Exclusive: Paris-based sales company Wide has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the Angolan war of independence drama from Angolan-born Portuguese director Carlos Conceição. machine gunsThe competition premiered Friday at the Locarno Film Festival.
Set in the violent final days of the 1974 conflict, the film presents a double perspective on the conflict through the story of a young local woman who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier.
The film is produced by Terratreme Filmes, a Lisbon-based collective formed in 2008 by award-winning Portuguese directors Joao Matos, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha, Pedro Pinho, Leonor Noivo and Luisa Homme.
Virginie Lacombe and Arnaud Quesada of Paris-based Virginie Films are co-producers, while Conceição and Margarida Ventura will collaborate as producers under their Portuguese flag Mirabilis.
Broad’s chief of acquisitions Maxime Montagne, who completed the deal in Locarno, said of the film: “machine guns It is an influential film that is sure to increase the interest of buyers and festival programmers in Locarno and future festivals, ”he said.
machine guns Conceição’s second feature film since then snake which premiered at the Berlinale 2019 and is an award-winning medium-length film name above the title and shorts Versailles Y Goodnight Cinderella.
He describes his new film as “a reflection of history, war and fear and a portrait of the metaphysics of tyranny”.
Source: Deadline
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