Exclusive: Outplay Films has sold Rotterdam winner Something Must Break to Germany and closed a brace of other film sales elsewhere in Europe.
Something Must Break, winner of this year’s Rotterdam Hivos Tiger Award, has been sold by Outplay Films to Germany’s Salzgeber & Co. Medien.
Transgender filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark’s first foray into fiction was described by the Tiger Award jury as “a free-floating personal voyage… with a sincere and playful use of cinematographic language.”
The Swedish film is a love story set on the fringes of Stockholm, between androgynous Sebastian (who likes to dress as ‘superwoman’ Ellie) and Andreas, who is straight.
Other deals
Rise & Shine World Sales closed an all-rights deal for ex-Yugoslavia for the Riahi Brothers’ documentary Everyday Rebellion, which was awarded the Cinema For Peace Best Documentary Prize during the Berlinale.
Distributors from Italy and ex-Yugoslavia have picked up Noel Dernesch and Moritz Springer’s Zurich award-winner Journey To Jah, which...
Something Must Break, winner of this year’s Rotterdam Hivos Tiger Award, has been sold by Outplay Films to Germany’s Salzgeber & Co. Medien.
Transgender filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark’s first foray into fiction was described by the Tiger Award jury as “a free-floating personal voyage… with a sincere and playful use of cinematographic language.”
The Swedish film is a love story set on the fringes of Stockholm, between androgynous Sebastian (who likes to dress as ‘superwoman’ Ellie) and Andreas, who is straight.
Other deals
Rise & Shine World Sales closed an all-rights deal for ex-Yugoslavia for the Riahi Brothers’ documentary Everyday Rebellion, which was awarded the Cinema For Peace Best Documentary Prize during the Berlinale.
Distributors from Italy and ex-Yugoslavia have picked up Noel Dernesch and Moritz Springer’s Zurich award-winner Journey To Jah, which...
- 2/13/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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