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Germany, Latin America, Spain among buyers.
Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films has announced a raft of sales on Cam Gigandet and Joel Courtney bodysnatcher sci-fi thriller Assimilate and Wang Quan’an’s Mongolian Berlinale selection Öndög.
Assimilate, about youngsters who use their web series to alert the outside world that aliens are killing and replacing their fellow small town residents, has gone to Splendid Film for Benelux, Germany, and Switzerland.
Rights have also gone in Latin America (Gussi), Japan (Fine Films), Malaysia and Thailand (Logo Motion Pictures), Greece (Spentzos), and Vietnam (Vietnam Mango Films). Gravitas Ventures will release the film...
Gary Hamilton’s Arclight Films has announced a raft of sales on Cam Gigandet and Joel Courtney bodysnatcher sci-fi thriller Assimilate and Wang Quan’an’s Mongolian Berlinale selection Öndög.
Assimilate, about youngsters who use their web series to alert the outside world that aliens are killing and replacing their fellow small town residents, has gone to Splendid Film for Benelux, Germany, and Switzerland.
Rights have also gone in Latin America (Gussi), Japan (Fine Films), Malaysia and Thailand (Logo Motion Pictures), Greece (Spentzos), and Vietnam (Vietnam Mango Films). Gravitas Ventures will release the film...
- 5/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Right from the start “Öndög” is a strange little film full of paradoxes and red herrings. It is the first Mongolian entry in the competition of Berlinale, but its director, Wang Quan’an is a renown Chinese sixth generation auteur who already has a couple of Berlinale Bears in his collection. For “Tuya’s Marriage” (2006) he was rewarded with the Golden Bear paired with the prize of Ecumenical Jury, while he got his Silver Bear for the script of “Apart Together” (2010). “Öndög” is his fourth film with a world premiere at the competition of the aforementioned festival, but this time, sadly, it did not win any awards.
Öndög screened at Berlin Film Festival
“Öndög” opens with a shot of Mongolian steppe from an analogue, 35mm camera attached to the front of a moving vehicle. While it goes not so gently over the sun-bleached grass, we can overhear the conversation between...
Öndög screened at Berlin Film Festival
“Öndög” opens with a shot of Mongolian steppe from an analogue, 35mm camera attached to the front of a moving vehicle. While it goes not so gently over the sun-bleached grass, we can overhear the conversation between...
- 2/27/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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At the very end of Wang Quan’an’s enchanting seventh feature, a droll title appears: “Based on True Stories.” It’s amusing because it’s unnecessary; this is the kind of cinema that makes its stories true by telling them, that puts eccentric, real, cyclical life — calf births and lamb slaughters — before its camera and generously transforms it into drama, character, plot, and theme. Starring a cast of first-timers of unfakable authenticity and a series of stunning Mongolian skies, “Öndög” (Mongolian for “egg”) is an art-house proposition to be sure, but within those rarefied confines deserves exposure as vast as the windswept Mongolian steppe against which it slowly burns, sending up a column of smoke that can be seen for miles.
Marking Wang’s fourth appearance in the Berlin competition, “Öndög” also marks a welcome return to the intimacy (and brevity) of his Mongolia-set 2007 Golden Bear winner “Tuya’s...
Marking Wang’s fourth appearance in the Berlin competition, “Öndög” also marks a welcome return to the intimacy (and brevity) of his Mongolia-set 2007 Golden Bear winner “Tuya’s...
- 2/8/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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