Film Movement has picked up Emma Benestan’s French-language supernatural horror Animale for North America. London and Paris-based Film Constellation is handling world sales and has also signed new deals with Cai Chang in Taiwan, Weirdwave in Greece and Ricochet Digital Media for inflight. Animale was the closing night feature at Cannes Critics’ Week in May before its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest in the Next Wave programme where it earned Benastan the best director prize, and at Sitges Film Festival where it won the best fantastic film award. It is co-produced by Cassandre Warnauts and Jean-Yves Roubin of Belgium’s Frakas Productions, whose credits include Titane and Vincent Must Die. Wild Bunch Distribition will release the film in France on Wednesday (November 27) before a December 18 launch in Belgium via O’Brother and a January 18 release in the Netherlands from Gusto Entertainment.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 26, 2024 09:57 UTC