Global sales shingle The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to the modern love story “Power of Love” by German helmer Jonas Rothlaender, whose breakthrough movie “Fado” nabbed a Silver Hugo at Chicago and a German Film Critics’ for best feature debut.Julia M.
Müller and Luisa Leopold are producing for Germany’s StickUp Filmproduktion, in co-production with Misha Jaari and Mark Lwoff of Finland’s Bufo (“The Gravedigger’s Wife”).The director’s sophomore feature film turns on power dynamics in a couple and the social norms expected of a male/female relationship.Toplining the feature are Saara Kotkaniemi and Nicola Perot as Saara and Robert, both in their 30s, who set off on an extensive summer holiday in the Finnish archipelago.Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés, yet behind the unconventional façade, they struggle with their own insecurities.
Stuck on the island and influenced by its rough nature,
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