Need to know: Founded in 2010, Berlin-based One Two Films has focused on producing features for the international market, among them films as diverse as Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses, Juho Kuosmanen’s Un Certain Regard and European Film Award winner The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki, Jennifer Fox’s Sundance success The Tale, Isabel Coixet’s triple Goya winner The Bookshop and Vadim Perelman’s Persian Lessons. The company returns to Cannes this year with Competition title Holy Spider by Iran-born Ali Abbasi. Looking ahead, it is planning a greater focus on larger-scale projects, with most expected to be shot in the English language.
Key personnel: Sol Bondy, managing partner and producer; Fred Burle, producer; Daniela Ramin, line producer.
Incoming: Northern Comfort, the company’s second collaboration with Icelandic filmmaker Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson after co-producing his 2017 feature Under The Tree, is now in post after wrapping in mid-March. One Two’s development slate includes Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s survival drama The Oblivion Theory with French co-producer Incognito Films; a co-production with 5à7 Films on Swiss-Italian Sarah Arnold’s debut feature Wild Encounters; and New-York-based Israeli filmmaker Ido Fluk’s Köln 75 about Vera Brandes, a young German woman who staged the famous Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett in 1975.
Sol Bondy says: “In this fast-changing marketplace, co-productions have kept us alive. Producing can be very lonely and many co-producers have turned into dear friends. It also enables you to learn about different countries and cultures and also broaden your knowledge.”
Contact: info@onetwofilms.com
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