Irene Kaltenborn’s The Mother Age selected for CPH:DOX’s Next:Wave competition
The Mother Age, from Norwegian artist and filmmaker Irene Kaltenborn, will receive its world premiere at this year’s CPH:DOX, where it screens in the festival’s Next:Wave competition for innovative films by emerging talents. Inspired by Ursula K Le Guin and other feminist thinkers, the film examines alternative origins of human culture, inviting audiences on a richly philosophical and sensory journey of (re)discovery.
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Irene Kaltenbornin The Mother Age valittu CPH:DOX:n Next:Wave-kilpailuun
Norjalaisen taiteilijan ja elokuvantekijän Irene Kaltenbornin teos The Mother Age saa maailmanensi-iltansa tämän vuoden CPH:DOX-festivaaleilla, jossa se esitetään festivaalin Next:Wave-kilpailussa, joka on tarkoitettu uusien kykyjen innovatiivisille elokuville. Ursula K. Le Guinin ja muiden feminististen ajattelijoiden innoittamana elokuva pohtii ihmiskulttuurin vaihtoehtoista alkuperää ja kutsuu katsojat mukaan filosofiselle ja aistilliselle (uudelleen) löytämisen matkalle.
LevelK erwirbt mit Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays einen Titel aus der Berlinale Generation Kplus-Auswahl
Der internationale Weltvertrieb und Aggregator LevelK hat Frederike Migoms Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays ins Programm aufgenommen. Der Film erzählt eine zarte und fantasievolle Geschichte über Entdeckungen, Träume und den eigenen Platz im Leben. Er feiert seine Weltpremiere im Wettbewerb „Generation Kplus“ der diesjährigen Berlinale.
LevelK Joins Betty Balloon Ahead of Cartoon Movie Presentation
Copenhagen-based international sales and aggregation house LevelK has secured worldwide rights to Puk Grasten’s upcoming pre-school animated feature and TV series Betty Balloon. The agreement - finalised between LevelK CEO Tine Klint and the film’s main producer Regner Grasten - was reached just ahead of the project’s work-in-progress presentation at Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux. A theatrical release of the animated feature is scheduled for October 2026 in Denmark, with Danish TV2 set to premiere the series.
Andana Films boards Berlinale Panorama-selected The Other Side of the Sun
French international sales company Andana Films has boarded Tawfik Sabouni’s powerful The Other Side of the Sun which will receive its world premiere as part of the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale. In this haunting and powerful documentary, the director returned to the Syrian capital of Damascus in the immediate aftermath of the Assad regime’s collapse. There he met four fellow former detainees of the notorious former Saidnaya prison. Through bold re-enactments inside the infamous prison itself, the documentary turns memory into testimony, revealing resilience and an unbroken will to survive.
LevelK and Publikum Kick Off Strategic Partnership With The Pension Heist Action Comedy
International sales and aggregation house LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Gunnbjörg Gunnarsdóttir’s hilariously funny The Pension Heist in which three women in their prime pull off the impossible: a heist against the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.
The Soundman First Feature To Have Full Soundtrack Beamed 7,500 Light‑Years Into Space
In a first‑of‑its‑kind scientific and cinematic crossover, engineering students at KUL, the University of Leuven in Belgium, have transmitted the complete soundtrack of Frank Van Passel’s new feature film The Soundman into deep space - some 7,500 light‑years from Earth. Featuring an original score by Wim De Wilde, the film is set to make its international debut at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 5, 2026.
Andana Films vertreibt Berlinale Panorama- Film „The Other Side of the Sun“
Der französische Weltvertrieb Andana Films hat sich Tawfik Sabounis beeindruckenden Film „The Other Side of the Sun” gesichert, der im Rahmen der Panorama-Sektion der diesjährigen Berlinale Weltpremiere feiern wird. In diesem eindringlichen und zutiefst menschlichen Dokumentarfilm kehrt der Regisseur unmittelbar nach dem Zusammenbruch des Assad-Regimes in die syrische Hauptstadt Damaskus zurück. Dort trifft er vier ehemalige Mitgefangene des berüchtigten Gefängnisses von Saidnaya. Mittels eindrücklicher Reenactments innerhalb der einstigen Gefängnismauern verwandelt der Dokumentarfilm Erinnerungen in Zeugnisse und erzählt von Widerstandsfähigkeit und ungebrochenem Überlebenswillen.
LevelK acquires Berlinale Generation K+-selected Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays
International sales and aggregation house LevelK has boarded Frederike Migom’s Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays, a tender and imaginative story about discovery, dreams and claiming your own space. The film will celebrate its world premiere in the Generation K+ selection at this year’s Berlinale.