Sola Media has boarded CGI animated movie “The Super Elfkins” as sales agent and will unveil first footage at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The film, which has a budget of Euros 9 million ($9.7 million), will be released in Germany in December 2024 by Tobis Film. It is a sequel to “The Elkfins – Baking a Difference,” which was sold to more than 200 countries worldwide, and won best feature film at Giffoni Film Festival.
In the new film, the world of the Elfkin girl Elfie is turned upside down when she discovers a technologically advanced Elfkin gang that surpasses her clan in fun and excitement. Can Elfie’s friendship with Bo, the youngest member of the rival gang, bridge the gap between the Elfkin clans that have been apart for over 250 years?
Solveig Langeland, managing director of Sola Media, said: “With a budget of Euros 9 million and enchanting character designs, this animation...
The film, which has a budget of Euros 9 million ($9.7 million), will be released in Germany in December 2024 by Tobis Film. It is a sequel to “The Elkfins – Baking a Difference,” which was sold to more than 200 countries worldwide, and won best feature film at Giffoni Film Festival.
In the new film, the world of the Elfkin girl Elfie is turned upside down when she discovers a technologically advanced Elfkin gang that surpasses her clan in fun and excitement. Can Elfie’s friendship with Bo, the youngest member of the rival gang, bridge the gap between the Elfkin clans that have been apart for over 250 years?
Solveig Langeland, managing director of Sola Media, said: “With a budget of Euros 9 million and enchanting character designs, this animation...
- 2/12/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Sickly songs and a poor script lead to an awkwardly unconvincing rabbit hole
Possessed of a truly eggsecrable subtitle – Mission Eggpossible – this Easter-themed German animation probably supplies just enough frantic hi-jinks to keep small children mildly absorbed over the holidays. But its scatty plot, about a group of master rabbits responsible for distributing Easter eggs and the jealous foxes who wish to supplant them, was seemingly cooked up by someone slipping into a chocolate-induced coma.
Its difficulties are evident as Ute von Münchow-Pohl’s film can barely summon any interest in its own lead character, aspiring young rabbit Max. Max has the honour of being the first city rabbit asked to join the master rabbits. But he makes a formidable enemy when he humiliates bad-boy rabbit Leo while – in the now obligatory social-media shoo-in for kids’ cartoons – the latter is livestreaming to his fans. Leo, a failed academy pupil, takes...
Possessed of a truly eggsecrable subtitle – Mission Eggpossible – this Easter-themed German animation probably supplies just enough frantic hi-jinks to keep small children mildly absorbed over the holidays. But its scatty plot, about a group of master rabbits responsible for distributing Easter eggs and the jealous foxes who wish to supplant them, was seemingly cooked up by someone slipping into a chocolate-induced coma.
Its difficulties are evident as Ute von Münchow-Pohl’s film can barely summon any interest in its own lead character, aspiring young rabbit Max. Max has the honour of being the first city rabbit asked to join the master rabbits. But he makes a formidable enemy when he humiliates bad-boy rabbit Leo while – in the now obligatory social-media shoo-in for kids’ cartoons – the latter is livestreaming to his fans. Leo, a failed academy pupil, takes...
- 3/29/2022
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
German-language productions on offer at the Cannes Film Market present an eclectic mix of adult drama, biting social commentary, history, comedy, kids’ pics and animation from such high-profile helmers as Stefan Ruzowitzky, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Maria Schrader and Matti Geschonneck.
In Ruzowitzky’s atmospheric “Hinterland,” part of Beta Cinema’s lineup, a Great War veteran tracks down a killer in 1920s Vienna.
Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover’s 1960s-set animated comedy “Snotty Boy” follows a kid whose unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Sold by Picture Tree Intl., the pic was inspired by the life and work of late Austrian cartoonist and satirist Manfred Deix.
Rosenmüller’s other new comedy, “Lifeguard Off Duty,” centers on grumpy lifeguard Karl and his efforts to save the local swimming pool from closure.
In Ruzowitzky’s atmospheric “Hinterland,” part of Beta Cinema’s lineup, a Great War veteran tracks down a killer in 1920s Vienna.
Rosenmüller and Santiago López Jover’s 1960s-set animated comedy “Snotty Boy” follows a kid whose unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent while growing up in a small conservative Austrian town where Nazi sympathy is still very prevalent. Sold by Picture Tree Intl., the pic was inspired by the life and work of late Austrian cartoonist and satirist Manfred Deix.
Rosenmüller’s other new comedy, “Lifeguard Off Duty,” centers on grumpy lifeguard Karl and his efforts to save the local swimming pool from closure.
- 7/9/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Bordeaux, France – Director Salvador Simó (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles”), production company Submarine and distributor Sola Media have won the Tributes Awards at this year’s Cartoon Movie, Europe’s biggest animated feature co-production and sales forum which closes today in the French port city of Bordeaux.
“Buñuel,” Spaniard Simó’s solo feature debut, chronicles Luis Buñuel’s making of documentary “Land Without Bread” in the remote mountains of Western Spain. Simó shows how with the film, Buñuel found his creative voice, a mix of surrealist esprit and social critique.
“Buñuel” is a production of Spain’s Sygnatia in co-production with The Glow Animation Studio and Dutch outfit Submarine. Antonio Saura’s Latido Films has closed sales in main territories including North America, where it has acquired by Gkids, the U.S. distributor of 11 animated feature Oscar nominations.
Submarine took Cartoon Movie’s Producer of the Year kudo.
“Buñuel,” Spaniard Simó’s solo feature debut, chronicles Luis Buñuel’s making of documentary “Land Without Bread” in the remote mountains of Western Spain. Simó shows how with the film, Buñuel found his creative voice, a mix of surrealist esprit and social critique.
“Buñuel” is a production of Spain’s Sygnatia in co-production with The Glow Animation Studio and Dutch outfit Submarine. Antonio Saura’s Latido Films has closed sales in main territories including North America, where it has acquired by Gkids, the U.S. distributor of 11 animated feature Oscar nominations.
Submarine took Cartoon Movie’s Producer of the Year kudo.
- 3/7/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Hofmann will voice a character in the feature from the producers of Rabbit School.
German actor Louis Hofmann, one of this year’s European Shooting Stars, is set to lend his voice to a character in the animated feature The Heinzels, which will be the next collaboration by Dirk Beinhold’s Akkord Film and director Ute von Münchow-Pohl following Rabbit School – Guardians Of The Golden Egg.
Legend has it that the Heinzels – or Heinzelmännchen in the original German – are little house gnomes who completed all the household chores for the lazy citizens of Cologne every night until they were ousted by a malevolent tailor’s wife.
In the screenplay by Jan Strathmann, the Heinzels are back, headed by cheeky gnome girl Helvi (to be voiced by Jella Haase, Chantal from Fack Ju Göhte). They repair a derelict pastry shop and thus find a new purpose in life.
Producer Beinhold revealed to Screen that prepping on Akkord...
German actor Louis Hofmann, one of this year’s European Shooting Stars, is set to lend his voice to a character in the animated feature The Heinzels, which will be the next collaboration by Dirk Beinhold’s Akkord Film and director Ute von Münchow-Pohl following Rabbit School – Guardians Of The Golden Egg.
Legend has it that the Heinzels – or Heinzelmännchen in the original German – are little house gnomes who completed all the household chores for the lazy citizens of Cologne every night until they were ousted by a malevolent tailor’s wife.
In the screenplay by Jan Strathmann, the Heinzels are back, headed by cheeky gnome girl Helvi (to be voiced by Jella Haase, Chantal from Fack Ju Göhte). They repair a derelict pastry shop and thus find a new purpose in life.
Producer Beinhold revealed to Screen that prepping on Akkord...
- 2/11/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Three UK features among first 15 films selected for Berlin’s Generations programme.Scroll down for list
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first raft of titles selected for its Generations sidebar, which features youth and children’s films.
Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road [pictured], which follows the band Wolf Alice on tour, will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Also playing in that strand will be Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
Further UK features playing in 14plus include the world premieres of Carol Salter’s Almost Heaven and Rafael Kapelinski’s Butterfly Kiss.
Titles selected for the separate GenerationKplus strand include the European premiere of Kriv Stenders’s Australian family feature Red Dog: True Blue.
The 2017 Berlin Film Festival takes place February 9-19.
Selected titles
Synopses provided by Berlinale press office.
Generation14plus
On The Road...
- 12/23/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Sally Potter's The PartyThe titles for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival are being announced in anticipation of the event running February 9 - 19, 2017. We will update the program as new films are revealed.COMPETITIONOn Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary)Ana, mon amour (Călin Peter Netzer, Romania / Germany France)Beuys (Andres Veiel, Germany)Colo (Teresa Villaverde, Portugal / France)The Dinner (Oren Moverman, USA)Félicité (Alain Gomis, France / Senegal / Belgium / Germany / Lebanon)The Party (Sally Potter, UK)Spoor (Agnieszka Holland, Poland / Germany/ Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovak Republic)The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio, Chile / German / USA / Spain)Berlinale SPECIALThe Queen of Spain (Fernando Trueba, Spain)The Young Karl Marx (Raoul Peck, France / Germany / Belgium)Last Days in Havana (Fernando Pérez, Cuba / Spain)PANORAMAVazante (Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal)I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, France/USA/Belgium/Switzerland)The Wound (John Trengove, South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France)Politics,...
- 12/22/2016
- MUBI
European Film Promotion (Efp) has unveiled the list of titles it will support at this year’s Busan International Film Festival (Oct 1-10) in South Korea.
It marks the 18th year that Efp has supported cultural exchange between European filmmakers and Korean audiences as well as helping European films find their way onto Asia’s screens.
Efp’s programme, Opening Doors, is backed by the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union and participating Efp member organisations.
A total of 13 mostly young European film artists will travel to Busan with the support of Efp to present their titles at the Asian film showcase.
Several of the films have already been recognised this year on the film festival circuit.
Babai, the feature debut of Kosovo-born, Germany-based filmmaker Visar Morina won best director at Karlovy Vary in July. The film tells a father-and-son-story of unwanted economic migrants.
Adriano Valerio’s debut film, Banat, about...
It marks the 18th year that Efp has supported cultural exchange between European filmmakers and Korean audiences as well as helping European films find their way onto Asia’s screens.
Efp’s programme, Opening Doors, is backed by the Creative Europe – Media Programme of the European Union and participating Efp member organisations.
A total of 13 mostly young European film artists will travel to Busan with the support of Efp to present their titles at the Asian film showcase.
Several of the films have already been recognised this year on the film festival circuit.
Babai, the feature debut of Kosovo-born, Germany-based filmmaker Visar Morina won best director at Karlovy Vary in July. The film tells a father-and-son-story of unwanted economic migrants.
Adriano Valerio’s debut film, Banat, about...
- 8/25/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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