Exclusive: New York-based Distrib Films has acquired U.S. rights for French-language road movie Amore Mio and dramatic comedy Spare Keys for theatrical release in the coming months.
Spare Keys (Fifi) is the directorial debut of filmmaking duo Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan.
The coming-of-age comedy drama follows a teenager who gets the keys to a wealthy friend’s empty house to escape her chaotic family over the summer, only to discover her friend’s older brother was planning to stay there on his own too.
Céleste Brunnquell (Origin of Evil, In Treatment) and Quentin Dolmaire (My Golden Days, Synonyms) co-star.
The movie made its mark at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2022 where it won best film in the New Directors Competition. It drew 50,000 spectators in France for indie distributor New Story last summer.
Amore Mio, which is billed as a French modern take on Thelma & Louise, is...
Spare Keys (Fifi) is the directorial debut of filmmaking duo Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan.
The coming-of-age comedy drama follows a teenager who gets the keys to a wealthy friend’s empty house to escape her chaotic family over the summer, only to discover her friend’s older brother was planning to stay there on his own too.
Céleste Brunnquell (Origin of Evil, In Treatment) and Quentin Dolmaire (My Golden Days, Synonyms) co-star.
The movie made its mark at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2022 where it won best film in the New Directors Competition. It drew 50,000 spectators in France for indie distributor New Story last summer.
Amore Mio, which is billed as a French modern take on Thelma & Louise, is...
- 1/11/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Running Jan. 19-Feb. 19, this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online showcase organized by France’s film-tv promotional body UniFrance, will mark its 14th edition with an accent on young talent, both in front of and behind the camera, and an emphasis on female empowerment.
With a mix of heritage docs like Agnès Varda’s “Jane B. for Agnès V.,” and a nine-film competition that spotlights auteurist animation like Alain Ughetto’s “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” alongside outré dramatic fare, the 11 features and 15 shorts that make up this year’s selection will be available on 80 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
All films will be subtitled in 11 languages, including Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian, while the feature section will also be available for free in many Latin American, African and Middle Eastern territories.
“No...
With a mix of heritage docs like Agnès Varda’s “Jane B. for Agnès V.,” and a nine-film competition that spotlights auteurist animation like Alain Ughetto’s “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” alongside outré dramatic fare, the 11 features and 15 shorts that make up this year’s selection will be available on 80 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
All films will be subtitled in 11 languages, including Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian, while the feature section will also be available for free in many Latin American, African and Middle Eastern territories.
“No...
- 1/9/2024
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Urban Sales has boarded a pair of 3D animated features, “Fox & Hare Save the Forest” and “Into the Wonderwoods” in time for the American Film Market.
Vincent Paronnaud, who directed the prize-winning “Persepolis,” helms “Into the Wonderwoods” alongside Alexis Ducord (“Zombilennium”). Pic is produced by animation banners Je Suis Bien Content (“Persepolis”) and Gaoshan Pictures.
Budgeted at 10 million, “Into the Wonderwoods” is based on a comic book that Paronnaud created under the pseudonym Winshluss.
The family film (pictured) follows 10-year-old Angelo, who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he hits the road with his family to visit his beloved granny, his distracted parents leave him behind at a rest stop. Left to his own devices, Angelo decides to cut through the forest in search of his family. He enters a dark and mysterious world inhabited by strange creatures, some friendlier than others.
Set to premiere in 2024, “Into...
Vincent Paronnaud, who directed the prize-winning “Persepolis,” helms “Into the Wonderwoods” alongside Alexis Ducord (“Zombilennium”). Pic is produced by animation banners Je Suis Bien Content (“Persepolis”) and Gaoshan Pictures.
Budgeted at 10 million, “Into the Wonderwoods” is based on a comic book that Paronnaud created under the pseudonym Winshluss.
The family film (pictured) follows 10-year-old Angelo, who dreams of becoming an explorer and a zoologist. When he hits the road with his family to visit his beloved granny, his distracted parents leave him behind at a rest stop. Left to his own devices, Angelo decides to cut through the forest in search of his family. He enters a dark and mysterious world inhabited by strange creatures, some friendlier than others.
Set to premiere in 2024, “Into...
- 11/2/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners include Genki Kawamura’s ‘A Hundred Flowers’ and China’s ‘A Woman’.
Colombian director Laura Mora’s second film The Kings Of The World has won the Golden Shell award for best film at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Scroll down for full list of winners
A Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, the film follows five street kids from Medellin who venture into the countryside in search of the land that one of them inherited. Film Factory Entertainment handles international sales. Mora’s debut was 2017 Toronto and San Sebastian selection Killing Jesus.
Colombian director Laura Mora’s second film The Kings Of The World has won the Golden Shell award for best film at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Ssiff).
Scroll down for full list of winners
A Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, the film follows five street kids from Medellin who venture into the countryside in search of the land that one of them inherited. Film Factory Entertainment handles international sales. Mora’s debut was 2017 Toronto and San Sebastian selection Killing Jesus.
- 9/24/2022
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Colombian director Laura Mora’s coming-of-age drama “Kings of the World” has taken the Golden Shell for Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival, marking the third consecutive year that a female filmmaker has taken the top prize at the Spanish fest.
The film, Mora’s second feature, is a raw, unusual coming-of-age drama, supplanting the sentimentality that tends to dominate that genre with delirious, even surreal energy in its story of five Medellin street kids who venture from the city into the jungle, in pursuit of ancestral land. Premiering in the latter days of the fest, it proved popular with critics, but nonetheless represents an underdog victor in a competition that included such established names as Sebastian Lelio, Hong Sangsoo and Christophe Honoré.
Instead, youth dominated the slate of winners, with freshman American filmmaker Marian Mathias taking the runner-up Special Jury Prize for her debut feature “Runner,” while...
The film, Mora’s second feature, is a raw, unusual coming-of-age drama, supplanting the sentimentality that tends to dominate that genre with delirious, even surreal energy in its story of five Medellin street kids who venture from the city into the jungle, in pursuit of ancestral land. Premiering in the latter days of the fest, it proved popular with critics, but nonetheless represents an underdog victor in a competition that included such established names as Sebastian Lelio, Hong Sangsoo and Christophe Honoré.
Instead, youth dominated the slate of winners, with freshman American filmmaker Marian Mathias taking the runner-up Special Jury Prize for her debut feature “Runner,” while...
- 9/24/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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