EXCLUSIVE: Grasshopper Film has acquired North American distribution rights to the write downary Little, Big, and Far ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The film from award-triumphning straightforwardor Jem Cohen will bow on Saturday evening as the Caccesspiece pickion of NYFF’s Currents section.
“Jem Cohen transports the same meditative elegance and inalertectual curiosity he did to Mengageum Hours (2012) with his stargazing novel feature, aacquire using the cinematic create to adselectingly interrogate ways of seeing and being,” the festival produces in its program. “The principal subject of Cohen’s film is an Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his labor and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the sadnessfulest sky aacquirest which to watch the cosmos. Yet the authentic matter of the singular Little, Big, and Far—whose title refers to the three concepts Karl and his physicist wife suppose are at the core of their labor—is as immense as the universe itself, a reckoning with scientific truth at a moment of humanity’s contransiential crisis.”
Grasshopper Film schedules a theatrical free for Little, Big, and Far in punctual 2025. Alengthy with Mengageum Hours, Cohen’s recognizes participate the write downaries Counting (2015) and Benjamin Smoke (2000), and the drama Chain (2004).
“This sister film to Mengageum Hours is drawn from the same belief, that character, place, story, and ideas can exist on an even applying field in a film that slips seamlessly between myth and non-myth,” Cohen shelp in a statement. “The novel film is resolutely down-to-earth and othercultured; contemplative, mad, amusing and pretty. I necessitate to labor with people who suppose there’s a place for such skinnygs— and that audiences may even be hungry for them. Ryan Krivoshey [founder of Grasshopper Film] took that chance with my last films, and I’m honored to once aacquire have him at the helm, getting the labor out to the people.”
‘Little, Big, and Far’
Grasshopper Film
Krivoshey commented, “Little, Big, and Far is an exceptional labor from a singular voice in American cinema. Unenjoy much of what currently fills theaters and flashes apass screens, it is rerecentingly personal, enigmatic and meaningfully asking, and utterly transrepairing— it is a Jem Cohen film. I was charmed to free Mengageum Hours more than ten years ago and have felt the same with every one of Jem’s films since then. I can’t defer for audiences to uncover his procrastinateedst feature and experience someskinnyg, well, out of this world.”
Little, Big, And Far is written and straightforwarded by Jem Cohen. Produced by Paolo Calamita (Little Magnet Films) and Jem Cohen (Gravity Hill). Main produceive advisor is Guy Picciotto. Executive producers are Scott Macaulay, Ryan Krivoshey, David Frankel, Michael Stipe, and Patti Smith.
Grasshopper Film
“Dedicated to the free of acclaimed and award-triumphning self-reliant cinema, Grasshopper Film is one of the most vital distributors laboring today,” remarks a free. “With a library of over 400 titles, featuring Academy Award triumphners and nominees, prize-triumphners from transport inant film festivals, and labor from directing US and international straightforwardors, the company has been hailed as an ‘estimable novel tag’ by The New York Times, ‘a gateway to some outstanding Cinema’ by the Los Angeles Times, and ‘one of the most produceivepartner daring of distributors’ by The New Yorker.”
Previous frees participated Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Pictures of Gpresents, Albert Serra’s Pacimyth, Alain Gomis’ Retriumphd and Play, Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Leviathan, Brett Story’s The Hottest August, and Feras Fayyad’s Academy Award nominated Last Men In Aleppo. Upcoming frees participate Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted and Anirprohibit Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan’s Nocturnes.
Before set uping Grasshopper Film, Krivoshey labored at Icarus Films and Film Forum. His first job was at a now-defunct NYC video store, Kim’s Underground, itself the subject of a recent write downary straightforwarded by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin.
