Telefilms Group, with presence in Mexico and Brazil, is participating at MIPCOM 2023 with a robust catalogue of big productions. Among the titles presented, Kandahar starring Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Bahador Foladi, and Ali Fazal, stands out as one of the highlights.
Kandahar, directed by Ric Roman Waugh, follows Tom Harris, a covert CIA agent working in the Middle East, who finds himself in danger when his covert mission is leaked and reveals his true identity. Caught in the middle of enemy territory, Harris and his translator must make their way in an explosive chase through the desert to reach Kandahar, where their extraction point awaits.
Another title highlighted by Telefilms is Talk To Me, a feature directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, and starring Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, and Zoe Terakes. The story follows lonely teenager Mia, who gets hooked on the thrill of conjuring spirits through a ceramic hand. But when she is confronted by a soul claiming to be her dead mother, she unleashes a plague of supernatural forces and is torn between deciding who she can trust: the living or the dead.
Also presents After Everything. The fifth and final installment in the After franchise, directed by Castille Landon, finds Hardin struggling to move forward despite his writer’s block and devastating breakup with Tessa. The protagonist will embark on a journey to Portugal in search of Nataly, a girl he hurt in his past, in the hopes that he can make amends and find himself. In order to win Tessa back, Hardin will realize that to win her back he will have to change his ways and take the final step. The cast includes Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Cora Kirk, Jessica Webber, and Paul S. Tracey.
In adittion, Telefilms Group have on its slate Hypnotic. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, JD Pardo, and Hala Finley, the movie tells the story of detective Danny Rourke, whofinds himself spiraling down a rabbit hole while investigating a series of reality-bending bank robberies where he will ultimately call into question his most basic assumptions about everything and everyone in his world. Aided by Diana Cruz, a gifted psychic, Rourke simultaneously pursues and is pursued by a lethal specter – the one man he believes holds the key to finding the missing girl – only to discover more than he ever bargained for.
Finally, Ferrari, directed by Michael Mann and starring Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey, Gabriel Leone, and Jack O’Connell. The snapshot in the life of Enzo Ferrari is set in 1957, when the marriage of Enzo (Driver) and Laura (Cruz) has begun to fracture as a result of his philandering and the tragic recent death of their young son. Their unsettled domestic world is on a collision course with his work life as Enzo faces a pair of major turning points: financial pressure to increase productivity, which means going against his long-standing desire to only produce race cars, and preparations for the treacherous cross-country open-road Mille Miglia race.
