German world sales outfit Beta Cinema will attend this year’s European Film Market (12-18 February) in Berlin with a broad and commercially calibrated slate spanning Berlinale premieres, market debuts, market screenings and a substantial package of upcoming projects, ranging from prestige literary adaptations and historical epics to thrillers with clear crossover ambitions. The line-up is anchored by one Panorama world premiere, four market premieres, two market screenings and a long list of titles in post-production, pre-production or development.

Leading the slate is the Panorama entry Four Minus Three by Austria’s Adrian Goiginger. Inspired by the true story of writer Barbara Pachl-Eberhart, the drama stars Valerie Pachner as a woman forced to rebuild her life after losing her partner and children in a tragic accident. The film marks Goiginger’s return to emotionally driven storytelling following The Best of All Worlds [+leggi anche:
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Among the EFM market premieres is 500 Miles by four-time BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews (see the news). A warm-hearted adventure following two brothers fleeing their parents’ separation on a cross-country journey, the film boasts a high-profile cast led by Bill Nighy, Maisie Williams and Roman Griffin Davis, and is positioned for family and adult crossover audiences. World rights are available, excluding a wide range of European territories.

Also premiering is Oh, This Unspeakable Void, directed by Simon Verhoeven and adapted from Joachim Meyerhoff’s bestselling autobiographical novel. A bittersweet comedy-drama about a young man negotiating drama school and life with his eccentric grandparents, the film reunites the creative team behind Toni Erdmann [+leggi anche:
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Another highlight is 22 Lengths by Mia Maariel Meyer, adapted from Caroline Wahl’s internationally successful novel. Starring Luna Wedler, the drama centres on a young woman juggling family responsibility, grief and the promise of a different future. The pic has already proven its appeal, with strong German box-office results and more than 700,000 admissions recorded. World rights are available, excluding German-speaking territories.

Rounding off the market premieres is The Good Daughter [+leggi anche:
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As part of its market screening activities, Beta Cinema presents The Physician II by Philipp Stölzl, the sequel to the international box-office hit The Physician [+leggi anche:
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Also screening is Let It Rain by two-time Oscar nominee Hannes Holm, a feel-good comedy-drama blending magical realism and social observation, starring Robert Gustafsson.

Meanwhile, titles in post-production include the surveillance thriller Keep Her Quiet by Franz Böhm and Suli Kurban, starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi, and The Method by Lena Stahl, adapted from Juli Zeh’s novel Corpus Delicti.

Also on the slate are Rose’s Baby, an English-language comedy directed by Trudie Styler, and led by Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle; the multi-director World War II drama Each of Us; I Is Another by Felix Randau; the action-driven sequel Operation Napoleon – Tears of the Wolf by Jyri Kähönen; Lapland War by Aku Louhimies; the high-concept thriller High End by Antonia Campbell-Hughes; The Offing by James Hawes, starring Helena Bonham Carter; and The Noise of Time, directed by Jan Komasa and adapted from Julian Barnes’ novel on composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

Overall, the slate underscores Beta Cinema’s continued strategy of combining festival-anchored prestige projects with high-concept genre titles tailored for the international marketplace.