EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales company Visionär Films has picked up two titles ahead of the autumn festival run, including Venice Critics’ Week selection The H@llow Man.
The feature debut of former lighting technician Kamel Laaridhi, the film is set in a dystopian Tunisia in 2059, when humans live with a technology which controls memory and emotions. One man consults a hypnotherapist, who forges the emotions others can no longer feel.
Laaridhi has previously directed shorts including 2015’s Sniper, and producer Ala Eddine Slim’s 2016 Venice Critics’ Week entry The Last Of Us.
The H@llow Man is produced by Moncef Taleb for Inside Production, Chawki Kniss and Achref Lemmouchi for Room 420, and Yazid Chebbi for Good Tone Studio, all of Tunisia.
Visionär has also acquired sales rights to Italian documentary Still Too Soon. Directed by Antonio Valerio Spera and currently in post-production, the film follows Mauro, a 78-year-old man who has spent his life on adventures including sailing, Sahara expeditions and solo adventures. His family tries to talk him out of his latest trip, a four-month journey across northern Europe in a campervan, but Mauro stubbornly continues to plan for his departure.
The film is produced by Alessandro Greco and Simone Isola for Italy’s Morel Film and Kimerafilm.
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