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The film is directed by Switzerland’s Peter Luisi, whose other credits include The Sandman and Streaker.

Munich-based sales outfit Global Screen has picked up worldwide distribution rights to drama Princess ahead of its market premiere at the Pre-Cannes Screenings event (June 21-25).

The film is written and directed by Switzerland’s Peter Luisi, whose other credits include The Sandman and Streaker, and stars Matthias Habich, Johanna Bantzer, Fabian Krüger, Anne Haug and Lia Hahne.

Set in 1985, it revolves around Joseph, an alcoholic man who lives alone and neglected in a rundown two-family house. When his younger sister, a single-parent,...

What would you do if you woke up one morning to find sand in your bed? You haven’t gone to the beach and you didn’t do anything at night besides dream a very realistic dream with sun and sights. Your boss at a local stamp collecting shop made mention of seeing granules around the front desk—saying he’d like to kick the knee of whomever is bringing in such dirt—your doctor gives you a clean bill of health, and your shrink thinks you’re sharing a nicely constructed metaphor on your life. All this is what Benno (Fabian Krüger) must contend with in Peter Luisi’s Der Sandmann [The Sandman], screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Dealing with existentialism in a very Kafkaesque way—bearing a resemblance to an odd film from a few years back called Bartleby—Benno begins to think he is going crazy, unable...