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\n\tUlrich K\u00f6hler\u2019s \u201cGavagai\u201d has debuted its trailer with Variety<\/em> ahead of the film\u2019s screening on Sunday at the Zurich Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tInternational sales for the film, which had its world premiere at New York Film Festival on Saturday, are being handled by LuxBox.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film unspools during the turbulent shoot of a \u201cMedea\u201d adaptation in Senegal. On set, Maja seeks solace in a love affair with her co-star Nourou. Months later, they meet again at the film\u2019s premiere in Berlin. Old feelings resurface, but a racist incident unsettles their reunion. Tensions rise as everyone tries to do the right thing. While the ancient tragedy plays out on screen, a contemporary drama unfolds.<\/p>\n \n\tDennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival, commented: \u201cK\u00f6hler specializes in cunning, tonally surprising films about cross-cultural disconnection, and \u2018Gavagai\u2019 is his most ambitious and expansive film yet\u2014a pinpoint-accurate account of moral crises and social biases, modern and ancient, internal and external.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe cast includes Jean-Christophe Folly (Nourou), Maren Eggert (Maja), Nathalie Richard (Caroline), Anna Diakhere Thiandoum (A\u00efta) and Mateusz Malecki (Kolakowski).<\/p>\n \n\tThe producers are Ingmar Trost and Clement Duboin. The co-producer is Maren Ade. The lead production company is Sutor Kolonko, and the co-production partner is Good Fortune Films.<\/p>\n \n\tK\u00f6hler\u2019s \u201cBungalow\u201d (2002) and \u201cMontag kommen die Fenster\u201d (2006) were shown at numerous festivals and received several prizes. \u201cSchlafkrankheit (2011) was awarded the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlinale. \u201cIn My Room\u201d (2018) premiered in Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard section. \u201cA Voluntary Year\u201d (2019), made in collaboration with Henner Winckler, screened in competition at Locarno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ulrich K\u00f6hler\u2019s \u201cGavagai\u201d has debuted its trailer with Variety ahead of the film\u2019s screening on Sunday at the Zurich Film Festival. International sales for the film, which had its world premiere at New York Film Festival on Saturday, are being handled by LuxBox. The film unspools during the turbulent shoot of a \u201cMedea\u201d adaptation in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5590,1171,14850,14849,168,5844,13455,12311],"class_list":{"0":"post-24458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-debuts","9":"tag-film","10":"tag-gavagai","11":"tag-kohlers","12":"tag-plays","13":"tag-trailer","14":"tag-ulrich","15":"tag-zurich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}