EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has acquired Lukas Dhont’s Cannes Competion entry Shut for the UK, Eire, Latin America, Turkey and India.
Starring Lea Drucker (Custody), Émilie Dequenne (Our Kids), Kevin Janssens (Revenge) and newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, the movie will get its world premiere on the Riviera this week.
In Shut, the extreme friendship between two thirteen-year outdated boys Leo and Remi out of the blue will get disrupted. Struggling to know what has occurred, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mom.
The movie can be launched theatrically followed by an unique Mubi streaming launch. The Match Manufacturing unit is dealing with worldwide gross sales and negotiated the take care of Mubi, its father or mother firm.
Pic is produced by Dirk Impens and Michiel Dhont for Menuet (BE) and co-produced by Diaphana (FR), Topkapi Movies (NL) and Versus Productions (BE).
Dhont mentioned: “I’m extremely honored to share this movie and begin this collaboration with Mubi.”
Lady, Dhont’s debut function movie, gained the Digital camera d’Or at Cannes in 2018. The movie additionally gained the festivals’ Queer Palm, Fipresci Prize and Un Sure Regard Greatest Efficiency award for Victor Polster. The movie scored a Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Overseas Language Movie and gained prizes at San Sebastian, Zurich and Greatest First Characteristic Movie on the BFI London Movie Competition.
Latest and upcoming Mubi releases embody Park Chan-wook’s competitors favorite Determination To Go away, Léa Mysius’s Director’s Fortnight title The 5 Devils, Thomas Hardiman’s Medusa Deluxe, and Joachim Trier’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated The Worst Individual within the World. Mubi’s co-production One High-quality Morning from Mia Hansen-Løve has additionally premiered throughout Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight.
