Outplay Films Nabs Tom Tykwer-Produced Locarno Competition Title ‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The queer relationship drama focuses on love and the challenges of gender transition amid the chaos of war Isabelle Stever’s Locarno main competition title “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming,” produced by Tom Tykwer, has been picked up for world sales by France’s Outplay Films. Produced by Tykwer and Uwe Schott at Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool and written by Anna Melikova, the film follows Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple whose love is put to the test when one partner’s gender transition collides with Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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The queer relationship drama focuses on love and the challenges of gender transition amid the chaos of war Isabelle Stever’s Locarno main competition title “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming,” produced by Tom Tykwer, has been picked up for world sales by France’s Outplay Films. Produced by Tykwer and Uwe Schott at Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool and written by Anna Melikova, the film follows Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple whose love is put to the test when one partner’s gender transition collides with Russia’s full-scale invasion. As war narrows and challenges the boundaries of masculinity and femininity, they struggle to preserve their bond and sense of self. “As a Ukrainian-German filmmaking duo, we aimed to create a film that neither looks away from war nor lets it define every image,” Stever and Melikova said in a joint statement.
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- The queer relationship drama focuses on love and the challenges of gender transition amid the chaos of war Isabelle Stever’s Locarno main competition title “I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming,” produced by Tom Tykwer, has been picked up for world sales by France’s Outplay Films. Produced by Tykwer and Uwe Schott at Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool and written by Anna Melikova, the film follows Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple whose love is put to the test when one partner’s gender transition collides with Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Outplay Films Nabs Tom Tykwer-Produced Locarno Competition Title ‘I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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