Serendipity Point copro Museo heads to Berlin

The drama, from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, will world premiere in competition at the festival.

Serendipity Point Films’ copro Museo (pictured) will world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February, it was announced today.

The crime drama is produced by Gerardo Gattica and Alberto Muffelmann of Mexico’s Panorama Global and Moises Cosio of Detalle Films. Robert Lantos of Serendipity executive produces, alongside Mark Musselman, Anant Singh and Brian Cox of South Africa’s Distant Horizon.

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, who co-wrote the film with Manuel Alcalá, Museo follows two veterinarian students who scheme to steal Mexican cultural artifacts from the country’s National Anthropology Muse and quickly find themselves in over their heads. The feature stars Gael García Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris. The film was the first allowed to shoot in the National Anthropology Museum and at the Mayan ruins of Palenque. Production took place between February and April of 2017.

Ruizpalacios previously attended Berlin in 2014 with Gueros, a comedic drama that netted the director best first feature at the festival.

The producers previously worked together on Atom Egoyan’s 2015 thriller, Remember. “We all enjoyed working together and keep looking to collaborate. We were delighted that Museo gave us the opportunity to do so,” Lantos said in a statement.

Serendipity Point is also currently in post production on the Don McKellar-directed Through Black Sprucewhich is based on the Giller Prize-winning novel by Joseph Boyden.