Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired international rights to Susanne Regina Meures’ Girl Gang which will have its world premiere in the Dox:Award section at next week’s CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen.
Meures’ film centres on 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin - and her biggest fan.
Girl Gang is produced by Switzerland’s Christian Frei Filmproduktion with Swiss broadcaster SRF. It is Meures’ third feature-length documentary following her 2016 debut Raving Iran and Saudi Runaway. The latter premiered at Sundance 2020 and was nominated for the European Film Award the same year.
Rise and Shine is also handling two further CPH:DOX world premieres: Lars Henrik Ostenfeld’s Into The Ice which is opening the festival on March 21, and Finnish director Einari Paakkanen’s Karaoke Paradise which is to screen in the Nordic:Dox section.
A co-production between Denmark’s Hansen & Pedersen and Germany’s Kloos & Co., Ostenfeld’s film accompanies three pioneering glaciologists on their journey deep into Greenland’s ice sheet to see the effects of climate change at first hand.
After CPH: DOX Into The Ice and Karaoke Paradise are both screening in the Grand Angle competition of Nyon’s Visions du Réel in Switzerland.
Moreover, CPH:DOX will feature the international premiere of Rise And Shine’s Nelly & Nadine directed by Swedish filmmaker Magnus Gertten. It had its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section and took home the Jury Award at the Teddy Awards in Berlin.
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