{"id":434706,"date":"2026-02-19T19:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:17:10","slug":"heysel-85-lands-multiple-deals-following-berlinale-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434706\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heysel 85\u2019 Lands Multiple Deals Following Berlinale Debut\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Salaud Morisset has locked a series of international distribution deals on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/teodora-ana-mihai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teodora-ana-mihai\" data-tag=\"teodora-ana-mihai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teodora Ana Mihai<\/a>\u2019s latest feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/heysel-85\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heysel-85\" data-tag=\"heysel-85\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heysel 85<\/a>, which debuted last week at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe completed deals include Plaion, which has acquired rights for Italy. Smile Entertainment picked up the Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland). Five Stars has secured former Yugoslavian territories (Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia) alongside Albania, and will collaborate locally with Kino Meditran in Croatia and Demiurg in Slovenia. In the Benelux, Kinepolis Film Distribution will release the film theatrically in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is inspired by the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels, where 39 people died ahead of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus. The official synopsis reads: The story follows Marie, the mayor\u2019s daughter (Violet Braeckman), and a journalist of Italian origin (Matteo Simoni) who are drawn into the heart of the catastrophe, navigating professional responsibility, family loyalty, and mounting political pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHeysel 85 is Mihai\u2019s third fiction feature following Waiting for August (2014) and Traffic (2024). Fran\u00e7ois Morisset, founder and managing director of Salaud Morisset, described the film as a \u201cdistinctly European story about responsibility, institutional failure, and moral courage. But those themes travel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe reaction at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/efm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_efm\" data-tag=\"efm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EFM<\/a> confirms that audiences are ready for elevated genre storytelling rooted in real events,\u201d Morisset added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTimo Lahtinen of Smile Entertainment said: \u201cHeysel 85 shows the magnitude of the Heysel catastrophe without being exploitative, and reveals the incompetencies that made the tragedy possible. At the same time, it tells us something about the fragility of European collaboration even today. We are proud to bring this story to Nordic audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Salaud Morisset has locked a series of international distribution deals on Teodora Ana Mihai\u2019s latest feature, Heysel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8797,6491,153006,96,158664,158665,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-berlin","tag-celebrities","tag-efm","tag-entertainment","tag-heysel-85","tag-teodora-ana-mihai","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}