Paris-based Totem Films has boarded Rosanne Pel’s darkly comic family drama Donkey Days ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition at Locarno Film Festival.
The Dutch-German production is about two sisters who have always fought for their mother’s attention. When the duo return to their family home they discover strange mysteries, including anonymous ashes and their mother’s love for a donkey.
Donkey Days is produced by Floor Onrust for The Netherlands’ Family Affair Films, who are behind Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts that premiered in Berlin last year, and Pel’s debut feature Light As Feathers that premiered at Toronto in 2018. Verena Gräfe-Höft of Germany’s Junafilm co-produces.
Totem cites Pel’s “impressive second feature” and says the filmmaker “looks at humanity, with its imperfections and contradictions, straight in the eye, and through sensitivity and humour, finds ways to make us embrace all of it - even one’s dysfunctional family!”
Totem Films also heads to Locarno with Kukla’s Fantasy set to premiere in the Cinema of the Present section.
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