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As international sellers arrive at the European Market with projects in all stages of production, Screen highlights some of the hottest titles from around the world BUZZ produces with Bloom partner and Way- and Tom Wilkinson (Pictured above from left) Mongrel NORTH AMERICA point Entertainment founder Ken Kao. round out the key cast and Robbie Bren- International’s Jasper Jones, ’ All Eyez On Me and Mundial’s Don’t Swallow CAA is repping US rights. ner of produces. Bur- My Heart Alligator Girl! By Jeremy Kay Sierra/Affi nity’s Nick Meyer, Jonathan den is now in post. Kier and the sales team are launching Content Media is hoping to cause a and Media kick off talks on the Ethan Hawke and Noomi stir with its well-received Sundance doc- Swallow My Heart Alligator Girl! from their sales relationship with an untitled Rapace thriller Stockholm, based on a umentary Cries From Syria by Oscar- Brazil’s Felipe Braganca. The Sundance Entebbe project starring real 1973 Swedish bank robbery during nominated Evgeny Afi neevsky. The fi lm premiere is an epic love story about a and Daniel Brühl, and produced by which the hostages bonded with their chronicles the Middle Eastern country’s Brazilian boy and a Guarani girl from Working Title . Lionsgate co-chair- captors. The event coined the term for civil war and draws on hundreds of across the Apa river in Paraguay. man Patrick Wachsberger and his team the psychological condition Stockholm hours of war footage and testimony from Adam Brody and The Book Thief’s are expected to show footage from Jose Syndrome. Shooting is expected to begin children, survivors and army officers Sophie Nélisse star in The Kid Detective, a Padilha’s fi lm about the 1976 hijack of a in April. Productivity Media is fi nancing who have defected from government Myriad Pictures sales title produced by passenger jet by pro-Palestinian forces and Jason Blum is among the producers. ranks. HBO will air the fi lm on March 13. Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures. and the subsequent rescue by Israeli IM Global is launching pre-sales on Mongrel International is at the EFM The satirical murder mystery follows a commandos. Serenity, a noir thriller it is fully fi nancing. with completed Australian coming-of- down-at-heel former child detective who FilmNation arrives with sales rights to Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hath- age mystery Jasper Jones. gets a shot at his fi rst ‘adult’ case. Bright- Studios’ Suspiria remake from away are in talks to star, and Steven and Hugo Weaving star in Rachel Per- light, Myriad and UTA Independent Film , who is red-hot after Knight will direct from his own screen- kins’ drama about a teenage boy who Group jointly arranged fi nancing and the the Sundance premiere of his Call Me By play. It is about a fi sherman whose past is sets out to confront racism and find a latter two are handling US rights. Your Name. , Dakota John- about to catch up with him. Production is killer in the course of an eventful sum- XYZ Films has international rights to son and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the scheduled for the summer on what will mer in 1968. recent Sundance premiere Bushwick, horror feature. be IM Global’s third collaboration with Visit Films has boarded international which just sold to RLJ Entertainment for Voltage Pictures is screening the Knight following Locke and Redemption. sales on Columbus, a completed drama the US and stars Dave Bautista and Brit- Tupac Shakur drama All Eyez On Me, is in town to talk about a woman who forms a close bond tany Snow. The action thriller takes which Lionsgate will release in the US on up Burden, in which Garrett with a man visiting his dying father. John place as civil war breaks out in the US June 16 through its Summit label. The Hedlund tackles another Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker and a former soldier helps a young film recounts the late rapper’s life and racism story following his Posey, Rory Culkin and Michelle woman survive. stars Demetrius Shipp Jr as Shakur. noted turn in Sundance Forbes star. It is the directorial Premiere Entertainment is talking to Benny Boom directs from a script by Ed world premiere Mud- debut of South Korean- buyers about You Were Never He re, a Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft. bound. Hedlund plays born filmmaker and film thriller starring Mireille Enos, Sam Bloom Media is in with one of a man who battles his writer Kogonada. Cinetic Shepard and Goran Visnjic. Camille the most unique titles in the market, family’s ties to the Ku represents US rights. Thoman directs and produces the fi lm, Woody Harrelson’s Lost In . The Klux Klan when his Mundial’s Cristina about an artist who suspects she is being project shot in a single take in the UK lover urges him to Garza is jetting into stalked. The fi lm screens in the market. capital last month, while being simulta- choose a better town with Gen- Raven Banner is in town with Dark- neously beamed to audiences in the UK life. Forest eration 14Plus ness Rising, a sci-fi horror directed by and US. Harrelson plays himself and Whitaker, You Were Never Here selection Don’t Austin Reading about the lone survivor »

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of a family massacre who revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruc- tion. Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson, Tara Holt and horror stalwart Ted Raimi star By Andreas Wiseman in the project from Storyboard Enter- tainment and Compass Entertainment. David Garrett’s Mister Smith is launch- The Exchange is showcasing We’re Just ing sales on Terrence Malick’s Second Married, from director Rodrigo Garcia. World War drama Radegund, the true Lily Rabe, Sam Rockwell and Chris story of Franz Jägerstätter, a conscien- Messina are attached to star. The comedy tious objector who refused to fight for drama is set in the early 1970s and pre- the Nazis. The film marks Malick’s sents a portrait of a romantic triangle. Columbus return to the period following acclaimed Double Dutch International has Heidi: 1998 drama The Thin Red Line. August Queen Of The Mountain, starring Bill Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoen- Nighy. Bhavna Talwar directs the feature, aerts and Bruno Ganz star. based on the celebrated tales of the Swiss HanWay Films is back in business mountain girl. It is anticipated as the first with Brooklyn star on the in a family trilogy. drama Sweetness In The Belly, based on AMBI Distribution is selling world- Camilla Gibb’s novel about a white Mus- wide rights to Beyond The Edge, in which lim woman raised in Africa who goes on a team of paranormal crooks plan a bank to be employed by the UK’s National heist. Antonio Banderas stars in the film, Health Service. Ethopia-born Zeresenay which is co-directed by Aleksandr Mehari, whose 2014 filmDifret won an Boguslavskiy and Francesco Cinquemani. You Are Killing Me Susana audience award at Sundance, is directing VMI Worldwide has picked up sales the film, which is produced by Sienna on and is screening Nightworld by Chil- Films and Parallel Films. ean horror master Patricio Valladares. Protagonist Pictures is in Berlin with Jason London and Robert Englund star period biopic Vita And Virginia, about lit- in the film about a security guard at an erary icons Vita Sackville-West and Vir- old apartment building in Eastern ginia Woolf. is set to star Europe possessed by a malevolent force. as the former and as the latter. Shoreline Entertainment is handling The film marks the second feature of sales on Tatu And Patu, a completed pro- Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn) and is ject based on the Finnish family bestseller due to shoot in the spring. about brother inventors who visit the city Thorsten Schumacher’s Rocket Sci- at Christmas with their best friend. Cries From Syria ence is at the EFM with Kristin Scott is showing Thomas’s directorial debut about a cou- footage of company owner ’s relationship between a singer and her and . ple whose marriage is in crisis. Scott Bad Samaritan with and protégé that won the audience award at Canadian outfit Attraction Distribu- Thomas will play the woman in the trou- , about two burglars who Tallinn Black Nights . tion is here at the Berlinale with a selec- bled relationship and Mark Strong is in stumble on a captive woman during a Little Film Company is talking up Bad tion of European titles that include talks to play her husband. break-in. Electric has worldwide rights. Blood, a thriller starring Xavier Samuel Simone van Dusseldorp’s family film Altitude Film Sales recently secured MPI Media Group is showcasing It from Fury and Love & Friendship, about a Owls And Mice, produced by Dutch outfit world sales rights to Mary And The Stains The Sands Red, a zombie apoca- romantic weekend at a mountain resort Lemming, which is screening in Genera- Witch’s Flower, the first feature from Stu- lypse story about a woman who is pur- that turns into a terrifying ordeal. tion Kplus. Attraction is also handling dio Ponoc, the Japanese animation house sued through the desert by an undead Seville International has boarded sales Nathalie Teirlinck’s Past Imperfect, a founded by former Studio Ghibli pro- creature. Brittany Allen and Juan Ried- on Hochelaga, Land Of Souls. Vincent drama produced by Belgium’s Savage ducer Yoshiaki Nishimura. He will be inger star. Dark Sky Films has US rights. Perez stars in Francois Girard’s historical Film, and crime series 13 Command- working on the film with director Hiro- Nu Image is at the EFM to tempt buy- drama weaving together five stories over ments, produced by Menuet of Belgium. masa ‘Maro’ Yonebayashi. ers with in the Millennium 750 years. The film is now shooting in Also from Canada, Jan Rofekamp’s Cornerstone Films is in town with Films thriller #211, about a teenager who Montreal. Films Transit is screening Sundance doc- Adam Shankman’s The Chocolate Money, is caught up in a heist and tries to record Octane Entertainment has acquired umentary Rumble: The Indians Who based on the novel of the same name by the action on his phone. Production is set worldwide rights to Carter & June, an Rocked The World, which looks at the key Ashley Prentice Norton. It chronicles the to begin in Bulgaria in March. action title in post about a New Orleans role of Native Americans in US popular relationship between a wealthy confec- Cinema Entertainment Group is start- con artist who gets in over his head music history. tionery heiress and her precocious young ing talks on Peruvian animation Ainbo. when he tries to pay off his debts. IFT launches sales on Dick Move star- daughter. will star as the The 3D CGI feature from Tunche Films is Film Sales Company has worldwide ring Olivia Munn as an artist who starts eccentric mother. scheduled to begin production this year. It rights to Berlin Critics’ Week selection seeing phallic imagery in her paintings. Embankment Films’ slate includes focuses on an Amazonian girl who must Dreams from Mike Ott. Archstone Distribution arrives with McQueen, about the rise of celebrated UK protect her community from an evil spirit. The comedy-documentary feature On Wings Of Eagles starring Joseph fashion designer Alexander McQueen, Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks is centres on five unique individuals in pur- Fiennes. The unofficialChariots Of Fire who committed suicide in 2010. Salon kicking off sales on You Are Killing Me suit of fame and fortune in Hollywood. sequel screens on Friday. Pictures (Churchill) produces alongside Susana, a darkly comic story about a Mex- Hyde Park International is launching Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films London outfit Misfits Entertainment. ican man desperate to win back his love sales on The Female Brain, a romantic International will be talking up The Price Bankside Films comes to market after she relocates to Iowa. Gael Garcia comedy in post that marks the directo- Of Admission, a part-dramedy, part-exis- with a promo of UK horror filmP ossum, Bernal stars alongside Veronica Echegui. rial debut of comedian Whitney Cum- tential thriller to star as a starring Sean Harris as a disgraced Bleiberg Entertainment is introducing mings, who stars alongside Sofia playwright in the throes of a midlife cri- children’s puppeteer who returns to Queen Of Spades, a drama about the feisty Vergara, James Marsden, Lucy Punch sis. his childhood home and is forced to »

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AUX Journey’s End Happy Family confront the secrets that have tortured edy road movie The Young Offenders, the him his entire life. Irish box-office hit inspired by the true WestEnd Films is handling sales on story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure Georgian-Russian Panorama title Hos- in 2007. tages, from Ida producer Ewa Puszczyn- Genre specialist Jinga Films has ska. The film is based on the true story of boarded Norbert Keil’s sci-fi horror a young couple who enact a dangerous Replace, starring Rebecca Forsythe as a plot to escape the Soviet Union. woman afflicted by a strange disease. Metro International is showing foot- Richard Stanley co-wrote the screenplay. age of First World War feature Journey’s Moviehouse Entertainment is talking End. , Paul Bettany, Stephen to buyers about feature documentary Here Graham, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones and To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits, about Tom Sturridge star in the drama adapted the UK all-female punk band formed in from the classic play of the same name. 1976. Now in post-production, the film is Great Point Media is selling Sally Pot- due to be completed this autumn. ter’s Berlin Competition title The Party. Dogwoof hopes to tempt buyers with The tragi-comedy is set during one Sundance title 78/52, about the famous eventful night in London and stars Patri- The Party shower scene in Psycho. The film features cia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott interviews with , Bret Thomas, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Mur- Fledgling outfitAMP International is ily, featuring the voices of , Easton Ellis, Karyn Kusama, Eli Roth, phy, Timothy Spall and Cherry Jones. at its first market with UK comedySong - , Nick Frost, Catherine Tate Walter Murch and Peter Bogdanovich. Independent Film Company is hoping bird, starring Cobie Smulders and Noel and . The film fol- Former IM Global executive Tim Groh- to seal further deals on Michael Winter- Clarke. Clarke also produces the feature, lows the Wishbone clan, who must pull ne’s Primal Screen is selling Beatles film bottom’s documentary-fiction feature which is about the lead singer of a 1990s together to battle real-life beasts. It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Sgt Pepper On The Road, which opens the Genera- Britpop band whose star has faded. GFM Films will be talking to buyers And Beyond, which marks the 50th anni- tion strand. The film about UK indie Kaleidoscope is screening horror title about animation Duck Duck Goose fea- versary of the band’s seminal album. band Wolf Alice will have its US festival Nails. Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) turing Stephen Fry among its voice cast. Parkland Pictures has a market screen- launch at SXSW. and comedian Ross Noble (Stitches) star Home producer Christopher Jenkins co- ing of thriller Us And Them, in which a Simon Crowe’s SC Films International in the story of a paralysed woman, wrote and directs the story about a loner disillusioned young man holds a banker comes to market with animation trapped in her own body, who becomes goose who rescues two ducklings. and his family hostage and forces him to Pachamama. The film is about an convinced she is being stalked by a GSP Studios is in post-production on gamble for their lives. Jack Roth stars. Andean boy who dreams of becoming a malevolent spirit in her hospital room. writer-director Carl Strathie’s debut sci-fi Devilworks is launching sci-fi thriller shaman. It marks the first 3D CGI ani- Celsius brings Isabel Coixet’s The thriller Solis. Steven Ogg, best known for Incontrol from director Kurtis David mation to be produced by Didier and Bookshop, which is in post-production. roles in The Walking Dead and West- Harder. Starring Levi Meaden and Rory J Damien Brunner’s Folivari. Emily Mortimer, and Patricia world, stars as a man trapped aboard an Saper, the film tells the story of a group of Goldcrest Films is showcasing BBC Clarkson star in the adaptation of Penel- escape pod hurtling toward the sun. students who discover a device that Earth Films and SMG Pictures’ nature ope Fitzgerald’s 1950s novel about a The Works is giving a market screen- allows them to control other people. documentary Earth: One Amazing Day, woman who decides, against polite but ing to Danny Huston’s The Last Photo- Evolutionary Films is hoping to do the sequel to Earth, the 2007 box-office ruthless local opposition, to open a graph, in which Huston plays a man well with its own production, action hor- hit that grossed more than $110m world- bookshop. whose life is thrown into a tailspin fol- ror AUX. The film, starring John Rhys- wide. Peter Webber (The Girl With The Cinestaan is in Berlin with Bombay lowing a random act of theft. Sarita Davies, is about what happens when two Pearl Earring) and Richard Dale (The Rose, the first feature by Indian animator Choudhury, Stacy Martin and newcomer young boys playing in the woods dis- Human Body) co-direct. Gitanjali Rao. The Bollywood-inspired Jonah Hauer-King co-star. cover the hidden entrance to an under- Film Constellation is screening first love story, set on the streets of Mumbai, Truffle Pictures is at the EFM with ground military bunker. footage from -set romantic is produced by Les Films d’Ici’s Serge ’s noir-thriller The Marker Anna Krupnova’s Reason8 is selling comedy Permission, starring Rebecca Lalou, whose credits include Waltz With starring Frederick Schmidt, John Han- US crime-thriller Dark Meridian, about a Hall and , which is written Bashir, alongside Clara Mahieu. nah and Ana Ularu in a story of a crimi- New Orleans detective who is caught up and directed by Brian Crano. Hall is Timeless Films has a market premiere nal seeking redemption. in a fight between two rival criminal fac- making her producing debut on the film. screening of 3D animation Happy Fam- Carnaby International is selling com- tions while on a stakeout. »

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ambitious father, and Tala Hadid’s FRANCE Forum title House In The Fields, about two teenage girls living in a remote By Melanie Goodfellow Moroccan mountain village. France TV is re-entering film sales Doc & Film International is flying in with ’s Le Collier Rouge, star- Bruno Dumont for a presentation of his ring as a First second season of mini-series Li’l Quin- World War hero mysteriously jailed on quin, entitled Coincoin And The Extra- his return from the western front. The humans. Further titles include Nicolas cast also includes Francois Cluzet. Philibert’s next documentary, the details New EFM fi lms for Wide Management of which are under wraps, as well as include IFFR titles The Last Painting, Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris — New black comedy Secret Ingredient by Mace- York Public Library. donian Berlinale Talent alumnus Gjorce In addition to Berlinale opener Django Barrage Stavreski, and Italian director Adriano and out of Competition title Viceroy’s Giotti’s award-winning Sex Cowboys. House, Pathé International is handling Studiocanal is launching sales on Hard market premieres of ’s Powder, starring Liam Neeson as a quiet midlife crisis comedy Rock’n Roll and snowplough driver in the Rocky Moun- ’s RAID: Special Unit, which tains seeking revenge on the drugs king- just drew 1.2 million spectators over fi ve pin who ordered the killing of his son. days in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Luxbox is selling Forum title Barrage, Pathé is also showing fi rst footage of Eric starring Lolita Chammah and her mother Barbier’s Promise At Dawn, which stars . Further titles include Pierre Niney as colourful French writer Sharunas Bartas’ aid convoy drama Frost, Romain Gary opposite Charlotte Gains- House In The Fields The Third Way starring , and Bruno bourg as his mother. In addition, Pathé Dumont’s Cannes hopeful Jeannette. will showcase ’s com- dling China’s animated Golden Bear World War adventure tale The Captain, Marie-Pierre Macia’s MPM is selling ing-of age-story Mektoub Is Mektoub and contender Have A Nice Day, as well as which starts shooting this month. Titles Elise Girard’s misfi ts romance Strange Xavier Beauvois’ Second World War Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome (which in post-production include family Birds, starring Lolita Chammah, which drama Les Gardiennes. screens in Panorama) and Martin Prov- secrets melodrama Sunbeat by former is also screening in Forum. New titles include Cannes ost’s The Midwife (out of Competition). Berlinale Talent alumnus Clara Laper- Pyramide International is starting hopefuls K.O., a drama by Fabrice Gobert In the market it is talking to buyers rousaz and her sister Laura, and Brigitte sales on Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Sec- that stars Laurent Lafi tte as a man who about Xavier Giannoli’s The Apparition, Sy’s Happiness Is Tomorrow, starring her ond World War drama Rainbow, and is awakes from a coma with very changed starring Vincent Lindon as a journalist daughter Esther Garrel as a woman showing a promo reel of Tonie Mar- fortunes, and Christian Carion’s kidnap investigating a series of saintly visions. involved with a violent drugs dealer. shall’s drama Number One. It is also talk- drama My Son starring Guillaume Canet. Upside Distribution is screening a Still Moving is selling Panorama title ing to buyers about Cyril Mennegun’s La Projects due for late 2017/early 2018 promo-reel of Roc: The World’s Greatest Pendular, a hybrid work capturing the Consolation, which reunites the director delivery include Jean-Luc Godard’s explo- Con Artist, about the alleged ‘conman of intricate and intense relationship with Corinne Masiero, star of his criti- ration of the Arab world Image Et Parole, the stars’ Christophe Rocancourt. The between two artists. cally acclaimed 2011 title Louise Wimmer. Pierre Godeau’s Sempé adaptation Raoul fi lm is directed by Olivier Megaton, best The Bureau Sales is showcasing Peter In addition to Raoul Peck’s Berlinale Taburin and Omar Sy vehicle YAO. known for Taken 2. Mackie Burns’ London-set drama Special Gala screener The Young Karl Gaumont is launching sales on Belle Alma Cinema is launching Milad Ala- Daphne, which debuted at IFFR to good Marx, Films Distribution’s slate includes And Sebastian: Friends For Life, the third mi’s cultural identity drama The reviews. The company is also showing survivalist thriller Killing Ground and and fi nal instalment in the family fran- Charmer and English-language thriller the fi rst footage of Lean On Pete, which it Handle With Care, which stars Norway’s chise. It is also showcasing Mathieu A Bluebird In My Heart. The latter stars is selling with Celluloid Dreams. Kristoffer Joner as a widower who heads Amalric’s biopic Barbara, about the late Roland Moller as an ex-con drawn into a Indie Sales is talking to buyers about to Colombia in search of his adopted French chanteuse, and Bright Weakness, gangland feud. Alma is also selling Guil- Julien Hallard’s comedy Let The Girls Play, son’s biological mother. It is also screen- the second fi lm by Guillaume Gallienne. laume Nicloux’s Indochina war-set about France’s first all-female football ing a promo reel of Erick Zonca’s Le WTFilms is kicking off sales on Cana- drama To The Ends Of The Earth, which team, and The Price Of Success starring Fleuve Noir, starring as a dian director Sook-Yin Lee’s Octavio Is starts shooting this March in Vietnam. Tahar Rahim as a stand-up comedian disillusioned policeman, and Pablo Dead, starring Sarah Gadon as a woman Versatile is unveiling Jean Luc Herbu- dealing with the pressures of fame. Berger’s dark comedy Abracadabra. who escapes the clutches of an overbear- lot’s urban thriller Döner, set in a Loco Films is selling Generation titles SND has the market premiere of With ing mother, played by Rosanna Arquette, kebab shop and starring Hugo Becker Little Harbour,, about about a a Open Arms, the latest culture-clash com- and reconnects with her dead father. and Grégory Gadebois. neglected 10-year-old who edy from Serial (Bad) Weddings director Raoul Trujillo co-stars. It will also show TF1 Studio is launching sales on Ital- cares for abandoned twins, Philippe de Chauveron, reuniting him fi rst footage of Paris zombie invasion pic- ian director Andrea Pallaoro’s The Whale, and Brazilian father-and- again with Christian Clavier. It is ture The Night That Eats The World and starring as a woman daughter drama Nalu On also handling Eric Valette’s ter- same-sex romantic comedy Kiss Me!. suffering from an identity crisis. The The Border. rorist-on-the-run thriller Bac Films is screening the fi rst foot- company is also screening new promo Alpha Violet is in Thousand Cuts and Nico- age of Paolo Virzi’s The Leisure Seeker, reels of romantic comedy Nobody’s Per- town to kick off sales las Boukhrief ’s The zombie drama The Third Wave and fect, starring Gérard Depardieu and on Italian directors Confession starring Babak Jalali’s Native American reserva- , and the thriller All Silvia Luzi and Marine Vacth as a tion-set Land. Bac is also launching That Divides Us, starring Deneuve and Luca Bellino’s woman who embarks sales on French-language feature Ava, Diane Kruger as a mother and daughter hybrid work The on an affair with a priest. about a teenage girl rebelliously coming caught up in the drugs world. Crater, about a Le Pacte is market to terms with impending blindness. Alfama Films is starting sales on Rob- young singer at premiering Lucas Bel- Memento Films International is han- ert Schwentke’s long-awaited Second the mercy of an Berlin Syndrome vaux’s political drama »

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This Is Our Land and Nicolas Bedos’ period romance Mr & Mrs Adelman. Further projects include Thomas Lilti’s GERMANY The Freshman, which revisits the medi- cal world of his previous two fi lms. By Geoffrey Macnab Jour 2 Fete is handling Alain Gomis’ Golden Bear contender Félicité, about a Beta Cinema is at the EFM with one of Kinshasa singer’s bid to raise money for its most varied selections in recent years, her son’s operation. It is also kicking off including seven titles in Berlinale offi - sales on Tunisian director Kaouther Ben cial selection. Among its Competition Hania’s Beauty And The Dogs, about a films is Beta’s first ever feature docu- young woman’s fi ght for justice after she mentary Beuys, from Andres Veiel, about is raped by police offi cers. legendary German artist Joseph Beuys. Les Films Du Losange is presenting It is also handling Agnieszka Holland’s Barbet Schroeder’s The Venerable W, darkly humorous drama Spoor. Also on examining Islamophobia within Bud- its slate are The King’s Choice, one of the dhism, and has the market premiere of biggest Norwegian hits of all time, as Jean-Stéphane Bron’s documentary The well as Chris Kraus’s comedy The Bloom Cold Hell Paris Opera. The company has also taken Of Yesterday and Stefan Ruzowitzky’s on sales of ensemble drama I Still Hide To genre fi lm Cold Hell. Smoke, about a group of women who dis- The Match Factory has the latest Aki cuss their lives at the local hammam. Kaurismaki movie The Other Side Of Celluloid Dreams is kicking off sales Hope, which is screening in Competi- on André Téchiné’s drama Golden Years, tion. It is also selling Thomas Arslan’s as well as daring Iranian animation Teh- Bright Nights and Josef Hader’s Wild ran Taboo, which explores how people Mouse, both Competition titles. Further express their sexuality against the back- fi lms likely to intrigue buyers include drop of strict prohibitions. Celluloid’s Tarek Saleh’s The Nile Hilton Incident, slate also includes Xavier Legrand’s which comes to the EFM fresh from family drama Custody. winning the world cinema grand jury MK2 is splitting sales on Pawel Paw- prize at Sundance; and Sam Garbar- likowski’s Cold War with the UK’s Pro- ski’s latest feature, Bye Bye Germany, tagonist Pictures. The love story is set in starring Moritz Bleibtreu and set just the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia after the Second World War. The drama and Paris. is screening in the Special Gala section. The Misandrists New titles from Urban Distribution Arri Media is talking to buyers about International include Good Manners, In Love With Lou — A Philosopher’s Life, hits at the German box offi ce last year. Electric by Marcelo Caetano, Generation the latest film from Juliana Rojas and its biopic of female German psychoan- Further titles include Jakob Lass’s Tiger 14plus entry Butterfly Kisses, Bruce Marco Dutra after the award-winning alyst Lou Andreas-Salomé. Wild Bunch Girl, the joint-opening film of Pano- LaBruce’s latest The Misandrists and 2011 fi lm Hard Labor, and Cristina Pin- released the movie in German cinemas rama Special, as well as action comedy Turkish feature Inflame by Ceylan heiro’s Menina. It is also selling Pano- and it premiered at Shanghai Interna- Hot Dog, starring Til Schweiger and Ozgun Ozcelik. rama documentary Ghost Hunting. tional Film Festival. Arri also has fam- Matthias Schweighöfer, which is in pro- Global Screen is beginning pre-sales Cercamon is handling the fast-selling ily drama Mountain Miracle — An duction. on high-end 3D animated feature My Thailand-set Pop Aye, about a disillu- Unexpected Friendship, scripted by Films Boutique has several fi lms in Fairy Troublemaker & Me. The com- sioned architect who sets off on a road Natja Brunckhorst (who starred as a official selection, including Competi- pany is also handling Richard The trip with his pet elephant. It also has the child in harrowing drugs drama Chris- tion title Joaquim by Brazilian director Stork, a world premiere in Generation market premiere of Katie Says Goodbye. tiane F). The fi lm is screening in Gen- Marcelo Gomes, Berlinale Special Gala Kplus, and will be holding a market Wide House highlights include Oscar- eration Kplus. Arri is also showing the choice La Libertad Del Diablo by premiere of The Death And Life Of Otto contender I Am Not Your Negro, which is fi rst trailer of Oliver Kienle’s psycho- Everardo Gonzalez and Vazante by Bloom, directed by Australia’s Cris playing in Panorama, and the Forum title logical thriller Four Hands. Daniela Thomas, which co-opens Pan- Jones and starring Xavier Samuel. For Ahkeem, which explores the struggles Picture Tree International is intro- orama Special. The company is also Global Screen is also presenting chil- of disadvantaged black teens in the US. ducing international buyers handling Insyriated, dren’s fi lm Capt’n Sharky, from director Reel Suspects is market premiering to Simon Verhoeven’s directed by Philippe Hubert Weiland, and giving a market Spanish time-travel thriller Black Hollow immigration-themed Van Leeuw and star- debut to Max Kestner’s time-travel Cage and Philippine drama Purgatoyro. comedy Welcome To ring Hiam Abbass, drama Man Divided. The top titles for Stray Dogs include Germany, one of the which is screening in Family fare specialist Sola Media has Mansfi eld 66/67, an experimental feature runaway Panorama. three new Scandinavian titles on its documentary about the last two years in M-Appeal has a slate: Norwegian animation Elias, the life of screen siren Jayne Mansfi eld. packed Berlinale slate Danish family adventure Iqbal And The Other Angle is continuing sales on including, among others, Superchip and, also from Norway, Eva comedies In And Out, Grounded and Just Daan Bakker’s Quality Time, Dahr’s drama Trio — The Hunt For The Divorced. one of the most admired fi lms Holy Shrine. The top sales priority for EuropaCorp in Rotterdam’s recent Tiger Ida Martins’ Media Luna is present- is Thomas Vinterberg’s Russian nuclear competition, Brazilian title Body ing Euros Lyn’s Wales-set thriller The submarine drama Kursk, which is due Library Suicides, which premiered at to start shooting on April 18 with Mat- (Left) Mountain Miracle — Edinburgh International Film Festival An Unexpected Friendship thias Schoenaerts, Colin Firth and last year. Léa Seydoux in the cast. »

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ITALY NORDIC REGION By Gabriele Niola By Wendy Mitchell True Colors is kickstarting sales on Fabio Meira’s drama Two Irenes, as well Scandi powerhouse TrustNordisk is as Cristina Comencini’s comedy Some- introducing The Quake, which is in pre- thing New and Luca Miniero’s Messy production. The fi lm marks a return to Christmas. The latter is about Islamic the disaster genre for Fantefilm, pro- and Christian communities coming ducers of hit The Wave, this time together to overcome their differences. inspired by a 1904 earthquake in Oslo. The company is also selling The Invisible Also in pre-production is the new Lars Boy 2, the sequel to Gabriele Salvatores’ von Trier film, 1970s-set serial-killer Garden Lane young-adult superhero movie. The fi lm story The House That Jack Built. For the is now in post. fi rst time, the company is also screening Fandango is selling Karlovy Vary Crys- scenes from 3 Things, Jens Dahl’s fea- tal Globe winner It’s Not The Time Of My ture debut starring Game Of Thrones Life, a family drama directed by Szabolcs actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The taut Hajdu. The company is also showcasing thriller is about the negotiations over the second and third fi lms in the action- the terms of a tricky witness protection comedy saga I Can Quit Whenever I deal. Dahl previously wrote Nicolas Want; part two is completed, with the Winding Refn’s Pusher as well as work- third in post. Fandango is also talking to ing in TV. TrustNordisk is also looking buyers about Francesca Comencini’s to fi nalise deals on Danish box-offi ce hit intense romantic drama Stories Of Love Darkland, Fenar Ahmad’s thriller about That Cannot Belong To This World, which a surgeon who avenges his brother’s will be ready later this year. death in Copenhagen’s criminal under- Rai Com is here with There Is A Light, world. The fi lm will have a fi rst market a love story starring Italian rising star screening for buyers only. Satirical com- The Man 3 Things Luca Marinelli. It is also screening At edy DRIB, which will world premiere at War With Love, a romantic comedy set South by Southwest, will also have a during the Second World War, and The buyers-only screening. Further titles War Of The Yokels, the narrative feature include Icelandic thriller I Remember debut of documentary filmmakers You and Norwegian fantasy adventure Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte. The Ash Lad, which was presented as a Minerva Pictures is selling gritty work-in-progress at Goteborg. police drama Falchi from Toni D’Angelo, Sweden-based SF Studios is hosting starring Fortunato Cerlino, best known the first market screenings of Danish for TV series Gomorrah. comedy drama Swinger, directed by Intramovies is showcasing drama Mikkel Munch-Fals and described as The Furlough, directed by and starring similar in tone to the works of Woody Claudio Amendola, with Luca Allen. Also screening is Rotterdam and Argentero, Giacomo Ferrara and Valen- Goteborg selection The Man by Char- tina Belle. lotte Sieling, whose recent TV credits The Open Reel is handling feature include Homeland. The Man stars Soren The Dissidents documentary William, The New Judo Malling and Jakob Oftebro in a story of Master, which premiered in Rotterdam’s an egotistical art-world superstar and Norwegian family film Oskar’s by Lauri Tilkanen (The Midwife) and Bright Future section, together with unnerved by a visit from his estranged America (in Kplus), as well as Czech Laura Birn (The Ones Below). Giada Colagrande’s Padre, starring Wil- son. SF is also showcasing thriller Kings family animation Oddsockeaters. Also The Yellow Affair has first market lem Dafoe, Marina Abramovic and Bay, based on a Norwegian political on its slate is the lauded Venice and screenings of Olof Spaak’s Swedish Franco Battiato. scandal in the 1960s; Janus Metz’s Toronto drama Sami Blood. drama Garden Lane, starring 2017 EFP A new, as-yet-untitled project starring sports drama Borg/McEnroe, which is For the fi rst time Eyewell is screen- Shooting Star Karin Franz Korlof and Italian-German actor Terence Hill head- now in post; and family titles Bamse ing Jaak Kilmi’s Estonian comedy The Simon J Berger; and Olaf Kraemer’s lines Adriana Chiesa’s slate. And The Witch’s Daughter and In The Dissidents, from Taska Film producer German thriller 5 Women, about five Coccinelle is talking to Forest Of Huckybucky.. Kristian Taska, who also worked with friends who meet for a getaway in buyers about Eitan Anner’s LevelK is introducing Jussi Hil- Eyewell on drama 1944. The Dissidents France and are caught up in unex- A Quiet Heart, the winner tunen’s Finnish action drama Law Of is about three men who escape Soviet pected violence. The company is of the Grand Prix at Tallinn The Land, about a policeman in Lap- Estonia in the 1980s in the belief their screening Wiktor Ericsson’s Strawberry Black Nights last Decem- land who is nearing retirement when new lives will be like Miami Vice and Days, a love story about a Swedish ber. The Israeli drama stars he is caught between two men Knight Rider. Eyewell is also introduc- strawberry farmer’s daughter and a Game Of Thrones’ Ania trying to kill each other. The ing buyers to Love & Fury, a drama Polish worker, and is talking to buyers Bukstein. Coccinelle is company is also han- from Finland’s Solar Films. Alli about Eric Styles’ Bach, which is in also handling Like dling two Generation Haapasalo directs the adaptation of development as a UK-Germany co-pro- Shooting Stars, a com- titles: New Zealand Anja Snellman’s novel Autumn Prince, duction. It is also handling Tony Simp- edy starring Maribel drama The Inland Road about two young writers who fall in son’s family holiday story Kiwi Verdu and Miki (in Generation 14plus) love in 1980s Helsinki. The cast is led Christmas, which is in pre-production. Manojlovic. A Quiet Heart »

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The Bar

SPAIN Attraction

By Elisabet Cabeza REST OF THE WORLD Animals after Be For Films’ principal Pamela Leu spotted the film at Polish Film Factory Entertainment is at the Days in Wroclaw last summer. A further EFM with a line-up that includes two By Geoffrey Macnab Polish title on its slate is Maria Sadows- titles in the Berlinale festival pro- ka’s box-office hit The Art Of Loving, gramme. Alex de la Iglesia’s black com- From Russia, Planeta Inform is present- which was spotted by Leu at Warsaw edy The Bar is screening in Competition ing several projects signed just before Film Festival last October and will and features Blanca Suarez and Mario the market. These include Nikita Argu- receive a market premiere. Casas, who were both in de la Iglesias’ nov’s sci-fi thriller The Coma and Yavor Hungarian National Film Fund is My Big Night. They are part of an Gyrdev’s dystopian sci-fi drama Icaria. handling international sales on Ferenc ensemble cast playing a group of stran- Also on its slate is Svyatoslav Podgayevs- Török’s 1945, which is screening in Pan- gers trapped in a Madrid bar after some- kiy’s box-offi ce hit horror fi lm The Bride orama (Menemsha has sales rights in body is shot outside. The film is and Andrey Volgin’s action title Dance To North America), and Arpad Sopsits’ produced by de la Iglesias’ Pokeepsie Death. Planeta is also showing new foot- market title Strangled. Films, also behind Eduardo Casanova’s age from Rustam Mosafi r’s period action Austrian documentary specialist directorial debut Skins (with Nadie Es title The Scythian. Crash & Burn Autlook is giving a market premiere to Perfecto) that screens in Panorama. Central Partnership is launching sales Crash & Burn, Sean O Cualain’s docu- Skins is a comedy about society’s atti- on two ballet-themed fi lms: Valery Todor- mentary about the brilliant but way- tudes towards people’s appearance. The ovskiy’s The Bolshoi is about a provincial ward and self-destructive Irish racing cast includes Jon Kortajarena and Car- girl struggling to become a prima balle- driver Tommy Byrne. men Machi. rina at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. Balle- From the Netherlands, Pim van Col- Latido Films is in town with Cathe- rina Margarita Simonova stars, and the lem’s outfit Dutch Features Entertain- rine Gund and Daresha Kyi’s documen- fi lm was shot partly in the Bolshoi Thea- ment is continuing pre-sales on thriller tary Chavela, screening in Panorama tre itself. Anna Matison’s After You’re Gone Swagger by much-feted directing duo Dokumente. The fi lm focuses on the life is about a bad-tempered ballet genius Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the team and work of Mexican singer Chavela with a debilitating injury who hopes to behind Black. It is also handling sales on Vargas, talking to friends and admirers stage one final production but cannot Joram Lursen’s The Longing and Ineke including Pedro Almodovar, who has fi nd dancers who meet his standards. Houtman’s family drama The Fantastic often used Vargas’ music in his films. Art Pictures is hoping to close US and Family Hotel. Latido is also handling Rescue Under UK deals on Fedor Bondarchuk’s apoca- Australia’s Odin’s Eye Entertainment Fire, the debut feature from Adolfo Mar- lyptic sci-fi fi lm Attraction, which had a is heading to the EFM to begin pre-sales tinez. The war drama is about a mission strong opening in Russian cinemas in The Longing on $16m 3D animation Hump. Based to rescue medical personnel after a heli- late January, taking close to $7m during on an original screenplay by Sundance copter accident in Afghanistan. Ariadna its fi rst weekend. Also on Art Pictures’ audience-award winners Amin Matalqa Gil, Ingrid Garcia Jonsson and Roberto slate is Pavel Lungin’s thriller Queen Of and Matt Antonelli, Hump is to be Alamo star. Spades and Oleg Trofim’s romantic directed by Disney/ veteran director Filmax International is talking to drama Ice. and story artist Rob Gibbs, and buyers about Jaume Balaguero’s super- Moscow-based Cinema Production will be produced by Germany’s natural thriller Muse. Filmax is also co- Center is pre-selling Sobibor, a drama MovieBrats Pictures, with producing the English-language film based on the Sobibor revolt of 1943, and Belgian animation studio with Ireland’s Fantastic Films, Bel- Andrey Sokolov’s spy fi lm Survivor. Walking The Dog and Cana- gium’s Frakas Prods and France’s The Russian World Vision is introducing da’s Tangent Animation. Jokers Films. The cast includes Elliot buyers to Dmitry Suvorov’s outrageous OEE’s EFM slate also Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu, comedy Superbad. includes live-action Manuela Vellés and Leonor Watling. Benelux distributor Be For Films has thriller Cage Dive Filmax is also selling comedy The Tun- picked up Marie Dumora’s French docu- and animated fi lms nel Gang, the directorial debut of writer mentary Belinda, which opens Pano- Foodiverse, Throne Pepon Montero, which was released in rama Dokumente. The company is also Of Elves, Bad Cat Spain in January. showcasing Greg Zglinski’s Forum title Animals and Arkie. Is 1945

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