Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett ( Tár, Nightmare Alley ) will star in Alice Birch ‘s Sweetsick , which will rep the filmmaker’s feature directorial debut at Searchlight.

Sweetsick, which Birch also wrote, follows a mercurial woman (Blanchett) with a strange and piercing gift – the ability to see what others most intimately need, often at great personal cost – who sets out on a journey home. Cameras rolls this fall in the UK and Greece.

Pic is produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Theo Barrowclough from House Productions ( Conclave, Mint, The Wonder ) alongside Blanchett and her Dirty Films banner. Lee Groombridge will also produce. Film4 will executive produce and co-finance.

Birch said, “I could not be more excited to be making my debut feature as a direc

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