Following on their collaboration on Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Charades has boarded worldwide gross sales on upcoming Mubi-backed manufacturing “Convey Them Down.”
Starring Barry Keoghan, Academy Award nominated for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and Christopher Abbott (“Sanctuary”), a Golden Globe nominee for “Catch 22,” “Convey Them Down” marks the primary function from writer-director Chris Andrews, behind award-winning quick movies “Fireplace” (2015) and “Stalker” (2019).
On “Aftersun,” Charades took on worldwide gross sales duties, with Mubi boarding to take distribution rights to a number of territories – resembling U.Okay.-Eire, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – simply because the movies bowed in 2022 Cannes Critics’ Week.
For “Convey Them Down,” Charades will promote worldwide rights exterior North America, U.Okay., Eire, Latin America and Italy the place Mubi retains all rights.
Colm Meaney (“Gangs of London”), Nora-Jane Noone (“Wildfire”), Paul Prepared (“Motherland”), and Susan Lynch (Comfortable Valley”) additionally star.
“Convey Them Down” activates Michael (Abbott), the final son of a shepherding household, who harbours a horrible secret, having withdrawn from the world to dwell together with his ageing father (Colm Meaney).
When confrontation with a rival farmer Gary (Paul Prepared) and his son Jack (Keoghan) spirals uncontrolled, Michael is embroiled in what the synopsis describes as a “devastating chain of occasions, forcing him to confront the horrors of his previous and leaving each households completely altered.”
“I’m thrilled to companion once more with Mubi on this very particular film. Chris’ sturdy imaginative and prescient for this thriller allowed him to draw for his debut the absolute best companions and essentially the most gifted forged,” mentioned Carole Baraton, Charades’ co-founder, including: “We’re excited so as to add up the very best worldwide distribution community to that group.”
Convey them down is produced by Ivana MacKinnon on the U.Okay.’s Wild Swim (), Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde at Tailor-made Movies in Eire, U.Okay.-based Jacob Swan Hyam and Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts, at Belgium’s Frakas Productions.
Mubi backed the filmin conjunction with Display Eire, the Broadcasting Authority of Eire and the U.Okay. World Display Fund, a manufacturing mannequin which permits it up-stream involvement in a movies additionally supported by European co-producers and any delicate cash they will deliver to the desk plus a status gross sales agent.
“Convey Them Down” joins a Cannes gross sales slate which options “The Hedgehog” director Mona Achache’s particular screening, “Little Lady Blue,” starring Marion Cotillard and impressed by Achache’s real-life mom, and “The Goldman Case,” from Cédric Kahn, based mostly on the true story of a French left-wing mental dealing with life in jail and his lawyer, which opens Administrators’ Fortnight.
A 3rd Charades title, Kamal Lazraq’s “Hounds,” set on the poor outer-radius of Casablanca, premieres in Un Sure Regard; Katell Quillévéré’s interval relationship drama “Alongside Got here Love” is about for a Cannes Premiere screening; and “Hen for Linda!,” co-directed by Sébastien Laudenbach (“Lady With out Palms”), will play parallel part ACID, earlier than screening in primary competitors at June’s Annecy Animation Movie Pageant.