Aslı Özarslan’s “Elbogen” (“Elbow”), an adaptation of Fatma Aydemir’s award-winning novel of the same name, tells the story of Hazal (played by Melia Kara), a young woman in Berlin struggling to find a job and start a life of her own. After a violent incident on her 18th birthday, she flees to Istanbul, a strange city in a country she doesn’t know and where she is forced to survive.
Aslı Özarslan
Produced by Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based Achtung Panda!, the film premieres in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus.
Özarslan’s past works include the 2016 documentary “Dil Leyla,” about a young Kurdish-German woman who is elected mayor of Cizre, a Turkish city on the border with Syria.
The Berlin native spoke with Variety about her new film and the challenges facing young people of immigrant backgrounds – something with which she is very familiar.
What interested you most about Fatma Aydemir’s novel?...
Aslı Özarslan
Produced by Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based Achtung Panda!, the film premieres in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus.
Özarslan’s past works include the 2016 documentary “Dil Leyla,” about a young Kurdish-German woman who is elected mayor of Cizre, a Turkish city on the border with Syria.
The Berlin native spoke with Variety about her new film and the challenges facing young people of immigrant backgrounds – something with which she is very familiar.
What interested you most about Fatma Aydemir’s novel?...
- 2/17/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Uruguayan filmmaker Lucia Garibaldi is currently in production with her sophomore feature which is currently lensing Montevideo. The filmmaker saw her debut feature The Sharks landed a coveted spot in the World Dramatic Comp at Sundance back in 2019, and appears to be still working with youth themed project in Un Futuro Brillante (formerly known as la ultima reina). Recently awarded some coin via The Berlinale World Cinema Fund, production companies include Montelona Cine’s Francisco Magnou Arnabal (who produced The Sharks) and Achtung Panda!’s Jamila Wenske (Compartment Number 6). Garibaldi teams with cinematographer Arauco Hernández Holz of Quinzaine selected The Employer and the Employee and TIFF selected The Moneychanger fame.…...
- 9/21/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Projects from Bhutan to Brazil to receive production and distribution funding.
The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has revealed 13 features it will support with a share of $380,000 in production and distribution funding.
Projects include Nothing In Its Place by Turkish filmmaker Burak Çevik, whose features The Pillar Of Salt, Belonging and Forms Of Forgetting each premiered at the Berlinale Forum.
His latest focuses on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres, which took place in the country’s capital of Ankara in 1978, and focuses on the night when a group of leftist youths who believed in unarmed revolution...
The Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (Wcf) has revealed 13 features it will support with a share of $380,000 in production and distribution funding.
Projects include Nothing In Its Place by Turkish filmmaker Burak Çevik, whose features The Pillar Of Salt, Belonging and Forms Of Forgetting each premiered at the Berlinale Forum.
His latest focuses on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres, which took place in the country’s capital of Ankara in 1978, and focuses on the night when a group of leftist youths who believed in unarmed revolution...
- 8/7/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with German indie producer Sol Bondy of One Two Films. Bondy, whose credits include Angry Indian Goddesses and The Tale, most recently produced Iranian crime thriller Holy Spider which is Denmark’s submission to the 2023 Academy Awards and he tells us how challenging it was to get this impactful project off the ground.
A few days after Ali Abbasi’s second directorial effort Border premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, Danish producer Jacob Jarek approached Sol Bondy to co-produce the Iranian helmer’s next project Holy Spider. Jarek, who had produced Abbasi’s debut feature Shelley, had previously worked with Bondy on Icelandic titles Under the Tree and The County and with beguiling body horror...
A few days after Ali Abbasi’s second directorial effort Border premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, Danish producer Jacob Jarek approached Sol Bondy to co-produce the Iranian helmer’s next project Holy Spider. Jarek, who had produced Abbasi’s debut feature Shelley, had previously worked with Bondy on Icelandic titles Under the Tree and The County and with beguiling body horror...
- 1/12/2023
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Film deemed ‘repugnant’ by country’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Pakistan’s Film Producers Association has begun lobbying to overturn a ban on the release of Joyland in cinemas in the country.
Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, Pakistan’s official entry to the Oscars, was banned from release in the country last week.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting released a statement on November 11 saying it had received written complaints that the film “contains highly objectionable material which do not conform with the social values and moral standards of our society.”
It added the film is “clearly repugnant to...
Pakistan’s Film Producers Association has begun lobbying to overturn a ban on the release of Joyland in cinemas in the country.
Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, Pakistan’s official entry to the Oscars, was banned from release in the country last week.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting released a statement on November 11 saying it had received written complaints that the film “contains highly objectionable material which do not conform with the social values and moral standards of our society.”
It added the film is “clearly repugnant to...
- 11/14/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
28 projects selected from over 150 submissions.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
New features from Mexican director Amat Escalante and Mexican-San Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo are among the 28 feature projects selected for the fifth edition of European Work in Progress Cologne (Ewip), the industry pitching event held from October 17-19 in the run-up to Film Festival Cologne.
Escalante will pitch Lost In The Night, about a man searching for those responsible for his mother’s disappearance, who encounters an incompetent justice system.
The Mexico-Germany-Netherlands-Denmark co-production is produced by Nicolas Celis and Fernanda de la Peza for Tres Tunas Cine. Escalante has previously directed four features including Venice and Toronto 2016 horror The Untamed.
- 10/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Polish filmmaker’s latest work world premieres at Karlovy Vary.
Fools is the latest feature from Polish filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski whose previous films include Floating Skyscrapers and United States Of Love, which won the Silver Bear for best script at the 2016 Berlinale.
Fools is debuting in the Proxima competition at Karlovy Vary, and centres around a couple, played by Dorota Kolak and Lukasz Simlat, who live a contentedly secluded lifestyle in a house by the coast. But when the woman brings her sick son to come and live with them, the façade of their relationship begins to crumble around them...
Fools is the latest feature from Polish filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski whose previous films include Floating Skyscrapers and United States Of Love, which won the Silver Bear for best script at the 2016 Berlinale.
Fools is debuting in the Proxima competition at Karlovy Vary, and centres around a couple, played by Dorota Kolak and Lukasz Simlat, who live a contentedly secluded lifestyle in a house by the coast. But when the woman brings her sick son to come and live with them, the façade of their relationship begins to crumble around them...
- 7/1/2022
- by Laurence Boyce
- ScreenDaily
Tomasz Wasilewski’s “Fools” (Głupcy) has debuted its trailer ahead of its world premiere at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Proxima Competition. World sales are being handled by Jan Naszewski’s New Europe Film Sales.
Wasilewski won the best script award for “United States of Love” at the Berlin Film Festival in 2016, and the East of West Award at Karlovy Vary in 2013 for “Floating Skyscrapers.”
“Fools” follows Marlena and Tomasz, hidden away from the world in a small seaside town, who have been in a happy relationship for many years. Their intricately woven everyday life slowly begins to unravel when, against Tomasz’s wishes, Marlena allows her sick son to move in with them. As the past comes back to them in full force they will have to redefine their love, choices and life.
Karlovy Vary’s Lenka Tyrpáková commented: “After the triumph of his previous film ‘United States of Love,...
Wasilewski won the best script award for “United States of Love” at the Berlin Film Festival in 2016, and the East of West Award at Karlovy Vary in 2013 for “Floating Skyscrapers.”
“Fools” follows Marlena and Tomasz, hidden away from the world in a small seaside town, who have been in a happy relationship for many years. Their intricately woven everyday life slowly begins to unravel when, against Tomasz’s wishes, Marlena allows her sick son to move in with them. As the past comes back to them in full force they will have to redefine their love, choices and life.
Karlovy Vary’s Lenka Tyrpáková commented: “After the triumph of his previous film ‘United States of Love,...
- 6/28/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
German co-productions are making a strong showing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, among them Leos Carax’s opening film, “Annette,” Wes Anderson’s star-studded “The French Dispatch” and Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s “The Story of My Wife.”
Fabian Gasmia’s Berlin-based Detailfilm is among the producers on “Annette,” which stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. The musical shot throughout the German state of North RhineWestphalia, including at the Ordensburg Vogelsang, a former Nazi military academy that doubles for a high-security U.S. prison in the film. The production received €500,000 from regional funder Filmstiftung Nrw in addition to support from the German-French Minitraité.
“The French Dispatch” marks Anderson’s third collaboration with co-producer Studio Babelsberg after “Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Isle of Dogs.” The competition entry also partially shot at the studio. Studio Babelsberg’s Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter and Charlie Woebcken, who secured funding for the production...
Fabian Gasmia’s Berlin-based Detailfilm is among the producers on “Annette,” which stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. The musical shot throughout the German state of North RhineWestphalia, including at the Ordensburg Vogelsang, a former Nazi military academy that doubles for a high-security U.S. prison in the film. The production received €500,000 from regional funder Filmstiftung Nrw in addition to support from the German-French Minitraité.
“The French Dispatch” marks Anderson’s third collaboration with co-producer Studio Babelsberg after “Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Isle of Dogs.” The competition entry also partially shot at the studio. Studio Babelsberg’s Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter and Charlie Woebcken, who secured funding for the production...
- 7/9/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
French distributor Arp has acquired the rights to “Fools,” an upcoming drama by Berlinale Silver Bear winner Tomasz Wasilewski (“United States of Love”). Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales brokered the deal.
“Fools” is the story of Marlena and Tomasz, who are hidden away from the world in a small seaside town and have been in a happy relationship for many years. But when Marlena allows her son to move in with them against Tomasz’s will, the past comes back to haunt them, and their intricately woven everyday life slowly begins to come apart.
“We were extremely impressed by the powerful way the director brings us along with him on such a powerful journey,” said Arp’s Michele Halberstadt. “The film is beautifully composed, and the lead actress is just mesmerizing. It is the kind of film that commands you to watch it. Tough at times,...
“Fools” is the story of Marlena and Tomasz, who are hidden away from the world in a small seaside town and have been in a happy relationship for many years. But when Marlena allows her son to move in with them against Tomasz’s will, the past comes back to haunt them, and their intricately woven everyday life slowly begins to come apart.
“We were extremely impressed by the powerful way the director brings us along with him on such a powerful journey,” said Arp’s Michele Halberstadt. “The film is beautifully composed, and the lead actress is just mesmerizing. It is the kind of film that commands you to watch it. Tough at times,...
- 7/8/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” will represent Belarus in the best international feature film race at the 2021 Oscars, Variety has learned.
The WWII drama, which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart (“Beats Per Minute”) as a Belgian Jew who narrowly avoids execution by a Nazi firing squad when he claims to be Persian. Desperate to save himself, he offers to teach Farsi — a language he does not know — to the head of the camp, played by German star Lars Eidinger (“Clouds of Sils Maria”).
Perelman (“House of Sand and Fog”) directed from a script by Ilya Zofin, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase. “Persian Lessons” is produced by Moscow-based Hype Film (“Leto”) and co-produced by Berlin-based Lm Media and One Two Films in association with Belarusfilm. Memento Films International is handling world sales.
“The film is especially important and relevant in our time,...
The WWII drama, which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart (“Beats Per Minute”) as a Belgian Jew who narrowly avoids execution by a Nazi firing squad when he claims to be Persian. Desperate to save himself, he offers to teach Farsi — a language he does not know — to the head of the camp, played by German star Lars Eidinger (“Clouds of Sils Maria”).
Perelman (“House of Sand and Fog”) directed from a script by Ilya Zofin, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase. “Persian Lessons” is produced by Moscow-based Hype Film (“Leto”) and co-produced by Berlin-based Lm Media and One Two Films in association with Belarusfilm. Memento Films International is handling world sales.
“The film is especially important and relevant in our time,...
- 12/1/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
15th edition took place online due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Turkey’s Meetings on the Bridge project development and post-production event has unveiled the winners of its 15th edition which ran online on April 14 -17 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Turkish director Selman Nacar’s intergenerational social drama Between Two Dawns won the top Andalou Efes Award, worth some $4,300, in the work in progress section.
Nacar’s debut feature following a number of award-winning shorts revolves around a young man who is pressured into covering up a serious accident at his family’s factory. It is produced by director-producer Burak Çevik at Kuyu Film,...
Turkey’s Meetings on the Bridge project development and post-production event has unveiled the winners of its 15th edition which ran online on April 14 -17 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Turkish director Selman Nacar’s intergenerational social drama Between Two Dawns won the top Andalou Efes Award, worth some $4,300, in the work in progress section.
Nacar’s debut feature following a number of award-winning shorts revolves around a young man who is pressured into covering up a serious accident at his family’s factory. It is produced by director-producer Burak Çevik at Kuyu Film,...
- 4/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Cohen Media Group has acquired North American rights to the Holocaust drama “Persian Lessons,” following its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, where it has become a buzz title. The film was produced after the lead producers met at a Variety “10 Producers to Watch” event in Cannes in 2018, and decided to work together on the project.
Cmg plans to release the film in late 2020. “Persian Lessons” is directed by “House of Sand and Fog” director Vadim Perelman from a script by Ilya Zofin, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“If You Saw His Heart”) plays a Belgian Jew who claims to be Persian when he is rounded up and about to face the firing squad. The terrified prisoner desperately tries to save himself by agreeing to teach Farsi – a language he does not know and thus makes up – to an eager-to-learn Nazi transit camp commandant,...
Cmg plans to release the film in late 2020. “Persian Lessons” is directed by “House of Sand and Fog” director Vadim Perelman from a script by Ilya Zofin, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“If You Saw His Heart”) plays a Belgian Jew who claims to be Persian when he is rounded up and about to face the firing squad. The terrified prisoner desperately tries to save himself by agreeing to teach Farsi – a language he does not know and thus makes up – to an eager-to-learn Nazi transit camp commandant,...
- 2/26/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
German producer Jamila Wenske of Berlin-based Achtung Panda! Media has boarded two upcoming projects that explore facets of the immigrant experience in Germany.
Asli Özarslan’s “Elbow” follows the turbulent life of a young Turkish woman in Berlin and her decision to move to Istanbul, while Ali Kareem Obaid’s “The Arabic Interpreter” centers on a frustrated, unemployed actor who takes a job as an Arabic-German interpreter.
“Elbow,” based on the award-winning novel by Fatma Aydemir, is the story of a 17-year-old girl whose life spins out of control following a harrowing experience, which forces her to flee to Istanbul, a city she has never before visited. It also examines people living between cultures and countries who are seeking their own place in the world.
“It’s a world most Germans never see,” Wenske said.
Özarslan’s screenplay adaptation, co-written by Claudia Schaefer, was recently selected for the Torino Film Lab’s Script Lab.
Asli Özarslan’s “Elbow” follows the turbulent life of a young Turkish woman in Berlin and her decision to move to Istanbul, while Ali Kareem Obaid’s “The Arabic Interpreter” centers on a frustrated, unemployed actor who takes a job as an Arabic-German interpreter.
“Elbow,” based on the award-winning novel by Fatma Aydemir, is the story of a 17-year-old girl whose life spins out of control following a harrowing experience, which forces her to flee to Istanbul, a city she has never before visited. It also examines people living between cultures and countries who are seeking their own place in the world.
“It’s a world most Germans never see,” Wenske said.
Özarslan’s screenplay adaptation, co-written by Claudia Schaefer, was recently selected for the Torino Film Lab’s Script Lab.
- 2/20/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films has boarded Iranian helmer Rafi Pitts’ latest film, “Random Star Suicide,” produced by French shingle Les Films du Worso and set to shoot next year.
After 2016’s “Soy Nero,” Pitts again examines Americans living on the margins of society in a story that follows a young black man and a working-class veteran whose lives and destinies cross.
One Two Films is continuing its focus on international and English-language productions as it recalibrates following the recent exit of longtime partner Jamila Wenske. The company has a new office in Berlin and a slew of projects in the works as it seeks to broaden its reach as an international co-producer specialized in Germany’s soft money incentives.
One Two Films partnered with Denmark’s Profile Pictures on Grimur Hakonarson’s Icelandic drama “The County,” which premieres in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section, and the...
After 2016’s “Soy Nero,” Pitts again examines Americans living on the margins of society in a story that follows a young black man and a working-class veteran whose lives and destinies cross.
One Two Films is continuing its focus on international and English-language productions as it recalibrates following the recent exit of longtime partner Jamila Wenske. The company has a new office in Berlin and a slew of projects in the works as it seeks to broaden its reach as an international co-producer specialized in Germany’s soft money incentives.
One Two Films partnered with Denmark’s Profile Pictures on Grimur Hakonarson’s Icelandic drama “The County,” which premieres in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section, and the...
- 9/6/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based company to move into international co-productions and branch out into fiction.
Berlin-based production outfit Achtung Panda! Media has appointed Jamila Wenske and Melanie Blocksdorf as new heads of the company. Wenske will served as producer and managing director and Blocksdorf as producer.
Carli Hameder joins as the company’s project manager.
These hires follow the departure of previous head Helge Albers, who has started in his new position as CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Achtung Panda! was launched in 2015 by Danny Krausz and Oliver Damian. The pair remain shareholders but aren’t involved actively in productions.
The company has...
Berlin-based production outfit Achtung Panda! Media has appointed Jamila Wenske and Melanie Blocksdorf as new heads of the company. Wenske will served as producer and managing director and Blocksdorf as producer.
Carli Hameder joins as the company’s project manager.
These hires follow the departure of previous head Helge Albers, who has started in his new position as CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Achtung Panda! was launched in 2015 by Danny Krausz and Oliver Damian. The pair remain shareholders but aren’t involved actively in productions.
The company has...
- 8/22/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
German producer Jamila Wenske has left One Two Films to head Achtung Panda!, a Berlin-based film production company.
Wenske succeeds former managing director Helge Albers, who left Achtung Panda! to become the new CEO of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Wenske partnered with Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange to launch One Two Films in 2010. The Berlin company has co-produced domestic and international productions, including Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale,” Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons.”
Variety selected Wenske and Bondy for its 10 Producers to Watch list last year.
Producer Melanie Blocksdorf, who previously worked at Berlin-based Propellerfilm, is joining Wenske at Achtung Panda!
Established as a joint venture in 2015 between Danny Krausz’s Vienna-based Dor Film and Oliver Damian’s 27 Films in Berlin, Achtung Panda! had largely focused on documentaries under Albers’ management. But Wenske and Blocksdorf, along with project manager Carli Hameder, intend to...
Wenske succeeds former managing director Helge Albers, who left Achtung Panda! to become the new CEO of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
Wenske partnered with Sol Bondy and Christoph Lange to launch One Two Films in 2010. The Berlin company has co-produced domestic and international productions, including Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale,” Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop” and Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons.”
Variety selected Wenske and Bondy for its 10 Producers to Watch list last year.
Producer Melanie Blocksdorf, who previously worked at Berlin-based Propellerfilm, is joining Wenske at Achtung Panda!
Established as a joint venture in 2015 between Danny Krausz’s Vienna-based Dor Film and Oliver Damian’s 27 Films in Berlin, Achtung Panda! had largely focused on documentaries under Albers’ management. But Wenske and Blocksdorf, along with project manager Carli Hameder, intend to...
- 8/22/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Bondy will continue to run the company.
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy, founders and managing partners of German production outfit One Two Films, have decided to part ways.
Bondy will continue to run the company with investor and partner Christoph Lange. Fred Burle, One Two Films’ project manager since 2017, has started working on his own projects as a producer, reporting to Bondy.
Wenske will take her projects with her to Achtung Panda!, the Berlin-based production outfit she is joining as managing director. More details about her role at Achtung Panda! will be revealed soon.
One Two Films has made a...
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy, founders and managing partners of German production outfit One Two Films, have decided to part ways.
Bondy will continue to run the company with investor and partner Christoph Lange. Fred Burle, One Two Films’ project manager since 2017, has started working on his own projects as a producer, reporting to Bondy.
Wenske will take her projects with her to Achtung Panda!, the Berlin-based production outfit she is joining as managing director. More details about her role at Achtung Panda! will be revealed soon.
One Two Films has made a...
- 8/21/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Bondy will continue to run the company.
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy, founders and managing partners of German production outfit One Two Films, have decided to part ways.
Bondy will continue to run the company with investor and partner Christoph Lange. Fred Burle, One Two Films’ project manager since 2017, has started working on his own projects as a producer, reporting to Bondy.
Wenske will take her projects with her to Achtung Panda!, the Berlin-based production outfit she is joining as managing director. More details about her role at Achtung Panda! will be revealed soon.
One Two Films has made a...
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy, founders and managing partners of German production outfit One Two Films, have decided to part ways.
Bondy will continue to run the company with investor and partner Christoph Lange. Fred Burle, One Two Films’ project manager since 2017, has started working on his own projects as a producer, reporting to Bondy.
Wenske will take her projects with her to Achtung Panda!, the Berlin-based production outfit she is joining as managing director. More details about her role at Achtung Panda! will be revealed soon.
One Two Films has made a...
- 8/21/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based sales outlet New Europe Film Sales has picked up world sales rights for the upcoming drama “Fools,” by Berlinale Silver Bear winner Tomasz Wasilewski (“United States of Love”), produced by Ewa Puszczynska, the producer behind Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winner “Ida” and nominee “Cold War.”
Leading Polish actors Dorota Kolak and Lukasz Simlat star in a film about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.
Puszczynska is producing for her company Extreme Emotions, in co-production with Ada Solomon at Romania’s Hi-Film and Jamila Wenske of Germany’s One Two Films, and in association with Nem Corp. Romanian DoP Oleg Mutu returns after his previous collaboration with Wasilewski on “United States of Love,” which New Europe sold to over 30 territories.
New Europe’s Cannes line-up includes the Critics’ Week selection “A White, White Day,” by Hlynur Palmason, which sold...
Leading Polish actors Dorota Kolak and Lukasz Simlat star in a film about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.
Puszczynska is producing for her company Extreme Emotions, in co-production with Ada Solomon at Romania’s Hi-Film and Jamila Wenske of Germany’s One Two Films, and in association with Nem Corp. Romanian DoP Oleg Mutu returns after his previous collaboration with Wasilewski on “United States of Love,” which New Europe sold to over 30 territories.
New Europe’s Cannes line-up includes the Critics’ Week selection “A White, White Day,” by Hlynur Palmason, which sold...
- 5/14/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Trans-Siberian Railway-set tale is Kuosmanen’s follow-up to The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki.
New Paris-based sales company Totem Films is kicking off its slate with the acquisition of the international rights to Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s upcoming Trans-Siberian Railway-set drama Compartment No 6.
It is Kuosmanen’s second feature following The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki which won the main prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2016.
Totem Films was launched last October by leading sales agents Agathe Valentin and Bérénice Vincent and cinema finance expert Laure Parleani.
Set against the backdrop of 1980s Soviet Union,...
New Paris-based sales company Totem Films is kicking off its slate with the acquisition of the international rights to Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s upcoming Trans-Siberian Railway-set drama Compartment No 6.
It is Kuosmanen’s second feature following The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki which won the main prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2016.
Totem Films was launched last October by leading sales agents Agathe Valentin and Bérénice Vincent and cinema finance expert Laure Parleani.
Set against the backdrop of 1980s Soviet Union,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy’s Berlin-based One Two Films, co-producer of this year’s Efm buzz title “Persian Lessons,” has scored another early winner with comedy-drama “Franky Five Star.”
The project, from writer-director Birgit Möller, won the Junior Entertainment Talent Slate (Jets) pitching competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, securing it industry support from a broad range of international participants.
“Franky Five Star” stars Jella Haase, who shot to fame in the “Fack ju Göhte” franchise, as a young woman dealing with her often meddling multiple personalities as she navigates a blossoming romance.
The Jets initiative, organized by William Peschek’s German-u.K. group Wep Films, unites up-and-coming filmmakers and their feature film projects with producers, sales agents, financing companies and distributors from Germany, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Finland, Norway and the U.S.
This year the 13-member Jets jury, which included Sophie Green of Bankside Films; Antonio Exacoustos of Arri Media Intl.
The project, from writer-director Birgit Möller, won the Junior Entertainment Talent Slate (Jets) pitching competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday, securing it industry support from a broad range of international participants.
“Franky Five Star” stars Jella Haase, who shot to fame in the “Fack ju Göhte” franchise, as a young woman dealing with her often meddling multiple personalities as she navigates a blossoming romance.
The Jets initiative, organized by William Peschek’s German-u.K. group Wep Films, unites up-and-coming filmmakers and their feature film projects with producers, sales agents, financing companies and distributors from Germany, Canada, Ireland, Britain, Finland, Norway and the U.S.
This year the 13-member Jets jury, which included Sophie Green of Bankside Films; Antonio Exacoustos of Arri Media Intl.
- 2/14/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Memento Films Intl. has scored a flurry of pre-sales to major territories on “Persian Lessons,” the drama directed by Vadim Perelman.
After unveiling a promo reel of the film at the European Film Market, “Persian Lessons” has sold to Spain (Avalon), Latin America (Sun), Japan (Kino Films), Italy (Academy Two), Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Greece (Spentzos), former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), South Africa (Forefront) and Israel (Lev Films).
Set in Occupied France in 1942, “Persian Lessons” toplines Nahuel Perez Biscayart as Gilles, a man who is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. He is then enlisted to teach Farsi to the head of the camp, played by German star Lars Eidinger, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. The particular relationship...
After unveiling a promo reel of the film at the European Film Market, “Persian Lessons” has sold to Spain (Avalon), Latin America (Sun), Japan (Kino Films), Italy (Academy Two), Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Greece (Spentzos), former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), South Africa (Forefront) and Israel (Lev Films).
Set in Occupied France in 1942, “Persian Lessons” toplines Nahuel Perez Biscayart as Gilles, a man who is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. He is then enlisted to teach Farsi to the head of the camp, played by German star Lars Eidinger, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. The particular relationship...
- 2/12/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Memento Films Intl. (“Call Me By Your Name”) has come on board “Persian Lessons,” a drama directed by “House of Sand and Fog” helmer Vadim Perelman.
Set in Occupied France in 1942, “Persian Lessons” toplines Nahuel Perez Biscayart as Gilles, a man who is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. He is then enlisted to teach Farsi to the head of the camp played by German star Lars Eidinger, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. The particular relationship between the two men sparks the jealousy of other prisoners and SS guards, threatening Gilles, who understands that he will not be able to keep his secret very long.
Memento will launch “Persian Lessons” sales at the European Film Market this week.
Set in Occupied France in 1942, “Persian Lessons” toplines Nahuel Perez Biscayart as Gilles, a man who is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. He is then enlisted to teach Farsi to the head of the camp played by German star Lars Eidinger, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. The particular relationship between the two men sparks the jealousy of other prisoners and SS guards, threatening Gilles, who understands that he will not be able to keep his secret very long.
Memento will launch “Persian Lessons” sales at the European Film Market this week.
- 2/7/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The County
Four years after his hit sophomore film Rams (2015), Iceland’s Grimur Hakonarson should at last be ready with his third feature, The County. His latest is an Icelandic-Danish-French-German co-production, comprised of Hakonarson’s returning producer Grimar Jonsson (also of 2017’s Under the Tree) plus co-producers Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy. Starring Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Hakonarson also reunites with his Rams actors Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, who are also joined by Hinrik Ólafsson, Hannes Óli Ágústsson, Ragnhildur Gísladóttir and Denmark’s Jens Albinus.…...
Four years after his hit sophomore film Rams (2015), Iceland’s Grimur Hakonarson should at last be ready with his third feature, The County. His latest is an Icelandic-Danish-French-German co-production, comprised of Hakonarson’s returning producer Grimar Jonsson (also of 2017’s Under the Tree) plus co-producers Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy. Starring Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Hakonarson also reunites with his Rams actors Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, who are also joined by Hinrik Ólafsson, Hannes Óli Ágústsson, Ragnhildur Gísladóttir and Denmark’s Jens Albinus.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Other winners include Guillaume Senez and Jafar Panahi.
Belgium’s Guillaume Senez, Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson and Iran’s Jafar Panahi were among the award-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which ended yesterday (6 October).
The Art Cinema Award went to Benedikt Erlingsson’s political comedy Woman At War which opened the Filmfest on 26 September and will be released in German cinemas by Pandora Filmverleih.
Senez’s second feature Our Battles (his debut was Keeper) won the Critics’ Choice Award which was presented for the first time in collaboration with the Association of German Film Critics (Vdfk).
The family drama...
Belgium’s Guillaume Senez, Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson and Iran’s Jafar Panahi were among the award-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which ended yesterday (6 October).
The Art Cinema Award went to Benedikt Erlingsson’s political comedy Woman At War which opened the Filmfest on 26 September and will be released in German cinemas by Pandora Filmverleih.
Senez’s second feature Our Battles (his debut was Keeper) won the Critics’ Choice Award which was presented for the first time in collaboration with the Association of German Film Critics (Vdfk).
The family drama...
- 10/8/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
As Mariette Rissenbeek prepares to step down as managing director of German Films to co-head the Berlin Film Festival with outgoing Locarno fest chief Carlo Chatrian in 2020, Germany’s film industry is hoping her successor at the film promotion organization will share the same skill, dedication and passion for which the outgoing head is widely praised.
German Films focuses on promoting the sales and distribution of German productions around the world, from organizing Teuton film festivals in New York, Moscow, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Beijing, to planning local and international screening events, such as the German Previews, which screens the country’s latest theatrical features for international distributors and buyers.
It also provides advertising funds for films, P&A financing to foreign distributors and marketing support for German films screening in international festivals.
The change in leadership at the organization nevertheless comes at a challenging time for German films,...
German Films focuses on promoting the sales and distribution of German productions around the world, from organizing Teuton film festivals in New York, Moscow, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Beijing, to planning local and international screening events, such as the German Previews, which screens the country’s latest theatrical features for international distributors and buyers.
It also provides advertising funds for films, P&A financing to foreign distributors and marketing support for German films screening in international festivals.
The change in leadership at the organization nevertheless comes at a challenging time for German films,...
- 9/17/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for Sven Taddicken’s “The Most Beautiful Couple,” which has its world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival.
In the film Liv and Malte are forced to revisit their past when Malte spots the man who sexually assaulted Liv two years ago. While Liv yearns for acceptance and healing, Malte is trying to fight the urge for revenge. But will their love survive?
Taddicken says: “The premise of ‘The Most Beautiful Couple’ felt like a worst-case scenario for any loving couple. It was like a nightmare that kept haunting my thoughts. So I finally sat down and started to think it through, while wondering if there is a cure for that couple. I guess it’s that same energy that kept me writing that also keeps the audience tied to the film.”
Taddicken’s first feature,...
In the film Liv and Malte are forced to revisit their past when Malte spots the man who sexually assaulted Liv two years ago. While Liv yearns for acceptance and healing, Malte is trying to fight the urge for revenge. But will their love survive?
Taddicken says: “The premise of ‘The Most Beautiful Couple’ felt like a worst-case scenario for any loving couple. It was like a nightmare that kept haunting my thoughts. So I finally sat down and started to think it through, while wondering if there is a cure for that couple. I guess it’s that same energy that kept me writing that also keeps the audience tied to the film.”
Taddicken’s first feature,...
- 8/27/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The German festival runs from June 28 to July 7.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
The Munich Film Festival opens on Thursday (June 28) with the world premiere of Joachim A. Lang’s Mackie Messer – Brechts Dreigroschenfilm, starring Lars Eidinger as Bertold Brecht.
The film is inspired by Brecht’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera and Kurt Weill’s song Mack The Knife, which was written for the play.
The German premiere of Andrew Niccol’s Anon, starring Clive Owen as a detective who finds a young woman with no identity, played by Amanda Seyfried, will close the festival on July 7. The sci-fi thriller is produced by Germany’s K5 Film.
- 6/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films, welcomed members of the international film industry to the German Films Cocktail at Cannes’ Villa Rothschild on Saturday.
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
- 5/14/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Variety honored its 10 Producers to Watch for 2018 at a breakfast on Monday morning on Cannes’ Nespresso Beach.
First launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, the event celebrates an eclectic mix of producers from the U.S. and the international film community, who are united in their commitment to bold and original storytelling.
The films produced by this year’s honorees have played festivals including Berlin, Sundance and Venice, with a number screening at Cannes. “As well as they’re doing, as exciting as they are right now, there’s even greater things ahead,” said Variety’s VP and executive editor Steven Gaydos.
Victor Loewy was also honored with a lifetime achievement award for his long and distinguished career. “You can’t tell the story of Cannes, you can’t tell the story of international cinema, you can’t tell the story of Canadian business in cinema, without knowing who...
First launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, the event celebrates an eclectic mix of producers from the U.S. and the international film community, who are united in their commitment to bold and original storytelling.
The films produced by this year’s honorees have played festivals including Berlin, Sundance and Venice, with a number screening at Cannes. “As well as they’re doing, as exciting as they are right now, there’s even greater things ahead,” said Variety’s VP and executive editor Steven Gaydos.
Victor Loewy was also honored with a lifetime achievement award for his long and distinguished career. “You can’t tell the story of Cannes, you can’t tell the story of international cinema, you can’t tell the story of Canadian business in cinema, without knowing who...
- 5/14/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based One Two Films, co-producer of such recent high-profile works as Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale” and Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop,” is set to follow its winning run with a slew of upcoming German and international productions.
One Two Films’ Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy are partnering with Canadian writer-producer Mike MacMillan on two English-language films currently in development. “I Will Not Go Quietly” centers on a distant but desperate father who travels from Toronto to Switzerland to reach his ill daughter; the film is penned by MacMillan and Darragh McDonald. “Nightlife” is a comedy set in Berlin.
In addition, the company is co-producing Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson’s recently wrapped “The County.” The film, which follows his 2015 Cannes Un Certain Regard award winner “Rams,” is a co-production by Iceland, Denmark, Germany, and France.
Wenske and Bondy — selected by Variety for its 2018 10 Producers to Watch list — are re-teaming with...
One Two Films’ Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy are partnering with Canadian writer-producer Mike MacMillan on two English-language films currently in development. “I Will Not Go Quietly” centers on a distant but desperate father who travels from Toronto to Switzerland to reach his ill daughter; the film is penned by MacMillan and Darragh McDonald. “Nightlife” is a comedy set in Berlin.
In addition, the company is co-producing Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson’s recently wrapped “The County.” The film, which follows his 2015 Cannes Un Certain Regard award winner “Rams,” is a co-production by Iceland, Denmark, Germany, and France.
Wenske and Bondy — selected by Variety for its 2018 10 Producers to Watch list — are re-teaming with...
- 5/8/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has selected its 10 Producers to Watch for 2018, a diverse mix of producers from the U.S. and the thriving international film scene. Variety Producers to Watch, which was originally launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, returned to the Croisette last year and will once again be presented there this year.
Regardless of their home base, these producers all share a fierce commitment to storytelling. Their films have played festivals including Berlin, Sundance and Venice, and a number are screening at Cannes.
Producer Dina Emam’s her first narrative feature, “Yomeddine,” was selected for competition. It will vie alongside Russian-made “Leto,” a music filled biopic that Murad Osmann and Ilya Stewart produced for director Kirill Serebrennikov, now under house arrest in that country.
Variety has also selected the forces behind “I, Tonya,” an Oscar winner for Allison Janney (Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara), and Rachel Song, who brought two...
Regardless of their home base, these producers all share a fierce commitment to storytelling. Their films have played festivals including Berlin, Sundance and Venice, and a number are screening at Cannes.
Producer Dina Emam’s her first narrative feature, “Yomeddine,” was selected for competition. It will vie alongside Russian-made “Leto,” a music filled biopic that Murad Osmann and Ilya Stewart produced for director Kirill Serebrennikov, now under house arrest in that country.
Variety has also selected the forces behind “I, Tonya,” an Oscar winner for Allison Janney (Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara), and Rachel Song, who brought two...
- 4/24/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
German co-producer joins anticipated new project from Grimur Hakonarson, which will start shooting in late February.
Source: Cannes Film Festival
‘Rams’
Sol Bondy and Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based One Two Films, has joined as a co-producer on Grimur Hakonarson’s The County, the Icelandic director’s anticipated follow-up to 2015 hit Rams.
One Two joins alongside German broadcaster Sr/Arte.
Grimar Jonsson of Iceland’s Netop Films is the lead producer, with partners Profile Pictures of Denmark, Haut et Court of France and now One Two of Germany. Backers include the Icelandic Film Centre, Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film + TV Fond and Sr/Arte.
As with Rams, Jan Naszewski’s New Europe will handle sales. Distributors already on board are Sena in Iceland, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Haut et Court in France.
The County will start shooting in late February in the countryside of northern Iceland, for delivery in early 2019.
The story is a drama set in rural Iceland...
Source: Cannes Film Festival
‘Rams’
Sol Bondy and Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based One Two Films, has joined as a co-producer on Grimur Hakonarson’s The County, the Icelandic director’s anticipated follow-up to 2015 hit Rams.
One Two joins alongside German broadcaster Sr/Arte.
Grimar Jonsson of Iceland’s Netop Films is the lead producer, with partners Profile Pictures of Denmark, Haut et Court of France and now One Two of Germany. Backers include the Icelandic Film Centre, Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film + TV Fond and Sr/Arte.
As with Rams, Jan Naszewski’s New Europe will handle sales. Distributors already on board are Sena in Iceland, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Haut et Court in France.
The County will start shooting in late February in the countryside of northern Iceland, for delivery in early 2019.
The story is a drama set in rural Iceland...
- 1/17/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: One Two Films duo have joined the Icelandic-Polish-Danish co-pro from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson.
Sol Bondy and Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based One Two Films, recently a co-producer on Finnish hit The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Maki [pictured], has joined Icelandic-Polish-Danish co-production Under The Tree.
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson (Paris Of The North, Either Way) directs the film, which is produced by Iceland’s Netop Films, Poland’s Madants and Denmark’s Profile. One Two Films joins the project alongside Zdf/Arte, under commissioning editor Holger Stern.
Backing also comes from the Nordisk TV & Film Fond, The Icelandic Film Centre, Danish Film Institute and Polish Film Institute.
“We are happy to have found strong partners in Germany,“ said producer Grimar Jonsson, whose credits include Rams. “One Two Films have been part of some very interesting European co-productions and Zdf/Arte is a great stamp of approval for our project.“
“We are happy...
Sol Bondy and Jamila Wenske’s Berlin-based One Two Films, recently a co-producer on Finnish hit The Happiest Day In The Life of Olli Maki [pictured], has joined Icelandic-Polish-Danish co-production Under The Tree.
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson (Paris Of The North, Either Way) directs the film, which is produced by Iceland’s Netop Films, Poland’s Madants and Denmark’s Profile. One Two Films joins the project alongside Zdf/Arte, under commissioning editor Holger Stern.
Backing also comes from the Nordisk TV & Film Fond, The Icelandic Film Centre, Danish Film Institute and Polish Film Institute.
“We are happy to have found strong partners in Germany,“ said producer Grimar Jonsson, whose credits include Rams. “One Two Films have been part of some very interesting European co-productions and Zdf/Arte is a great stamp of approval for our project.“
“We are happy...
- 9/12/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoval [pictured] was mentored by Iñárritu on the set of The Revenant.
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Iñárritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Iñárritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
- 7/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoval [pictured] was mentored by Inarritu on the set of The Revenant.
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Inarritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Inarritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
- 7/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Collection of shorts due to screen as omnibus film at German and Israeli festivals in 2017.
Berlin production house One Two Films (Angry Indian Goddesses) and Ramat Gan-based GREENproductions (Youth) have been recruited as partners for the inaugural German-Israeli documentary programme Out Of Place, initiated by the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund (Gmff).
The incubator programme – which has also received support from social campaigners Anu-Making Change and the European Union’s Interreg Ivb North West Europe Programme – is looking to select 20 young filmmakers from Israel and Germany to develop and produce ten short documentary films depicting stories and situations where people or communities feel excluded, invisible or marginalized.
Each project will receive a production grant of €10,000 and be supported by such industry professionals as Gmff’s CEO and artistic director Ziv Naveh, German documentary filmmakers Bettina Blümner and Uli Gauke and Israeli producer Liran Atzmor as mentors.
The resulting collection of films will be premiered as an omnibus...
Berlin production house One Two Films (Angry Indian Goddesses) and Ramat Gan-based GREENproductions (Youth) have been recruited as partners for the inaugural German-Israeli documentary programme Out Of Place, initiated by the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund (Gmff).
The incubator programme – which has also received support from social campaigners Anu-Making Change and the European Union’s Interreg Ivb North West Europe Programme – is looking to select 20 young filmmakers from Israel and Germany to develop and produce ten short documentary films depicting stories and situations where people or communities feel excluded, invisible or marginalized.
Each project will receive a production grant of €10,000 and be supported by such industry professionals as Gmff’s CEO and artistic director Ziv Naveh, German documentary filmmakers Bettina Blümner and Uli Gauke and Israeli producer Liran Atzmor as mentors.
The resulting collection of films will be premiered as an omnibus...
- 12/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Eight projects in production or post-production will compete at this year’s festival.
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has unveiled the eight projects that will be featured in its Works in Progress programme this year.
The titles selected represent a variety of countries deliberately chosen for being outside of the mainstream, including a project from Krygystan and co-productions from Latvia-Japan-Estonia and Egypt-France.
The Latvia-Japan-Estonia co-production Magic Kimono comes from director Maris Martinsons, whose 2008 film Loss was submitted by Lithuania to the Academy Award’s foreign language pool.
Freedom, the Germany-Slovakia co-pro, is produced by Sol Bondy, who was named by Screen as a future leader at Cannes 2013, and Jamila Wenske; the pair were both co-producers on Pan Nalin’s comedy drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film is directed by Jan Speckenbach, whose Reported Missing was nominated for a European Film Award in 2012.
Mohamed Hefzy, also a Screen future leader in 2013, produces Sherif Elbendary’s Ali...
The 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 13-29) has unveiled the eight projects that will be featured in its Works in Progress programme this year.
The titles selected represent a variety of countries deliberately chosen for being outside of the mainstream, including a project from Krygystan and co-productions from Latvia-Japan-Estonia and Egypt-France.
The Latvia-Japan-Estonia co-production Magic Kimono comes from director Maris Martinsons, whose 2008 film Loss was submitted by Lithuania to the Academy Award’s foreign language pool.
Freedom, the Germany-Slovakia co-pro, is produced by Sol Bondy, who was named by Screen as a future leader at Cannes 2013, and Jamila Wenske; the pair were both co-producers on Pan Nalin’s comedy drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film is directed by Jan Speckenbach, whose Reported Missing was nominated for a European Film Award in 2012.
Mohamed Hefzy, also a Screen future leader in 2013, produces Sherif Elbendary’s Ali...
- 11/3/2015
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based One Two Films is making its first foray into Stateside production as the co-producer on Jennifer Fox’s fiction feature debut The Tale, which begins shooting at locations in Louisiana today (Oct 20).
The $3.5m investigative thriller is being produced by Blackbird Films and A Luminous Mind Productions, with Lawrence Inglee and Laura Rister as producers and Oren Moverman serving as executive producer.
The autobiographical story has a cast headed up by Laura Dern, with Ellen Burstyn, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki and Jason Ritter.
One Two Films’ Sol Bondy - who was a Screen Future Leader at Cannes 2013 - told ScreenDaily he had been introduced to The Tale as a project when he and Fox took part in the 2013/14 edition of the Transatlantic Film Partners programme.
He subsequently brought public broadcaster Zdf and Arte to the project which is being handled internationally by Mongrel International and is set to wrap principal photography in December.
From Helsinki...
The $3.5m investigative thriller is being produced by Blackbird Films and A Luminous Mind Productions, with Lawrence Inglee and Laura Rister as producers and Oren Moverman serving as executive producer.
The autobiographical story has a cast headed up by Laura Dern, with Ellen Burstyn, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki and Jason Ritter.
One Two Films’ Sol Bondy - who was a Screen Future Leader at Cannes 2013 - told ScreenDaily he had been introduced to The Tale as a project when he and Fox took part in the 2013/14 edition of the Transatlantic Film Partners programme.
He subsequently brought public broadcaster Zdf and Arte to the project which is being handled internationally by Mongrel International and is set to wrap principal photography in December.
From Helsinki...
- 10/20/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Heading into Toronto, Jungle Book Entertainment and One Two Films have brought on Charlotte Mickie and her team to kick off world sales on what they have described as India’s first female buddy movie.
Pan Nalin directed the Tiff Special Presentations world premiere about a fashion photographer who summons her unsuspecting friends to Goa for a riotous bachelorette party before matters take a more serious turn.
Angry Indian Goddesses stars Sarah Jane Dias, Rajshri Deshpande, Sandhya Mridul, Amrit Maghera, Pavleen Gujral, Anushka Manchanda and Tannishtha Chatterjee.
“We’re very excited to be working with Mongrel International,” said producer Gaurav Dhingra, who runs Jungle Book Entertainment with Pan Nalin.
“Mongrel has a wonderful historic track record with world cinema and movies with women in lead roles.”
“One Two Films is already a team with Mongrel International on The Tale, Jennifer Fox’s first feature. It’s great to continue with these guys,” said co-producer...
Pan Nalin directed the Tiff Special Presentations world premiere about a fashion photographer who summons her unsuspecting friends to Goa for a riotous bachelorette party before matters take a more serious turn.
Angry Indian Goddesses stars Sarah Jane Dias, Rajshri Deshpande, Sandhya Mridul, Amrit Maghera, Pavleen Gujral, Anushka Manchanda and Tannishtha Chatterjee.
“We’re very excited to be working with Mongrel International,” said producer Gaurav Dhingra, who runs Jungle Book Entertainment with Pan Nalin.
“Mongrel has a wonderful historic track record with world cinema and movies with women in lead roles.”
“One Two Films is already a team with Mongrel International on The Tale, Jennifer Fox’s first feature. It’s great to continue with these guys,” said co-producer...
- 8/26/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
TrustNordisk has sold the North American rights for Anders Morgenthaler’s drama I Am Here to La-based distributor Brainstorm Media.
The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk and Meyer Shwarzstein, president at Brainstorm Media.
Morgenthaler’s drama premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest in September and stars Kim Basinger as a successful business executive who sets out on a desperate and perilous quest to realize her dream of motherhood.
The film also stars Peter Stormare, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper.
Producers are Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32. Co-producers are Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films, with executive producers Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa, Peter Nadermann for Network Movie/Zdf „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“ in collaboration with Arte, and Jessica Ask for Film i Väst, with support from Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Dfff and in...
The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk and Meyer Shwarzstein, president at Brainstorm Media.
Morgenthaler’s drama premiered at Austin’s Fantastic Fest in September and stars Kim Basinger as a successful business executive who sets out on a desperate and perilous quest to realize her dream of motherhood.
The film also stars Peter Stormare, Jordan Prentice and Sebastian Schipper.
Producers are Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32. Co-producers are Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films, with executive producers Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa, Peter Nadermann for Network Movie/Zdf „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“ in collaboration with Arte, and Jessica Ask for Film i Väst, with support from Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Dfff and in...
- 11/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Basinger (pictured) stars.
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
For production details visit
Petit
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release...
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
For production details visit
Petit
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release...
- 6/18/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Basinger (pictured) stars.
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release.
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Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release.
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- 6/18/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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