EXCLUSIVE: Finest Buddy Without end has agreed distribution offers to a number of territories for Alireza Khatami’s The Issues You Kill, which has simply been chosen as Canada’s Oscar entry within the worldwide function movie class.
The Brussels-based gross sales firm has bought the movie to Benelux (Mooov), Spain (Filmin), Greece (Danaos Movies), Ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery Movie), Taiwan (Filmware), Indonesia (PT Falcon), India (BookMyShow). Gross sales to Italy, Germany and Scandinavia are in discussions.
Le Pacte will launch the movie in France, Cineverse has taken it on for North American distribution, and Mongrel Media will launch it in Canada on September 19.
The dramatic thriller is a couple of college professor, haunted by the suspicious dying of his ailing mom, who coerces his enigmatic gardener right into a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
It stars Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü, and Ercan Kesal. Producers are France’s Fulgurance and Remora Movies, Poland’s Lava Movies, Canada’s Inform Tall Story and Band With Footage, alongside co-producer Turkey’s Sineaktif.
The Issues You Kill made its world premiere at Sundance 2025 the place Khatami took house the prize for finest director within the World Cinema Dramatic class. It’s the filmmaker’s comply with as much as Cannes 2023 Un Sure Regard title Terrestrial Verses and 2017 function Oblivion Verses that gained the most effective screenplay prize in Venice’s Horizons competitors and the Fipresci prize.
Finest Buddy Without end is headed to TIFF with Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja’s Egghead Republic (Discovery) and Valentyn Vasyanovych’s To The Victory! (Platform).
