The Sundance Film Festival is less than a week away, but films are already starting to sell in the days leading up to the highly anticipated Park City fest. The latest to be acquired is the Cate Shortland-directed psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. Vertical Entertainment secured the North American theatrical rights, while Netflix nabbed the streaming rights.
Max Riemelt
An Australian photographer meets a charismatic local man while on holiday in Berlin. After a night of passion, she finds herself locked in his apartment and soon realizes he has no intentions of letting her go, ever.
Arclight is bringing in this WWI drama is for sales this week at TIFF.
Women must run the farms in Yorkshire during WWI, but things get complicated when German POWs are enlisted to help them.
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world’s order.
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
Logline: Based on the true story of an Israeli basketball coach who agrees to coach the West German team in Frankfurt — the city where his father was taken away by the Gestapo. Once in Germany he falls in love with a Turkish immigrant.
