{"id":469532,"date":"2026-03-11T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:33:12","slug":"berlinale-film-the-loneliest-man-in-town-sells-to-major-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469532\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale Film &#8216;The Loneliest Man in Town&#8217; Sells to Major Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Loneliest Man in Town,\u201d an Austrian film by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/tizza-covi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tizza Covi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/rainer-frimmel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rainer Frimmel<\/a>, which competed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/berlin-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_berlin-film-festival\" data-tag=\"berlin-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Film Festival<\/a>, has attracted a raft of distributors on the heels of its world premiere. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrussels-based company Be For Films has sold the film to Germany (Weltkino Filmverleih), Spain (Avalon), Italy (Wanted), Japan (Mimosa Films), Brazil (Autoral Filmes), Benelux (Lumiere), <br \/>Greece\u00a0and Poland\u00a0(Cinobo), Portugal (No Comboio), Bulgaria (Beta Film), Ex-Yugoslavia\u00a0(Demiurg), Indonesia (Falcon) and Ukraine (Kyiv Music Film). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe movie was previously acquired by KMBO (France), Xenix Filmdistribution (Switerland), A-One Films (Baltics) and New Cinema (Israel). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSet in Vienna and shot on Super 16mm, \u201cThe Loneliest Man in Town\u201d centers on blues musician Al Cook, born Alois Koch, who plays a version of himself in a quietly devastating meditation on memory, grief and resistance to erasure. Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes \u2013 relics of a life once fully lived \u2014 Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession.<\/p>\n<p>Covi and Frimmel\u2019s previous film \u201cVera\u201d premiered in Venice\u2019s Horizons section in 2022, winning best director and best actress (for Vera Gemma); and going on to represent Austria in the Oscar race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/pamela-leu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pamela-leu\" data-tag=\"pamela-leu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pamela Leu<\/a> \u2013 whose company Be For Films worked with Covi and Frimmel on \u201cMister Universo,\u201d recipient of the Fipresci Award in Locarno, and \u201cVera\u201d \u2014 described their new film as an \u201cintimate, unique story is led by a truly singular character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/the-loneliest-man-in-town-review-1236667189\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety\u2019s review <\/a>described the film as a \u201cwork of gently enveloping drama that draws from reality,\u201d and pointed out the \u201csoundtrack of rich recordings by blues greats like Lonnie Johnson and Bertha \u201cChippie\u201d Hill.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Loneliest Man in Town,\u201d an Austrian film by Tizza Covi\u00a0and\u00a0Rainer Frimmel, which competed at the Berlin Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146588,96,2839,168031,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-berlin-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-pamela-leu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469532","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=469532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}