‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,’ ‘Fatherland’ Lead Mubi-Madman Slate for Australia, New Zealand
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- Mubi expanded its theatrical distribution partnership with Australia's Madman Entertainment, commissioning the indie distributor to sub-release five films across Australia and New Zealand
- Madman opens the slate on Aug. 6 (Australia) and Aug. 20 (New Zealand) with Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes and starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder
- Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland lands next after winning Best Director at Cannes, written with Henk Handloegten and starring Sandra Hüller; Pawlikowski previously directed Ida and Cold War
- Lukas Dhont's Cannes competition entry Coward — a WWI queer love drama — is part of the deal, with leads Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne taking the Cannes Best Actor prize; Mubi previously released Dhont's Oscar-nominated Close in select territories
- Karim Aïnouz's Berlinale selection Rosebush Pruning rounds out the slate with a cast including Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning and Pamela Anderson
- Markus Schleinzer's Berlinale pick Rose — starring Hüller as a woman disguised as a man in a 17th-century Protestant village — earned Hüller the Silver Bear for Best Leading Actress
Why it matters: Five Cannes and Berlinale prize winners on a single slate gives Australian and New Zealand arthouse audiences unusually concentrated access to the year's most decorated festival titles, and Mubi's prior track record with Dhont signals a sustained bet on auteur queer cinema in the region.
