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UPDATED with video: The Neon documentary The Painter and the Thief begins with a surprising "meet cute." After two paintings are stolen from artist Barbora Kysilkova in Oslo, Norway, she encounters one of the suspected thieves in court. Instead of feeling angry at the accused, Karl-Bertil Nordland, he excites her…

Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova was as surprised as anyone when she received a phone call in 2015 informing her that thieves had stolen two of her paintings from a gallery in Oslo, Norway. "I just felt very confused," she recalls, "why somebody would decide to break a law in order to get my work. Because I’m not a…

Neon, StudioCanal, and Blueprint Pictures are co-developing the narrative remake of lauded documentary The Painter and the Thief from Benjamin Ree. Neon held a bidding war for the project, which Studiocanal and Blueprint won. Neon had acquired remake rights along with the documentary following its world premiere at…

Director and cinematographer Benjamin Ree injected his deep interest with art theft in his latest feature The Painter and the Thief, which drops in virtual cinemas as well as VOD platforms starting Friday. The documentary debuted at Sundance earlier this year and went on to win the World Cinema Documentary Special…

NEON has picked up world rights to Benjamin Ree's The Painter And The Thief, which won the world cinema documentary special jury prize at Sundance last month. In the film, when two paintings by Czech naturalist Barbora Kysilkova are stolen from an Oslo art gallery, the thieves are quickly identified though the…