Pushing into international acquisitions, Bilbao-based distributor Barton Films has picked up Spanish distribution rights to three films playing at the 66th San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors sidebar.
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
Barton’s most recent international-title release slate is headed by “The Third Wife,” the feature debut by New York and Vietnam-based Ash Mayfair, which recently won the Netpac award at the Toronto Film Festival.
A second buy, “A Decent Man,” by Romanian Hadrian Marcu, highlighted at the first edition of San Sebastian’s Glocal in Progress showcase in 2017, toplines Bogdan Dumitrache, winner last year of a San Sebastian Silver Shell for best actor for Constantin Popescu’s “Pororoca,” another Barton Films pickup.
Ismet Sijarina’s “Cold November,” a Kosovo-Albania-Republic of Macedonia co-production world premiering at New Directors, is a family drama based on real events in the turbulent times after Yugoslavia abolishes Kosovan autonomous institutions in 1990.
“Increasing the volume of independent international movies acquisitions,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
'Obaba' set to open San Sebastian film fest
MADRID -- The Spanish film Obaba by award-winning director Montxo Armendariz will open the 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers said Friday. Armendariz adapted the film, which will be in the festival's Official Competition, from Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga's 1988 novel Obabakoak. Starring Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Juan Diego Botto, Eduard Fernandez, Peter Lohmeyer and Mercedes Sampietro, Obaba was filmed in the Spanish region of Navarra. Armendariz won San Sebastian's top prize, the Golden Shell, in 1990 for Letters from Alou and the Silver Shell in 1986 for 27 Hours. The festival is scheduled to run Sept. 15-24.
- 7/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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