Berlin Generation Buzz Title The Fam Secured by Latido Films (EXCLUSIVE)
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“The Fam” (“La Mif”), Swiss filmmaker Fred Baillif’s bruising, raw portrait of the residents and staff of a Geneva teen girl care home, has been secured for international sales by Latido Films in the run-up to its world premiere at this years’ Berlinale Generation 14Plus.
The Madrid-based sales company has also shared with
Variety in exclusivity a first two-minute trailer. The pickup is believed to have been made in a competitive bidding situation with other sales agents circling a title which questions the weaknesses of what Baillif describes as a retrograde juvenile system.
Radu Jude s Berlin Competition Title Bad Luck Banging Snapped Up by Heretic Outreach (EXCLUSIVE)
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Jude’s latest film is the story of a schoolteacher, Emi (Katia Pascariu), whose life is turned upside down after a sex video shot with her husband is leaked on the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to give in, instead confronting the hypocrisy and prejudice behind Romanian society’s attitudes toward sex.
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“Bad Luck Banging” is produced by Ada Solomon of Romania’s microFILM, in co-production with Paul Thiltges Distributions (Luxembourg), endorfilm (Czech Republic) and Kinorama (Croatia). Photography is by veteran cinematographer and long-time Jude collaborator Marius Panduru (“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” “Aferim!”).
Wim Wenders, David Byrne-Directed Series This Is Music Taps Road Movies as German Partner (EXCLUSIVE)
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Wim Wenders’ Berlin-based Road Movies has boarded “This Is Music,” a series whose episode directors – New German Cinema leading light Wenders, singer-songwriter David Byrne, “Skam” creator Julie Andem and “Louder Than Bombs” director Joachim Trier – make the title the highest profile project at this year’s Berlinale Co-Pro Series.
Norwegian public broadcaster NRK is backing the development of the series, which has also received support from the Norwegian Film Institute and the E.U.’s Creative Europe program.
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