ScreenDaily is reporting that UK based sales agents Hanway Films will be selling Essential Killing director Jerzy Skolimowski’s Polish/Irish co-production 11 Minutes. The film premieres at the prestigious Venice Film Festival next month.
11 Minutes, which is backed by the Irish Film Board and Element Pictures, stars Richard Dormer (Good Vibrations, ’71, Game of Thrones) in the lead role of a film director. It follows the same 11 minutes in the lives of several different characters; young and old, prosperous and destitute. Some story elements surprisingly intertwine, others follow their own intricate rhythm. Some characters are shown just as they are about to make crucial life changing decisions, others are idly passing time, caught in the midst of their day?to?day routines. What they all have in common is an enigmatic sighting of the elusive dark spot, seen in the sky earlier that day, and the tragic chain of events that will seal their fate. What really caused it? Did all of them deserve it? Could any of them avoid it? What is the fabric of life? These lingering questions constitute the film’s underlying theme.
11 Minutes stars an ensemble of other Polish actors including Agata Buzek, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Mateusz Ko?ciukiewicz. It is produced by Ewa Piaskowska of Skopia Film and co-produced by Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures.
HanWay Films acted as agents for Essential Killing, as well as for, the Michael Fassbender starring Slow West, Irish-Canadian co-production Brooklyn, and Ben Wheatley’s Northern-Irish shot drama High Rise.