Finnish Fantasy ‘Yellow Sulphur Sky’ and Colombian Drama ‘The Rust’ Acquired By Feel Content Ahead of EFM

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Jamie Lang On-the-rise Spanish boutique sales company Feel Content has acquired a pair of features ahead of this month’s European Film Market: Finnish-Danish drama “Yellow Sulphur” – recently premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival – and French-Colombian co-production “The Rust,” a competition player at last year’s San Sebastian.From Finnish director-writer-producer Claes Olsson, “Yellow Sulphur Sky” is adapted from Kjell Westö’s eponymous novel and produced by Solar Films, Nordic Film Pool and Smile Entertainment.

The book and now film tell the story of Frej, a writer who revisits his own youth as a source of inspiration, forcing the author to face long-forgotten memories.

Nordisk Film distributed the film across Scandinavia. “I wanted to create a film with a sophisticated structure and full of emotions,” said Olsson. “In the end, love is the one thing that makes you remember your life.”Colombian director Juan Sebastián Mesa’s (“Los nadie”) sophomore effort, “The Rust” follows Jorge, a young Colombian farmer working at a coffee plantation.

Confronted by a growing plague which is ruining the harvest and feeling deeply alone – he is the last of his generation to stay in the rural countryside – the ghost of his past reemerges as local festivities approach, culminating in encounters with his first love and his childhood friends.“This film is the collision between the rural and the urban spheres as seen from the point of view of someone who never left, and anxiously awaits to be reunited with a past that no longer exists,” said Mesa.