Leo Barraclough International Features EditorMunich-based Global Screen has acquired family entertainment film “School of Magical Animals 2” for worldwide distribution. A first teaser will be presented at the Cannes Market for the project, which has a budget of more than $13 million.
Deckert Acquires Visions du Reel Competition Title ‘A Holy Family’ (EXCLUSIVE)
15.04.2022 - 00:31 / variety.com
Lise Pedersen Germany’s Deckert Distribution has picked up international rights for Taiwanese filmmaker Elvis A-Liang Lu’s sophomore feature “A Holy Family,” which world premiered in Visions du Réel’s international competition section.The film is a home-coming story about the director who returns to his village in Taiwan after a 24-year absence. His elder brother is a psychic who offers career advice to the villagers, but fails in his own entrepreneurial ventures as a farmer, and his father is a gambling addict in poor health.
The one who holds the family together is his mother, a stubborn woman who worries about the future and finds consolation in a stream of religious rituals at the Taoist altar in their home. The previously estranged family, where love and grudges intertwine and surface, slowly comes closer through A-Liang’s lens in an intimate portrait of rekindled family bonding and a tale of self-discovery through filmmaking.
“The main theme of the film is our attempt to understand one another better, grow closer, and mend the family relationship,” said A-Liang, who explained how he was prompted to return home from Taipei after receiving a phone call from his mother asking him to arrange a photo for her funeral. The request awoke something deep inside him.
“I understood that she was getting ready to die. Suddenly, I felt that I wasn’t ready to lose her, and I realized that I didn’t have much time left to face the family problems that had haunted me for so long.
I decided to go back home and film our daily life like a family video that we had never had,” said A-Liang, who returned home on a regular basis over the next three years with his camera. What emerges is an unexpected and deeply moving family portrait by
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