Soda Pictures
| Private | |
| Industry | Film distributor |
| Founded | London, UK (2002) |
| Headquarters | Shoreditch, London, UK |
Key people |
Edward Fletcher, Managing Director; Eve Gabereau Managing Director |
| Products | Soda Pictures |
| Website |
www.sodapictures.com www.sodapictures.ca |
Soda Pictures is a London-based all-rights film distribution company, with a division in Canada, specialising in arthouse, independent and world cinema. Established in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, the company releases 25+ films a year and has a library of over 300 titles.
They have released such groundbreaking films as Fatih Akin’s Head-On, Tran Ahn Hung’s Norwegian Wood, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, Christian Petzold’s Barbara and Phoenix both starring Nina Hoss, from Saudi Arabia Wadjda, Brazilian award-winner The Second Mother, Icelandic breakout hit Rams, French thriller Disorder starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger and the Oscar-nominated documentary Finding Vivian Maier, as well as on the Canadian side Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club, Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and the Western Slow West starring Michael Fassbender. Upcoming they have the critically acclaimed Cannes competitors Paterson and Toni Erdmann, Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Nixon and directed by Terence Davies, and the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life.
Soda Pictures is part of the Thunderbird Films Group, a film and television production company based in Vancouver with additional offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and who are behind the Netflix Original series Beat Bugs and Executive Producers of the upcoming Blade Runner sequel.
Films
2017
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date | DVD Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toni Erdmann (2016) | Maren Ade | Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Lucy Russell | February 3 |
2016
2015
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date | DVD Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Forbidden Room | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson | December 11 | ||
| Tell Spring Not To Come This Year | Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy | |||
| Zarafa (2012) | Jean-Christophe Lie, Remi Bezancon | |||
| By Our Selves | Andrew Kötting | |||
| Just Jim | Craig Roberts | Craig Roberts, Emile Hirsch | ||
| The Second Mother | Anna Muylaert | Regina Casé | September 4 | |
| National Gallery (2014) | Frederic Wiseman | 9 January | 4 May | |
| The Turning (2013) | Ensemble | Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto | 6 February | 6 April |
| Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) | David Zellner | Rinko Kikuchi | 20 February | 22 June |
| Difret (2014) | Zeresenay Mehari | Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere | 6 March | 29 June |
| The Face of an Angel (2014) | Michael Winterbottom | Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne | 27 March | |
| Altman (2014) | Ron Mann | 3 April | ||
| Jauja (2014) | Lisandro Alonso | Viggo Mortensen | 10 April | |
| Phoenix (2014) | Christian Petzold | Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld | 8 May | |
| The Goob (2014) | Guy Myhill | Liam Walpole. Sienna Guillory, Sean Harris | 29 May | |
| Shooting for Socrates (2014) | James Erskine | 5 June | ||
| Natural Resistance (2014) | Jonathan Nossiter | 19 June | ||
| That Sugar Film (2014) | Damon Gameau | Damon Gameau, Stephen Fry, Hugh Jackman | 26 June | |
| Still the Water (2014) | Naomi Kawase | Nijirô Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga | 3 July | |
| The Reunion (2013) | Anna Odell | 10 July | ||
| The Wonders (2014) | Alice Rohrwacher | Alba Rohrwacher, Monica Bellucci, Sam Louwyck | 17 July | |
| Gemma Bovery (2014) | Anne Fontaine | Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng | 21 August |
2014
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date | DVD Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teenage (2013) | Matt Wolf | 24 January | ||
| Journal de France (2012) | Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret | 31 January | ||
| The Patrol (2013) | Tom Petch | 7 February | ||
| Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) | Jim Jarmusch | Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt | 21 February | 15 September |
| Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) | Biyi Bandele | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, John Boyega | 11 April | 4 August |
| Looking for Light: Jane Bown | Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte | 25 April | 26 May | |
| Ilo Ilo (2013) | Anthony Chen | Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen | 2 May | 25 August |
| American Interior | Gruff Rhys | Gruff Rhys | 9 May | 15 September |
| Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist | James Erskine | 16 May | - | |
| Omar (2013) | Hany Abu-Assad | Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany | 30 May | 5 October |
| For No Good Reason (2012) | Charlie Paul | Ralph Steadman, Johnny Depp | 30 May | |
| PULP: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets | Florian Habicht | PULP | 6 June | 14 July |
| Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) | Bruno Dumont | Juliette Binoche | 20 June | |
| Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | 18 July | ||
| The Police Officer's Wife (2013) | Philip Gröning | Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied | 22 August | 25 August |
| Night Moves (2013) | Kelly Reichardt | Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Peter Sarsgaard | 29 August | 12 January 2015 |
| Watermark (2013) | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky | 5 September | ||
| A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell | 12 September | ||
| Down by Law (R/I) (1986) | Jim Jarmusch | Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni | 12 September | 23 March 2015 |
| Violette (2013) | Martin Provost | Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet | 3 October | |
| My Name is Hmmm... (2013) | Agnès b. | Douglas Gordon | 17 October | 6 April 2015 |
| Sacro GRA (2013) | Gianfranco Rosi | 7 November | 10 November | |
| Electricity | Bryn Higgins | Agyness Deyn, Christian Cooke, Paul Anderson | 5 December | 6 April 2015 |
| Kon-Tiki (2012) | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Joachim Rønning | 19 December | 13 April 2015 |