Rural Coming-Of-Age Tale ‘Holy Cow’ Poised To Travel The World After Charming Audiences In France

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Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories.

The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track.

So we’re going to do the hard work for you. We head to France this week to explore rural feel-good drama Holy Cow, which was an unexpected local box office hit and could now be poised to travel the world. Name:  Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux)Country:  FranceProducer: Muriel Meynard at Agat Films – Ex NihilioInternational sales: Pyramide InternationalFor fans of: Bloody Milk, Divines, The Marching Band French director Louise Courvoisier’s feature directorial debut Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux) follows a teenager raised in a farming community in the Eastern department of Jura who embarks on a mission to make a prize-winning wheel of Comté cheese in the face of a series of hard knocks.

The movie may not seem like a crowd-pleaser on paper, nor a box office breakout, yet the film has drawn close to 1 million spectators at home since its release on December 11, 2024, for a rough gross of $6.5M on the back of a $2.1M (€2M) budget.