'The Stranger'

Source: Gaumont

‘The Stranger’

EXCLUSIVE: Nordic distributor Edge Entertainment has topped up its slate for the coming months with titles including Francois Ozon’s The Stranger.

Edge has acquired rights for Sweden, Finland and Iceland on the film, from sales agent Gaumont.

Black-and-white feature The Stranger is adapted by Ozon from Albert Camus’ classic 1942 novel of the same name, the story of a settler in French Algeria who, weeks after his mother’s funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers.

Benjamin Voisin leads the cast, which also includes Denis Lavant, Swann Arlaud and Pierre Lottin. Ozon also produced the film for his FOZ.

Edge has acquired rights for Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland on The Ugly, the new film from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho. Launched in the Special Presentations section of Toronto Film Festival this month, the thriller follows a man investigating the truth behind his long-lost mother’s death.

Hailey Yoomin Yang produces for South Korea’s Wow Point, with Plus M handling sales. The film topped the box office in South Korea earlier this month.

Edge has also acquired Sweden rights on Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 from The Match Factory. Launched in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in May, the film follows a piano student in a car crash that kills her boyfriend; the student is taken in by a woman who witnessed the incident. Producers are Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber and Anton Kaiser, for Schramm Film Koerner Weber Kaiser. 

Edge will release all three titles in 2026. The distributor’s upcoming slate includes another Ozon film, When Fall Is Coming, releasing in Sweden on October 24.

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