EXCLUSIVE: New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s upcoming characteristic The Love That Stays, his newest work after Oscar-shortlisted work Godland.
The gross sales acquisition sees the Warsaw-based firm group as soon as once more with Icelandic manufacturing firm Nonetheless Vivid and Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The brand new characteristic that was shot in Jap Iceland under-the-radar and is because of be accomplished in 2025. Based on the official description, the drama “tenderly captures a yr within the lifetime of a household because the mother and father navigate their separation. By means of each playful and heartfelt moments, the movie portrays the bittersweet essence of pale love and shared reminiscences amidst the altering seasons.
New Europe will start gross sales on the film on the Berlinale’s European Film Market in February. Previous to that, the group behind the movie will current first clips to attendees of Göteborg Nordic Movie Market on the finish of this month.
The Love That Stays is produced by Anton Máni Svansson of Iceland’s Nonetheless Vivid and Katrin Pors of Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The forged consists of Saga Garðarsdóttir (Girl at War), Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs. McEnroe), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (Godland), Þorgils Hlynsson (Nest), and Grímur Hlynsson (Nest).
Pálmason additionally takes cinematographer credit and is working once more with common collaborators, together with editor Julius Krebs Damsbo, sound designer Björn Viktorsson and manufacturing designer Frosti Friðriksson, amongst others.
“We’re immensely proud to current The Love That Stays, a movie that’s as heat, transferring, and delightful as it’s playful, enjoyable, and stunning. As soon as once more, we’ve collaborated with our esteemed co-producers at Hobab, Movie I Väst, and Maneki Movies, and the distinctive gross sales group at New Europe,” mentioned Pors and Svansson in a press release.
New Europe has dealt with worldwide gross sales on all of Pálmason’s options to this point, spanning Godland, which premiered in Cannes Un Sure Regard, Winter Brothers (Locarno competitors) and A White, White Day (Cannes Critics’ Week), in addition to his 2022 quick Nest (Berlinale Particular).
“It’s been an absolute pleasure to observe Hlynur’s and his common collaborators bringing such stunning household chronicles to the display with a humour, heat and coronary heart, set amidst visually arresting Icelandic panorama that glues you to the display. It appears like one thing you didn’t anticipate you could want this season” added New Europe’s Head of Acquisitions Marcin Łuczaj.
Co-producers are Mikkel Jersin and Eva Jakobsen at Snowglobe (Denmark), Nima Yousefi of HOBAB (Sweden), Didar Domehri of Maneki Movies (France), Anthony Muir and Kristina Börjeson of Movie I Väst (Sweden), Olivier Père and Rémi Burah of Arte France Cinema (France).
Backers embrace Icelandic Movie Centre, Icelandic Ministry of Tradition and Enterprise Affairs, Danish Movie Institute, Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, Swedish Movie Institute, Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, Inventive Europe MEDIA, Hornafjörður Municipality, RUV, Jour2Fête, ARTE, Max Distribution, and DR.
New Europe’s present slate additionally consists of upcoming László Nemes drama Orphan, Dara van Dusen’s A Prayer for the Dying, starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly, and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s Scorching Spot, which was not too long ago acquired by Focus Options and Common.
