Aisling Walsh, Ena Sendijarević, Illum Jacobi Bring Projects to Rotterdam’s CineMart
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed its selection of 16 feature film projects for the 41st edition of CineMart, running Jan.
28-31. In “Another Journey Without Women” six chain-smoking know-it-alls embark on a tragi-comedic polar expedition in Greenland in 1918.
The film is directed by Illum Jacobi, whose “The Trouble With Nature” appeared at IFFR in 2020. The film features Greenlandic actor Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen in the lead role, alongside David Dencik and Claes Bang (“The Square,” 2017) as the famed explorer Knud Rasmussen. “Lucia,” directed by Irish filmmaker Aisling Walsh, concerns the talented but troubled daughter of author James Joyce.
The director’s “Maudie” (2016), starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, world premiered in Telluride. In “Les Diplomates,” two diplomatic counterparts from Austria and Switzerland secretly negotiate the contours of history as the Eastern Bloc disintegrates – fueled by a petty personal grudge.
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