Syndicado Film Product sales has boarded two motion pictures chosen for Berlinale: “Paul” by Denis Côté, which has its world premiere inside the Panorama Dokumente half, and “Sirens Identify” by Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann, which is part of the Dialogue board lineup.
Côté’s documentary focuses on Paul, who suffers from despair and social anxiousness. He seeks safety by doing residence duties for dominant women, turning into the submissive “Cleaning Simp Paul.” By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats his loneliness.
Filmed from a candid, nonjudgmental perspective, “Paul” is a portrait of an eccentric nonetheless endearing one who delivers a current deal with our quest for well-being.
The producers are Hany Ouichou and Karine Bélanger of Coopvidéo Montréal in Canada. Distribution in Canada is handled by Métropole Motion pictures.
Côté’s first attribute film “Les états nordiques” (2005) was awarded the Golden Leopard prize for Most interesting Video at Locarno Film Competitors. Côté’s “Vic+Flo Observed a Bear” acquired the Silver Bear for Innovation at Berlinale in 2013. “Hygiène sociale” acquired the right director award inside the Encounters half at Berlinale in 2021.
“Sirens Identify”
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Of their feature-length debut, Gossing and Sieckmann dive into the merfolk subculture with effectivity artist and siren Una the Mermaid (Gina Rønning). The film is a hybrid of science fiction, freeway movie and documentary to find a subculture that’s “using inconceivable imagery to discuss collective trauma, politics of the physique and the urge for a lifelong transition,” primarily based on press supplies.
In an announcement, the directors talked about: “In 2017, we first realized on-line a few subculture of people in Portland, Oregon, who acknowledged as mer-folk.They claimed to not solely robe up as sirens in silicone tails, nonetheless to truly keep it as an id of their regularly. After having met Una the Mermaid in Portland for the first time – a jail psychologist and trauma advocate in her civil life – we instantly felt a extremely specific connection. Una and her collective have been incorporating the problems we had envisioned for our siren decide for a really very long time. A siren who had the facility to combine interdisciplinary information, connecting human, nature and machine whereas attempting to kind new strategies of being with each other and the world.”
The film is produced by Filmfaus, in collaboration with Schalten Und Walten (Gossing and Sieckmann’s art work collective), along with co-production companions Elbe Stevens Motion pictures of the Netherlands and Germany’s ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel. The producers are Claus Herzog-Reichel and Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay.
