Gold Rush Pictures is building a slate across features, documentaries, TV series and animation, collaborating with both established talents and emerging voices across its work.
Club Zero
(Selected to screen in Competition in Cannes, 2023)
A film by Jessica Hausner, with with Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Demy, Amir El-Masry.
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class. She instructs that eating less is healthy. The other teachers are slow to notice what is happening and by the time the distracted parents begin to realise, Club Zero has become a reality.
An Unfinished Film
(Selected to screen in Cannes, 2024)
A film by Lou Ye
In January 2020, director Xiaorui reunites his cast and crew to complete a film that was abandoned during production ten years earlier. However, the team is suddenly placed into lockdown together during the onset of COVID-19. Confronted with the challenges of the pandemic, Xiaorui and his crew are forced to determine how to move forward in a rapidly changing world. From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River, Summer Palace), An Unfinished Film is "an utterly unique and very important movie about Covid, the crisis that affected all of us," (The Guardian). Combining fiction and documentary footage together, Lou Ye both commemorates those lost to the virus and creates "one of the most thoughtful, truthful and tactful depictions of the pandemic ever put to screen."
The Light (Das Licht)
(Opened Berlin International Film Festival, 2025)
A film by Tom Tykwer, with with Lars Eidinger, Nicolette Krebitz and Tala al Deen.
The Syrian immigrant Vara takes a job as a housekeeper with the 5-person, crisis-ridden Engels family. Soon she is shaking up the lives of both the parents and children - so much, that they can't help but turn to each other again. But then Vara confronts the family with her own dark destiny.
Chaplin vs. Chaplin
(Development)
Documentary about the infamous divorce proceedings between Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey, whom Chaplin married when she was just 15 years old. The divorce petition contained multiple accusations of abuse against Chaplin; the divorce settlement awarded to Grey was the largest sum to be ever paid at the time.
The Hustlers
(Development - Rights Acquired)
Series based on Douglas Thompson’s book. The story follows notorious events that took place in central London in 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when two worlds collided: the criminal seedy underground gambling practices found their way to upper class aristocratic hub at the Clermont Club, frequented by dukes and lords.
The Night in Lisbon
(Development - Rights Acquired)
A present-day refugee road movie based on the classic novel by Erich Maria Remarque.