group takes The Harbor to EFM in advance of a summer start in New Or- leans. Bobby Moresco is set to write and direct the story of a New Orleans private investiga- tor who uncovers a conspiracy involving rogue agents from the government’s top spy bureau. ICM Partners is packaging the and han- Market forces dles North American sales. Celluloid Nightmares will be talking up XYZ Screen’s essential guide to the hottest titles coming to market at the EFM, Films’ apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours. Zak Hilditch directs the story about an immoral at all stages of production young man on his way to a massive party on the last night on Earth who saves a nine-year- old girl in search of her father. US SELLERS will talk up the Sun- The Exchange will be selling Sundance selec- dance grand jury and audience award winner tion The Spectacular Now, a high school romance Exclusive Media kicks off pre-sales on Black Mass Fruitvale. ’s true story charts the that stars and . with as Boston criminal Whitey last day in the life of a Bay Area resident. New US distributor paid $1.5m in Park Bulger. Barry Levinson is set to shoot the Cross QED International brings an acclaimed pair of City for North American rights. Creek-Exclusive production in May and Uni- Sundance acquisitions, Breathe In and Toy’s House. Visit Films arrives with A Teacher, which versal will distribute in the US. Doremus’ drama Breathe In stars Guy also screened in Sundance and stars Lind- FilmNation introduces Castle Rock Enter- Pearce and . Toy’s House follows the say Burdge as an increasingly paranoid high tainment’s untitled rom-com exploits of three youngsters who set off into the school teacher entangled in a relationship starring his Music And Lyrics lead wild; CBS Films acquired US rights in Park City. with a student. ICM Partners represents North alongside . Grant will play a International is touting Jeremy American rights. down-at-heel former Oscar-winner who meets Renner thriller Kill The Messenger about Gary Content Film will be looking to tempt buyers a single mother while teaching Webb, the true-life investigative reporter who with Sundance entry Concussion from first-timer at a small East Coast college. uncovered a link in the mid-1990s between the Stacie Passon. Robin Weigert plays a married will commence pre-sales on proceeds of Nicaraguan cocaine sales in Los An- woman who experiences a life-altering knock Words And Pictures starring and Ju- geles and CIA-backed Contra rebels in Central to the head and resolves to change her life. She liette Binoche as a charismatic English teacher Breathe In, starring Guy America. Focus Features will release in the US. then becomes a prostitute for women. RADiUS- and a reserved art teacher who fall for each Pearce and Felicity Jones IM Global arrives with Blood Sisters, the first in TWC will distribute in North America. other at an elite New prep school. Highland Film Group has Aztec Warrior, from Fred Schepisi is set to start shooting in Van- Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders. The couver in March on the Latitude Productions action comedy stars Luis Guzman and Na- and Lascaux Films romance. dine Velazquez (Flight) and tells of a disgraced Sierra/Affinity will look to entice buyers with Mexican wrestler who must save his beautiful For The Dogs, starring Sam Worthington as an girlfriend and confront his childhood nemesis. assassin who helps a college girl exact revenge Studio City Pictures arrives with Randy Cou- on her family’s killers. will direct ture-Scott Adkins thriller Distant Shore. Joseph from a screenplay by and Par- and Jack Nasser of NGN Releasing will finance adigm represents US rights. with Studio City the story of a seaborne suicid- Red Sea Media is introducing The 7th Tear, an al couple who fight for their lives on the arrival action-adventure sci-fi whose producers in- of a mysterious vessel. clude Brett Ratner and Hydraulx founders the Arclight kicks off sales on Cavegirl The Movie Strause Brothers. Alec Gillis, the creature de- from UK producer Metropolis Films. The fam- signer on Ender’s Game and the X-Men films, ily story centres on two Stone Age children, directs the story of a deep-space safari guide captured by traders, who reunite during a war. who tries to avert civil war on an alien planet. By Jeremy Kay » n 24 at February 7, 2013 Feature Berlin buzz

UK SELLERS Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films will be enticing buyers with four new scripts: writer-director Rupert Wyatt’s adapta- tion of Sebastian Faulks’ acclaimed Bird- ; Andy Serkis’ 3D re-imagining of George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, with a script from Edward Scissorhands writer Caroline Thomp- son; Erica Beeney’s Nova Scotia-set thriller For No Good Reason Sleeping Dogs; and UK deep-sea diving thriller Pressure with Offender’s Ron Scalpello to direct. eOne’s -based sales outfit will be look- ing to close deals on thriller Queen Of The Night, which is due to start shooting dur- ing the market. Ryan Reynolds, Rosario Dawson and star in the story of a father who tries to track down his kidnapped daughter. Sally Caplan and the team will also have a new promo of The F Word, which is in post-production. WestEnd recently picked up international The Philosophers Any Day Now rights to drama Midnight Sun, set to shoot in the spring. , and sive animation to its ranks with Cory Edwards- are attached to the story of post- written 3D adventure Wish, slated for delivery graduates recruited to work on the develop- in late 2014. Also new to the slate is US ac- ment of the atomic bomb. Chris Eigeman will tion film Bullet, currently in pre-production, direct. ’ The Invisible Woman and in which Danny Trejo plays a tough cop who ’s drama Joe, starring Nico- takes the law into his own hands. las Cage, are in post-production. K5 International has Night Train To Lisbon world Will Clarke and Mike Runagall’s Altitude Film premiering at the festival, out of competition, Sales has added to its slate with completed and the company has added Sundance titles Shane Meadows’ documentary : Narco Cultura (screening in Panorama) and Made Of Stone and upcoming thriller Catch Me Mother Of George, as well as Henry Selick’s The Daddy from music video director and Screen Shadow King. Star of Tomorrow Daniel Wolfe. The Good People, Kaleidoscope has a screening of ’s Kill Your Friends, Outpost 37 and Son Of A Gun are all The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone Much Ado About Nothing and will introduce buy- in pre-production. ers to documentaries Coastline: Wonders Of The Bankside will be introducing buyers to Nativ- Michael Fassbender, and Sea and fan film I Love You One Direction, about ity writer-director Debbie Isitt’s new comedy Scoot McNairy, is currently shooting in Ireland. the boy band. Bellydancing For Beginners, which has in-demand Salt is launching gothic horror Whitaker from High Point’s busy slate includes new drama actress Sheridan Smith attached. Completed commercials director Jim Hosking. Due to get Having You, starring and Anna thriller The Philosophers has a market screening, underway in June, the film is produced by An- Friel, supernatural tearjerker Connected, Dutch as does , and there are promos for drew Starke of Rook Films and executive-pro- family comedy Class Of Fun and thriller APP. Belle and Patrick. duced by Ben Wheatley. UK action title Mon- Intandem’s slate includes fantasy Starbright, Mister Smith has snapped up Constantin- tana, from Shank director Mo Ali, will star Lars drama The Laureate and completed drama Believe produced rom-com Love, Rosie. Lily Collins Mikkelsen as a steely Eastern European hitman starring Brian Cox. and will star. Christian Ditter will alongside Ashley Walters and . Goldcrest comes to market with a slate of direct, and the shoot is set for May. The com- The film is due to shoot from mid-February. strong documentaries including Sebastian pany also has hot AFM comedy-drama Imagine, The outfit will also have 3D footage of docu- Junger’s Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? starring , and Julianne mentary Dolphin: A 3D Adventure as well as foot- The Life And Time Of , — Moore is in pre-production, while thriller 3,096 age of comedy Johnson starring . A Punk Prayer and Jehane Noujaim’s The Square Days will be screening ahead of its February 28 Ealing Metro will be at the market with a first about the Egyptian revolution. release in Germany. screening of Better Living Through Chemistry and Jinga will screen comedy-horror Black Forest: Pre-market, HanWay boarded Laura Wade’s a promo for Half Of A Yellow Sun. Nina Simone Hansel & Gretel & The 420 Witch, which was picked adaptation of her own hit play, Posh, which has biopic Nina is in post-production, while action up by Tribeca for the US, as well as Tulpa and at the helm. Blueprint Pictures film Destroyer is due to shoot in the summer. Sawney: Flesh Of Man. produces. There are promos for See-Saw Films- The slate also includes Last Man Out starring Celsius Entertainment brings Any Day Now, star- produced Tracks, starring ; Pussy Riot — . ring Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt in crime comedy Dom Hemingway, starring Jude A Punk Prayer Simon Crowe’s SC Films adds another impres- the story of a gay couple forced to take on the Law and Richard E Grant; Pascal Chaumeil- US legal system. directed comedy A Long Way Down and Stuart Moviehouse has picked up international rights Murdoch’s God Help The Girl. to Jane Clark drama Meth Head starring Lukas Independent comes to the EFM with David Haas and will be touting I Declare War, May I Kill Mackenzie’s prison drama , starring You and Romeo And Juliet: A Love Song. Jack O’Connell, Rupert Friend and Ben Mendel- The Works will be screening audience sohn, and international rights to Charlie Paul’s award documentary winner Artifact, directed doc For No Good Reason about cartoonist Ralph by Jared Leto, and Kieran Evans’ drama Kelly + Steadman and featuring Johnny Depp. Victor, starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes and title The Motel Life, Sundance prizewinner Metro Julian Morris, while Dogwoof’s EFM sales line- Manila and drama The Sea are also on the slate. up includes documentaries Fuck For Forest from Protagonist Pictures will have invite-only Michal Marczak, Sarah Gavron’s Village At The screenings of footage from Kevin Macdon- End Of The World, Himalayas story The Ridge, In The ald’s How I Live Now, Richard Ayoade’s The Double Shadow Of The Sun, about Tanzanian albinos, and and John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary. Lenny HBO Production 112 Weddings. Abrahamson’s Frank, with Domhnall Gleeson, By Andreas Wiseman » n 26 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2013 Feature Berlin buzz

GERMAN SELLERS Beta Cinema is presenting its largest Berlinale slate to date this year with nine market pre- mieres and one Competition entry, the Ro- manian family drama Child’s Pose. The market premieres are headed by Jan Ole Gerster’s de- but feature Oh Boy, which has attracted more than 200,000 admissions in Germany and won several international prizes, as well as Georg Maas’ political thriller Two Lives, star- ring and Juliane Köhler, and the documentary Der Bernd about Germany’s pro- ducing legend . In addition, Beta has three family entertainment sequels at the EFM: Til Schweiger’s Kokowääh II, another screen adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five, and Hermine Huntgeburth’s take on the Mark Twain classic The Adventures Of Huck Finn. Family entertainment is also at the fore in ARRI’s EFM line-up with the market of Bernd Sahling’s children’s drama UPSIDEdown, which also screens in the festival’s Generation Kokowääh II Kplus, and footage from Alain Gsponer’s new version of children’s classic The Little Ghost, which FRENCH SELLERS is in production. Michael Weber and his team at The Match Fac- TF1 International commences sales on Saul tory will have their hands full with seven films Dibb’s adaptation of Irene Némirovsky’s Sec- in official festival sections. Four new films will ond World War drama Suite Francaise, starring screen in the Competition (Thomas Arslan’s Michelle Williams and Matthias Schoenaerts. Gold, Pia Marais’ Layla Fourie, Danis Tanovic’s An The company will also show a first promo reel Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker and David Gor- of teenage thriller Wolves and continue sales on don Green’s ), two films in Pano- Philippe Claudel’s drama Before The Winter Chills rama (Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle starring , Breakdown and Tom Shoval’s Youth) and one in and Leila Bekhti. Forum (Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You), with will begin sales on Bruno Dumont’s all of them having market screenings in addi- Golden Bear contender Camille Claudel 1915 star- tion to the official Berlinale programme. ring . Director Luc Jacquet will Apart from its two Competition films, Boris be in Berlin to discuss his upcoming nature ex- Khlebnikov’s A Long And Happy Life and Denis travaganza Once Upon A Forest, capturing the gen- Coté’s Vic+Flo Saw A Bear, Berlin-based Films Ludwig II esis of a forest, alongside the screening of a new Boutique will have a market premiere of Yves promo reel. The company will also commence Montmayeur’s portrait of the Oscar-nominated bringing two new titles to the EFM with Fran- sales on ’s adaptation of Laura Ka- Austrian director Michael Haneke in Michael H. ziska Schlotterer’s Second World War drama sischke’s thriller starring Profession: Director. Closed Season, which won Brigitte Hobmeier Shailene Woodley as girl whose life is thrown Meanwhile, Global Screen, the sales joint ven- the best actress award at the World Film Festi- into chaos by the disappearance of her mother. ture between Telepool and Bavaria Media, of- val last August, and Noah and Logan The cast also features Eva Green, Shiloh Fern- fers five market premieres, ranging from Peter Miller’s -set action drama Sweet- andez, Christopher Meloni and Angela Bassett. Sehr and Marie Noelle’s $22m (¤16m) lavish water, starring January Jones, Ed Harris and Gaumont is handling sales on Isabel Coixet’s epic biopic Ludwig II, to two romantic com- Eduardo Noriega. Panorama title Yesterday Never Ends and will also edies — actor Florian David Fitz’s Jesus Loves Stelios Ziannis’ Aktis Film International will screen Michael Youn’s Vive La , one of the Me and ’s Men Do What They Can present the English-language romantic drama company’s biggest comedies for 2013. — which have both done well at the German Saint Petersburg, the debut feature by newcomer Le Pacte is handling Guillaume Nicloux’s box office. Buyers will also have the chance to Russian director Andrey Khvostov. Aktis also Competition title The Nun, based on 18th cen- see Stefan Schaller’s drama Five Years, based on presents Otar Shamatava’s road movie/tragi- tury writer Denis Diderot’s classic and starring the true story of German Turk Murat Kurnaz’s comedy Ursus — The Caucasian Brown Bear, which Pauline Etienne as a girl forced into a convent internment in Guantanamo Bay. The Munich- is currently in development with 80% of the against her will, alongside Louise Bourgoin and based sales outfit will also be presenting Bel- financing in place. . The company will market gian newcomer Gert Embrechts’ comedy Allez, Action Concept’s line-up for the EFM includes premiere French comedies Just A Sigh and Bright Eddy ’s dream of meeting his hero, Til Schweiger’s action thriller Guardians — a Days Ahead, starring as a recent re- cyclist Eddy Merckx. marked change from his usual output of ro- tiree. The company will also show a promo-reel At Atlas International, the Menz brothers are mantic comedies — which posted more than of and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s 800,000 admissions in German cinemas last year, as well as other titles from the Schweiger back catalogue such as action comedy Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. Finally, this year’s EFM will also see Bernd Schlötterer’s sales outfit Palatin Media have a presence at the market for the first time with Roger Young’s four-hour TV mini-series Barab- bas, based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Pär Lagerkvist and starring Billy Zane, Hristo Shopov and Anna Valle, and the fast-paced, New York-set crime thriller Run 3D. Layla Fourie Yesterday Never Ends By Martin Blaney » n 28 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2013 Feature Berlin buzz

documentary Shade And Light about celebrated noit Poelvoorde as a man who becomes obsessed photographer Sebastiao Salgado. with his neighbour. Other projects include Olaf Rezo will world premiere Jean-Paul Lilien- de Fleur’s Reykjavik-set drugs crime film Brave feld’s thriller Arrest Me starring Sophie Marceau Men’s Blood and Heitor Dhalia’s Bald Mountain. as a woman who turns up at a police station Pyramide Film International will show first im- claiming to have murdered her husband, and ages from Argentinian writer Lucia Puenzo’s Benjamin de Lajarte’s debut tragicomedy big-screen adaptation of her work Wakolda Games Of Clouds And Rain. Enzo D’Alo’s anima- about Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s exile in Pat- tion feature Pinocchio will have a first market agonia. Other upcoming films include Anne screening. Stephane Brizé’s A Few Hours Of Spring Weil and Philippe Kotlarski’s highly anticipat- will also play in the market — the film hit $3m ed Friends From France and Rani Massalha’s Giraf- at the French box office. fada about a zoo in the Palestinian West Bank. Bac Films will roll-out a trio of new titles: Ital- The Coproduction Office is selling the final in- ian Paolo Virzi’s Human Capital, which started stalment of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, Para- shooting in northern last week; Argentin- dise: Hope, as well as continuing sales on the ian director Pablo Fendrik’s jungle-set thriller first two pictures Love and Faith. The Ardor starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Jean Dujardin stars Club Sandwich, the latest picture from Mexican di- SND Group M6 will continue pre-sales on Jalil Braga, and low-budget giallo auteurs Hélene in Möbius rector Fernando Eimbcke, who was in Competi- Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic and roll- Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s The Strange Colour tion in Berlin with Lake Tahoe in 2008. out Nicolas Birkenstock’s debut family drama Of Your Body’s Tears about a man’s investigation Other Angle will show first images of Michel Picking Up The Pieces. It is also market screening into his wife’s disappearance. Spinosa’s reincarnation romance His Wife, star- buddy tragicomedy True Friends, which has re- Elle Driver comes to Berlin with its Sundance ring and , as cently opened in France to good reviews. hit pick-up Twenty Feet From Stardom, as well as well as the upcoming comedy The Big Bad Wolf Buzz titles on the StudioCanal slate include Golden Bear contender On My Way, starring starring Benoit Poelvoorde, Kad Merad and ’s adaptation of John Le Carre’s as woman who takes a road Fred Testot as three brothers whose lives are spy thriller Our Kind Of Traitor, to be directed by trip to get over her love and financial problems. sent into a tail-spin when their mother falls ill. and to star Ewan McGregor; Jaume The company will also show new promo reels Kinology will market premiere romantic com- Collet-Serra and Juan Sola-produced thriller for Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central and fash- edy Love Is In The Air (Amour Et Turbulences), Mindscape, a first feature from Jorge Dorado ion documentary Mademoiselle C. starring and about a man who can read people’s memories; Memento Films International is selling Malgoska as former lovers who meet on a transatlantic and Daniel Monzon’s drama El Nino about drug Szumowska’s Competition title In The Name Of, flight. The company also has first footage from smuggling between north Africa and Gibraltar. about a priest who harbours a secret, and Fo- Emmanuel Mouret’s ménage-a-trois thriller The company will also continue sales on Amini’s rum screener Circles. The company will also roll Lovers starring , Joey Starr and Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces Of out its recent Sundance acquisition S-VHS and , and Berlin habitué Laetitia January and Ben Stassen’s The House Of Magic. continue sales on We Are What We Are. The script Masson’s next film GBH, which is produced by Aside from Panorama title Fifi Howls From Hap- is also available for ’s upcoming and collaborator piness, Urban International will market screen a romance The Past starring Bérénice Bejo which Mirwais Ahmadzai. dozen pictures including Gael Métroz’s Hima- should be ready in time for Cannes. Aside from handling Nicolas Philibert’s laya-set Sadhu. Upcoming films on its slate in- Memento’s specialist art-film labelArtscope is Panorama documentary La Maison De La Radio, clude Brazilian Caetano Gotardo’s The Moving representing Georgian Nana Ekvtimishvili and Les Films du Losange will market premiere Na- Creatures, Colombian Andres Baiz’s historical German Simon Gross’ debut feature In Bloom, a dir Mokneche’s Goodbye Morocco and Marian drama Roa revolving around the assassination of coming-of-age story screening in Forum. Crisan’s Rocker and show first footage from up- Colombian president Jorge Eliecer Gaitan; Tai- Alfama Films begins sales on Luca Guadagni- coming films Michael Kohlhaas and Grigris. wanese Tsai Ming Liang’s The Diary Of A Young Boy no’s Body Art, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s no- Reel Suspects will market premiere Giulia and 3 X 3D consisting of three short 3D stories by vella The Body Artist, starring Isabelle Huppert Brazzale and Luca Immesi’s Ritual about a Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar opposite Denis Lavant and . young woman who stays with her aunt in a Pera on the Portuguese city of Guimaraes. Other projects include Michael Sturminger’s creepy Italian villa to get over a relationship Wide Management is selling Atsushi Funa- big-screen version of his chamber-opera play with a sadistic lover. The slate also includes hashi’s post-Tsunami love story Cold Bloom, The Giacomo Variations starring . Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1968 The Man Who Lies for which screens in the Forum, and will also mar- EuropaCorp is screening Eric Rochant’s thrill- which Amour’s Jean-Louis Trintignant won the ket screen its latest acquisition, Guinea Bissau er Möbius starring Jean Dujardin as a Russian Silver Bear for best actor. director Flora Gomes’ The Children’s Republic, spy in his first major role since The Artist. Oth- MK2 comes to the EFM with a trio of hot about a group of children who try to rebuild er upcoming productions include McG’s Kevin new acquisitions comprising Canadian Xavier their war-torn land, as well as Rotterdam titles: Costner-starring action picture Three Days To Kill. Dolan’s psychological drama Tom At The Farm; Ricky Rijneke’s immigrant tragedy Silent Ones Alongside selling festival titles Harmony Les- compatriot film-maker Bruce LaBruce’s uncon- and Sophie Blondy’s colourful circus tale Morn- sons, It’s All So Quiet and Parade, Films Distribution ventional romantic comedy Gerontophilia about ing Star starring Iggy Pop and Béatrice Dalle. will show first footage of Valeria Bruni Tede- a straight teenager who develops feelings for Premium Films will market debut Austrian schi’s semi-biographical A Castle In The Sky, Kurd- an 80-year-old man; and Swedish director Lisa director Daniel Hoesl’s Soldate Jeanette, a selec- ish Hiner Saleem’s Aga and Eytan Fox’s Cupcakes. Langseth’s Hotel. tion from Sundance and Rotterdam, about a Funny Balloons will commence sales on Chilean Pathé International will show promo-reels for wealthy young woman who attempts to ‘find director Sebastian Lelio’s Golden Bear contend- Jerome Salle’s Zulu, starring herself ’ by trekking through the Alps. er Gloria as well as mother and son tragi-comedy and as two Cape Town cops; By Melanie Goodfellow Sylvain Chomet’s first live-action feature, the tragi-comedy Attila Marcel, about a man who lost his ability to speak, aged two, after the death of his parents; and Paolo Sorrentino’s homage to the city of Rome La Grande Bellezza. The com- pany will also start sales on Dany Boon’s latest comedy Superchondriac about a doctor’s attempt to cure a 40-something hypochondriac by help- ing him find love. The film reunites Boon on the big screen with his Welcome To The Sticks co- star Kad Merad. It will be ready for early 2014. Celluloid Dreams’ upcoming titles include Fabi- The Strange Colour Of Your Body’s Tears Sadhu enne Godet’s drama A Place On Earth starring Be- » n 30 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2013 Feature Berlin buzz

OTHER EUROPEAN SELLERS

From Scandinavia, -based sales outfit LevelK is continuing its policy of han- dling English-language arthouse fare with big- name stars, as it unveils Australian drama My Mistress, starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film is in production. LevelK will also be holding closed market premiere screenings of Danish/ US thriller The Stranger Inside, starring William Baldwin, and Ted Koland’s comedy drama Best Man Down. Also on its slate is The Turning starring , which has just been pre-sold to Russian distributor Russian Report. Swedish outfit The Yellow Affair is handling world sales for Richard Jobson’s latest feature, revenge thriller Waylands Song, which will have its market premiere in Cannes. Also new on its slate is hard-hitting relationship drama Us, starring Gustaf Skarsgard, Anna Astrom and Rebecca Ferguson and written by Jens Jons- son (The King Of Ping Pong). Another new pick-up is Canadian drama Hard Drive by Wil- liam MacGillivray. Yellow Affair also has half- a-dozen market premieres in Berlin, among them Finnish booze-themed comedy Gloriously Wasted from Lauri Maijala and new Swedish drama Crestfallen. Nymphomaniac TrustNordisk will be screening a promo reel of ’s Nymphomaniac, which is now from cult director Alex De La Iglesia, plus rom- in post-production. Other TrustNordisk titles com Three Many Weddings. Film Factory is also new to market include Norwegian genre film screening its first promo of big budget, live Ragnarok from the producers of previous big action family film Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang seller Cold Prey, and English-language thriller from director Oskar Santos. Pioneer, set during the international oil boom DeAPlaneta is holding its first market screen- of the early 1980s. The international cast is led ings of Spanish horror film The Body. Produced by Aksel Hennie (Headhunters), Wes Bentley by the team behind The Orphanage, The Body and Stephen Lang. Erik Skjoldbjaerg (Insom- is directed by Oriol Paulo and stars Belen nia, Prozac Nation) directs. Meanwhile, the Rueda. Another newly completed film on the company will be aiming to build on the Rot- DeAPlaneta slate is Operation E from director terdam/Göteborg launch of Michael Noer’s Miguel Courtois Paternina. Set in Colombia in Northwest. 2008 and starring Luis Tosar, this is a drama Swedish outfit Svensk is showing a promo about a peasant struggling to save a baby dur- for Per Fly’s feature Waltz For Monica, about jazz ing a stand-off between the guerillas and the singer Monica Zetterlund (played by Edda government. The company is also screening a Pulce Is Not Here Magnason). Svensk is also showing a promo of promo of surfing thrillerThree-60 . Nobody Owns Me, an adaptation of the novel by Dreamcatchers, the company set up by Wan- From the Netherlands, Mountain Road Enter- Asa Linderborg, starring Mikael Persbrandt as da, Arcadia and Marina Fuentes last summer, tainment Group, which is handling international a struggling single father. is targeting pre-sales on its new sci-fi thriller sales on more and more Dutch titles, will be From Spain, Latido is beginning sales on Ber- Prodigious, which is expected to announce cast giving market premieres to Ate De Jong’s linale Generation title Red Princesses, the new soon. Director Roman Parrado is pitching the Second World War drama Bombardment and film from Laura Astorga Carrera. film, due to shoot in the summer, as alove Lodewijk Crijns’ comedy Only Decent People star- Vicente Canales’ Film Factory is introducing story/thriller in the vein of The Truman Show. ring Jeroen Krabbé. buyers to Foosball 3D, the new animated feature Dreamcatchers is also pre-selling Oliver’s Deal, Italian outfitIntramovies is screening German from Oscar winner Juan Jose Campanella. Also a political thriller about a New York business- comedy Russendisko from Black Forest Films on the Film Factory slate is comedy-horror man trying to cope when a deal in Peru goes and new Italian comedy Nina starring EFP Witching & Bitching, the latest film (now in post) badly wrong. Directed by Barney Elliott, the Shooting Star Luca Marinelli. film is due to shoot next year. Rome-based Adriana Chiesa is introducing Sister company 6 Sales is pre-selling Jake buyers to Giuseppe Bonito’s Pulce Is Not Here. An Paltrow’s Young Ones, to which Michael Shan- adaptation of the novel by Gaia Rayneri, this non and Elle Fanning are attached. An Ire- drama is about an autistic girl, her teenage sis- land-South Africa co-production, the thriller is ter and the chaotic adult world that surrounds about a teenage boy who discovers his friendly them. Also new on Chiesa’s market slate is fea- brother in law is his father’s assassin. The film ture documentary Giuliano Gemma: An Italian In is being sold in collaboration with The Ex- The World, about the cult spaghetti western star. change. 6 Sales also offers Matthew Collins’ Swiss outfit First Hand Films is showcasing its long-gestating zombie thriller Heart Land, star- feature doc Shadows Of Liberty in which film- ring and due to shoot in the maker Jean-Philippe Tremblay launches a cor- spring. uscating investigation of manipulation and Imagina is having its first market screening double standards in the mass US media. of romantic comedy Day Of The Flowers, starring Media Luna arrives at the EFM with two pick- Eva Birthistle and Carlos Acosta. ups from Rotterdam: David Verbeek’s How To Belgian outfit Lumiere’s new sales arm is Describe A Cloud and Diederik Ebbinge’s debut giving a market debut to Peter Monsaert’s feature Matterhorn. Waltz For Monica drama Offline. By Geoffrey Macnab » n 32 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2013 Feature Berlin buzz

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

The Complex American Dreams In China

Asian sellers Hong Kong-based Golden Network Asia will also be in Berlin with Xu Zheng’s comedy Lost Korea’s dynamic local is head- In Thailand — a $5m mainland Chinese produc- ing for a busy Berlin with several production tion that has recently grossed $200m in its and sales companies unveiling new titles. Lotte home country. The film will be hitting US thea- Entertainment has co-financed and will be sell- tres through AMC Entertainment on February ing Asian territories on The Last Knights, starring 8. Golden Network is also selling Xu Haofeng’s Clive Owen and , and directed Judge Archer and animated feature The Adventures by Japan’s Kazuaki Kiriya. US-based IF Enter- Of Jinbao. tainment handles all other rights on the Eng- We Distribution has Peter Ho-sun Chan’s up- lish-language action drama, which is currently coming drama American Dreams In China, while in production. Pegasus Motion Pictures will be selling Vincent Finecut’s slate includes Berlin Competition Kok’s Chinese New Year comedy Hotel Deluxe, title Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, directed by Hong starring Ronald Cheng and Sandra Ng, which Sang-soo, and Lee Don-ku’s Panorama title is currently on release. All Rights Entertainment’s Fatal. CJ Entertainment is also selling a Pano- slate includes Herman Yau’s upcoming 3D hor- rama title, E J-yong’s mockumentary Behind The Lost In Thailand ror The Second Coming and recent pick-up Mum- Camera, along with Generation title Pluto and bai’s King (Mumbai Cha Raja), directed by In- Ryoo Seung-wan’s locally filmed action thriller dian indie film-maker Manjeet Singh. The Berlin File. Showbox is selling recent comedy Fortissimo Films is teaming with CJ to sell Gina hit Man On The Edge and action drama Kundo: Age Kim’s English-language Final Recipe, starring Of The Rampant from Yoon Jong-bin, who direct- Michelle Yeoh. ed last year’s hit Nameless Gangster: Rules Of China’s Huayi Brothers is also forsaking the The Time. Spring Festival celebrations, marking the begin- Meanwhile, Korea’s M-Line Distribution has ning of the Year of the Snake, and will be setting recently picked up Bangladeshi film-maker up its stall in the Ritz Carlton. The company’s Mostofa S Farooki’s Television, which closed last slate includes Tsui Hark’s Young Detective Dee: Rise year’s Busan International , while Of The Sea Dragon and Kenneth Bi’s Control. 9ers Entertainment is selling 3D CGI production Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur Empire Of The Ants. Based on a novel by French- from Indian studio UTV will also be in town to writer Bernard Werber, the $30m project is in The Berlin File support the world premiere of Brothers For Life pre-production and scheduled for completion (Kai Po Che), which receives its world premiere in 2015. to escape their mid-life crisis, who encounter a in Panorama Special. Directed by Abhishek Ka- Japanese sales companies will also introduce neglected child. poor, the drama unfolds against the backdrop several new titles at the European Film Mar- Some of the Hong Kong production and of communal violence in Gujarat and follows ket. Gaga Corporation will be selling a new as- sales companies have opted not to attend the three friends who form a cricket academy. ns yet-untitled project from acclaimed film-maker European Film Market this year, as it coincides By Liz Shackleton Hirokazu Kore-eda, while Nippon Television Net- with the Chinese New Year holiday period, but work is introducing a new title from the prolific Media Asia will be present with Arvin Chen’s ; action thriller Shield Of Straw, Panorama title Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?. about a man with billion-yen bounty on his The film stars Richie Jen as a seemingly happy head. Nikkatsu Corporation is selling Hideo Na- married man who is harbouring a secret. kata’s new horror The Complex, which recently Distribution Workshop will also be in Berlin premiered at Rotterdam. with a busy slate including four titles that are Shochiku’s new titles include Yuya Ishii’s Fune in post-production: Dennie Gordon’s roman- Wo Amu, based on Shion Miura’s best-selling tic comedy My Lucky Star, starring ; novel, and Keiichi Hara’s Story, Charlie Young’s drama Christmas Rose, with delving into lesser known aspects of the life Aaron Kwok; Flora Lau’s Bends, which has Ca- of one of the masters of Japanese cinema. Toei rina Lau and Chen Kun heading the cast; and will be introducing ’s A Chair ’s action drama MMA, starring Nick On The Plains about three travellers, attempting Cheung and . Brothers For Life n 34 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2013