EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based Films Boutique has picked up Cannes Critics’ Week documentary Tin Castle, directed by Irish-French filmmaker Alexander Murphy, for international sales.
The feature shot in Ireland across several years and follows the O’Reilly family, living in a rundown trailer stranded in the middle of fields. Pa’, Lisa and their 10 children face the threat of eviction. Steadfast in their tradition, they resist. But for how long?
It is produced by France’s Cosme Bongrain of Goodspeed Productions and David Collins and Eamon Hughes of Ireland’s Samson Films. Murphy wrote the screenplay with Jean-Baptiste Plard. Tin Castle is currently the only film with an Irish producer in this year’s Cannes line-up.
The film will be distributed in France by Dulac Distribution and Ireland by Breakout Pictures. It has been supported by the CNC and Screen Ireland, in association with France’s Cosmotone, Proarti, Agora Sofica, Sansofica and Procirep-Angoa.
Tin Castle is Murphy’s second feature, after his directorial debut Goodbye Sisters, a doc about two Nepali sisters, premiered last year at Tallinn.
“We fell in love with this family whose long-standing tradition and lifestyle will be a heartfelt discovery for audiences young and old,” said Films Boutique CEO Jean-Christophe Simon. “Murphy’s touching approach connects the dots between the work of Sean Baker and Frederick Wiseman and the film will catapult him among the top contemporary documentary filmmakers”
“Films Boutique has a rare gift for standing beside filmmakers with a bold cinematic voice, one that can be fragile, unruly, tender and fiercely alive all at once,” added Bongrain. “With Tin Castle, we felt we had found the right champion for a film born from trust and closeness, shaped over time and made to travel far.”
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