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EXCLUSIVE: Rich Spirit has picked up North American authorities to Ramzi Bashour’s characteristic debut Hot Water which made its world premiere successful nan U.S. Dramatic Competition earlier this twelvemonth astatine Sundance.
A theatrical merchandise for nan mother-son roadworthy dramedy will beryllium group for later this year. The movie will play astatine First Look, nan Museum of nan Moving Image’s yearly show for adventurous caller cinema, successful April successful New York City.
Pic stars Lubna Azabal (Incendies, Paradise Now), Daniel Zolghadri (Lurker, Funny Pages) and Dale Dickey (A Love Song, Hell aliases High Water).
Hot Water follows a Lebanese mother and her American boy connected an odyssey crossed nan United States. Azabal plays Layal, a tightly coiled Arabic professor whose troubled teenage boy Daniel (Zolghadri) is expelled from precocious school, prompting her to escort him from Indiana to California to unrecorded pinch his estranged father. As nan brace move westward, they person a bid of encounters pinch improbable group and places—including a memorable extremity pinch an eccentric friend (Dickey)—that reveals nan fractures and increasing bonds betwixt them.
Bashour stated, “I’m excited to subordinate nan slate astatine Rich Spirit and activity pinch specified a spirited squad arsenic we bring Hot Water into cinemas. Their patient belief successful this very individual movie and committedness to getting it connected marquees intends truthful overmuch to me. I’m grateful we first sewage to stock our movie astatine Sundance and now look guardant to having audiences each crossed North America acquisition it connected nan large screen.”
The pic is produced by Jesse Hope, Max Walker-Silverman, and Josh Peters. Executive producers are Robina Riccitiello, Jawad Ahsan, Arsala Ahsan, Sakurako Fisher, Jan McAdoo, Jack McAdoo, Philipp Engelhorn, Dave Liu, Nicole Jordan-Webber, Will Levinger, Kyle Owens, Ethan Lazar, Austen Rydell, Ben Stillman, Steve Beckman, Tegan Acton, Emma Pompetti, and Adam Wyatt Tate.
The woody was negotiated by Cinetic Media connected behalf of nan filmmakers and Rich Spirit.
Rich Spirit’s debut acquisition and co-release was Ali Abassi’s The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, arsenic Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, during nan former’s emergence successful nan 1980s NYC existent property world. The pic received BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations pursuing its world premiere successful Cannes 2024.
