Missing Link Films

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.

Recently greenlit project. Sebastian Schipper to direct. Screenplay by Schipper and Oliver Ziegenbalg. Said to be a dark film in the plattdütsch language (Low German), about a man in his mid-30s who just wants to come home for two days and then right back to New York where he lives, but stays.

A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe's borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British runaway who pinched his stepfather's recreational vehicle in order to escape from a family holiday. On their journey, the disparate duo have to make decisions that will also influence the lives of others.

Sardinia. A small village is shocked by the disappearance of a little girl and the suicide of Alice, a young woman found dead in the woods. There is a connection between the two cases, but no one knows yet. Sara, a successful writer and friend of the girl, decides to return to her childhood places to find out what happened. She will thus be forced to confront the demons of a forgotten past.

Sebastian Schipper is adapting Jessica Stern's bestselling memoir "Denial: A Memoir of Terror". The project will be Schipper's English-language debut. It is a deeply personal memoir of her and her sisters's rape, when they were teenagers, by an unknown assailant and of Stern's attempt, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.

The five acting students have not seen each other for 36 years. Now they face each other again and look back on the past together. What experiences have they had? What were their successes? What would they rather have done without?

Leòn is an old man, living alone in a shabby guest house. One evening, the crying of a baby transports him back to the days of his unhappy childhood.