Pluto Film has expanded its lineup ahead of this year’s EFM in Berlin with Generation 14plus screener “Huling Palabas.”
The Berlin-based sales company has also acquired the historical drama “Sima’s Song” by award-winning Afghan director Roya Sadat; Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s timely and suspenseful German social drama “Hysteria”; and Luxembourgish helmer Eric Lamhène’s “Breathing Underwater,” which explores violence against women.
Ryan Espinosa Machado’s Philippine coming-of-age drama “Huling Palabas,” described by Pluto Film CEO Daniela Cölle as “a charming LGBTQ debut,” follows a 16-year-old boy in 2001 who, while searching for his father in the most unlikely of places, becomes mystified by two movie-like characters who appear in his small town.
“Huling Palabas” is produced by the Philippines’ Tilt Studios, Terminal Six, Waf Studios and Studio Pulo.
“Sima’s Song”
“Sima’s Song” stars Mozhdah Jamalzadah and Niloufar Koukhani as Suraya and Sima, lifelong friends whose lives take...
The Berlin-based sales company has also acquired the historical drama “Sima’s Song” by award-winning Afghan director Roya Sadat; Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s timely and suspenseful German social drama “Hysteria”; and Luxembourgish helmer Eric Lamhène’s “Breathing Underwater,” which explores violence against women.
Ryan Espinosa Machado’s Philippine coming-of-age drama “Huling Palabas,” described by Pluto Film CEO Daniela Cölle as “a charming LGBTQ debut,” follows a 16-year-old boy in 2001 who, while searching for his father in the most unlikely of places, becomes mystified by two movie-like characters who appear in his small town.
“Huling Palabas” is produced by the Philippines’ Tilt Studios, Terminal Six, Waf Studios and Studio Pulo.
“Sima’s Song”
“Sima’s Song” stars Mozhdah Jamalzadah and Niloufar Koukhani as Suraya and Sima, lifelong friends whose lives take...
- 2/2/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage,” which premieres in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, has debuted its first clip exclusively with Variety (below). MK2 Films is handling international sales. Ad Vitam will distribute the film in France.
“Corsage” stars Vicky Krieps, who broke out in the Oscar nominated “Phantom Thread.” Last year, she starred in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island,” which was in competition in Cannes, and was nominated for a César for Mathieu Amalric’s “Hold Me Tight.” She will soon be seen in Pathe’s big budget two-part movie “The Three Musketeers.”
“Corsage” centers on Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The monarch is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends, but in 1877, “Sissi” – as she is known – celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced...
“Corsage” stars Vicky Krieps, who broke out in the Oscar nominated “Phantom Thread.” Last year, she starred in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island,” which was in competition in Cannes, and was nominated for a César for Mathieu Amalric’s “Hold Me Tight.” She will soon be seen in Pathe’s big budget two-part movie “The Three Musketeers.”
“Corsage” centers on Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The monarch is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends, but in 1877, “Sissi” – as she is known – celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elisabeth’s role has been reduced...
- 5/17/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Vicky Krieps to star as the legendary 19th century empress whose life was far from a fairytale.
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 films has acquired world sales rights to Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s costume drama Corsage and released a first image of actress Vicky Krieps as the 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The company is launching sales on the film at the EFM next week (March 1-5), just as it starts filming in Austria. It is due to shoot from March to July, first in Vienna and Lower Austria and then in Luxembourg from June.
Affectionately known as Sisi,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Created by Thierry Faber and directed by Christophe Wagner, the hit Luxembourg series has just been acquired by Netflix, marking a first for the Grand Duchy. Claude Waringo of Samsa Film has a lot to be excited about: the development of stories in the Luxembourg language and within a local context - a vocation that’s dear to the producer and his associates Jani Thiltges and Bernard Michaux - is arousing increasing levels of interest. Let’s not forget that in 1989, just as the company was launching activities, it was entrusted with the production of a fiction film which went on to acquire cult status: Schacko Klak by Paul Kieffer and Fränk Hoffmann, the first full-length film to be made in Luxembourg. The success enjoyed by this historical drama led to an unprecedented mobilisation of the industry and the professionalisation of its structures. Thirty or so years later, Samsa Film is.
Exclusive: The Match Factory is working again with Belgian director Sam Garbarski on international sales for his new feature film, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Alba Rohrwacher.
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
- 9/4/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Berlin -- Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges -- veteran producers from two of Europe's tiniest countries -- are the joint winners of this year's Prix Eurimages.
The prize, now in its third year, honors excellence in European co-production and takes its name from the European Council's Euroimages co-production subsidy fund.
Through her Entre Chein et Loup production house in Belgium Elbaum has co-produced European art house fare ranging from Marina de Van's psychodrama "Don't Look Back" starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci to the Pierre Paul Renders' comedy "Mr. Average" (2006) to the period drama "Saint-Cyr" (2000) featuring Isabelle Huppert. From his base in Luxembourg, Thiltges and his Samsa Film operation have delivered some 40 features, among them Ben Sombogaart's Oscar-nominee "Twin Sisters" (2002) and action comedy "Jcvd" starring Mr. Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Elbaum and Thiltges also helped form, together with Patrick Quinet, Sebastien Delloye and Claude Waringo,...
The prize, now in its third year, honors excellence in European co-production and takes its name from the European Council's Euroimages co-production subsidy fund.
Through her Entre Chein et Loup production house in Belgium Elbaum has co-produced European art house fare ranging from Marina de Van's psychodrama "Don't Look Back" starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci to the Pierre Paul Renders' comedy "Mr. Average" (2006) to the period drama "Saint-Cyr" (2000) featuring Isabelle Huppert. From his base in Luxembourg, Thiltges and his Samsa Film operation have delivered some 40 features, among them Ben Sombogaart's Oscar-nominee "Twin Sisters" (2002) and action comedy "Jcvd" starring Mr. Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Elbaum and Thiltges also helped form, together with Patrick Quinet, Sebastien Delloye and Claude Waringo,...
- 10/19/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Daratt (top); Kevin Bishop, Siobhan Hewlett, Marianne Faithfull in Irina Palm (middle); Nadja Uhl, Thekla Reuten in Twin Sisters (bottom) The European Film Academy has announced that the winners of the 2009 Prix Eurimages, an award "acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry," will go to two producers "who have combined their efforts to develop and promote European cinema": Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges, heads of, respectively, Entre Chien et Loup in Belgium and Samsa Film in Luxemburg. Additionally, they have joined forces with Patrick Quinet, Sébastien Delloye and Claude Waringo to create Liaison Cinématographique, a production company based in Paris. Under [...]...
- 10/19/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It's a treat to see five international stars -- Carmen Maura, Miou-Miou, Marisa Berenson, Marthe Keller and French recording artist Guesch Patti -- portray a group of close friends in Luis Galvao Teles' "Women" (released in Europe as "Elles"). Not only do they give added oomph to the ensemble drama, but this represents one of those all-too-rare instances where a film portrays the emotional lives and passions of mature women.
The penetration into these women's lives, however, is none too deep, and at times "Women" more closely resembles a soap opera than a serious drama. The film should pull in an older female audience in specialty venues.
The flavor of this film might best be described as fusion: Its director and co-writer (Teles) is Portuguese, its cast ranges from Spanish to American, everyone speaks French, and the film was shot in Luxembourg.
The characters all live in a charming and highly photogenic seaside town. Naturally, everyone's life is in turmoil, and much of that turmoil swirls relentlessly around the fact of their age.
Linda (Maura) hosts a TV newsmagazine (which Maura, in fact, did prior to becoming the star of several of Pedro Almodovar's films). She is engaged in an affair with a co-worker (Joaquim de Almeida) that is marred only by her peculiar insistence that he can't sleep with her past 3 a.m.
Eva (Miou-Miou), a widowed literature professor, is both pleased and troubled to discover that one of her students -- 25 years her junior and, what's worse, the son of a close friend -- has a crush on her.
That friend, Barbara (Keller), must cope not only with her divorce from the father of her two grown children, whom she still loves, but the prospect of a battle with a serious illness.
Chloe (Berenson), a beauty shop operator, contemplates revealing her lesbian tendencies when she finds herself falling in love with Branca (Patti). Meanwhile, Branca, an actress and singer, tries to deny the aging process through a series of frenzied sexual couplings, a preoccupation that is helping to push her daughter deeper into heroin addiction.
These scenarios are all carefully designed to allow Teles to ruminate on the human instinct to deny or delay the aging process. The film also poses the question -- which is the subject of one of Linda's upcoming feature pieces -- "What do women want?"
The answers differ according to the particulars of each woman's current crisis. Little is deeply thought, though. Nor is it clear what makes these five individuals such close friends. Each seems so ruthlessly self-centered that it's hard to imagine what draws them together.
But if one doesn't take these life lessons too seriously, it is a pleasure to watch these five performers, each a beauty in her own way. Alejandro Masso's music, including songs that Patti performs, makes for a lively soundtrack. And Alfredo Mayo's cinematography has a definite eye for the beauty of the unnamed coastal town.
WOMEN
WinStar Cinema
Jani Thiltges and Claude Waringo present
a Samsa Film Production
in co-production with Noe Prods., Artemis Prods,
Action Fama Film, RTBF-Belgian Television,
Radiotelevisao Portuguesa,
Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, Teleclub AG
Producer: Jani Thiltges
Director: Luis Galvao Teles
Writers: Luis Galvao Teles, Don Bohlinger
Director of photography: Alfredo Mayo
Production designer: Veronique Sacrez
Music: Alejandro Masso
Editor: Regina Bartschi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Linda: Carmen Maura
Eva: Miou-Miou
Chloe: Marisa Berenson
Barbara: Marthe Keller
Branca: Guesch Patti
Gigi: Joaquim de Almeida
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The penetration into these women's lives, however, is none too deep, and at times "Women" more closely resembles a soap opera than a serious drama. The film should pull in an older female audience in specialty venues.
The flavor of this film might best be described as fusion: Its director and co-writer (Teles) is Portuguese, its cast ranges from Spanish to American, everyone speaks French, and the film was shot in Luxembourg.
The characters all live in a charming and highly photogenic seaside town. Naturally, everyone's life is in turmoil, and much of that turmoil swirls relentlessly around the fact of their age.
Linda (Maura) hosts a TV newsmagazine (which Maura, in fact, did prior to becoming the star of several of Pedro Almodovar's films). She is engaged in an affair with a co-worker (Joaquim de Almeida) that is marred only by her peculiar insistence that he can't sleep with her past 3 a.m.
Eva (Miou-Miou), a widowed literature professor, is both pleased and troubled to discover that one of her students -- 25 years her junior and, what's worse, the son of a close friend -- has a crush on her.
That friend, Barbara (Keller), must cope not only with her divorce from the father of her two grown children, whom she still loves, but the prospect of a battle with a serious illness.
Chloe (Berenson), a beauty shop operator, contemplates revealing her lesbian tendencies when she finds herself falling in love with Branca (Patti). Meanwhile, Branca, an actress and singer, tries to deny the aging process through a series of frenzied sexual couplings, a preoccupation that is helping to push her daughter deeper into heroin addiction.
These scenarios are all carefully designed to allow Teles to ruminate on the human instinct to deny or delay the aging process. The film also poses the question -- which is the subject of one of Linda's upcoming feature pieces -- "What do women want?"
The answers differ according to the particulars of each woman's current crisis. Little is deeply thought, though. Nor is it clear what makes these five individuals such close friends. Each seems so ruthlessly self-centered that it's hard to imagine what draws them together.
But if one doesn't take these life lessons too seriously, it is a pleasure to watch these five performers, each a beauty in her own way. Alejandro Masso's music, including songs that Patti performs, makes for a lively soundtrack. And Alfredo Mayo's cinematography has a definite eye for the beauty of the unnamed coastal town.
WOMEN
WinStar Cinema
Jani Thiltges and Claude Waringo present
a Samsa Film Production
in co-production with Noe Prods., Artemis Prods,
Action Fama Film, RTBF-Belgian Television,
Radiotelevisao Portuguesa,
Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, Teleclub AG
Producer: Jani Thiltges
Director: Luis Galvao Teles
Writers: Luis Galvao Teles, Don Bohlinger
Director of photography: Alfredo Mayo
Production designer: Veronique Sacrez
Music: Alejandro Masso
Editor: Regina Bartschi
Color/stereo
Cast:
Linda: Carmen Maura
Eva: Miou-Miou
Chloe: Marisa Berenson
Barbara: Marthe Keller
Branca: Guesch Patti
Gigi: Joaquim de Almeida
Running time -- 97 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/20/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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