Cinema Guild has picked up North American rights to Helena Wittmann’s Locarno selection Human Flowers Of Flesh, which screens at Filmfest Hamburg this week.
Wittmann’s follow up to her 2017 debut feature Drift will receive its US premiere at New York Film Festival next week.
Cinema Guild plans a theatrical release in 2023 on the story starring Dogtooth’s Angeliki Papoulia as a woman who enlists the help of five men who don’t speak each other’s languages and embark on a trip around the Mediterranean.
“A film like Human Flowers Of Flesh is inseparable from the cinema space, it is like its natural habitat,” said Wittmann. “I couldn’t be happier that Cinema Guild is bringing it onto the big screens in North America and allowing it to meet its audiences.”
“Helena Wittman has a unique gift for crafting singular, richly sensorial cinematic experiences,” said Cinema Guild president Peter Kelly, who negotiated the deal with Egle Cepaite of Shellac. “We’re thrilled to be bringing Human Flowers of Flesh to the big screen where North American audiences can fall under its spell.”
Hamburg-based producer Fünferfilm (which produced Drift) co-produced Human Flowers Of Flesh with Tita Productions and announced this week it is lining up a third film with Wittman.
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