‘F*cking Bornholm,’ Tart Comedy of Social Discomfort, Racks Up Gross sales

Xavier Henry-Rashid’s London-based gross sales company Movie Republic has closed offers for a number of territories on “F*cking Bornholm,” a tart comedy of social discomfort. The movie had its worldwide premiere in the principle competitors part of Karlovy Differ Movie Pageant, the place it received the Europa Cinemas Label award.

In his overview, Selection’s Man Lodge commented that Polish writer-director Anna Kazejak‘s “exact, piquant movie deserves wider pageant publicity and discerning distributor curiosity.” It has now been acquired by Iceland’s Bio Paradis, Arsenal for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Lithuania’s Garsas, Slovenia’s RTV, Israel’s Sure and Sweden’s Fortunate Canines. The worldwide trailer has its debut beneath.

Within the movie, two {couples} with youngsters go away for a brief vacation on the Danish island of Bornholm. Every particular person has totally different targets and expectations, and every certainly one of them and their relationships will probably be examined.

It was described by Lodge as a “darkish, distinctly unrelaxing comedy from Poland that mines male abuse, entitlement and ennui for laughs that each one include an accompanying wince — whereas aligning its sympathies firmly with a put-upon spouse and mom, beautifully performed by Agnieszka Grochowska.”

Lodge added: “With its coolly arch comedian tone, neat formal composure and thrives of orchestral scoring to accompany proceedings of escalating awkwardness and emotional harm, ‘Fucking Bornholm’ is more likely to put many arthouse patrons in thoughts of Swedish iconoclast Ruben Östlund — particularly, his breakout function ‘Drive Majeure,’ which coated comparable thematic terrain of masculine absence and irresponsibility within the bourgeois household unit.”

Alongside Grochowska, the movie stars Maciej Stuhr, Grzegorz Damięcki, Jasmina Polak and Magus Krepper.

It’s produced by Marta Lewandowska, and the screenplay was written by Filip Kasperaszek and Kazejak. The manufacturing firm is Warsaw-based Associates With Advantages Studio, which was arrange in 2019 by Lewandowska, Kazejak and Kasperaszek. Its first manufacturing was Netflix’s first Polish unique “Erotica 2022.” FWB’s “Roving Lady” had its world premiere in June at Tribeca Movie Pageant.

Kazejak attended Poland’s Nationwide Movie College in Lodz, and with two buddies produced “Ode to Pleasure,” in regards to the financial emigration of younger Poles. It received the Particular Jury Prize at Gdynia Movie Pageant in 2005, and screened in competitors on the Rotterdam Movie Pageant.

She made her function directorial debut with “Flying Pigs,” which was a field workplace hit in Poland, and her third function “The Phrase” had its world premiere on the Berlinale within the Era part, and was proven at greater than 40 worldwide movie festivals. She has additionally directed many episodes of Poland’s model of HBO’s “In Therapy.”