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EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based income agency Square Eyes has acquired world income authorities for Belgian head Isabelle Tollenaere’s displacement play Paris Paris up of its premiere successful nan Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Proxima sidebar successful July.
The play follows 3 men from China, nan Democratic Republic of Congo, and Palestine surviving together successful a squatted flat successful a seemingly abandoned building successful Paris.
The group is bound together by their shared acquisition of life successful exile and nan fleeting quality of their possessions, relationships, and consciousness of home, but nan impermanent safe abstraction is threatened by extracurricular forces and events.
A first characteristic for Tollenaere, Paris Paris follows respective short films exploring nan interplay betwixt shifting surviving spaces and nan quality consciousness of self, clip and memory.
“After collaborating connected Isabelle’s first crossover fabrication short film, stepping into her first characteristic felt for illustration a earthy adjacent chapter,” said producers Bo de Group and Hans Everaert astatine Antwerp-based Menuetto Film, referring to Tollenaere’s California City-shot 2022 short movie The Fruit Tree.
“Beyond nan imaginative journey, this movie carries a connection that feels profoundly applicable today: relationship and quality relationship don’t admit borders. The world is changing rapidly, but our expertise to link pinch 1 another, without judgment, remains 1 of nan purest things we have. Bringing that connection to life, some connected surface and down nan scenes, done nan collaboration of group from truthful galore different backgrounds and countries, is what makes filmmaking genuinely meaningful,” they added.
Square Eyes, which has precocious handled titles specified arsenic Berlinale Panorama title London and Locarno-selected Desire Lines, antecedently worked pinch nan head and shaper connected The Fruit Tree.
“”We are proud to proceed our collaboration pinch Isabelle’s debut fabrication characteristic Paris Paris, aft having represented The Fruit Tree. We fell successful emotion pinch nan 3 characters we sewage introduced to, and pinch really playful and afloat of warmth nan movie is,” said Square Eyes.
