Kino Lorber has acquired distribution rights to Rafael Manuel’s characteristic debut “Filipiñana” after the movie premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant in January, the place it received the Particular Jury Award for Artistic Imaginative and prescient.
The movie can be launched theatrically by Kino Lorber later this 12 months, adopted by a digital, academic and residential video launch.
Based mostly on his 2020 quick movie of the identical title, the film follows a 17-year-old Ilokana from the agricultural north, who works at a complicated nation membership exterior Manila, “lining up golf balls for highly effective males to drive into the verdant horizon.” However, the official synopsis reads, “one thing is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort” and “the deeper she journeys into its most unique corners, the nearer she will get to the violent truths of the membership, her native Philippines, and her personal previous.”
In his optimistic evaluate for TheWrap, critic Chase Hutchinson referred to as the movie “riveting” and “mesmerizing.”
The deal for “Filipiñana” was negotiated by Kino Lorber VP of Acquisitions Karoliina Dwyer and Austin Kennedy of Amplify.
“Kino Lorber introduced Miguel Gomes’ Tabu and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth to North American audiences. It’s an honor to collaborate with a distributor so deeply dedicated to daring, worldwide cinema on Filipiñana,” stated director Rafael Manuel in a press release.
“Filipiñana is a cinematic miracle,” stated Kino Lorber Chairman & CEO Richard Lorber. “I can’t discover sufficient adjectives to reward it for embodying the way forward for artwork cinema. It’s an amalgamation of good visible pictures, sound design, and choreography married with a poignant and potent, but delicate, political assertion. We couldn’t be extra thrilled to introduce this gorgeous movie to North American audiences.”
Developed and co-financed by Film4, “Filipiñana” is a Potocol, Ossian Worldwide, Epicmedia, Simple Riders Movies, and Idle Eye manufacturing. The movie is produced by Jeremy Chua, Alex Polunin, Bianca Balbuena, Bradley Liew, and Rafael Manuel; co-produced by Sam Chua Weishi, Nadia Turincev, and Omar El Kadi; and govt produced by Farhana Bhula for Film4, Jia Zhangke, Anthony C. Isais, Grace Mariel M. Isais, Maria Sophia Atayde-Marudo, Jossette C. Atayde, Sebastian Raeuber, and Francine Raeuber.