MAD Options boards Ammer Fakher Eldin’s ‘Yunan’, starring ‘Recreation Of Thrones’ actress Sibel Kekilli & Lebanese George Khabbaz – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Main Arab world distributor MAD Options has acquired pan-Arab rights to Ameer Fakher Eldin’s upcoming image Yunan a couple of disillusioned, exiled author who travels to a distant island within the North Sea.

Yunan is the second characteristic from Fakher Eldin, who was born in Kyiv to Syrian mother and father and now lives in Germany, after his critically acclaimed Golan Heights-set debut The Stranger (Al Garib) which premiered in Venice in 2021, and went on to characterize Palestine on the Oscars.

High Lebanese theater and movie actor Georges Khabbaz (Excellent Strangers, Underneath The Bombs) will play the protagonist author who travels from his exiled existence in Hamburg to a distant island within the North Sea with ideas of suicide. There he meets an aged lady whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his wishes in life.

German actress Sibel Kekilli, greatest identified for her position as Shae in Recreation Of Thrones, has additionally just lately joined the solid and with additional casting bulletins to observe.

Yunan is the second a part of a trilogy known as Dwelling that started with The Stranger. Fakher Eldin says it expands on the themes of estrangement that he explored within the first movie.

“Yunan is a narrative of salvation and rebirth. It offers with the distances that open up relentlessly as we exile, between the unforgettable previous and the current, between the current and an unattainable future,” he mentioned.

“It’s about loneliness and despair, and notably the sort of despair suffered by those that select emotions they can not bear and get caught within the depths of their despair.”

The movie is being produced by Pink Balloon Movie (Germany), Les Movies Du Veyrier (France), Intramovies (Italy) and Fresco Movies (Palestine).

Yunan reunites MAD Options with producer Dorothe Beinemeier, CEO of Hamburg-based Pink Balloon Movie, following their ongoing collaboration on Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan’s upcoming movie A Home In Jerusalem.

“The sensation of insurmountable strangeness and the eager for a reassuring however difficult-to-reach dwelling are on the core of the cinematic narrative of the younger Syrian director,” she explains.

“Ameer’s characteristic debut The Stranger centered on alienation inside one’s personal group and household, whereas the brand new screenplay Yunan is in regards to the strangeness of an exiled man in Germany. Ameer strikes a deep chord together with his timeless, poetic screenwriting and visible language, and is already demonstrating maturity in his means of storytelling,” mentioned Beinemeier.

She and Fakher Eldin will current the mission on the upcoming Pink Sea Souk Mission Market of Saudi Arabia’s Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant, the second version runs  December 1 to 10.

The Stranger premiered in Venice in 2021, successful the Edipo Re Award. It loved a buzzy profession on the worldwide movie pageant circuit, successful Finest Arab Movie at Cairo Worldwide Movie Pageant.

“We jumped on the alternative to work with a massively proficient Arab filmmaker, a mouth-watering solid of Arab and worldwide actors and actresses – a few of whom are but to be revealed – a passionate producer who has love for each mission she has labored on, and a good looking screenplay that takes us on a shifting journey that can resonate in every single place,” mentioned MAD Options co-founders Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab.

Based in 2010, Mad Options is among the world’s main distributors of Arab-language movies and likewise runs one of many largest promotional company and administration firm for Arab inventive expertise. 

For the reason that starting of 2021, it has distributed greater than 100 movie titles, two-thirds of them feature-length, throughout the Arab-speaking world and in worldwide markets.