Cité Movies Groups with Chile’s Niles Atallah, Turkey’s Yesim Ustaoglu

Including to its slate of auteurs from all around the world, Raphael Berdugo’s Cité Movies has boarded “The Fireplace Doll,” from Chilean director-to-track Niles Atallah (“Rey”) and “Left Over,” from San Sebastian Gold Shell successful Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu (“Pandora’s Field”).

Produced by Catalina Vergara at Chile’s Globo Rojo Movies, “The Fireplace Doll” (“La muñeca de fuego”) is among the 14 tasks to be pitched at this month’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, one of many Spanish competition’s centerpiece trade occasions.

Atallah, whose second movie, “Rey,” received a Rotterdam Particular Jury Prize in 2017, turns in “The Fireplace Doll” to the transformation course of skilled by a 9-year-old woman, Aurora, who loses a part of her reminiscence and goes to her the countryside to spend Easter wither father, an alcoholic in remission.

He lives in a mysterious home partially destroyed by hearth many years in the past. Aurora discovers a horrible secret about her father’s previous and battles to assist him free himself from its ghosts. 

“Households have trans-generational trauma. This common story is emotional, magical and totally different, and I used to be actually impressed by Niles’ visuals, sound and VFX in ‘Rey,’” Berdugo informed Selection.

With “The Fireplace Doll,” Vergara returns to San Sebastian’s Discussion board after choice in 2018 with “Querida Vera,” by Globo Rojo common director José Luis Torres Leiva.

Arrange at her personal firm, Ustaoglu Movie Manufacturing, “Left Over,” Ustaoglu’s seventh characteristic,  is a highway film a few poetess who leaves her Istanbul dwelling to return to her household roots. Her journey and encounters permit her a brand new steadiness and reconnection together with her husband and son. 

Ustaoglu broke out with 1999’s “Journey To The Solar,” a Berlin competitors participant which received the Blue Angel Award for greatest European movie. “Pandora’s Field” additionally scooped greatest actress for Stilla Chelton at San Sebastian.

Cité Movies will co-produce and promote worldwide rights on each tasks. They be a part of a Cité Movies’ director-driven gross sales/manufacturing slate which mixes established skills – Ustaoglu. Fiks – with on-the-rise expertise now onto its second or third characteristic, equivalent to Atallah, Mitra Tabrizian and Elfar Aðalsteins. A lineup breakdown:

“The Far Mountains,” (Mitra Tabrizian, U.Ok.)

Starring Shahab Hosseini, a 2016 Cannes greatest actor winner for Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” a nuanced coming-of-age story with an allegorical undertow set in an Iranian village. “The Far Mountains” proved a standout amongst tasks at Locarno’s Meet Me! The venture marks Tabrizian’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut characteristic “Gholam,” additionally starring Hosseini and chosen by The Guardian/Observer’s Mark Kermode as Movie of the Week on its launch.   

“Summerlight,” (Elfar Aðalsteins, Iceland)

A comedy-drama adaptation of celebrated novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s multi-story tackle life in an Icelandic village, its magnificence and thriller and the distinction between desires and seeming future. The second characteristic as a director of Iceland’s Elfar Aðalsteins, producer of Fredrik Thor Fredriksson’s “Mama Gogo,” whose debut “Finish of Sentence,” bowed to upbeat reactions at Edinburgh, “the movie has robust tales, could be very shifting and has the deadpan humor typical of Scandinavia,” Berdugo mentioned.  Skedded for supply in June 2022. Bersek Movies, Silver Display and Iceland’s Pegasus Image produce, in  co-production with Belgian’s Polar Bear and Seden’s Vilda Bomben Movie. 

“Azuro,” (Mathieu Rozé, France)

Adapting a lesser-known Marguerite Dumas novel, the characteristic debut as a director of French actor Rozé, headlined by Valerie Donzelli, the helmer-actor of “Declaration of Battle.” A sunny, sensual chronicle of buddies summering in a southern France Summer season heatwave whose torpor is shaken up by the arrival of a a sexy stranger. Chosen at Goteborg and Beijing, the movie  garnered optimistic crits, Berdugo noticed. Tabo Tabo Movies, Comedian Strip Manufacturing, Lamar Movies and Cité Movies produce.“I used to be stunned how totally different the guide is from many Duras novels. It’s a really fashionable story in the way it offers with the relations between women and men,” Berdugo famous.

“The Jew,” (Dmitry Fiks, Russia)

A drama thriller marking the seventh characteristic from prolific commercials, TV and film director Fiks, set within the Soviet Union in 1946 as a person travels to totally different cities committing a sequence of murders in chilly blood. “With the Holocaust as a backdrop,  the movie has an necessary and modern message about Crimes towards Humanity,” Berdugo defined.  

Now in put up, supply is slated for late 2022.

“Krishnamurti, The Revolution of Silence,” (Françoise Ferraton, France)

A doc characteristic on the life and impression of the anti-establishment free thinker, produced by France’s Maya Movies. The director spent 10 years making this movie about Krishnamurti, one of the outstanding masters of spirituality of the 20^th century, mentioned Berdugo. Completion is scheduled late this 12 months.