Berlin-based DCM Film Distribution has acquired Kristoffer Borgli’s surrealist comedy “Dream Scenario,” starring Nicolas Cage.
In the A24 satire, which premiered in Toronto before opening this year’s Zurich Film Festival, Cage plays a college professor whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
“We love ‘Dream Scenario,’” says Carl Rickmers, DCM’s newly appointed director of film acquisitions and sales.
“It’s a unique, truly original premise, yet universal because it is so easy to get — imagine you suddenly become famous because you pop up in every person’s dream. Beneath that of course is a smart satire and a meta level that provides room for discussions afterward.
“Nic Cage and A24 — that’s a great match. We wanted to be a part of that.”
DCM also recently picked up Marianne Elliott’s U.K. drama “The Salt Path,” an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir. The film, which stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, recounts the story how Winn and her terminally ill husband lost everything and embarked on a 630-mile journey on foot along England’s South West Coast Path.
While DCM has over the years focused largely on arthouse fare like “Moonlight,” “I, Tonya,” “Spencer” and Wim Wenders’ latest works, “Perfect Days” and “Anselm,” the distributor is looking to diversify.
Rickmers says DCM will continue to distribute quality arthouse films “but we will also expand into some more commercial genres, such as thrillers, to have a more balanced and wider slate of films.”
Local family films and IP-based content are also form a DCM cornerstone, he adds.
The company’s forthcoming releases include Mike Marzuk’s family pic “The Chaos Sisters Feat. Penguin Paul,” produced by Munich-based Blue Eyes Fiction and based on Dagmar H. Mueller’s bestselling “Chaosschwestern” book series. Hitting screens in January, the film follows the four chaotic sisters as they adopt a lost penguin.
