EXCLUSIVE: REinvent International Sales has made Cannes sales on Jeanette Nordahl’s family drama Beginnings.
The film has sold to Spain (Avalon), Australia (Palace Films), Poland (NC+), Greece (Weirdwave Videorama Ltd), Baltics (Estin Film), Hungary (Cirko) and Bulgaria (Multivision).
Beginnings stars Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik as Ane and Thomas, a couple on the verge of divorce, when Ane suffers a stroke that forces them to stay together and hide their split from their children.
It debuted in Panorama at Berlin in February. Producers are Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin and Katrin Pors for Denmark’s Snowglobe Films in co-production with Hobab & Lemming Film Belgium, with support from Danish Film Institute/Kalle Bjerkø, The Swedish Film Institute/Ami Ekström, FilmFyn/Klaus Hansen, Eurimages, Nordic Film & TV Fond, The Belgium Tax Shelter, in collaboration with TV2 Denmark and RUV.
September Film will distribute the title in Benelux, with Scanbox Entertainment releasing in the Nordic region.
Snowglobe has Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains in Cannes Premiere this year and has produced previous festival titles The Worst Person In The World and Godland.
Beginnings is Nordahl’s second feature after 2020 crime drama Wildland.
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