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EXCLUSIVE: Celluloid Dreams has taken world income authorities for French head Paul Nouhet’s Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou) up of its world premiere successful Cannes parallel conception ACID.
The movie follows a travel to Barcelona, nan mecca of skateboarding, by 4 friends connected their first independent travel to together arsenic they move 18. A decade later, they reunite and reminisce astir nan vacation which helped shaped them and their friendships today.
Rewind Barcelona grew retired of Nouhet’s 2023 medium-length autobiographical activity Salut Les Zins, successful which he revisited his adolescence arsenic an avid skateboarder successful Bordeaux.
Nouhet and his real-life friends Emile Pierre, Edouard Hascoët and Léo Cholet appeared arsenic themselves pinch actors playing them arsenic 13-year-olds. They return for nan caller characteristic which reconstructs existent memories pinch fictionalized segments.
“I started penning Rewind Barcelona pinch Émile, arsenic shown successful nan film: by calling our friends Hascoët and Léo to chat astir our travel to Barcelona 10 years ago,” explains nan director.
“But we quickly realized that we didn’t retrieve everything that well, aliases rather, we remembered specifications that weren’t needfully portion of what had happened there… it was from location that Émile and I filled successful nan gaps, injecting fiction.”
It is produced by Dorothée Levesque nether nan banner of Les Films du Sursaut.
Celluloid Dreams Head of Sales and Acquisition Saliha Guemraoui, who picked up nan baton of starring nan institution pursuing nan decease of its laminitis Hengameh Panahi successful 2023, says nan movie clicked pinch nan label’s auteur focus.
“Rewind Barcelona is simply a vibrant and profoundly embodied image that captures pinch awesome sensitivity that vulnerable period betwixt adolescence and adulthood. Through a free and fluid attack to storytelling, blending documentary immediacy pinch a beardown general sensibility, Paul Nouhet conveys nan fleeting quality of younker pinch singular authenticity,” she said.
“We are peculiarly drawn to this earthy cinematic voice, tin of transforming mundane fragments into a powerful reflection connected personality and belonging, successful a measurement that powerfully resonates pinch nan editorial statement of Celluloid Dreams.”
Rewind Barcelona is among 9 films being showcased successful nan ACID conception this year, which antecedently championed nan early useful of Justine Triet, Kaouther Ben Hania and Radu Jude.
“More than conscionable a characteristic astir skateboarding and friendship, Rewind Barcelona lingers connected nan anecdotal, mundane memories of younker that turn successful value arsenic clip goes by. The changeless impulse to archive these moments, to sphere their images and sounds, places america some successful nan immediacy of nan coming and successful nan region of nan archive,” said board Anne Colson, Martin Jauvat and Déni Pitsaev who are connected nan ACID action committee.
“This is nan film’s top strength: it showcases uncommon vitality, pinch easiness and gentleness, tinged pinch nan melancholy of younker that has conscionable passed and is already steeped successful nostalgia.”
