Mubi Sets Spring Theatrical Release For Amalia Ulman’s ‘Magic Farm’

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi will be rolling out the Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Camila de Campo movie Magic Farm exclusively April 25 in NYC at the Angelika with a further expansion on May 2 in LA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Washington DC.

Mubi will also platform the pic in the top 15 markets on May 9 including Dallas, Houston, Austin, Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Miami, Portland with further breaks in NYC and LA before going nationwide on May 16. The UK will also debut on May 16.

We first told you that Mubi acquired the Amalia Ulman directed movie ahead of its global premiere at Sundance.

MUBI is handling distribution in the UK and U.S. The Match Factory is selling international territories.

Pic follows a film crew working for an edgy media company. They travel to Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong country. As the crew collaborates with locals to fabricate a trend, unexpected connections blossom while a pervasive health crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

Ulman also wrote the pic which is produced by Alex Hughes, Eugene Kotlyarenko and Riccardo Maddalosso. Magic Farm also recently played the Berlinale. Joe Apollonio and Simon Rex also star.

Sevigny told us at Sundance, “I had known about Amalia from around downtown Manhattan, she was kind of infamous as this artist/ filmmaker… We had this amazing conversation and I just found her to be one of the brightest people I’d come across in a really long time and I think she’s influenced by so many different art forms. People toss around ‘esoteric’ but she really does have very specific interests and I was just really impressed with her as a person and I loved [Ulman’s previous film] El Planeta, I found it really inspiring and magical, and I thought she had a really unique voice, and so when she asked me to come on board for this, I was like, ‘Yes’ without even even reading it, just because I was so excited by her as an artist and as a filmmaker and then I read it and I was like, ‘Oh so I get to play the b*tch.’ So I had to come to peace with that and know that my character was bringing a little tension.”