Totem Racks Up Deals on ‘The Woodcutter Story,’ ‘Compartment No. 6’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga “The Woodcutter Story,” a Finnish drama with a surreal touch, has been sold to Australia (Palace Films), Baltics (Estinfilm), Sweden (Njuta), Germany (Eksystent) and France (Urban), Paris-based Totem Films shared exclusively with Variety.
Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high.
Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village. The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy.
It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival. “It’s a very strange film,” said Myllylahti back in May.
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