Nabis Film Berlin, a producer on Sofía Exarchou’s “Animal,” Radu Jude’s “Dracula” and Maureen Fazendeiro’s “The Seasons,” is developing “Michael M.,” the first solo feature of Laura Bierbrauer, whose “Far From Us,” co-directed with Verena Kuri, was selected for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival’s Forum.

The project features among the 12 titles selected for pitching at the upcoming edition of Proyecta , the co-production platform at December’s Ventana Sur , jointly organized by the Cannes Festival’s’ Marché du Film and the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Also written by Bierbrauer, “Michael M,” is set in part in 1930s Buenos Aires where exiled writer Michael attempts to continue his work, though the overwhelming city make his hands tremble, a synopsis runs. “Decades later, he reenters the li

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