Paris-based Goodfellas has taken on international sales for Josephine, Beth de Araújo’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner that broke out at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, as the film heads straight into a high-profile second stop at the Berlin International Film Festival and the adjacent European Film Market.
The Sundance Institute said the drama follows an 8-year-old who accidentally witnesses a crime in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and then spirals as she searches for a sense of safety while the adults around her struggle to reach her. The festival awarded the film both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the same competition.
In her onstage remarks after the win, de Araújo tied the film’s subject to a wider silence around sexual violence, calling for more direct conversation about rape culture and survivors.
Goodfellas, headquartered in Paris and led by general managers Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua, will shop the title to international buyers as Berlin’s market ramps up, with U.S. distribution still a live question for one of Sundance’s most decorated narrative titles.
Berlin’s competition, which runs Feb. 12–22, has leaned into a mix of prestige English-language titles and international auteur work, with festival leadership pitching theatrical cinema as a cultural priority even as viewing habits keep shifting. That calendar gives Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan a fast turnaround from Park City buzz to a global stage where sales momentum can harden into real deals.
