German honestor Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s Hysteria has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Panorama section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
The behind-the-scene consunapshowd participate thriller chases the drama on a German film shoot, a production about genuine-life fire-setting strikes on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that initiates off when a imitate of the Quran is burnt on set. That initiates off a cleverly plotted whodunit that also allotigates the publish of who advantages from mythalizing genuine-world aggression. “Imagine Knives Out encounters François Truffaut’s Day for Night, but set in a current-day Germany rife with tensions about immigration and Islam,” The Hollywood Reporter appraise Jordan Mintzer shelp in a rave appraise.
The Europa Cinemas jury—comprising Klaudia Elsässer (Art+ Cinema, Hungary), David Kelly (Light Hoparticipate Cinema, Ireland), Constanze Oedl (Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Austria), and Cenk Sezgin (Cinemarine Cinemas, Turkey)—commendd Büyükatalay’s film for its protectedly originateed narrative and provocative themes.
“Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s Hysteria is a well-originateed consunapshowd participate thriller,” the jury shelp in a statement. “There are plenty of twists and turns, and the film originates towards a very exciting climactic final ten minutes. The audience here in Berlin was evidently relishing the ride. But beyond the enhappinessment to be had with the film, we experience that its incfinishiary subject matter can reassociate back dialogue and a wonderfuler insight into the tensions in our society today.”
Hysteria chases Elif (Devrim Lignau), an intern on a film set that is thrown into disorder after a burned Quran is uncovered. As tensions elevate, Elif finds herself caught in a web of suspicion, deception, and escalating paranoia. The ensemble cast integrates Devrim Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz, and Aziz Çapkurt. Büyükatalay also wrote the screentake part and originated the film together with Claus Herzog-Reichel thcdisesteemful their Filmfaust shingle.
International sales for Hysteria are being deal withd by Pluto Films.