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BROTHERS

Directed by: Tomas Masin
Genres: Cold War Thriller
Cast: Oskar Hes, Jan Nebdal, Stefan Konarske
Written by: Marek Epstein
Produced by: Petr Bilek, Benny Drechsel, Zuzana Mistrikova
Production Companies: Film Brigade, Rohfilm Productions, PubRes
Delivery: Q3-2023
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Language: Czech
Format: DCP

Synopsis:
Based on a true story. 

The Year is 1953 and the Masin family is persecuted for its bourgeoisie ancestry under communist ruled Czechoslovakia. Stripped of their assets, brothers Radek and Josef believe, like their father, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, that the only way to fight oppression is with guns in their hands. 

The brothers, with their three friends, form an underground boy army that is responsible for a series of violent acts leading to an investigation by State Security Captain Koller, which results in the Masin Brothers becoming the most wanted men in the country. They attempt to emigrate to West Berlin to join the US Army and help liberate Czechoslovakia from the communists, but Captain Koller has not given up and mobilises a military operation, the size of which has not been seen since World War II, resulting in one of the largest manhunts in modern history.

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CHUCK CHUCK BABY

Directed by: Janis Pugh
Genres: Musical, Comedy, Drama
Cast: Louise Brealey (Brian and Charles, Sherlock), Annabel Scholey (The Split), Sorcha Cusack (Mrs Brown’s Boys), Celyn Jones (The Almond and the Seahorse)
Written by: Janis Pugh
Produced by: Anne Beresford, Adam Partridge, Andrew Gillman, Peggy Cafferty
Production Company: Artemisia Films Ltd
Co-Producers: Delta Pictures
Financiers: BFI, BBC Film, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Moment Film Group
Release year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Status: Post-Production
Delivery: Q3/2023

Selected for the Great8 2023 Showcase Presented by BFI & British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4

Synopsis:
A film of love, loss and music set amongst the falling feathers of a chicken factory.  

Present day, industrial North Wales. Helen, late 30’s, spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for dying mother-figure Gwen.  

Helen’s mundane world takes a surprising turn with Joanne’s return; they were the objects of the other’s secret teenage passions. Encouraged by Helen, Joanne starts a playful wooing game.  As they fall in love, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls close in as she faces something darker from her past. Helen’s world shatters when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories make her flee.

Separated and alone, both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance. But they find the courage to let go of the past and allow their love to win.

News:

BFI, British Council Unveil Cannes Film Market Great8 Lineup

Recipient of the largest production award from the BFI for 2022 - From Screendaily

Named as one of the 16 UK titles to tempt festival directors in 2023 - From Screendaily

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THE ROOSTER

Directed by: Mark Leonard Winter
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent, Clickbait, Below)
Written by: Mark Leonard Winter
Produced by: Geraldine Hakewill, MahVeen Shahraki
Production Company: Don’t Crow! Pty Ltd, Thousand Mile Productions Pty Ltd
Co-Producers: David Kelly
Release year: 2024
Country: Australia
Language: English
Status: Post-Production
Delivery: Q4/2023

Co-Financed by the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund

Synopsis:
Dan, an introverted police officer in a small country town, begins to unravel after he fails to follow police protocol when dealing with an incident involving his childhood friend Steve. The next day Steve’s body is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. Unfit to work and haunted by guilt, Dan spirals. When his pet rooster is killed by a fox, Dan lets go of the fragile tether he has on his sanity and retreats to camp out in the forest where Steve was found. After a chance encounter with an eccentric hermit living amongst the trees, Dan suspects that this man may have been the last person to see Steve alive. As Dan seeks answers, an unusual bond forms between the two men over games of table tennis. But all is not as it seems when Dan discovers that the hermit may have been responsible for a terrible act of violence.

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DELIRIUM

Directed by: Arró Stefánsson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Heiddis Chadwick Hlynsdottir, Kristbjörg Kjeld (Driving Mum), Jóhann Sigurdsson (The Minister)
Written by: Arró Stefánsson
Produced by: Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson, Arró Stefánsson, Claudia Grevsmühl, Stefán Lárus Stefánsson, Gu∂rún Bryndis Har∂ardóttir
Production Company: Delirium Films, Fenrir Films & 1801 Film Productions
Co-Producers: Freyr Árnason, Kári Steinarsson, Kristín Ósk Sævarsdóttir, Ottó Gunnarsson
Release year: 2023
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Status: Completed
Duration: 83 min

Synopsis:
A young father is haunted by an evil force that threatens to tear his life apart after he finds a mysterious box inside his rental apartment where the previous guest killed himself. 

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POWER OF LOVE

Directed by: Jonas Rothlaender
Genres: Drama
Cast: Saara Kotkaniemi, Nicola Perot, Outi Mäenpää, Cecilia Paul, Elmer Bäck, Timo Torikka
Written by: Jonas Rothlaender
Produced by: Luisa Leopold, Julia M. Müller, Dennis Schanz, Luis Singer
Production Company: StickUp Filmproduktion
Co-Producers: Misha Jari, Mark Lwoff (Bufo)
Release year: 2023 (Q3)
Country: Germany, Finland
Language: English, German, Finnish
Format: DCP

Synopsis:
Saara (35) and Robert (32) are high on their love. Just recently Robert moved from Berlin to Helsinki to give their relationship a real perspective. Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés and power relations, yet behind the unconventional façade, both have to struggle with their fears and insecurities. Looking forward to a time-out, the two set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago. Triggered by the rough nature, the couple falls back into archaic patterns they are desperately trying to overcome.

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JANUARY

Directed by: Viesturs Kairiss
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kārlis Arnolds Avots, Alise Danovska, Baiba Broka, Aleksas Kazanavicius, Juhan Ulfsak, Sandis Runge
Written by: Viesturs Kairiss, co-writers Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman
Produced by: Inese Boka-Grübe, Gints Grübe
Production Company: Mistrus Media
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
Language: Latvian
Duration: 94 min
Formats: DCP

Synopsis: It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

“January” is an autobiographical take on the political upheaval in the early 1990s that changed the lives of the people of the former Soviet Union. Jazis and his friends Anna and Zeps are all aspiring filmmakers, trying to pursue their dreams of making movies and enjoying the freedom of young adulthood, when the collapse of the political system in the region upends their plans, family ties and friendship. Their experience and participation in the nonviolent resistance through the construction of barricades and human shields becomes the defining moment in their coming-of-age.

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BUBBLE

Directed by: Aleksi Salmenperä
Genres: Drama
Cast: Stella Leppikorpi, Tommi Korpela, Minna Haapkylä, Amos Brotherus, Anna-Maija Tuokko, Edit Patrakka, Saimi Kahri
Produced by: Minna Haapkylä
Production Company: Rabbit Films
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Duration: 104 min
Subtitled Versions: English
Formats: DCP, ProRes

Synopsis: The story of 16-year old small town girl Evelina, whose world collapses when she finds out her mother is having an affair with a woman. Like all teens, Eveliina thinks liberally, and wants her own freedom of thought and action - but that thinking does not really extend to her own parents. She tries to stop her mother’s affair at all cost and get her parents to fall in love again, with both dramatic and comedic consequences.

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PUNCH

Directed by: Welby Ings
Genres: Drama
Written by: Welby Ings
Cast: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes
Produced by: Robin Murphy, Catherine Fitzgerald
Production Company: Robin Murphy Productions
Production year: 2022
Release year: 2022
Country: New Zealand
Language: English

Synopsis:

Jim is a seventeen-year-old boxer in a small town. He is a golden boy, preparing for a fight that will elevate him to an early professional status. All bets are on his climb to success. But his father Stan is a demanding coach and a notorious alcoholic. In the town Stan is treated like a joke but he has given everything to see his son gain professional status and escape the brutality of his small world. As Jim begins to rethink why he is fighting his life tangles with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach. With his dog Moimoi he cobbles together a fragile glamour and dreams of leaving town to become a musician. As Jim stumbles towards discovering what it really is to be a gay man, he is forced to see that strength has little to do with heroism.

Australia / New Zealand Distribution: Vendetta Films
North America Distribution: Dark Star Pictures

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KEEP IT TOGETHER

Original Title: Hålla samman
Directed by: Maria Blom, Martin Larsson
Genres: Dramedy
Cast: Michaela Thorsén, Lennart Jähkel, Ulrika Nilson
Original Idea by: Erik Ahrnbom, Martin Larsson & Vanja Torp
Written by: Head writer Erik Ahrnbom in collaboration with Martin Larsson. Episode writer Ida Kjellin
Produced by: Ann Lundberg, Emma Åkesdotter-Ronge
Production Company: Anagram Sweden
Co-Production Companies: SVT, Film I Skåne, Helsinki-filmi
Release year: 2023
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Format: 8 x 28.5 min Episodes
Subtitled versions: English
Broadcaster: SVT

Synopsis: Keep It Together is a returning drama series about 40-year-old nurse Lina Edin and her life in small town Sweden. Lina works at the E.R. and lives alone with her 14-year-old twins Molly and Melvin. Lina’s two years older sister Petra lives close by with her family. When their father Kenneth is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, life changes drastically for both sisters; starting with Kenneth moving in to Lina’s house.

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RŪRANGI Season 2 - RISING LIGHTS

Showrunners: Max Currie & Briar Grace-Smith
Cast: Elz Carrad, Āwhina Rose Henare Ashby, Cohen Holloway, Liam Coleman, Ramon Te Wake, Aroha Rawson, Renee Lyons, Renée Sheridan
Genres: Drama
Series Writer: Cole Meyers
Lead Producer: Craig Gainsborough
Co-Producers: Tweede Waititi, Lucean Lunare, Melissa Nickerson
Production Company: Autonomouse
Release year: 2023
Country: New Zealand
Language: English, te reo Māori
Format: 5 x 22 min Episodes
Broadcaster: Sky Originals [NZ]

US DISTRIBUTOR - HULU

Synopsis: Rūrangi’s culture war intensifies between the transgender activists, farmers and local Māori - all while ancestors from the past reach out to the living with unfinished business.

Rūrangi Season 1 was winner of an International Emmy® Award for Best Short Form Series.

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