{"id":44332,"date":"2026-03-20T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:22:11","slug":"warwick-thorntons-berlin-competition-title-wolfram-scores-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/44332\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick Thornton’s Berlin Competition Title ‘Wolfram’ Scores Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParadise City Sales<\/a> has closed territorial deals on \u201cWolfram<\/a>,\u201d Warwick Thornton<\/a>\u2018s Berlinale competition entry, as a trailer for the film is released.<\/p>\n

\n\tBuyers so far span Europe and beyond: Cherry Pickers in Benelux, Unicorn in Italy, Ama Films in Greece, MCF Megacom across ex-Yugoslavia and Filmarti in Turkey, with Anuvu taking airline rights. Dark Matter handles the filmmaker\u2019s home territory of Australia and New Zealand, with additional deals ongoing.<\/p>\n

\n\tRooted in the same fictional world as \u201cSweet Country\u201d \u2013 Thornton\u2019s 2017 drama that took prizes at both Venice and Toronto \u2013 the new film moves the action to the wolfram mining fields of 1930s central Australia, where the arrival of two violent opportunists tears apart a fragile community and sets three Aboriginal children on a journey across the outback to find a home. Thornton again shot the film himself, with McGregor and Tranter, who wrote \u201cSweet Country,\u201d returning to script.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeborah Mailman, a veteran of \u201cThe New Boy\u201d and \u201cTotal Control,\u201d leads the cast as Pansy, joined by Thomas M. Wright and Pedrea Jackson reprising their \u201cSweet Country\u201d roles as Kennedy and the now-18-year-old Philomac. The ensemble also includes Errol Shand, Joe Bird, John Howard, Aidan Du Chiem, Ferdinand Hoang, Jason Chong, Matt Nable, Luka May Glynn-Cole, Anni Finsterer, Gibson John and Natassia Gorey Furber.<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Jowsey and Greer Simpkin of Bunya Productions \u2013 whose slate includes \u201cSweet Country,\u201d \u201cThe Drover\u2019s Wife\u201d and \u201cLimbo\u201d \u2013 produce, with Drew Bailey and David Tranter co-producing. Cecilia Ritchie and Kurt Royen executive produce. Screen Australia backs the project in association with Screen Territory and National Indigenous Television, with Screen NSW and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund among additional supporters.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSweet Country\u201d traveled to more than 50 festivals and sold to upward of 70 territories after its prize-winning runs at Venice and Toronto. Thornton\u2019s subsequent credits include \u201cThe New Boy,\u201d which brought Cate Blanchett to Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2023, and the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or-winning \u201cSamson and Delilah\u201d from 2009.<\/p>\n

\n\tParadise City\u2019s current Berlinale slate also includes Anthony Chen\u2019s competition entry \u201cWe Are All Strangers\u201d and Mees Peijnenburg\u2019s \u201cA Family,\u201d which earned a Generation Special Mention, alongside Moshe Rosenthal\u2019s Sundance World Dramatic Competition title \u201cTell Me Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paradise City Sales has closed territorial deals on \u201cWolfram,\u201d Warwick Thornton\u2018s Berlinale competition entry, as a trailer for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,3146,190,25194,12231,12232],"class_list":{"0":"post-44332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-berlin-film-festival","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-paradise-city-sales","12":"tag-warwick-thornton","13":"tag-wolfram"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116260539328306681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}