Award-winning European dramas coming to VOD this November
VOD News | On 23, Oct 2017
European VOD distribution initiative Walk This Way has unveiled its new season of continental cinema, with a host of award-winning dramas arriving on VOD this November.
Including titles by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Asli Özge, Ragnar Bragason and Marco Martins, the collection will be available in the UK from 6th November on iTunes, Google Play, Sony, Microsoft and Amazon Prime Video. Here’s the full line-up:
Daguerrotype (France/Japan, 2016)
From acclaimed Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata, Pulse), comes Daguerrotype, a classic ghost story bent through the lens of one of the most singular horror visionaries at work today.
Jean (Tahar Rahim), a young Parisian with few skills and even fewer prospects, seems an unlikely candidate for assistant to famed photographer Stéphane (Olivier Gourmet), an obsessive perfectionist living in isolation since his wife’s unexpected death. Yet he soon finds himself in his new employer’s vast, decaying mansion, helping to create life-sized daguerrotypes so vivid they seem almost to contain some portion of their subjects’ souls.
Saint George (Portugal, 2016)
Director Marco Martins reunites with Nuno Lopes after the success of his first acclaimed feature film Alice (2005). Drowning in debt, unemployed boxer Jorge (Nuno Lopes) is on the verge of losing his young son and his Brazilian wife. He is one of shocking amounts of Portuguese families and companies unable to repay their loans in the time of European troika bailout measures. Due to his intimidating physique, Jorge must reluctantly accept a job with a collection agency which drags him into a world of violence and crime.
Lopes was awarded with Best Actor en the Venice Horizon Award 2016 for the role.
Metalhead (Iceland, 2013)
It’s the year 1970 and as Black Sabbath record their first album and mark the birth of Heavy Metal, Hera Karlsdottir (Thora Bjorg Helga) is born on the cowshed floor at her parents’ farm in rural Iceland. The years of her youth are carefree until a tragedy strikes when her older brother is killed in an accident. In her grief she finds solace in the dark music of Heavy Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.
Director Ragnar Bragason is one of Iceland’s most popular filmmakers of the younger generation. He is best known for his twin feature-films Börn (Children) and Foreldrar (Parents) and the popular TV series trilogy Næturvaktin (The Night Shift).
All of a Sudden (Germany, 2016)
After the party in Karsten’s apartment, everybody leaves except Anna (Natalia Belitski). Admiringly, Karsten (Sebastian Hülk) approaches this mysterious woman. How could he have known, that in a moment of weakness, his well-established life would spiral out of control and turn into a disaster? In this small provincial German town, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
Istanbul-born, Germany-based director Asli Ozge was recognised for All of a Sudden with the Label Europa Cinemas – Special Mention award at Berlin International Film Festival 2016 and the FIPRESCI award at the Istambul International Film Festival 2016.
The film will be released in Original Version with English subtitles.
