{"id":135191,"date":"2025-08-10T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135191\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:23:11","slug":"best-friend-forever-boards-nina-roza-by-genevieve-dulude-de-celles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135191\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Friend Forever Boards ‘Nina Roza’ by Genevi\u00e8ve Dulude-De Celles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBrussels-based Best Friend Forever<\/a> has boarded Genevi\u00e8ve Dulude-De Celles\u2019 \u201cNina Roza<\/a>\u201d. The film has been selected for Locarno\u2019s First Look<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the film, a viral video of an eight-year-old Bulgarian girl, a painting prodigy, is circulating online. The phenomenon catches the attention of a collector eager to acquire her work. Mihail is sent to assess the value of the young girl\u2019s paintings. But in order to do it, he must return to his home country for the first time in nearly 30 years \u2013 and face the ghosts of his past.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently in post-production, it will premiere in early 2026. Dulude-De Celles has previously won Berlinale\u2019s Crystal Bear for debut feature \u201cA Colony,\u201d while her short \u201cThe Cut\u201d was awarded at Sundance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI made this film to give life to a gallery of colorful characters from various inspirations, to talk about the fragile feeling of belonging, that of finding a home,\u201d said the director, explaining that \u201cNina Roza\u201d proposes a journey \u201cbetween Montreal and Bulgaria, traced by an intimate, initiatory quest\u2026 That of Mihail, a sexagenarian who will have to face his past through Nina.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast consists of up-and coming talent from Canada, Bulgaria and Italy, including Galin Stoev, Ekatarina and Sofia Stanina, Chiara Caselli (\u201cRipley\u2019s Game\u201d), Christian Begin (\u201cThe Infiltration Problem\u201d) and Michelle Tzontchev. Crew includes editor Damien Keyeux and DOP Alexandre Nour.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNina Roza\u201d \u2013 which also debuts its exclusive first-look still \u2013 marks Dulude-De Celles\u2019 fifth collaboration with Canada\u2019s Colonelle films and second with Best Friend Forever.<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founder, noted: \u201cGenevieve\u2019s debut, \u2018A Colony\u2019 was the BFF\u2019s first ever title and success. We\u2019re thrilled to team up again. The film unfolds as an investigation exploring the contemporary art world while raising self-identification elements. We can\u2019t wait to bring it to the audience\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNina Roza\u201d is produced by Fanny Drew and Sarah Mannering (Colonelle Films) and co-produced by Lorenzo Fiuzzi and Bardo Tarantelli (Umi Films), Lubomira Piperova and Nikolay Moutafchiev (Ginger Light Films and Premier Studio), as well as Etienne and Benoit Hansez at Echo Bravo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt will be released in Canada by Entract Films.<\/p>\n

\n\tLaunched in 2019 \u2013 and a sister company of Paris-based Indie Sales \u2013 Best Friend Forever\u2019s 2025 fall line-up includes TIFF pick \u201cEgghead Republic\u201d and \u201cTo the Victory!\u201d by Valentyn Vasyanovych. <\/p>\n

\n\tOther recent titles include Critics\u2019 Week winners \u201cA Useful Ghost\u201d by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke and \u201cSleepless City\u201d by Guillermo Galoe and animated \u201cDeath Does Not Exist\u201d by F\u00e9lix Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re and \u201cChaO\u201d by Yasuhiro Aoki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels-based Best Friend Forever has boarded Genevi\u00e8ve Dulude-De Celles\u2019 \u201cNina Roza\u201d. The film has been selected for Locarno\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,81550,1033,171,74856,81551,81552,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-135191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-best-friend-forever","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-locarno-film-festival","14":"tag-nina-roza","15":"tag-toronto-festival","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115006341472411520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}