{"id":458319,"date":"2026-02-04T17:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:53:10","slug":"lucky-number-boards-berlin-title-where-to-unveils-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458319\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Number Boards Berlin Title Where To?, Unveils Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Lucky Number<\/a> has acquired international sales rights to Israeli director Assaf Machnes\u2019 debut film Where To? and revealed a first teaser ahead of its premiere in the Berlinale<\/a>\u2019s Perspectives section.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the most topical titles of this year\u2019s selection, the Berlin<\/a> night life scene-set drama revolves around a series of encounters between an Palestinian Uber driver and his young Israeli passenger, who is also far from home and on a journey of self-discovery<\/p>\n

\n\tPalestinian actor Ehab Salami (Let It Be Morning) stars as Uber driver Hassan opposite Israeli actor Ido Tako (Tell Me Everything) as Amir, his Israeli passenger. The cast also features Milan Peschel (Extrawurst), Rama Nasrallah, Raheeq Haj Yahia-Suleiman and Enzo Brumm.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhere To? Is Machnes\u2019 first feature after a series of award-winning shorts including Auschwitz on My Mind and Seven Minutes. It is among 14 first features premiering in the second edition of Berlin\u2019s competitive Perspectives section. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very excited to have Lucky Number on board just before our premiere at Berlinale. They bring years of experience and a genuine passion for cinema, and I\u2019m glad our film resonates with them,\u201d said Machnes. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope that together we could share this story with a wide audience around the world, move people, and perhaps offer a meaningful alternative to a prevailing climate of incitement and division.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by 2-Team Productions (Come Closer), Rogovin Brothers (Tatami), Iconoclast Films Germany, Lev Cinemas, Mohamed Babai (Two Kids a Day) . And is in co-production with ZDF-Arte and Yonatan Finegold and Julia Badouin Finegold.<\/p>\n

\n\tLaunched in late 2024 <\/a>by experienced sales and production execs Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and and Lenny Porte, Lucky Number\u2019s titles to date have included Berlinale 2025 Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner The Blue Trail, TIFF Platform Honorable Mention winner Hen<\/a> by Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi; and Oscar shotlisted film Palestine<\/a> 36 by<\/a> Annemarie Jacir.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith Where To?, we were immediately struck by the film\u2019s humanity and quiet strength. It tells a deeply intimate story, showing how a simple taxi ride can open a space for dialogue, empathy, and genuine connection between two strangers,\u201d Lucky Number\u2019s co-heads said. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe company\u2019s Berlin slate also features opening film No Good Men by Shahrbanoo Sadat and Salvation by Emin Alper which plays in Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Lucky Number has acquired international sales rights to Israeli director Assaf Machnes\u2019 debut film Where To?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,79354,225319,134,6897,219792,344,6899],"class_list":["post-458319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berlin","tag-berlinale","tag-entertainment","tag-israel","tag-lucky-number","tag-movies","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}