Nele Wohlatz’s “Sleep With Your Eyes Open,” which has its world premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below). Rediance has taken world sales rights.
Wohlatz’s fiction debut “El futuro perfecto” won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for the best first feature in 2016, and was invited to more than 70 international film festivals.
“Sleep With Your Eyes Open,” which is described as “a quiet comedy of misunderstandings,” is set in a coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for a holiday with a broken heart. She meets Fu Ang, who could become a friend, but then disappears.
While looking for him, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers living in a skyscraper. Kai finds her own experience strangely mirrors that of Xiaoxin’s story. Over the course of a hot, slow summer, delicate bonds grow between them.
Wohlatz’s fiction debut “El futuro perfecto” won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for the best first feature in 2016, and was invited to more than 70 international film festivals.
“Sleep With Your Eyes Open,” which is described as “a quiet comedy of misunderstandings,” is set in a coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for a holiday with a broken heart. She meets Fu Ang, who could become a friend, but then disappears.
While looking for him, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers living in a skyscraper. Kai finds her own experience strangely mirrors that of Xiaoxin’s story. Over the course of a hot, slow summer, delicate bonds grow between them.
- 2/11/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
China-based sales agent Rediance has boarded Nele Wohlatz’s Sleep With Your Eyes Open and Huang Shuli’s short Goodbye First Love, ahead of their premieres at the Berlinale next month.
Sleep With Your Eyes Open will play in the festival’s competitive Encounters section, which was announced today. The comedy is set in a coastal city in Brazil over one hot summer, during which bonds grow between a heartbroken traveller from Taiwan, a man who runs an umbrella store and a woman who used to live in the city.
The cast combines newcomers with professional actors, including Wang Shin-Hong...
Sleep With Your Eyes Open will play in the festival’s competitive Encounters section, which was announced today. The comedy is set in a coastal city in Brazil over one hot summer, during which bonds grow between a heartbroken traveller from Taiwan, a man who runs an umbrella store and a woman who used to live in the city.
The cast combines newcomers with professional actors, including Wang Shin-Hong...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Stienette Bosklopper of the Netherlands’ Circe Films and Meike Martens of Germany’s Blinker Filmproduktion have boarded “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?,” the latest film from director Nele Wohlatz, whose 2016 documentary hybrid “The Future Perfect” won best feature in Locarno.
The co-production partnerships add European support and financing muscle to an Argentine project produced by Buenos Aires’ Ruda Cine, which has already attracted a Brazilian partner, CinemaScópio.
In “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?” German filmmaker Wohlatz continues her examination of the immigrant experience via a feature film set in the bustling Brazilian city of Recife.
The project, which is taking part in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market, follows three young Chinese travelers, two immigrant workers and a tourist, and explores themes of belonging and constant movement.
The film’s protagonists don’t event “try to make Recife a home, since tomorrow they might go somewhere else,...
The co-production partnerships add European support and financing muscle to an Argentine project produced by Buenos Aires’ Ruda Cine, which has already attracted a Brazilian partner, CinemaScópio.
In “Do Fish Sleep With Their Eyes Open?” German filmmaker Wohlatz continues her examination of the immigrant experience via a feature film set in the bustling Brazilian city of Recife.
The project, which is taking part in the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart co-production market, follows three young Chinese travelers, two immigrant workers and a tourist, and explores themes of belonging and constant movement.
The film’s protagonists don’t event “try to make Recife a home, since tomorrow they might go somewhere else,...
- 1/18/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Andreas Fontana’s “Azor,” the latest production between Switzerland’s Alina Film and Argentina’s Ruda Cine, partners on Locarno Golden Leopard winner “Back to Stay,” has scored a world sales deal from Brussels-based Be For Films.
A scathing take on Swiss banks’ shady dealings during Argentina’s Junta dictatorship, “Azor” is one of the 10 Swiss titles featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow, a competition for movies whose preparation or production has been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Written by Fontana, with the collaboration of Mariano Llinás, director of cult Argentine film “Extraordinary Stories,” “Azor” follows Yvan de Wiel, heir to his family bank, who flies to Argentina in late 1980, during its military dictatorship, to track down his banking partner Keys who’s gone missing overnight. He gradually discovers his own bank’s collusion with tax fraud and far more damning financial operations.
“Azor” was inspired by Fontana...
A scathing take on Swiss banks’ shady dealings during Argentina’s Junta dictatorship, “Azor” is one of the 10 Swiss titles featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow, a competition for movies whose preparation or production has been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Written by Fontana, with the collaboration of Mariano Llinás, director of cult Argentine film “Extraordinary Stories,” “Azor” follows Yvan de Wiel, heir to his family bank, who flies to Argentina in late 1980, during its military dictatorship, to track down his banking partner Keys who’s gone missing overnight. He gradually discovers his own bank’s collusion with tax fraud and far more damning financial operations.
“Azor” was inspired by Fontana...
- 8/7/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Incaa announces hire over weekend. Festival veteran previously served as artistic director of Tribeca.
Argentina’s film body Incaa said at the weekend Peter Scarlet had been appointed artistic director of the upcoming 32nd Mar del Plata festival.
Festival president José Martínez Suárez announced the development at the weekend with Incaa president Ralph Haiek, festival producer Rosa Martínez Rivero, and the International Federation Of Film Producers Associations president Luis Scalella and other Mar del Plata executives in attendance.
Haiek said the goal was to maintain Mar del Plata’s A Class classification and “acquire more presence in the international festival agenda.”
Suárez, who this year will complete 10 years as president of the festival, said that “by the 32nd edition we have a very ambitious plan, which will turn into a remarkable one… We know what priorities to achieve and we will keep them up thanks to the team continuity and the new members.”
Scarlet, a veteran...
Argentina’s film body Incaa said at the weekend Peter Scarlet had been appointed artistic director of the upcoming 32nd Mar del Plata festival.
Festival president José Martínez Suárez announced the development at the weekend with Incaa president Ralph Haiek, festival producer Rosa Martínez Rivero, and the International Federation Of Film Producers Associations president Luis Scalella and other Mar del Plata executives in attendance.
Haiek said the goal was to maintain Mar del Plata’s A Class classification and “acquire more presence in the international festival agenda.”
Suárez, who this year will complete 10 years as president of the festival, said that “by the 32nd edition we have a very ambitious plan, which will turn into a remarkable one… We know what priorities to achieve and we will keep them up thanks to the team continuity and the new members.”
Scarlet, a veteran...
- 7/9/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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