‘Not a Word,’ Starring Berlin Winner Maren Eggert, Acquired by Beta Cinema Ahead of Toronto Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on “Not a Word,” which will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in the competitive Platform section.
The cast is led by Maren Eggert, who won the best acting award at the Berlin Film Festival for “I’m Your Man.” The film is written and directed by Hanna Slak, whose credits include the Slovenian Oscar entry “The Miner,” and was lensed by Claire Mathon, the cinematographer of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Saint-Omer,” “Stranger by the Lake” and “Spencer.” Eggert plays ambitious musician and conductor Nina.
When her teenage son, Lars, has a strange accident at school, she decides to take a break from city life and together they head to their vacation home on an island on the rugged Atlantic coast.
Bound in silence, their already brittle relationship is pushed to the edge. Jona Levin Nicolai (“The Net,” Netflix’s “The Grimm Reality”) co-stars as the provocative teenage son while Maryam Zaree (“4 Blocks,” “Skin Deep,” “Undine”), Juliane Siebecke, Marko Mandić (“Gold,” “Naked Among Wolves”) and Mehdi Nebbou (“Deutschland 86,” “Munich”) round out the cast. “’Not a Word’ tells the story of a relationship crisis between a parent and a teenager.
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