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With the Halloween season finally upon us, that we’ve got a ton of horror and sci-fi titles headed our way via VOD and various digital platforms throughout the month of October. Things kick off with the 1992 horror comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which hits Digital HD for the first time ever on October 2nd. The very next day, Cult of Chucky, Super Dark Times, The Forlorned, and Realive all make their respective debuts, and just a few days later the holiday horror flick Better Watch Out arrives on October 6th.

October 10th is another busy day, with the digital releases of Wish Upon, Dementia 13, The 13th Friday, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Wes Craven’s cult classic Summer of Fear, and for those looking to spend their Friday the 13th at home, you’ve got M.F.A., Brawl in Cell Block 99, and the Psycho-themed documentary 78/52 to look forward to.

Writer/director Mateo Gil has never shied away from big ideas. Be it as a writer or a writer/director, he tackles life's questions with insight and an understanding that engages audiences without talking down to them.

His latest, a cryogenic drama called Realive (review), tackles the questions that arise when one lives beyond our natural lifespan. That's the case of Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes), who has himself frozen until medical technology can cure his life-threatening illness.

The movie imagines, rather vividly, the hardship of waking up from years of frozen sleep but beyond that, touches on some of the bigger ideas Gil is well known for: how does ones psyche hand [Continued ...]...

Director Mateo Gil can't leave behind the idea of cryonics.

It's not that he's particularly enamored with the idea of freezing his body in hopes of it being revived in the future (he himself would not do that), but rather that as a storytelling concept, he finds it to be the best way to explore the idea of life after death.

His new film Realive, in theaters Friday in the U.S. and on VOD and Digital HD Oct. 3, centers on Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes), who in 2015 is diagnosed with cancer and decides to end his life and freeze...

When screenwriters turn towards directing their own features, the case is often that they can make their talkiest screenplay into a film. This is not necessary a bad thing at all, especially considering the case of Mateo Gil's new science fiction tale, Realive (aka Proyecto Lazaro). Here is a film that asks a lot of astute science fiction questions around death and resurrection as our twenty-first century medical science advances towards growing organs, rejuvenating the body with stem cells, and cryogenically preserving the dead or the dying in the hopes that they may be attended to in the future. The corporation at the heart of the film's Lazarus Project has a witty tagline that demonstrates some of the nuanced qualities of the screenplay, "Immortality is only a question...

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Arriving in limited theaters this Friday (and hitting VOD/Digital on October 3rd) is writer/director Mateo Gil’s intriguing sci-fi drama, Realive, which boldly confronts mortality and medical morality after its protagonist Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and instead of accepting his impending death, chooses to be cryogenically frozen in hopes of being brought back sometime in the future. Marc gets his wish, which seems like the perfect situation, but as complications arise, he begins to realize that his new immortality isn’t necessarily worth it.

Daily Dead recently caught up with Gil to discuss the inspirations behind Realive, the challenges he faced while making his ambitious futuristic sci-fi project, what he saw in Hughes, and more.

Congrats on the film, Mateo. I’d love to hear what inspired your story, because we've seen movies that have explored the idea of death and the desire for immortality,...

Mateo Gil made a name for himself firstly as the writer of Alejandro Amenábar - he co-wrote such films as Thesis, Open Your Eyes (later remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky) and The Sea Inside - but he has been directing his own feature length films for quite a while now. His latest effort, Realive (aka Proyecto Lázaro), is in the science fiction genre and follows the story of a young man named Marc (played by Tom Hughes), who makes a very tough and unique decision once he learns that he has terminal cancer: to kill himself before dying due to the disease, and then freeze his body hoping that he can be resuscitated in the future (a process known as cryonics). Marc’s plan...

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Realive will be in Theaters on September 29th and on VOD and Digital HD on October 3rd

Review by Mark Longden

I expected not to like this. First up – it’s a SyFy movie, the channel that brought us “2 Lava 2 Lantula”, “Bermuda Tentacles” and “Space Twister”, among many many others. Second up – it prominently features a large group of young beautiful people partying and having the sort of perfect lives that adverts are made of. But then it ended up being an extremely profound movie about love, bad timing, loss, what you’d do when you knew exactly how long you had left, and the future. Flipping from a birth in 1982 to a “death” in 2015, moving between moments in a man’s life then showing his “rebirth” in 2084, it’s superbly edited and deeply moving.

Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes) is an artist, sort of, in a relationship, sort of, with the extraordinary,...

Mateo Gil's sci-fi flick Realive will open in U.S. cinemas on September 29, 2017 and available on VOD and Digital HD on October 3, 2017. Screen Anarchy has been given an exclusive clip to share with you tonight.   In it, Marc and West speak about his progress after his awakening. This is early on in the film so there is not much to say about it, especially anything that may spoil the film for you.    Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a...

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Stark future shock film is written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil

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SyFy Films has released the first trailer for an intriguing looking sci-fi film called Realive. This little indie film has made the rounds at various film festivals and it looks like it could be a really well-made and solid movie. It focuses around the first man ever to be frozen and then resurrected. Here's the synopsis:

Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways. 

Realive was written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil (Blackthorn, Nobody Knows Anybody). SyFy will release the film in select theaters on September 29th, followed by a VOD release the next week after.

Writer/director Mateo Gil is best known for making pensive dramas about big ideas and his latest project is no different.

We had a chance to review Realive when the movie premiered last year at Fantasia Film Festival and it was recently announced that SyFy was planning to release the movie in October and in preparation for that release, they've released a trailer for the cryo sci-fi film which stars Tom Hughes as Marc, a young man who is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

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"This is a giant step in the history of medicine." SyFy has unveiled an official trailer for an indie sci-fi film titled Realive, set in the future. The played at various genre/fantasy film festivals around Europe last year, but is just now arriving in the Us. Realive is about a man who decides to be cryogenically frozen, and is awoken 60 years later in the year 2084. He is the first person to be revived in history, and emerges into a "startling" future. Despite his attempts to escape the past, it still catches up with him. Tom Hughes stars Marc Jarvis, and the full cast includes Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward, Julio Perillán, Rafael Cebrián, Bruno Sevilla, and Daniel Horvath. This does look intriguing, I'm very curious to see what ideas they'll address in the future and how things have changed in big ways and small. Check this out.

The Pike Drive-In Theater in Montgomery, Pa, has an upcoming double feature that will leave horror fans squirming with antici... pation, as they will host back-to-back screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead this September. In addition to more details on that event, we also have The Devil's Candy Blu-ray, the Realive trailer, and key art and stills from The Lodgers in today's Horror Highlights.

Spookerroo Spectacular Returns to the Pike Drive-in Theater: Press Release: "The Pike Drive-in Theater in Montgomery, Pa is bringing a unique screening of two of among the most popular, retro horror classics of all time Friday and Saturday Night Sept. 15 and 16, 2017.

The double feature playing each night will be The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), the cult horror comedy musical and long-time midnight screening perennial at indoor theaters, and the original (1978) Dawn of the Dead, the zombies-invade-a-shopping-mall...

Syfy Films will be releasing Mateo Gil's sci-fi drama Realive in U.S. theaters on September 29th and on VOD and Digital HD on October 3rd. Earlier today EW got the exclusive drop on a new trailer for this release and we can share it with you now.    Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways.   Realive was written and directed by Mateo Gil (Vanilla Sky original film...

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From acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil, director of Blackthorn, comes the cryogenic chiller, Realive (formerly Project Lazarus), which takes a modern spin on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Tom Hughes stars as a man awakened from cryogenic sleep 60 years into the future who must adjust to a life that left all his loved ones behind. Also […]...

Turkish casting director one of 16 nominated for prize.

Turkish casting director Harika Uygur [pictured] has won the Locarno Film Festival’s European Casting award for her work on Cannes 2015 hit Mustang.

The Oscar-nominated drama charts the coming-of-age of five carefree girls whose conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.

Uygur was one of 16 European casting directors nominated for the award, which was decided on by the 83 members of the International Casting Directors Network (Icdn), which represents casting directors in 24 countries.

“This casting director created an organic family that was totally believable; the match of characters and actresses was perfect,” the Icdn told Screen in a statement.

The inexperienced young actresses in lauded drama Mustang - Elit Iscan, Gunes Nezihe Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Ilayda Akdogan, and Tugba Sunguroglu - were widely praised for their performances.

Uygur’s recent credits include The Ottoman Lieutenant and Lady Winsley. She is also a member of the Academy of Motion...

The past has a troubling way of catching up with people, no matter how far in the future they distance themselves from their previous actions. That troubling sense of time travel is one of the major sources of contention in the new sci-fi film, ‘Realive.’ The conflicts the protagonist, who’s played by Tom Hughes, unexpectedly […]

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Syfy Films Releases ‘Realive’ In Theaters September 29 and on VOD and Digital HD October 3 Syfy Films today announces the release of the upcoming sci-fi film Realive, in theaters on September 29 and on VOD and Digital HD on October 3. The film is written and directed by Mateo Gil (“Vanilla Sky,” “The Sea Inside”). The cast includes Tom Hughes (“About Time,” …

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From acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil, director of Blackthorn, comes the cryogenic chiller, Realive (formerly Project Lazarus), which takes a modern spin on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Tom Hughes stars as a man awakened from cryogenic sleep 60 years into the future who must adjust to a life that left all his loved ones behind. Also […]...

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Syfy Films today announces the release of the upcoming sci-fi film Realive, in theaters on September 29 and on VOD and Digital HD on October 3. The film is written and directed by Mateo Gil (“Vanilla Sky,” “The Sea Inside”). The cast includes Tom Hughes (“About Time,” “London Town”), Charlotte Le Bon (“The Walk,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey”), Oona Chaplin (“Taboo,” “Game of Thrones”) and Barry Ward (“The Fall,” “The Journey,”). Realive premiered at the 2016 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal followed by official selections of the FrightFest Film Festival in the U.K. and Sitges International Film Festival in Spain.

In Realive, Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body.

Syfy Films will release Mateo Gil's (“Vanilla Sky,” “The Sea Inside”) cryo sci-fi film, Realive, in theaters on September 29 and on VOD and Digital HD on October 3. We reviewed the flick when it premiered at Fantasia Film Fest last year.

The cast includes Tom Hughes (“About Time,” “London Town”), Charlotte Le Bon (“The Walk,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey”), Oona Chaplin (“Taboo,” “Game of Thrones”) and Barry Ward (“ [Continued ...]...

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Those who dream of living on forever may want to alter their retirement plans after watching Realive, an inventive if somewhat mawkish sci-fi melodrama in which a terminally ill hipster finds himself regenerated in the near-distant future, only to learn that he may have been better off dead.

The second feature from Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil – screenwriter of The Sea Inside and Abre Los Ojos (aka the original Vanilla Sky) – this stylish chamber piece plays like a cross between Ex Machina and The Tree of Life, mixing a cleverly conceived biotechnical fable with sun-dappled sentimentalism that don’t always...

In 2012, the French animated film “Ernest & Clestine,” based on a series of children’s books, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival; it later went on to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Now the film’s co-directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar are back with two new specials, “A Town Called Panic: Double Fun,” which features the surreal, freewheeling adventures of three plasticine toys: Cowboy, Indian, and Horse. Watch an exclusive trailer for the specials below and check out the poster as well.

Read More: Review: Oscar Nominated ‘Ernest & Celestine’ a Gentle and Delightfully Weird Animated Treat

In the first special “Christmas Panic,” Cowboy and Indian’s out-of-control antics lead Horse to call Santa and cancel the presents, and now it’s up to the boys to save Christmas by breaking into their neighbor’s house to steal his Yule Log. The second special “Back to School...

An official selection at this year’s FrightFest, Sitges, and Fantasia International Film Festival, writer/director Mateo Gil’s Realive (formerly Project Lazarus) uses the classic Frankenstein tale as the springboard for a boldly original story, and we’ve got the trailer for ya… Continue Reading →

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Mateo Gil’s latest sci-fi film “Realive” asks the question: “What would it be like to be resurrected after being dead for over 50 years?” The film follows Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes), a successful man who has recently been diagnosed with a fatal, fast-spreading cancer. He decides to cryonize his body in the hope that he will be brought back to life when they have found a cure. Six decades later, the Prodigy Health Corporation resurrects Marc, and he becomes the first human to survive the process, but his reanimation doesn’t go smoothly and he soon finds himself longing for his past self. The film also stars Charlotte Le Bon (“Bastille Day”) and Oona Chaplin (“Quantum Solace”). Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.

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Den of Geek, last month, attended the London FrightFest film festival to indulge in five days of genre films and social anxiety (our favourites).

You can only see so much of the line-up, due to the boring constraints of time, physics and human biology, but we saw a lot of films, a few of which we really need to tip you off about. Partly because you won’t want to miss them when they do get a general release in the UK, but also because they’re probably going to need your support.

Here are six upcoming genre films to keep an eye out for.

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Former app designer Paul (John Gallecki) is listless. His life has gotten...

Fifty Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan talks Anthropoid Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At Bleecker Street's Anthropoid première in New York with Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon and director Sean Ellis - attended by Pico Alexander, Christian Campbell, America Olivo, Pia Glenn, Christine Jansing, Laura Michelle Kelly, Michael Mailer, Jason Mann, Thomas Matthews and Dan Abrams - I spoke with the very busy actors.

Charlotte Le Bon's upcoming films include Terry George's The Promise, starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac; Mateo Gil's Realive with Tom Hughes and Oona Chaplin, and Jalil Lespert's Iris, opposite Romain Duris. Jamie Dornan will soon be seen in Alexandre Aja's The 9th Life Of Louis Drax with Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul.

Charlotte Le Bon, memorable in Yves Saint Laurent, The Walk and Mood Indigo Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Sean Ellis's Anthropoid is "based...

Montreal — The Fantasia Film Festival fulfills many purposes over its three-week span. The event provides international and Canadian debuts for many genre hits from festivals like Sundance and SXSW, as well as serving as a showcase for the best of recent cult cinema from Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, among others. Despite competition from […]

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It’s been humanity’s dream since the dawn of time to find the fountain of youth: immortality. To live forever is the ultimate success for humanity’s optimistic idealism. We witness the pain and suffering death creates, constantly trying to distance ourselves from it by forgetting how our lifespans’ brevity makes them special. It’s in death that we see who truly loves us and whom we hold closest. For someone like Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes) death can even become a celebration. The sting and sorrow a terminal diagnosis delivers sets an expiration date so he can live like there’s no tomorrow after reconciling his reality since there literally is none. Fear often drives our instincts to endure in this moment, but sometimes it also has us hoping for more.

The fact Realive‘s tale of life and death in the face of technological improvement and emotional stability...

When screenwriters turn towards directing their own features, the case is often that they can make their talkiest screenplay into a film. This is not necessary a bad thing at all, especially considering the case of Mateo Gil's new science fiction tale, Realive (aka Proyecto Lazaro). Here is a film which asks a lot of astute science fiction questions around death and resurrection as our twenty-first century medical science advances towards growing organs, rejuvenating the body with stem cells, and cryogenically preserving the dead or the dying in the hopes that they may be attended to in the future. The corporation at the heart of the film's Lazarus Project has a witty tagline that demonstrates some of the nuanced qualities of the screenplay, "Immortality is only...

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For decades individuals have been cryonically preserved and though the technology has been around since the sixties and is relatively inexpensive (you can get yourself – or your pet - frozen for less than the cost of some funerals), the practice remains on the fringes. Society is always on the search for the next miracle cure and the secret to slowing down the aging process but when it comes right down to it, freezing yourself to be re-animated at a later date takes a special kind of commitment and a special kind of person.

Mateo Gil's Realive introduces us to one of those special people: artist Marc Jarvis. Young, handsome and successful, at 33 Marc is diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. Rather than le [Continued ...]...

Exclusive: Sc Films boards sci-fi starring Tom Hughes and Oona Chaplin.

London-based Sc Films has acquired international sales rights to Spanish writer-director Mateo Gil’s (Vanilla Sky) sci-fi Realive, starring Tom Hughes (ITV and PBS series Victoria) and Oona Chaplin (Game Of Thrones).

Realive, also known as Project Lazarus, charts the story of a man who cryogenically freezes his body after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history but it is only then he discovers that the love of his life has accompanied him on the journey.

The film will get its world premiere at Fantasia, Montreal, followed by a European premiere at Frightfest in London. Sitges will screen in October.

The original feature comes from writer-director Mateo Gil, the regular collaborator of Alejandro Amenabar. Gil’s writing credits include Open Your Eyes, Vanilla Sky and The Sea Inside. He most recently...

London-based genre festival to feature 19 world premieres and 35 UK & European premieres.

Horror Channel FrightFest has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 17th edition, taking place at its new home of the Vue Shepherd’s Bush from Aug 25-29.

Sean Brosnan’s revenge thriller My Father Die [pictured] receives its European premiere as the opening film, while the UK premiere of Sang-ho Yeon’s Cannes title Train To Busan closes this year’s festival.

In total, the 62-strong feature line-up includes 19 world premieres and 35 UK & European premieres. Ivan Silvestrini’s Monolith, Tricia Lee’s creepy chiller Blood Hunters and Nick Jongerius’ gory The Windmill Massacre are among the world premieres.

Meanwhile, Adam Wingard’s eagerly anticipated The Woods will receive its European premiere in the Main Screen strand, playing alongside the likes of Stephen King adaptation Cell, Italian box office hit They Call Me Jeeg Robot and Cody Calahan’s Let Her Out.

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Montreal’s genre festival also unveils first wave of titles for its upcoming 20th Anniversary edition.Scroll down for first wave of titles

Guillermo del Toro and Takashi Miike are set to attend the 20th anniversary edition of Fantasia International Film Festival (July 14-Aug 2) in Montreal.

In his first-ever appearance at the festival, del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will be presented with the Cheval Noir award.

He will also deliver a masterclass and host the Canadian premiere of documentary Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex, in which he is featured.

Meanwhile, prolific director Miike will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for the mark he has left on the festival over its 20 years. Nearly 30 of his films have been showcased at Fantasia and he has opened the festival three times.

Miike will also host the North American premiere of his latest film Terraformars, about a team of misfits who must fight humanoid cockroaches to colonise Mars, and As The...

It’s become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at Ioncinema.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films (anything outside the U.S.) with our own Nicholas Bell curating the best bets for 2016. Here are the titles and filmmakers that didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but are nonetheless “radar” worthy.

101. El Rey del Once – Daniel Burman

102. The Dancer – Stephanie Di Giusto

103. Le Cancre – Paul Vecchiali

104. While the Women are Sleeping – Wayne Wang

105. Tomorrow – Martha Pinson

106. Spring Again – Gael Morel

107. Crowhurst – Simon Rumley

108. Le Garcon – Philippe Lioret *

109. Marie and the Misfits – Sebastien Betbeder

110. Le Caravage – Alain Chevalier

111. Night Song – Raphael Nadjari

112. Réparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere *

113. Project Lazarus – Mateo Gil

114. Afterimages – Andrzej Wajda

115. Don’t Knock Twice – Caradog James

116. Detour – Christopher Smith

117. The Bride of Rip Van Winkle – Shunji Iwai

118. Three on the Road – Johnnie To

119. Le Vin et le Vent...

While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February on their calendars, for the most part, when it comes to American independent and foreign film flavored items, 2016 is still cloudy with a chance of…. 2015 just broke (we already have plenty to look forward to (Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films / Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films / Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films – soon!) but we’re already excited about what is in store for several of our favorite auteurs. Here are picks 100 to 6, with our Nicholas Bell providing further analysis on current top five for 2016. Pictured above is Peter Strickland, who sits in our number six spot.

100. Untitled Edward Munch Project – Erik Poppe

99. Bastille Day – James Watkins

98. Live By Night – Ben Affleck

97. Imagine – Benoit Graffin

96. Pete’s Dragon – David Lowery

95. Bella Luna – Ivan Fila

94. Bat, Butterfly, Moth – Sergio Caballero...

A total of 17 co-productions received a share of $5.8m

The Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund is to plough €4.54m ($5.8m) into 16 feature films and one documentary project.

Among the projects selected at the meeting, held from Oct 13-16 in Strasbourg, was Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune (Kollektivet).

The upcoming film from the Danish director of Oscar-nominated The Hunt was recently shopped at Toronto by TrustNordisk

The story, scriped by Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt, A Hijacking), focuses on the clash between personal desires versus the solidarity and tolerance in a commune in the mid 1970s.

Cast has yet to be announced and shooting is expected to start later this year,

Eurimages will also support the new film from Corneliu Porumboiu, director of When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

His latest project, The Treasure (Comoara), began shooting on 15 October and follows two men as they face a series of misadventures in their quest to find a treasure...