EXCLUSIVE: Together Films has recorded key sales on Anatomy Of A Genocide (working title), a feature documentary about Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Directed and produced by Torstein Grude and filmed over three years, the documentary has access to Albanese’s inner workings and her challenging UN role. It also follows her personal life, rising from relative obscurity to a high-profile position; and the pressures that come with that for Albanese and those close to her, including death threats, US government sanctions, and the demands of caring for her mother.
The film has made theatrical pre-sales to the MENA region (Front Row Filmed Entertainment), Italy (Wanted Cinema), Portugal (Films4You) andGermany (Immergutefilme), with with releases scheduled for 2027 and additional territories in the works.
Together Films will present the film to buyers at the Cannes Marché du Film.
Italian human rights expert Albanese was appointed to her UN role in 2022, with an additional three-year extension confirmed in April 2025. She has been critical of what she described as Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and recommended in her first report that UN member states work on a plan to end the occupation. A subsequent 2024 report by Albanese was titled ‘Anatomy Of A Genocide’.
The film is produced by Norway’s Jordskjelv, in co-production with Sweden’s Auto Images, the Netherlands’ 100%, Croatia’s Nukleus Film, and France’s Les Films de L’Oeil Sauvage.
“We witness a high-risk journey in pursuit of accountability and justice, where Francesca faces staggering challenges but remains steadfast. In the film, she becomes a prism through which we can better understand the complexities of the now,” said Grude, whose credits as co-producer include Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing and The Look Of Silence.
“It is a film about the people who work tirelessly to counter the resounding failure of the international system. It is also a film about how Palestine seems to become a model for a new normal.”
“Francesca Albanese is one of the most significant figures in international law today, and Torstein has made a film that matches her story in both rigour and humanity,” said Sarah Mosses, CEO and founder at UK-based Together Films. “The early pre-sales response confirms what we already knew: there is a global audience for this story. This is exactly the kind of film Together Films exists to champion: one that is both urgent and deeply cinematic, and one that we’re committed to getting in front of the lawmakers, journalists, legal scholars, and everyday audiences who are trying to make sense of one of the defining crises of our time.”
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