Actualités

Croatian director Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam has sold to key territories following its world premiere this month in the Berlinale’s Generation 14plus competition for Italy’s Open Reel.

Dark Star Pictures has acquired rights for North American, while Salzgeber has bought the film for Germany and Austria, and Tongariro Releasing for Cee counties excluding Former Yugoslavia and the Baltic.

Lav Novosel and Andrija Žunac star in the story about a forbidden love set in flood-threatened village. It centres on a young man whose life is turned upside down when a friend returns for his father’s funeral and rekindles their forbidden romance.

The Belin Film Festival has unveiled its Panorama lineup, including new works by Denis Côté, Ira Sachs, Michel Gondry and Shatara Michelle Ford, among others.

Sachs’ movie, “Peter Hujar’s Day,” stars Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall. Set for an international premiere in Berlin, the film portrays a 1974 conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz, set against the backdrop of the New York art scene of the time.

Côté’s film, “Paul,” is a documentary about a man struggling with depression and social anxiety who found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes.

Gondry’s “Maya, Give Me a Title” is described by the festival as a “stop-motion love letter to his daughter Maya brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that invites you to dream and laugh.” It features the voice of “The Count of Monte-Cristo” star Pierre Niney.

Ford’s “Dreams in Nightmares,...