EXCLUSIVE: New Europe Film Sales has unveiled a fresh raft of deals for Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s family drama The Love That Remains, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The Warsaw-based company has sold the movie to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Germany (Plaion), Japan (Gaga), Turkey (Filmarti), Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Israel (Lev), Ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom). Portugal (Alambique), Indonesia (Falcon) and Ukraine (Kyiv Music Film).
These sales follow previously announced deals to the UK (Curzon), North America (Janus) and France (Jour2Fête).
The Love That Remains follows a family as it navigates the parents’ separation, amid conflicted emotions around life-long bonds, faded love and shared life memories.
The drama is Pálmason’s fourth feature after Winter Brothers (2017), A White, White Day (2019) and Denmark-set missionary drama Godland (2022), which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard and went on to be Oscar nominated.
The film world premiered in the non-competitive Cannes Premiere section, but clinched a peripheral prize with its canine cast member, sheepdog Panda, beating 24 other candidates to win the Palm Dog.
The Love That Remains is produced by Anton Máni Svansson of Iceland’s Still Vivid and Katrin Pors of Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The cast includes Saga Garðarsdóttir (Woman at War), Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs. McEnroe), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (Godland), Þorgils Hlynsson (Nest), and Grímur Hlynsson (Nest).
Pálmason is also the cinematographer credits, with other key crew including regular collaborators, editor Julius Krebs Damsbo, sound designer Björn Viktorsson and production designer Frosti Friðriksson, among others.
Co-producers are Mikkel Jersin and Eva Jakobsen at Snowglobe (Denmark), Nima Yousefi of HOBAB (Sweden), Didar Domehri of Maneki Films (France), Anthony Muir and Kristina Börjeson of Film I Väst (Sweden), Olivier Père and Rémi Burah of Arte France Cinema (France).
Backers include Icelandic Film Centre, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs, Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Creative Europe MEDIA, Hornafjörður Municipality, RUV, Jour2Fête, ARTE, Max Distribution, and DR.
