Ontario-based Fun Republic Pictures is teaming up with Vienna- and Munich-based Superfilm Filmproduktions for the feature Behind The Knothole, set to be launched at the Marché du Film at Cannes.

Behind The Knothole, written and directed by Austrian filmmaker David Schalko, is being structured as Canada-Austria treaty coproduction and will be financed in partnership with LED volume and pop-up soundstage company Volume Global. Pre-production will begin in Canada later this year, with filming slated for 2025, according to a news release.

Fun Republic’s David Cormican and Superfilm’s John Lueftner will produce. Schalko is also an executive producer alongside Superfilm’s Katharina Theissen, Saskatoon-based Karma Film’s Anand Ramayya and Volume Global’s Michael Hamilton-Wright and Christopher Rush Harrington.

The film centres on an author whose affair with his neighbour’s wife takes an unexpected turn when the woman ends the relationship, but sends a copy of herself to continue the affair. The film will star Lars Eidinger, with the producers continuing to cast for the rest of the roles.

Behind The Knothole was developed with the financial support of the Austrian Film Institute. The producers will be repping sales for the film at Cannes, since it does not have an international sales agent attached yet.

Fun Republic’s recent credits include the Canada-Slovakia copro Réveillon. Cormican is a producer with financing partners Volume Global on the action thriller Hostile Takeover (Karma Film, Dovetale Media), which is filming on the LED volume at the John Hopkins Regina Soundstage located in Regina.

The Marché du Film runs from May 14 to 22 during the Cannes Film Festival.

Image courtesy of Fun Republic Pictures/Superfilm Filmproduktions