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- Charades acquired international rights to Juho Kuosmanen's third feature 'Dream Come True,' which has wrapped production across Denmark, Finland, and France.
- Juho Kuosmanen directs the story of 43-year-old Rasmus, a Danish commercial diver who discovers a shipwreck containing thousands of pristine bottles of champagne from the world's oldest drinkable vintage — a treasure worth millions.
- Magnus Millang (Another Round), Paprika Steen (Families Like Ours), and newcomer Ellen Kihri lead the cast.
- Katrin Pors (Snowglobe, Godland) and Jussi Rantamäki (Aamu Film Company, Compartment No. 6) produce, with co-production from One Two Films, Portobello Productions, and Kjellson & Wik.
- Distribution is locked with Le Pacte in France, Alamode Film in Germany, Scanbox Entertainment in Denmark/Norway/Sweden, and B-Plan in Finland.
- Kuosmanen previously won the 2021 Cannes Grand Prix for 'Compartment No. 6' and the 2016 Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize for 'The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki.'
- Funding came from the Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, German Federal Film Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and Creative Europe MEDIA, among others.
Why it matters: Charades lands international rights to a completed film from a Cannes Grand Prix winner, with five European distributors already attached — giving Kuosmanen a built-in release footprint across France, Germany, the Nordics, and Finland before any festival launch. The director reunites with producer Jussi Rantamäki (Compartment No. 6) and Katrin Pors (Godland), pairing proven collaborators on a crowd-pleasing treasure-hunt premise that departs from his prior intimate character studies.
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