{"id":3681,"date":"2026-04-08T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3681\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:25:10","slug":"berlin-award-winner-trial-of-hein-sells-to-north-america-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3681\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Award Winner ‘Trial of Hein’ Sells to North America, France"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAthens-based boutique film house Heretic<\/a> has secured major distribution deals for \u201cTrial of Hein,\u201d including North American rights, following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival<\/a>, where it won the Teddy Jury Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tNorth American rights for Kai St\u00e4nicke\u2019s debut feature, which screened in the Berlinale\u2019s Perspectives section, have been acquired by Strand Releasing<\/a> ahead of the film\u2019s North American premiere at New Directors\/New Films in New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, Paradis Films will handle distribution in France, and DCM will distribute the film in all German-speaking territories. The film has also been sold to Lev Cinemas in Israel.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film follows Hein, who returns to his remote island home after 14 years, only to find himself unrecognized by the local community, which demands a trial to determine whether he truly is who he claims to be \u2013 setting in motion a quietly unsettling exploration of identity, belonging and perception.<\/p>\n

\n\tJon Gerrans, co-president of Strand Releasing, said \u201cTrial of Hein\u201d is \u201csuch a carefully structured film with style reminiscent of dogma and influences of classic cinema.\u201d He added that having New Directors\/New Films for the North American premiere was \u201cthe perfect platform for audiences here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMarguerite Gigom, acquisitions executive at Paradis Films, added: \u201c \u2018Trial of Hein\u2019 was an immediate standout for us when we discovered it in Berlin, a true favorite. The film impressed us with the strength of its vision and the confidence of its filmmaking, marking the arrival of a new voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTrial of Hein\u201d is produced by Andrea Sch\u00fctte, Dirk Decker and Dario Suter, with Katrin Jochimsen, Felix von Boehm and Kai St\u00e4nicke serving as co-producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is a Tamtam Film production, co-produced with Dario Suter, Lupa Film and ZDF \u2013 Das kleine Fernsehspiel, and supported by MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia \u2013 Film and Media Company of Lower Saxony\/Bremen, Hessen Film & Medien, the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) and German Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athens-based boutique film house Heretic has secured major distribution deals for \u201cTrial of Hein,\u201d including North American rights,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3503,5,3504,3505],"class_list":{"0":"post-3681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-berlin-film-festival","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-heretic","11":"tag-strand-releasing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}