Two Fremantle-backed titles will celebrate their world premieres at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival in February.
Karim Aïnouz's highly anticipated Rosebush Pruning and Alain Gomis' sixth feature film Dao will each premiere in competition at the Berlinale.
From award-winning director Karim Aïnouz, Rosebush Pruning is an outrageous contemporary satire about the absurdity of the traditional patriarchal family starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Elena Anaya, with Tracy Letts, and Elle Fanning, and Pamela Anderson.
In an opulent villa underneath the Catalonian sun, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune, eschewing the demands of their blind father, and seeking love and validation through each other and their latest designer clothes. When Jack, the eldest brother and linchpin of this family, announces he is moving in with his girlfriend, Martha, blood ties are severed and Ed starts to uncover the truth surrounding their mother’s death. Generational lies begin to unravel, and the fabric of this family slowly begins to disintegrate.
The film is a MUBI, The Match Factory and The Apartment (a Fremantle company) collaboration.
Dao, starring Béa Mendy, is a perpetual circular movement framing reality. A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.
A Srab Films (a Fremantle company), Les films du Worso, Yennenga Production, Nafi Films, Telecine Bissau Produçoes and Canal+ Afrique co-production.
