Lucky Number launches sales on Emin Alper’s ‘Salvation’, György Pálfi’s ‘The Hen: A Feather’s Tale’

Paris-based sales outfit Lucky Number has boarded Turkish filmmaker Emin Alper’s Salvation and Hungarian director György Pálfi’s The Hen: A Feather’s Tale, and will launch sales at the company’s first Cannes market.

Salvation is Alper’s fifth feature and follows Burning Days, which premiered in Un Certain Regard in 2022, and Frenzy, that won the special jury prize in Venice in 2015.

Set in a remote Kurdish village, Salvation tracks the return of an exiled clan that reignites a decades-old land dispute as two brothers lead their village into a brutal struggle with their neighbours.

The film is produced by Turkey’s Liman Film and co-produced by France’s Meltem Films and TS Productions, the Netherlands’ Circe Films & Kaap Holland and Greece’s Horsefly Films. Bir Film also co-produces and will release in Turkey.

he Hen: A Feather’s Tale is about a hen who escapes from a chicken farm and takes refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant where she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. “Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives,” Lucky Number says of the film.

It is produced by Germany’s Pallas Film and TwentyTwenty Vision, Greece’s View master Films, and co-produced by Hungary’s Focusfox. Pálfi is known for Taxidermia that premiered in Un Certain Regard in 2006 and Final Cut, presented at Cannes Classics in 2012.

Lucky Number’s Cannes line-up also includes Francesco Sossai’s male-bonding road trip drama The Last One For The Road that premieres Un Certain Regard, plus Berlin titles The Blue Trail and What Marielle Knows.

The company, launched late last year by Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and Lenny Porte, also brings new images from Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 set in British-controlled Palestine in 1936 that is now in post-production and stars Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass.

Rounding out its slate are David Roux’s French psychological drama Mrs. starring Melanie Thierry and Eric Caravaca and Greenland-set family adventure Pipaluk: The Girl Who Raced The Wind.

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