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The Hunter’s Son

Dutch director Ricky Rijneke lands Jérémie Renier to topline her sophomore feature The Hunter’s Son, described as a “man’s story told by women.” Rijneke’s producer is Mildred van Leeuwaarden, with co-production from Poland’s Magdalena Kaminskaana and Agata Szymanska, Iceland’s Birgitta Bjornsdottir, and Belgium’s Ellen De Waele. Her latest project has been filtered through the Torino Film Lab, the Toronto Talent Lab (where Malgorzata Szumowska and Wim Wenders served as mentors) and the Sam Spiegel Lab. Rijneke’s 2007 short “Wing: The Fish that Talked Back” was programmed in Locarno and her 2013 feature Silent Ones competed in Rotterdam.…...

Renier previously starred in ’Frankie’ and ‘L’Amant Double’.

Belgian star Jérémie Renier has been confirmed as the lead of Dutch director Ricky Rijneke’s second feature, The Hunter’s Son, which has been wrapping up its financing in this week’s Venice gap financing market.

The budget is now complete for the French-language film, which will start shooting in Iceland in March. Eurimages has now come on board. Several sales agents are reported to be vying for the project.

The Hunter’s Son is billed by producers as a “man’s story told by women.” The lead producer is...

Holland’s upcoming feature Charlatan among 51 headed to the Lido.

This year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market, returning for its sixth edition in 2019, has named the 51 projects that will participate across its four strands.

There are 28 features, fiction and documentaries, heading to the Lido this year. Among them is Agnieszka Holland’s upcoming feature Charlatan (Sarlatan), which is being produced by Czech outfit Marlene Film in co-production with Film & Music Entertainment (F&me)’s Irish outpost and Slovakia’s Furia Film.

The project is based on the life of Jan Mikolášek, a Czech healer who lived in totalitarian 1950s Czechoslovakia. Films Boutique is handling sales.

The sixth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 30 – September 1), which takes place during the Venice Film Festival, will feature 51 projects in the final stages of development and funding.

Of those, 23 projects from Europe and beyond are narrative features with 70% funding in place. Five projects are documentaries.

Among highlights are Czech feature Sarlatan by Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland (Mr. Jones) about a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian ’50s; Russian film Air by Dovlatov director Alexey German Jr; Grbavica director Jasmila Zbanic’s Euro co-pro Quo Vadis Aida (working title); and Canadian pic Saint-Narcisse by Bruce La Bruce.

Here’s a full list of projects taking part in the market:

28 Selected Fiction And Documentary Projects

Air (Russia) by Alexey German Jr., SAGa, Metrafilms Alam (France, Lebanon, Belgium) by Firas Khoury, Mpm Film A la sombra de los árboles (Chile) by Matías Rojas Valencia,...

Dutch director plots follow up to 2013 debut The Silent Ones.

Dutch filmmaker Ricky Rijneke’s second feature The Hunter’s Son is edging closer towards production.

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Rijneke’s debut feature The Silent Ones

At International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) this week, producers Dirk Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden of Rotterdam Films confirmed that they have secured further financing for the film from a range of partners.

Leading arthouse distributor Filmfreak is now on board to handle the Dutch release. The Polish Film Institute has also lent its support and both Dutch producer Wild At Art and the Netherlands Film Fund is backing the project.

French actor Swann Arlaud, best known for Petit Paysan, is in advanced negotiation to star in the film.

During its lengthy gestation, The Hunter’s Son, which has a projected budget of €1.8m, has passed through the Torino Film Lab and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab as well as [link=co...

Polish showcase to highlight 26 movies.

Polish Days (August 8 - 10), the showcase of national films at the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (August 3 - 13) in Wroclaw, Poland, has announced twenty-six titles this year.

Among six completed films are Andrzej Jakimowski’s Once Upon a Time in November and Maciej Sobieszczański’s The Reconciliation.

Eleven films will be presented at the pitchings event while nine films will be presented in the work-in-progress section.

Around 150 guests from Poland and abroad are expected to attend the event in Wrocław, which has been organized since 2013 in co-operation with the Polish Film Institute.

Projects presented in past years include Spoor, The Last Family, The Birds Are Singing in Kigali and All These Sleepless Nights.

New Horizons is being held two weeks later in the calendar this year to accomodate incoming sporting event The World Games, meaning the Polish festival coincides with the Locarno Film Festival for the first time.

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Festival runs at the Babylon cinema on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Mitte from Feb 8-18.

The Berlin Independent Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its second edition.

Taking place at the Babylon cinema on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Mitte, the 17-strong feature lineup includes Eddie Mullins’ Doomsdays, Ricky Rijneke’s Silent Ones, Tali Barde’s For No Eyes Only and Andrew McGeary’s The Warehouse.

The festival will also feature a shorts lineup, with the shorts screened in blocks between features, as well as a music video showcase on Feb 17.

Running at the same time as the Berlinale but not associated with it, the festival aims to provide a showcase for indie films with an emphasis on new film-makers, as well as developing into a crucial business hub for the low-budget film industry.

Last year’s edition saw prizes awarded to the likes of Paul Schoolman’s StringCaesar and Mark Jarrett’s The Taiwan Oyster for Low-Budget Feature and Micro-Budget...

Ricky Rijneke’s Silent Ones has been named as a late addition to the main Competition line-up at Poland’s T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.

Silent Ones premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January where it was nominated for the Tiger Award.

The Netherlands-Hungary co-production recently screened at the Moscow International Film festival and won four awards – including best cinematography – at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy, in April.

The film centres on a young Hungarian woman who wakes up after a car crash to find that her younger brother has disappeared. As she promised him, she boards a cargo ship to find a new life but a chance encounter with a shady character soon complicates matters.

The New Horizons International Competition consists of 12 Polish premieres including Rotterdam competition title Noche by Leonardo Brzezicki, Locarno Fipresci award winner Leviathan by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, as well as this year’s Cannes’ Un Certain...