‘Oasis,’ Exploring Fear, Exclusion and Violence, Picked Up by Totem Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition...
Key points
- Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival.
- The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production.
- The film centers on a school where a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, and the situation spirals into escalating violence.
- What impressed us is the way he exposes the contradiction between the violence we’ve normalized and the violence we condemn – and the world as it stands proves his point every day.” Lenz’s previous work includes the short “Wannabe” (2017), which won the Prix Clermont-Ferrand and was nominated for the European Film Award, while his graduation film “Soldat Ahmet” (2021) premiered at Visions du Réel and won several international awards.
What happened
Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival. The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production. The film centers on a school where a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, and the situation spirals into escalating violence. What impressed us is the way he exposes the contradiction between the violence we’ve normalized and the violence we condemn – and the world as it stands proves his point every day.” Lenz’s previous work includes the short “Wannabe” (2017), which won the Prix Clermont-Ferrand and was nominated for the European Film Award, while his graduation film “Soldat Ahmet” (2021) premiered at Visions du Réel and won several international awards. The film is produced by Germany’s Zeitgeist Filmproduktion FFM and co-produced by Austria’s Wega Film and Germany’s Third Picture in collaboration with We Fade to Grey, Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion and Totem Films. It is supported by Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien BKM, Deutscher Filmförderfonds...
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