Picture Tree Intl.
has picked up the global sales rights to Austrian horror movie “Smother” by up-and-coming director Achmed Abdel-Salam.
The Glitter and Doom production is tentatively set for a local theatrical release in early 2023.After the sudden death of her estranged father, Michi, a young mother and former alcoholic, decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her small daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost.During the first night, long repressed memories of her childhood overshadowed by her mother’s suicide start to haunt her.
Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state.
When her demons also start to threaten her daughter, Michi must finally confront them to save her.Picture Tree Intl.’s AFM slate features a variety of new international films, including a first visual pitch
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