Exclusive:Wouter Jansen’s Vienna-based Square Eyes has acquired international sales rights toBosnian director Dane Komljen’s Desire Lines,which is making its world premiere in the international competition at Locarno Film Festival next month.
Desire Lines follows an emotionally damaged but charismatic man played by Ivan Čuić, as he roams through shadowy Belgrade cityscapes and eventually heads towards the mountains.
The writer-director described his film as drawing “a line between this reality and fantasy found in fairytales and horror films, pointing towards the hunger for the unknown”.
Komljen shot his third feature in the remote rural Bosnian locations that...
Desire Lines follows an emotionally damaged but charismatic man played by Ivan Čuić, as he roams through shadowy Belgrade cityscapes and eventually heads towards the mountains.
The writer-director described his film as drawing “a line between this reality and fantasy found in fairytales and horror films, pointing towards the hunger for the unknown”.
Komljen shot his third feature in the remote rural Bosnian locations that...
- 7/23/2025
- ScreenDaily
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival has announced its full lineup, which will see Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche and Ben Rivers competing for its prestigious Golden Leopard.
Jude, who won the Special Jury Prize only two years ago – for “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” – will bring the much-anticipated “Dracula.” In a conversation with Variety, the Romanian director said: “If ‘Kontinental’ 25’ is my answer to Roberto Rossellini, let’s say that ‘Dracula’ is my love letter to Ed Wood.”
“There’s a lot of talk about A.I. these days, but after this film, you won’t talk about it in the same way. It’s a very radical film, a crazy political comedy,” said Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro.
Among all the 17 world premieres in Locarno’s main International Competition, Abdellatif Kechiche will continue his controversial saga with “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” – a...
Jude, who won the Special Jury Prize only two years ago – for “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” – will bring the much-anticipated “Dracula.” In a conversation with Variety, the Romanian director said: “If ‘Kontinental’ 25’ is my answer to Roberto Rossellini, let’s say that ‘Dracula’ is my love letter to Ed Wood.”
“There’s a lot of talk about A.I. these days, but after this film, you won’t talk about it in the same way. It’s a very radical film, a crazy political comedy,” said Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro.
Among all the 17 world premieres in Locarno’s main International Competition, Abdellatif Kechiche will continue his controversial saga with “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” – a...
- 7/8/2025
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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