{"id":671010,"date":"2026-05-28T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671010\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:25:09","slug":"alice-rohrwacher-movie-the-baron-in-the-trees-in-works-with-our-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671010\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Rohrwacher Movie ‘The Baron in The Trees’ In Works With Our Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: In the wake of their Cannes Best Director-winning Fatherland<\/a> helmed by Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski, Italian-based producers Mario Gianani<\/a> and Lorenzo Mieli<\/a> and their Our Films<\/a> banner are teaming with Oscar-nominated and Cannes-winning filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher<\/a> on a feature take of Italo Calvino\u2019s 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe UTA-repped Rohrwacher will adapt and direct the Viareggio Prize-winning book, which follows a young Baron, little Cosimo, who is bulled by his older sister and tired of his distinguished role. He decides to climb a tree and never set foot on the ground again.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s only been one previous adaptation of the famed Italian author Calvino\u2019s work, that being the 1969 movie The Nonexistent Knight directed by Pino Zac.<\/p>\n

\n\tRohrwacher, who was Oscar-nominated in the 2023 live-action shorts category for the Disney+ title Il Pupille, is currently in production on the feature adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger\u2019s bestselling novel\u00a0Three Incestuous Sisters<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0Dakota Johnson<\/a>,\u00a0Saoirse Ronan<\/a>,\u00a0Jessie Buckley<\/a>\u00a0and Josh O\u2019Connor starring. Of her Cannes canon, she helmed 2011\u2019s Heavenly Body which premiered in Directors\u2019 Fortnight, 2014\u2019s The Wonders which won the Grand Prix, 2017\u2019s Happy as Lazzaro which delivered her the fest\u2019s best screenplay prize, and 2023\u2019s in-competition La Chimera starring O\u2019Connor and Isabella Rossellini. Last year, Rohrwacher won a European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema award.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Mediawan-owned Our Films continues to be a destination for auteurs making foreign-language and English-speaking films and TV series for a global audience. For a U.S. distributor, the black-and-white Thomas Mann biopic Fatherland would be extremely risky; however, Our Films, working in conjunction under its newly reupped financing and distribution deal with Mubi, minimizes downside in an it-takes-a-village approach, attaching myriad European partners who can capitalize the project in their respective territories (many sold by Mubi\u2019s Match Factory).<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Pawlikowski\u2019s three-time Oscar-nominated black-and white 2018 film Cold War, the filmmaker\u2019s homeland of Poland was the highest-grossing territory in reported grosses with $4.8 million, followed by France with $2.7M, Spain $1.5M, UK at $1.4M, Italy at $1.3M and Netherlands at $1.2M. The U.S. was the second highest-grossing territory behind Poland with $4.5M.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re trying to maximize the space for specialty movies,\u201d Mieli tells Deadline. \u201cThe goal is to reach the specific target audience in each country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have to find solutions,\u201d says Gianani about mounting auteur foreign pics in today\u2019s fierce theatrical and streaming ecosystem. \u201cWe\u2019re pragmatic and find financial solutions and with Mubi we invented a model that didn\u2019t exist before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Films isn\u2019t just a mere bridge financier, rather it finds material and develops it closely with the filmmaker and scribes (the producing duo have a penchant for bestselling literary novels, having catapulted Elena Ferrante\u2019s My Brilliant Friend into a global HBO Max hit) before taking it out to other financial and producing partners, sometimes within the Mediawan empire. Our Films keeps an equity stake.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the case of Fatherland, Our Films had a history with the Cannes-winning Pawlikowski. He co-penned the script for the 2024 Cannes title Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie with the pic\u2019s director Kirill Serebrennikov. In addition, Gianani and Mieli were involved in shepherding the filmmaker\u2019s feature film, The Island, though that production was dashed due to the 2023 U.S. SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe duo sent Pawlikowski Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s biography of Thomas Mann, The Magician. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter we read the book, the first person we thought of was Pawe\u0142,\u201d said Gianani, \u201cHe read the book in two days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith Limonov, he turned a large biography into a fantastic script. His ability to synthesize complexity is amazing,\u201d says Gianani on why Pawlikowski was the right director for the IP.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Fatherland\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Fatherland\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAgata Grzybowska<\/p>\n

\n\tPawlikowski initially turned down the opportunity to adapt\u00a0the book into a full-on biographical film of Mann\u2019s life. However, he was\u00a0inspired by one particular episode \u2014 Mann\u2019s return to Germany in 1949 with his spitfire and worldly daughter Erika (played by Oscar nominee Sandra H\u00fcller). Pawlikowski proceeded to re-imagine the event as a five-day road trip, and was assisted by Henk Handloegten to fashion a very personal and largely fictional story. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Films then brought the German production company Nine Hours on board and invited Ewa Puszczy\u0144ska of the Polish company Extreme Emotions, Pawlikowski\u2019s longtime producer, to join the project. The decision was subsequently made to shoot the film in Poland. Dimitri Rassam\u2019s Chapter 2 and Lorenzo Gangarossa of Circle One completed the lineup of producing collaborators.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt that stage, Our Films signed a contract to develop the script and began working on the overall financing structure of the film. Around the same time, Our Films had just entered into a financing and distribution pact with Mubi. Together, they worked to assemble the financing and move the project forward in a very short timeframe. Fatherland is eyeing a theatrical release in the near future in Poland with a North American bow sometime in the fall timed to awards season.<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Films\u2019 next project with Mubi is the feature Let Love In starring Luca Marinelli and Charlotte Vandermeersch. from 2022 Cannes Jury Prize-winning The Eight Mountains filmmaker Felix van Groeningen. That pic is largely an Italian-Belgian co-production.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther recent Our Films projects include the HBO Max Italian series Portobello from filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. The series tells the story of Enzo Tortora, the famous host of the television program Portobello, who was accused by some for being part of a Camorra organization dedicated to drug trafficking. Our Films also has Feel My Voice, the Italian adaptation of France\u2019s La Famille B\u00e9lier.<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Films recently renewed their financing and distribution agreement with Mubi that was first inked in 2025. Paris-based Entourage Ventures has also teamed with Our Films to invest in movies they produce in collaboration with Mubi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of their Cannes Best Director-winning Fatherland helmed by Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski, Italian-based producers Mario Gianani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[226319,88,283907,292787,292788,206,292789,274143,292790],"class_list":["post-671010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alice-rohrwacher","tag-entertainment","tag-fatherland","tag-lorenzo-mieli","tag-mario-gianani","tag-movies","tag-our-films","tag-pawel-pawlikowski","tag-the-baron-in-the-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}