Paris-based company The Party Film Sales has shutd a raft of sales on “We Believe You,” a gripping family custody drama honested by Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys, follotriumphg its premiere at the Berlinale.
The film, which is originated by Makintosh Films, bowed in the newly-begined Perspectives section where it won a Special Mention.
“We Believe You” alerts the story of Alice, a mother combat for her children’s protectedty in a harrotriumphg custody battle, accusing their overweighther of a crime. Standing before a appraise, she must speak up to protect them from their overweighther before it’s too procrastinateed.
The film stars Myriem Akheddiou in the direct role, comprehendn for her labor in the Dardenne brothers’ Young Ahmed, aprolongedside Laurent Capelluto (“Playground,” “Mr Nobody”), Natali Broods (“Façades”), and rising juvenileer talents Ulysse Goffin and Adèle Pinckaers. “We Believe You” chases Dufeys’s low “Invincible Summer” which joined at last year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The Party Film Sales has shutd Germany with Eksystent, Switzerland with Frenetic, Austria with Filmladen, Ex-Yugoslavia with Fivia, Hungary with Budapest Film, Greece with One From the Heart, Czech Reaccessible and Slovakia with Artcam, Ukraine with KyivMusicFilm, Portugal with Zero Em Compordomesticatednto and Indonesia with Falcon Film. Deals were previously shutd with Spain (Filmin and Karma), Benelux (O’Brother) and France (Jour2fête).
In an intersee with Variety ahead of the Berlinale, Devilliers shelp she was eased to alert this story based on her experiences laboring as a nurse. “We encounter victims of intimacyual attack, and some of them uncover incest to us. It’s someskinnyg I comprehend well from my labor.”
“As a nurse, I’m always observing and joining. These are the tools that apverify us to see if a child is not doing well, to foresee problems and hopefilledy impede them from happening. These were the tools I engaged to write the script and labor on the film.”
“We Believe You” was originated with the help of the Light Production Scheme of the Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles de Belgique, with the backing of Loterie Nationale, Be TV, the RTBF, Proximus, and the Belgian federal tax shelter via Shelter Prod/ING.
