Anti-Worlds Reveal First Releases For 2022

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Anti-Worlds releasing have signed all rights deals in the UK for two new films – both hailing from France. 2022 will see releases for Bertrand Mandico’s award winning psychedelic sci-fi After Blue (Dirty Paradise) from Paris based Kinology, and Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s savage satire and Cannes Midnight screening Bloody Oranges from Belgium based Best Friend Forever.

AFTER BLUE is Mandico’s second full length feature following 2017’s WILD BOYS. It’s a mind-blowing mix of gender fluid sci-fi and psychedelic visuals – a futuristic fantasy set on a feminine world. “I wanted to craft an ode to film and to actresses, a singular and universal adventure borrowing the framework of westerns, the cruelty of old fairy tales and the lyricism of sci-fi” says Mandico. A must see on the big screen.

BLOODY ORANGES has been described as “the perfect movie for a Midnight Screening, … brimming with comedy and shocking content”. Four interleaving stories veer from a critique on modern day morality, political satire and shocking and vicious horror; forcing the viewer to confront their own morality and mortality. It’s an hilarious, unsettling and unforgettable gut punch of a film. “Thought-provoking, graphic, ballsy… Imagine if Armando Iannucci made a horror film with Julia Ducournau, and then times that by ten.” Kaleem Aftab, CineEuropa
Both films will be given a cinema release in the UK next year.

On 10th January Anti-Worlds will add two collector’s edition Blu-rays to their library – Tim Mielant’s Patrick and Corneliu Porumboiu’s Infinite Football.

PATRICK COMEDY, DRAMA

Patrick is a 38 year old handyman at his parents’ naturist campground. When his prize hammer is stolen, Patrick’s quest to solve the mystery of its theft leads to a much deeper mystery – who is he himself?

An hilarious yet poignant tale of the human condition – and hammers.

Patrick is a tragicomedy about people’s peculiarities, about letting go and about being happy with who you are.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

  • High Definition presentation
  • Director supervised presentation of the film
  • Original 5.1 surround sound
  • Making of featurette (2020, 25 mins)
  • Newly recorded in-depth interview with director Tim Mielants (2021, 20 mins)
  • Newly filmed interview with producer Bart van Langendonck (2021, 15 mins)
  • Exclusive extended funeral music sequence
  • English language audio commentary by writer-director Tim Mielants and co-writer Benjamin Sprengers
  • A Tale of Three Trailers – Alternate theatrical trailers
  • Optional English translation subtitles
  • Limited edition exclusive 32-page booklet containing new writing on the film by Wendy Ide and David Flint, and film credits and technical details
  • Limited edition of 3,000 copies

 

INFINITE FOOTBALL DOCUMENTARY

“Last fall, a good childhood friend of mine, Florin, told me that his brother, Laurențiu, invented a new sport by changing the rules of the football game. One month later I went to my hometown, Vaslui, with a small film crew, to learn more about the new sport …”

Acclaimed director Corneliu Porumboiu’s moving and hilarious documentary premiered at the Berlin Film Festival before successfully going on a festival run across the world.

They talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurențiu Ginghină, it’s not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised. All roads lead to football, but all roads lead away from it too, to land ownership issues, to orange farms in Florida, to political utopia and the traces left by life, to version 2.0, 3.1, 4.7, to infinity.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

  • High Definition presentation
  • Director supervised presentation of the film
  • Original stereo soundtrack
  • Newly recorded in-depth interview with director Corneliu Porumboiu (2021, 20 mins)
  • Curzon Q&A with director Corneliu Porumboiu
  • Exclusive full length feature – The Second Game (2014)
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Optional English translation subtitles
  • Limited edition exclusive 24-page booklet containing new writing on the film by Kaleem Aftab and Evrim Ersoy, and film credits and technical details
  • Limited edition of 3,000 copies

 

Coming later in Spring 2022 Anti-Worlds will release a collector’s edition of Simon Bird’s debut feature Days Of Bagnold Summer. Released to huge acclaim in 2021 this will see a world premiere of the blu-ray which is stacked with extra material including making of footage and interviews with the cast and crew, rehearsal footage, video essays, deleted scenes and an exclusive interview with the graphic novel’s creator Joff Winterhart. For the first time 3 of his short films are available here too.