My big discovery of 2009 in terms of an emerging new talent haphazardly occurred during the post-award screening of the Un Certain Regard section’s winning film — Yorgos Lanthimos gave us every reason to worry about parental guidance with his sophomore film Dogtooth and has pretty much got himself a instant following from several cinephiles outside of his native Greece. Now comes word that his next project, titled Alpis (Alps), has received a round of local funding, will probably be an item of interest in Berlin for distinctly art-house distributors because it sounds as bizarre as his previous film. Here the synopsis:..
Written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou (co-writer on Dogtooth), this is the story of a hospital night nurse who provides peculiar services to families that have lost their loved ones. She is part of a group called Alpis, whose members offer, for a certain fee, to replace the recently deceased in their random everyday exchanges with the mourning families.
Haos Film’s Athina Rachel Tsangari and Matt Johnson will produce.
