EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to The Birthday Party, from director Miguel Angel Jimenez and adapted from Panos Karnezis’s novel of the same name.
Starring are Willem Dafoe, Vic Carmen Sonne, Joe Cole, Emma Suárez, Carlos Cuevas and Christos Stergioglou.
The film originally premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and Quiver will release on June 5, 2026. Judah Klatzker negotiated the deal on behalf of Quiver, with Krisztina Laszlo from Bankside Films and Ioanna Stais from Heretic.
The film is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. According to the synopsis, “the party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is
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