Playtime (“Goodnight Mommy”) is producing and repping worldwide gross sales on Safy Nebbou‘s “No person’s Son,” a heart-wrenching adoption drama starring Romain Duris (“The Animal Kingdom”), on the Cannes movie market.
Co-produced by Mandarin & Compagnie, the venture has been boarded by Sony Photos Worldwide Productions which is able to deal with the discharge within the U.S., Canada, South America and France. Playtime is dealing with gross sales in the remainder of the world.
The movie, penned by Nebbou, revolves round Thomas and his spouse, Mathilda, who lastly adopted four-year-old Mapring from Thailand. “However simply as their new life begins, Mathilde dies in a tragic accident, leaving Thomas alone with a toddler he barely is aware of and by no means actually needed. Misplaced and grieving, hedecides to return to Thailand seeking Mapring’s roots and organic mom—and maybe, within the course of, heal each their fractured hearts,” reads the synopsis.
Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, François Yon at Playtime Manufacturing, and Eric Altmayer and Nicolas Altmayer at Mandarin & Compagnie are producing the movie.
“No person’s Son” marks Nebbou’s comply with as much as “Who You Suppose I Am,” a romance thriller starring with Juliette Binoche and François Civil, which performed on the Berlinale and offered to over 45 territories worldwide. Nebbou’s different well-known credit embrace “Mark of an Angel,” a field workplace hit which gained accolades in festivals all over the world and offered in additional than 30 international locations. His 2016 movie “Within the Forests of Siberia,” starring Raphaël Personnaz and tailored from Sylvain Tesson’s e-book, was heralded in France as among the finest book-to-screen movies in many years.
“’No person’s Son’ is a narrative that for us strongly resonates is in the present day’s world,” mentioned Brigaud-Robert, Co-CEO of Playtime. “Thomas’ questioning of his position as a father and the way he ought to settle for or not his new life and duties really feel extraordinarily modern. I’ve to say that Safy Nebbou takes us brilliantly on this emotional journey about fatherhood,” Brigaud-Robert continued. He additionally famous that Sony Photos Worldwide Productions will give the movie the “full publicity it deserves in France and all over the world.”
Shebnem Askin, the EVP of inventive manufacturing and head of Sony Photos InternationalProductions, mentioned “Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and Nicolas Altmayer and their groups at Playtime andMandarin are top-notch and we’re thrilled for the chance to collaborate with them andthe gifted Safy Nebbou.”
The important thing crew for “No person’s Son” consists of cinematographer Gilles Porte (“Who You Suppose I Am”), editor Sylvie Lager (“Love Life”), sound designer Martin Boissau (“In His Personal Picture”) and music by Ibrahim Maalouf (“Who You Suppose I Am”). The movie was already purchased by France 3, Canal +, Paramount + and TaProd.
Playtime, which is a part of Vuelta Group, will current Tarik Saleh’s “Eagles of the Republic” in competitors, and Thierry Klifa’s “The Richest Girl within the World” out of competitors on the 2025 Pageant de Cannes.
Mandarin & Compagnie, in the meantime, shall be at Cannes with Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducounau’s “Alpha” taking part in in competitors.
