Greek filmmaker Sofia Exarchou’s drama “Animal,” which world premieres Aug. 3 in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, has secured its first distribution deals and released a teaser (see below)…
The anticipated follow-up to Exarchou’s first feature, “Park,” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won the New Directors Award in San Sebastian, “Animal” will be distributed in France by Shellac and in Austria by Filmgarten. Shellac is repping the film’s world rights.
“Animal” is produced by Maria Drandaki and Maria Kontagianni for Homemade Films, and co-produced by Lukas Valenta Rinner , Laura Sterian , Stelios Kammitsis and Vicky Miha , Ivan Tonev and Exarchou. It was lensed by Monika Lenczewska, who was named one ofExarchou’s debut, a raw snapshot of Athenian youth set against a backdrop of blight in modern Greece, was made at the height of the Mediterranean nation’s economic crisis in 2016.
“Since I was a child, I had stayed in hotels during the summer and was familiar with the tourist season on the islands and how all these places drastically change during this time of year,” Exarchou said. “It was in the ’80s and ’90s, when mass tourism literally exploded. Inside this touristic machine, the animateurs are the employees who provide entertainment.
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