{"id":659495,"date":"2026-08-27T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:02:20","slug":"cercamon-boards-john-trengoves-toronto-bound-the-smell-of-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659495\/","title":{"rendered":"Cercamon Boards John Trengove\u2019s Toronto-Bound ‘The Smell Of Apples’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to South African director and writer John Trengove<\/a>\u2019s Apartheid era drama The Smell of Apples<\/a> and released a first trailer ahead of its world premiere in Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Mark Behr\u2019s eponymous 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, the film follows a young boy growing up in a white utopia in Cape Town in the 1970s at the height of the racial segregation imposed by the Apartheid system.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the surface his family leads a charmed life, but the complex family drama will expose the brutality beneath the idyllic fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJohn Trengove has made a film of remarkable precision and emotional force,\u201d said S\u00e9bastien Chesneau, Founder and CEO of sales company Cercamon.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThrough the intimate story of one family, The Smell of Apples exposes how violence and ideology take hold behind the fa\u00e7ade of an idyllic world. It is bold, unsettling and deeply human cinema, and we are proud to bring it to international audiences as it begins its journey in Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrengove previously made waves with The Wound, which debuted at Sundance in 2017 before making it onto the nomination longlist for the Academy Award for the then Best Foreign Language Film category in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn between times, Trengove has also directed Berlinale-selected toxic masculinity drama Manodrome, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody, as well as episodes of Cape Town-set crime show White Lies.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew film The Smell of Apples is produced by Eric Abraham and Jack Sidey at Portobello Productions), Cait Pansegrouw at Cadence) and Frank Hoeve at BALDR Films.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is the second South African film produced by Abraham and Sidey at London-based Portobello Productions, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning films Kolya and Ida.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCercamon are the perfect fit for The Smell of Apples,\u201d said Sidey. \u201cThey grasped the film\u2019s nuance and \u00a0emotional impact from the very first conversation, and we\u2019re confident their expertise and formidable reputation will carry the film to a global audience.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Afrikaans and English-language film will premiere in TIFF<\/a>\u2019s Platform<\/a> section, giving it a potential pathway to the Best International Feature Film race at the 99th Academy Awards. Under new Academy Awards rules, a non-English-language winner of the main TIFF Platform award will be eligible for consideration in the category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Cercamon has acquired international sales rights to South African director and writer John Trengove\u2019s Apartheid era drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,278710,327,7227,5258,278711,11523,24385,15935],"class_list":["post-659495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-trengove","tag-movies","tag-platform","tag-south-africa","tag-the-smell-of-apples","tag-tiff","tag-tiff-market","tag-toronto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117168317793965085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}