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4 MBB-funded films at the Venice Film Festival #Venezia80
#MBBFunded - "King’s Land" and "Die Theorie von Allem" celebrate their world premiere at the Venice Film Festival!
Berlin / Potsdam / Venice - Venezia, arriviamo! 4 MBB-funded films celebrate a world premiere in the programme of the 80th Venice Film Festival. The competition for the Golden Lion presents the mystery thriller Die Theorie von Allem by Timm Kröger and the drama King’s Land by Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, with Mads Mikkelsen in the leading role.
The Turkish-German co-production Yurt by director Nehir Tuna – supported by the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund of MBB, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Istanbul Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge - enters the competition in the Orizzonti section.
Élise Girard’s drama Sidonie in Japan, with Isabelle Huppert and August Diehl, will be screened in the Official Selection of the Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) independent film festival series.
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Die Theorie von Allem
Direction: Timm Kröger
Screenplay: Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger
Cast: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler
Production: ma.ja.de. Fiction
King's Land
Direction: Nikolaj Arcel
Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel, Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Gustav Lindh
Production: Zentropa Berlin
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Yurt
Direction & Screenplay: Nehir Tuna
Cast: Doğa Karakaş, Tansu Biçer, Can Bartu Aslan, Ozan Çelik, Didem Ellialtı
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI (VENICE DAYS)
Sidonie in Japan
Direction: Élise Girard
Screenplay: Élise Girard, Maud Ameline, Sophie Fillières
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, August Diehl, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Production: Lupa Film
Kirsten Niehuus, Managing Director of MBB:
“Venice rolls out the red carpet, and the MBB-funded films Die Theorie von Allem and King’s Land are in the competition when outstanding European cinema is celebrated on the Lido! We’re also very pleased about the strong presence of German actors in the films of the international programme, including Oliver Masucci, Milan Peschel, Franz Rogowski, Hanna Schygulla and Clemens Schick. Viva il cinema!”
The festival will also showcase 6 MBB-funded VR projects in the Venice Immersive programme, the first and most important competition for virtual reality, and in the Venice Production Bridge co-production market.
Virtual reality competition
| Aufwind (Volucap)
| Emperor (Reynard Films)
Biennale College Cinema VR
| Tales Of The March (Daring House)
Venice Production Bridge
| Selina (Trotzkind)
| Living With The Snow Leopards (NowHere Media Gaedtke & Parameswaran)
| An Empty Seat (High Road Stories)