Ivul

"Brit eccentric Andrew Kötting returns with a French rural drama - a young man takes to the trees when he falls foul of the family patriarch. Filmmaker, artist and wild man of British cinema Andrew Kötting makes his long-awaited third fiction feature Ivul, and in so doing joins the current art-cinema diaspora which has seen many of the UK's left-field filmmakers (eg Peter Strickland, Ben Hopkins, Thomas Clay) working under foreign flags. Here, Kötting reinvents himself – in French – as a Franco-Swiss filmmaker with this intimate and eccentric family story. Alex (Jacob Auzanneau) and his older sister Freya (Adélaïde Leroux) are teenage scions of the dynasty of an émigré Russian patriarch (veteran French actor Jean-Luc Bideau). When the pair