Berlin 2013: Operation Kino Picks up 'Iron Picker' for Turkey, Other Markets

Berlin – Operation Kino has picked up rights to Golden Bear candidate An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker for Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Operation Kino a joint distribution initiative launched by the Istanbul, Transylvania, Sofia and Sarajevo film festivals.         Danis Tanovic’s film, which revolves around an impoverished Roma woman’s struggle to get treatment following her stillbirth, will be released under the Media Mundus-supported label, with the individual festivals showing the title in their program and then touring it around the countries’ peripheral regions.