Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Hlynur Pálmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Godland ahead of screenings at Telluride and TIFF.
The story centres on a late 19th century Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø and Hilmar Guðjónsson star.
Pálmason (A White, White Day; Winter Brothers) wrote the screenplay and producers are Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin,Waage Sandø and Hilmar Guðjónsson.
Janus Films plans a theatrical release to be followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere. Jan Naszewski of New Europe Film Sales brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Janus Films.
The film is produced by Snowglobe in collaboration with Join Motion Pictures and in co-production with Maneki Films, Film I Väst & Garagefilm International, with support from DFI, IFC, CMC, SFI, NFTF, Creative Europe MEDIA, Hornafjörður Municipality, Sass, DR, Rúv, Sena and Scanbox.
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