Madrid — Emerging ever more as a go-to sales agent for prominent festival titles from Latin America, Paris-based Luxbox has swooped on international rights to “Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos” (The Dead and the Others), which was added to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard last Thursday.
Based on the filmmakers’ experience living for nearly a year in Pedra Branca, a village of the Kraho people in North Brazil, the fiction feature is directed by Portugal’s João Salaviza and Sao Paulo-born Renée Nader Messora.
Produced by Lisbon’s Karo Filmes, Belo Horizonte’s Entrefilmes and Messora and Salaviza’s Sao Paulo-based Material Bruto, “The Dead and the Other People” turn on Ihjãc, a 15-year-old Krahô boy called by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast which will allow his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead. Reluctant to embrace what this implies, a...
Based on the filmmakers’ experience living for nearly a year in Pedra Branca, a village of the Kraho people in North Brazil, the fiction feature is directed by Portugal’s João Salaviza and Sao Paulo-born Renée Nader Messora.
Produced by Lisbon’s Karo Filmes, Belo Horizonte’s Entrefilmes and Messora and Salaviza’s Sao Paulo-based Material Bruto, “The Dead and the Other People” turn on Ihjãc, a 15-year-old Krahô boy called by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast which will allow his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead. Reluctant to embrace what this implies, a...
- 4/24/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety - Film News
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