The Match Factory Locks Multiple Deals On Berlin Competition Titles ‘Dying’ And ‘Architecton’ 

The Match Factory has locked multi-territory deals on Berlinale titles Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky and Dying by Matthias Glasner, which picked up the festival’s Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

Alongside the Silver Bear, Dying also picked up the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas Prize and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award. The pic has sold to France (Bodega Film), Italy (Satine Film), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Norway (Selmer Media AS), Poland (Aurora), CIS (Provzglyad), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom Film), Hungary (Cirko Films), Greece (Cinobo), Romania (Freealize), Taiwan (Andrews Film), and South Korea (Pancinema). Match Factory has said negotiations for additional territories are underway, with a UK deal already confirmed. Deadline’s Stephanie Bunbury described the film as a “deep and darkly funny family drama.” The film stars Lars Eidinger, Lilith Stangenberg, and Corinna Harfouch.

Elsewhere, Kossakovsky’s Architecton has sold to me Spain (Caramel Films), Italy (Be Water), Benelux (Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie), Scandinavia (Nonstop Entertainment), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom Film) and the Baltics (A-One Films Baltics). A24 will release the film in North America. The film was produced by Ben Cotner, Emily Osborne, Adriana Banta, Frank Lehmann, and Nick Shumaker. Damon Wise described Architection as “fascinating” and “magnetic.”  You can check out all of Deadline’s Berlinale reviews here. 

The Berlinale ended on Saturday. The prestigious Golden Bear was handed to French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop for the documentary Dahomey. The pic explores the repatriation of looted colonial-era art from France to Benin, West Africa. Bunbury described the film as a “marvelous provocation.”  Mubi will distribute Dahomey.