14-02-2012

Everybody in Our Family Begins World Sales

By Iulia Blaga

    {mosimage}BERLIN: Films Boutique (www.filmsboutique.com) has sold Radu Jude's newest film Everybody in Our Family to Poland.

    The film had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival on 13 February 2012.

    Everybody in Our Family was produced by Ada Solomon and HiFilm Production (www.hifilm.ro). Steinette Bosklopper and the Dutch company Circe Film along with Gabriel Antal and the Romania's Abis Studio (www.abisstudio.ro) are the coproducers.

    The film, Jude's follow-up to the feature The Happiest Girl in the World/Cea mai fericită fată din lume and the mid-length Film for Friends/Film pentru prieteni, is a contemporary black comedy about the deterioration of the relationship between a father and his ex-wife, ex-mother in law, small daughter and ex-wife's boyfriend. Jude describes it as "a mixture of Steven Seagal and Chekhov."

    Solomon told FNE that showing the film in festivals is a must in order to sell it abroad. "The Happiest Girl in the World was sold in 20 territories almost because of the festival circuit." The film will open in Romania in spring 2012.