France’s Epicentre Boards Alfredo Castro Pic, ‘Dog Legs’ (Exclusive)

The 76th Berlin Film Festival winds down on Sunday, Feb. 22 but new deals are still brewing. Among them is that from France’s Epicentre Films, which has boarded “Dog Legs” (“Patas de perro”), the latest feature from Chile’s Matias Rojas (“A Place Called Dignity”), starring Chile’s inimitable Alfredo Castro.

It joins producing partners from Chile (Tomás Gerlach Mora – A Simple Vista), Colombia (Federico Durán) and Germany (Linus Günther – Klinker).

Led by Daniel Chabannes, Julie Bergeron, Birgit Kemmer and Corentin Sénéchal, Epicentre’s truly international slate includes Colombia’s Oscar-entry “A Poet,” to which it picked up French distribution rights ahead of its Cannes premiere last May.

Inspired by the 1965 eponymous novel by Chilean literary giant Carlos Droguett, winner of Chile’s National Prize for Literature in 1970, “Dog Legs” takes place in a remote Southern Chilean town where Bobi, a young boy born with dog legs, is kept hidden by his family.