‘Paul’ and ‘Sirens Name’ Nabbed by way of Syndicado Forward of Berlin Premieres

Syndicado Movie Gross sales has boarded two movies decided on for Berlinale: “Paul” by way of Denis Côté, which has its global premiere within the Landscape Dokumente phase, and “Sirens Name” by way of Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann, which is a part of the Discussion board lineup.

Côté’s documentary makes a speciality of Paul, who suffers from despair and social anxiousness. He seeks protection by way of doing housekeeping for dominant girls, changing into the submissive “Cleansing Simp Paul.” By way of sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats his loneliness.

Filmed from a candid, nonjudgmental viewpoint, “Paul” is a portrait of an eccentric however endearing one that delivers a contemporary tackle our quest for well-being.

The manufacturers are Hany Ouichou and Karine Bélanger of Coopvidéo Montréal in Canada. Distribution in Canada is treated by way of Métropole Motion pictures.

Côté’s first function movie “Les états nordiques” (2005) used to be awarded the Golden Leopard prize for Easiest Video at Locarno Movie Competition. Côté’s “Vic+Flo Noticed a Endure” received the Silver Endure for Innovation at Berlinale in 2013. “Hygiène sociale” received the most efficient director award within the Encounters phase at Berlinale in 2021.

Of their feature-length debut, Gossing and Sieckmann dive into the merfolk subculture with efficiency artist and siren Una the Mermaid (Gina Rønning). The movie is a hybrid of science fiction, street film and documentary to discover a subculture this is “the use of unbelievable imagery to speak about collective trauma, politics of the frame and the urge for a lifelong transition,” consistent with press subject material.

In a remark, the administrators mentioned: “In 2017, we first realized on-line a couple of subculture of other folks in Portland, Oregon, who recognized as mer-folk.They claimed not to handiest get dressed up as sirens in silicone tails, however to in point of fact reside it as an id of their on a regular basis. After having met Una the Mermaid in Portland for the primary time – a jail psychologist and trauma suggest in her civil lifestyles – we immediately felt an overly particular connection. Una and her collective have been incorporating the issues we had envisioned for our siren determine for a very long time. A siren who had the power to mix interdisciplinary knowledge, connecting human, nature and device whilst seeking to shape new techniques of being with every different and the arena.”

The movie is produced by way of Filmfaus, in collaboration with Schalten Und Walten (Gossing and Sieckmann’s artwork collective), in conjunction with co-production companions Elbe Stevens Motion pictures of the Netherlands and Germany’s ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel. The manufacturers are Claus Herzog-Reichel and Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay.