{"id":755769,"date":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755769\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","slug":"woman-unknown-venice-contender-reveals-trailer-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755769\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Woman Unknown’: Venice Contender Reveals Trailer, Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: TrustNordisk<\/a> has unveiled fresh deals and a teaser-trailer for May el-Toukhy<\/a>\u2018s post-World War II Denmark<\/a>-set psychological drama Woman Unknown ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice<\/a> Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdding to a previously announced sale to Italy (Lucky Red), TrustNordisk has also sealed deals to Benelux (September Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Greece (Neo Films) and the Baltics (Estin Film) with more territories on the verge of being signed.<\/p>\n

\n\tRising Danish actress Mathilde Arcel (Second Victims), stars as Marie, a young nanny and housemaid who is on the cusp of marrying her wealthy, older, widowed employer Christian in the immediate aftermath of the end of World War Two.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid the jubilation, there is a darker side to the liberation as woman who fraternized with German soldiers are tracked down and publicly shamed. Marie\u2019s secret past threatens to catch up with her, and she is forced to do everything in her power to preserve her new status as lady of the house in post-war anarchy.<\/p>\n

\n\tArcel is joined in the cast by Carsten Bj\u00f8rnlund (The Legacy) as the austere figure of Christian; Thorbj\u00f8rn Hedegaard (Generations) as a dangerous, obsessive admirer from Marie\u2019s past and Marina Bouras (The Idiots), as the household\u2019s all-seeing housekeeper.<\/p>\n

\n\tDanish Egyptian director el-Toukhy is one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion at Venice this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tWoman Unknown is her third feature film after Long Story Short and Queen of Hearts and continues her co-writing collaboration with screenwriter Maren Louise K\u00e4ehne.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven before the film has had its international premiere, it has been an amazing ride \u2013 this goes both in terms of festivals, but also in terms of having such a strong group of distributors on board at this early stage and several others currently in talks. We can\u2019t wait for the premiere in Venice on Sunday, where we will for sure be even more busy,\u201d said Susan Wendt, Managing Director at TrustNordisk.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing its Venice premiere, Woman Unknown heads to Toronto<\/a>, where it will make its North American premiere in the Centrepiece sidebar, before playing in competition at the BFI London Film Festival followed by Riga International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tWoman Unknown is produced Mikael Rieks (Land of Mine) for Nordisk Film Production A\/S in co-production with Nafta Films, Nordisk Film Production Sweden and Film i V\u00e4st.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film received the support of the Danish Film Institute, Eurimages \u2013 Council of Europe, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, Riga City Council, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, DR, The Swedish Film Institute, SVT, LIAA, Riga Film Fund, TrustNordisk and Zentropa.<\/p>\n

\n\tLocal distribution is by Nordisk Film Distribution which has set a February 4, 2027 release date in Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: TrustNordisk has unveiled fresh deals and a teaser-trailer for May el-Toukhy\u2018s post-World War II Denmark-set psychological drama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3602,96,249439,2839,14160,55028,5840,249440,56,54,55,10989],"class_list":["post-755769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-denmark","tag-entertainment","tag-may-el-toukhy","tag-movies","tag-tiff","tag-tiff-market","tag-toronto","tag-trustnordisk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755769","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=755769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}