The Oldenburg Worldwide Movie Competition has unveiled the primary titles of its thirty second version, highlighting a slate of world premieres and debuts with sturdy showings from Irish cinema and up to date competition standouts from Cannes, Karlovy Range, and Locarno.
Three new Irish productions anchor this yr’s program. Jim Sheridan, a six-time Oscar nominee, groups with David Merriman on Re-Creation, which revisits the contested case of Ian Bailey, lengthy linked to the 1996 homicide of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The movie premiered at Tribeca and options Vicky Krieps and John Connors.
Connors additionally stars in Loopy Love, the debut function by stage director Kevin Treacy and cinematographer Jason Byrne. The drama, about an unlikely romance in a psychiatric hospital, can have its world premiere at Oldenburg. Rounding out the Irish highlight is Horseshoe from Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe, a household drama with supernatural components that gained Greatest Irish First Movie at Galway.
Further highlights embrace Ondřej Provazník’s Damaged Voices, which premiered in Karlovy Range; Vincent Grashaw’s Preserve Quiet, which debuted in Locarno and options Lou Diamond Phillips; and The Woman within the Snow, Louise Hemon’s debut that screened in Cannes’ Critics’ Week. The competition can even display screen Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy, which premiered at SXSW.
World premieres embrace Alejandro Castro Arias’ Harakiri, I Miss You, Guillaume Campanacci’s The Silent Sinner, Nancy Biniadaki’s Maysoon, Cris Tapia Marchiori’s Gunman, and Jérôme Vandewattyne’s Belgian satire Summer time Hit Machine.
Oldenburg has additionally unveiled this yr’s competition trailer. Directed by Edgar Pêra (Telegraphic Letters, Magnetick Pathways), and co-created with competition director Torsten Neumann, it reimagines H.G. Wells’ The Struggle of the Worlds with an alien invasion set unfastened on the streets of the northern German metropolis.
The brief movie will launch in cinemas nationwide in Germany on Aug. 21. You’ll be able to test it out now beneath.