EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based style specialist Reel Suspects has acquired worldwide gross sales rights for Estonian director Moonika Siimets’ absurdist comedy The Black Gap, which has been having fun with a buzzy run on the Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition.
The movie revolves across the residents of a colorless condominium block whose lives are upended when a black gap seems mysteriously in a lilac bush, they usually discover themselves confronted with aliens who change their lives perpetually.
Sirje and Maret, who dreaming of discovering work overseas, find yourself in an extraterrestrial science experiment; Jüri, who continues to be dwelling along with his mom, falls in love along with his lustful neighbor; Gertrud Mariliis, who desires of a world with out abusive males, finds shelter at fearless bodybuilder Uma’s condominium filled with large spiders.
The screenplay is impressed by the quick tales ‘The Spider’ and ‘The Black Gap’ by Armin Kõomägi and ‘A Life Price Residing’ by Andrus Kivirähk.
With the movie’s aesthetics taking their cue from the sci-fi works of David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg, The Black Gap marks a radical departure for Siimets from her final fiction characteristic, the Nineteen Fifties-set historic drama The Little Comrade.
“The Black Gap is a wild, cosmic thrill trip the place aliens, lust, large spiders, and existential cravings collide in a weird, responsible pleasure you by no means noticed coming,” mentioned Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina.
The movie world premiered within the Unbelievable Fest in Austin in September, and likewise performed on the Warsaw Movie Competition the place it gained the Free Spirit Award.
The movie is produced by Tallinn-based firm Amrion (The Little Comrade) in co-production with its long-time collaborator, Finland’s Aamu Movie Firm (Compartment No. 6, The Woodcutter Story) with the help of the Estonian Movie Institute, Eurimages, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Finnish Movie Fund, Tartu Movie Fund, Viru Movie Fund, YLE and Tugev Tuul Movies.
The Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition runs from November 18 to 24.
