The Match Factory has unveiled a raft of sales for award-winning Berlinale titles Queen at Sea by Lance Hammer and Rose by Markus Schleinzer.
Hammer’s intimate family dementia drama Queen at Sea won the Silver Bear Jury Prize as well as a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, shared by Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall.
The film has since sold to UK & Ireland (Curzon), Poland (Aurora), Benelux (Imagine Film), South Korea (Challan), Switzerland (Frenetic Films), Greece (Cinobo), Portugal (FILMS4YOU), Former Yugoslavia (Investacommerce AG), the Baltics (Scanorama), Taiwan (Andrews Film) and Latam (Cine Canibal).
The feature is a The Bureau production and is produced by Tristan Goligher and Hammer.
Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, for which Sandra Hüller won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, also sold well.
The Match Factory has closed deals to France (KMBO), Spain (Avalon), Benelux (Paradiso), Poland (Gutek), South Korea (Pancinema), Denmark (Ost For Paradis), Sweden & Iceland (Edge), Norway (Fidalgo), Finland (Future Film Oy), Hungary (Cirko Film), Portugal (No Comboio), Greece (Weirdwave), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Zero Gravity), Bulgaria (Beta Film), Former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Middle East & North Africa (Gulf Film), Israel (Lev Cinemas), and the Baltics (Scanorama).
Additionally, the film will be distributed in Germany (Piffl), Austria (Filmladen), and Switzerland (Filmcoopi). Rose is an Austrian-German production from Schubert, Row Pictures and Walker + Worm Film, produced by Johannes Schubert, Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker and Karsten Stöter.
Negotiations for additional territories for both films are ongoing.
