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Mubi has snagged all rights for the film in Germany and Austria and will release it theatrically in those territories.

Paris-based international sales and production house Totem Films has sold Anna Roller’s road movie Dead Girls Dancing to Mubi for Germany and Austria following the film’s parallel Tribeca and Munich premieres in June, and has boarded the German writer-director’s second feature Manatee, which they will also co-produce.

Mubi has snagged all rights for the film and will release it theatrically in those territories.

Dead Girls Dancing, Roller’s debut feature, is produced by the company’s production...

The intriguing central location of Anna Roller’s feature debut is an Italian village mysteriously abandoned, Marie Celeste-style, with its wardrobes still groaning with fur coats and its churches fully stocked with altar wine. It is a handy metaphor for “Dead Girls Dancing” itself, which, as a coming-of-age story, plays in heavily pre-trafficked territory, inheriting many of the trappings of the very many films that have preceded it — especially those dedicated to the growing pains of teenage girls exploring their nascent sexuality and the limits of their childhood bonds. But the clothes are borrowed and once they are politely returned, and the woozy contact high of Roller’s impressively confident, hip style wears off, there’s not a lot left that makes a lasting impression in a densely populated category. Just as these girls, however momentous their own experiences, will leave few traces of their presence on the stone...

Dead Girls Dancing director Anna Roller with Anne-Katrin Titze on Alice Rohrwacher: “She’s really important to me and all the female filmmakers with this very distinctive style, like Andrea Arnold and Kelly Reichardt. I really look up to them.”

Anna Roller’s Dead Girls Dancing (a highlight in the International Feature Film Competition of the 22nd edition of the Tribeca Film Festival) stars Luna Jordan, Noemi Liv Nicolaisen, Katharina Stark, and Sara Giannelli on the road looking for adventure. Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and Bling Ring, as well as Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers may flash through your mind at times, but you’ll soon discover that this journey is distinctly of this century’s fiery Twenties.

Anna Roller with her Dead Girls Dancing star Luna Jordan at the Tribeca Festival Awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Friends Ira (Jordan), Ka (Nicolaisen), and Malin (Stark) are recent high school graduates from Munich,...

Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze: “There’s a first film from Germany, which I think is brilliant.”

In the first instalment with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer we discuss Christian Petzold’s Afire; Frédéric Tcheng’s Invisible Beauty (on Bethann Hardison); Ethan Berger’s The Line (on the recommendation of Robert Eggers’ The Witch producer Jay Van Hoy); Michael Shannon’s Eric Larue; David Duchovny’s Bucky F*cking Dent; John Slattery’s Maggie Moore(s); Steve Buscemi’s The Listener; Anna Roller’s Dead Girls Dancing; Maria Fredriksson’s The Gullspáng Miracle; Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Fields, and Stephen Kijak’s Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.

Christian Petzold’s Afire, starring Paula Beer, Enno Trebs, Langston Uibel, and Thomas Schubert

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German writer-director Anna Roller’s feature debut “Dead Girls Dancing” is set to launch at the Cannes film market.

Totem Films is handling international sales while WME Independent is looking after U.S. sales.

The film will have a premiere co-hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival and the Munich International Film Festival in June.

The film follows recent high school graduates Ira, Malin and Ka on a road trip across Italy who pick up the intriguing backpacker Zoe. As the four girls stumble across an abandoned village, they start to experiment with the limits of their newly found freedom, away from the expectations of their parents and teachers.

The cast includes Luna Jordan (“Fox in a Hole”), Noemi Liv Nicolaisen (“Servus Papa – See You in Hell”), Katharina Stark (“Pan Tau”) and Sara Giannelli (“Daisy Jones & The Six”).

The film is produced by Kalekone Film, Totem Atelier, Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion.

Paris-based company had a high-profile 2021 with titles including ’Compartment No. 6’ and ‘My Sunny Maad’.

Paris-based Totem Films will launch a quartet of first features with 2022 festival hopes at the EFM next week (February 10-17), including directorial debuts by The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki co-writer Mikko Myllylahti and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca.

The company’s 2021 slate enjoyed a buzzy festival run, led by Cannes Grand Prix winner Compartment No. 6 as well as Berlinale best documentary winner We, Berlin Competition title Ballad Of A White Cow and My SunnyMaad, which took the jury award at Annecy.

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