Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights of Alireza Khatami’s “The Things You Kill.” The film is in post-production.
Khatami is already known for Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard title “Terrestrial Verses” and “Oblivion Verses,” which was awarded best screenplay in Venice Horizons competition 2017 and won the Fipresci Prize.
Le Pacte will release “The Things You Kill” in France.
In the film, Ali, a university professor, is haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, and coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience, Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
The star-studded Turkish cast includes Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Wild Pear Tree”) and Ercan Kesal (“Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”).
Khatami said: “‘The Things...
Khatami is already known for Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard title “Terrestrial Verses” and “Oblivion Verses,” which was awarded best screenplay in Venice Horizons competition 2017 and won the Fipresci Prize.
Le Pacte will release “The Things You Kill” in France.
In the film, Ali, a university professor, is haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, and coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience, Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
The star-studded Turkish cast includes Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Wild Pear Tree”) and Ercan Kesal (“Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”).
Khatami said: “‘The Things...
- 5/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Screen can reveal the first trailer for The Great Phuket, ahead of its world premiere at the Berlinale.
The first footage follows 14-year-old Li Xing, whose life is falling apart like his neighbourhood, the Great Phuket in south China, which is a setting of ruins and reconstruction. In a bid to escape his teenage life, he discovers an underground shelter where strange things begin to happen. The trailer reveals a mixture of live-action and animated sequences.
The Chinese-language film marks the feature debut of writer/director Liu Yaonan and has been selected for the festival’s Generation 14plus sidebar, where...
The first footage follows 14-year-old Li Xing, whose life is falling apart like his neighbourhood, the Great Phuket in south China, which is a setting of ruins and reconstruction. In a bid to escape his teenage life, he discovers an underground shelter where strange things begin to happen. The trailer reveals a mixture of live-action and animated sequences.
The Chinese-language film marks the feature debut of writer/director Liu Yaonan and has been selected for the festival’s Generation 14plus sidebar, where...
- 2/7/2024
- ScreenDaily
China’s Parallax Films has boarded Liu Yaonan’s first feature The Great Phuket, which is set to premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation 14plus sidebar.
The Beijing-based company will handle sales for Asia, excluding China, with Paris-based sales firm MPM Premium managing the rest of the world.
The drama follows a 14-year-old boy who lives in the Great Phuket district in South China, which is a setting of ruins and reconstruction. He clashes with his mother, who refuses to leave the family home despite plans for its demolition and finds nothing but trouble at school. In a bid to escape his teenage life,...
The Beijing-based company will handle sales for Asia, excluding China, with Paris-based sales firm MPM Premium managing the rest of the world.
The drama follows a 14-year-old boy who lives in the Great Phuket district in South China, which is a setting of ruins and reconstruction. He clashes with his mother, who refuses to leave the family home despite plans for its demolition and finds nothing but trouble at school. In a bid to escape his teenage life,...
- 2/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Alireza Khatami, the Iranian director who co-helmed “Terrestrial Verses” — which denounced the country’s authority and was the only film from Iran at Cannes this year — is directing “Things That You Kill,” a political drama about the patriarchy set in Turkey and featuring a starry cast.
Shooting recently wrapped in Turkey on Khatami’s new film, which stars Turkish A-listers Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Protector”) and Ercan Kesal.
The Canada-based Khatami’s first feature, “Oblivion Verses,” won the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti award for best screenplay in 2017. “Terrestrial Verses,” which Khatami co-directed with Tehran-based Ali Asgari, recently premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Shot in Tehran after the Mahsa Amini movement started, “Verses” consists of nine tableaus depicting the increasingly absurd and tragic plight that Iranians face in their everyday life with a scathingly ironic deadpan tone.
Khatami describes “Things That You Kill...
Shooting recently wrapped in Turkey on Khatami’s new film, which stars Turkish A-listers Ekin Koç (“Burning Days”), Erkan Kolçakköstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü (“The Protector”) and Ercan Kesal.
The Canada-based Khatami’s first feature, “Oblivion Verses,” won the Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti award for best screenplay in 2017. “Terrestrial Verses,” which Khatami co-directed with Tehran-based Ali Asgari, recently premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Shot in Tehran after the Mahsa Amini movement started, “Verses” consists of nine tableaus depicting the increasingly absurd and tragic plight that Iranians face in their everyday life with a scathingly ironic deadpan tone.
Khatami describes “Things That You Kill...
- 8/23/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
- Lots of glossy business cards will be exchanged during the 4th edition of International Financing Forum (Iff) (which takes place during Tiff). In what I imagine is like a speed dating between producers looking for coin and those looking to finance the next hot film project. There are a slew of names/projects from established filmmakers (Hany Abu-Assad, Terrence Davies and Kevin Macdonald) and some first-time directors among the 43 listed below that have caught over attention. Hany Abu-Assad is taking on what I imagine would be a controversial biopic - attaching himself to Arafat with his Paradise Now producer, Roman Paul. Paul produced Waltz with Bashir, and the upcoming (we'll be talking about this one in 2010), Womb. I'd be surprised if Tony Grisoni took a day off in the past 24 months, he has penned a truck load of projects and would embark on his feature filmmaking debut with Kingsland.
- 9/2/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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