Visit Films boards Berlinale Special ‘Shikun’, Lily Gladstone drama ‘The Unknown Country’ for EFM (exclusive)

Visit Films has acquired international sales rights to Amos Gitai’s Berlinale Special selection Shikun and will kick off talks with buyers at the EFM next month.The Israeli film is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s allegorical play Rhinoceros, and dramatises the emergence of intolerance and totalitarianism through a series of theatrical episodes that take place in a single Israeli building, the Shikun.Among this diverse group of people of different origins and languages, some turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.The ensemble cast includes Irène Jacob (The Double Life Of Véronique), Hanna Laslo (Free Zone), Yael Abecassis (Sacred), Bahira Ablassi…