Syndicado Boards Rati Oneli’s ‘Ulysses,’ Seeks Financing at Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features EditorSyndicado Film Sales has boarded Rati Oneli’s “Ulysses,” a working title, as world sales agent and executive producer, and will be looking for financing for the Georgian production at Cannes.
Oneli directed “City of the Sun,” which had its world premiere at the Berlinale in 2017, and produced, co-wrote and played a lead role in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “Beginning,” which was selected in the Official Selection at Cannes, was Georgia’s Official Entry in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category, and won best film, director and screenplay at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2020.“Ulysses,” which Oneli says can be viewed as part noir, part thriller, but in essence is “a metaphysical journey of a man without a past to regain the meaning of life,” is in late development, with shooting set to begin in July.
Syndicado is looking to premiere the pic in the spring next year, and is looking for co-producers and financing to close the gap.
The film, written by Oneli and Evgeniia Marchenko, and produced by Office of Film Architecture, centers on Ulysses, whose wife and child die in a car crash because of his negligence, a crime for which he is imprisoned.
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