The year 2025 begins under the best auspices for Luxbox (lead by Fiorella Moretti). In competition last year in Berlin with Who Do I Belong To [+lee también:
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Familiar with the Berlinale, where he won the Golden Bear in 2021 with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] in 2023). Starring Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare and Șerban Pavlu, his new opus, Kontinental ‘25 (written by the filmmaker himself), centres on Orsolya, a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building, an act that will have tragic consequences and will trigger a moral crisis that Orsolya tries to overcome as best she can… The production is led by Saga Films (Romania) with RT Features (Brazil), Bord Cadre Films (Switzerland), Sovereign Films (UK) and Paul Thiltges Distributions (Luxembourg) in co-production.

Luxbox is also selling The Message, the 8th fiction feature (since 2009) by Argentinian filmmaker Iván Fund who reaches the competition of one of the biggest festivals for the first time, after getting noticed in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard in 2010 with Los labios and in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori in 2021 with Dusk Stone [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Written by the director and his compatriot Martín Felipe Castagnet, the script of The Message plunges into the Argentinian countryside where the special gift of a teenage girl gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with an animal medium in order to earn their living. In the lead roles are Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz and Betania Cappato. The production will be handled by Argentinian outfits Rita Cine and Insomnia Films, with Blurr Stories (Argentina), Amore Cine (Spain), Panes 360 Contenidos (Spain) and Animista Cine (Uruguay) in co-production.

Jennyfer Gautier’s Luxbox sales team will also pre-sell the feature Marie & Jolie by French-Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri (appreciated in Directors’ Fortnight in 2022 with Under the Fig Trees [+lee también:
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Also worth noting in the lineup is Red Rocks by Bruno Dumont (produced by French outfit Tessalit Productions with Italian company Nightswim, Belgian outfit Novak Prod and Portuguese outfit Rosa Filmes) which should go into production this year.