Berlinale: Films Boutique Acquires Sundance Prize Winner ‘Butterflies’ (Exclusive)

Berlin-based Films Boutique has acquired world sales rights outside Turkey to “Butterflies,” which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at last month’s Sundance Festival.Pic is directed by Turkey’s Tolga Karaçelik, whose 2015 feature “Ivy” also played in Sundance’s World Cinema: Dramatic section.“Butterflies” turns on three adult siblings who, summoned to their home village by their estranged father, face up to their shared but troubled past.“Turkish writer-director Tolga Karaçelik’s heartsore, ruefully funny third feature ‘Butterflies’ sets up a familiarly dysfunctional family reunion, only to make several surprising switches in tone,” said a Variety Sundance review.“Butterflies” is produced by Karaçelik, Diloy Gülün, founder of Karma Films and Metin Anter, founder of production-distribution house Chantier Film, which will handle the film’s Turkish release.Gülun, Anter and Jean-Christophe Simon and Gabor Greiner from Films Boutique negotiated the deal.“‘Butterflies’ is a “director-driven crowdpleaser,” Simon said, calling it “a funny

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