Arte/ZDF, Port au Prince Board ‘Ivan & Hadoum’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Arte/ZDF, the German arm of European public broadcaster Arte, and German production company Port au Prince have boarded “Ivan & Hadoum,” the feature debut of Ian de la Rosa, one of Spain’s top emerging talents.
Now casting, “Ivan & Hadoum,” will be presented Friday at the EFM’s Spain in Focus Showcase by Emilia Fort at Avalon, one of the film’s Spanish producers.
Arte/ZDF will support “Ivan & Hadoum” via its Das Kleine Fernsehspiel initiative for new and artistically ambitious filmmakers. “Ivan & Hadoum,” which won a Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2023, is set in an industrial greenhouse in Almería, Spain.
Iván falls in love with co-worker Hadoum, a young Spanish-Moroccan woman. Ivan’s desired job promotion is challenged by the relationship, however, forcing him to decide what kind of man he wants to be.
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