TITLES
Original title: THE UGLY STEPSISTER
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Music
Year: 2025
By Emilie Blichfeldt
110 mins
Origin: Sweeden, Norway, Denmark
Rights: AFRICA
Follows Elvira as she battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme. She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince, amidst a ruthless competition for physical perfection
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Original title: KNEECAP
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Year: 2024
By Rich Peppiatt
105 mins
Origin: United Kindgom
Rights: AFRICA
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
JUNIPER
Original title: JUNIPER
Genre: Drama, Comedy,
Year: 2022
95 mins
Origin: New Zealand
Rights: AFRICAN TERRITORIES
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
MAPANTSULA
Original title: MAPANTSULA
Genre: Drama,
Year: 2023 | 1989
By Oliver Schmitz
103 mins
Origin: South Africa
Rights: WORLD (excluding North America)
A 4K restoration of the award-winning cult classic, Mapantsula, which tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.
Original title: Life, Above All
Genre: Drama,
Year: 2011
By Oliver Schmitz
110 mins
Origin: Germany, South Africa
Rights: WORLD SALES (excluding North America)
A restoration of the award-winning, "Life, Above All", The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
WHAT THE HERO WANTS is a a production company and international distributor of award-winning films based in London and Berlin. It’s acquisitions have premiered at prestigious film festivals worldwide. Founded in 2017 by award-winning film-maker Oliver Schmitz and Aaryan K. Trivedi, WTHW began as a development company, Collaborations saw them working on development projects for Gaumont Germany, Odeon Fiction, Known Associates, among others.
Parallel to this WTHW ventured into world sales and distribution globally, with a specific interest in Africa; to acquire art-house films with commercial potential for the African continent, and have forged a partnership with one of the major exhibitors in the region.
Additionally WTHW is committed to preserving and financing the restorations of the classic titles it acquires, to ensure their legacies are not lost to ever changing technological advancements.
As WTHW grows it continues to look for exciting content, and are Co-producers on Oliver Schmitz's movie “come together” starring Tim Roth and Hiam Abbass.