US EditionChanning Tatum debuts new look at ‘Josephine’ movie premiere
‘Josephine,’ inspired by the director’s own childhood trauma, won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance before competing at Berlinale.
- The Sundance-winning Josephine arrives in Berlin for a Berlinale competition slot, starring Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan and newcomer Mason Reeves.
- With 12 years in development, de Araújo's Josephine finally began filming in spring 2024 after signing on Gemma Chan, Channing Tatum, and producer David Kaplan, delayed by COVID-19.
- Drawing on his fatherhood, Channing Tatum shaped Damien while Gemma Chan plays Claire, a mother helping Josephine, the eight-year-old protagonist who witnesses a brutal rape in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
- After Sundance, the film secured U.S. distribution in a reported seven-figure deal as Sumerian Pictures acquired rights and Sundance buzz sparked early 2026-27 awards season talk.
- Beth de Araújo, writer-director and advocate, framed the film as a call for accountability toward perpetrators and said it `creates more silence, more shame and leaves survivors to heal completely on their own.
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Co-starring Chaning Tatum, it is an extraordinarily bold, shocking, and overwhelmingly moving film.
In the competition, director Beth de Araújo tells the story of coping with a traumatic experience from a child's perspective.
With Josephine, who closes the Competition section, the Berlinale knew that the best card was being kept for the end. Actually, the organization had programmed the titles with more weight for the last days, as if it were the wine of the weddings of Cana. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury and the award of the public in the Drama section of the past Sundance festival (the two awards with more enjundia), Josephine deepens in what its star actre…
The film by Beth de Araújo about a rape contemplated by a girl adds to Queen of Sea as the highlight of the Berlinale in progress. Next to her, the unclassifiable miniature (in a rigorous sense) I (Love is a Rebellious Bird) (***), by Anna Fitch and Banker White, closes the official section Read
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