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EXCLUSIVE: BUFF Studios has acquired UK distribution authorities to Tina Gharavi’s Shadows of Beirut and will coming nan movie astatine this year’s Cannes Market.
Quantify Sales is handling world income connected nan title, which Gharavi directed from a screenplay that she wrote pinch Tala Calil. Starring Calil, Assaad Bouab, Flavia Bechara, and Michael E. Rodgers, nan movie follows a young female who returns to Beirut aft 25 years of estrangement from her dying father.
The charismatic synopsis reads: “As she navigates nan affectional hostility betwixt forgiveness and unresolved trauma, she reconnects pinch her homeland done nan group and places that shaped her past.”
Yariv Lerner, Tala Calil, Rob Van Norden, and Pia Patatian produced nan film, pinch Paula Crickard serving arsenic Executive Producer.
“We made this unthinkable movie during lockdown and had to duck and dive to bring it to life crossed Beirut and Bulgaria during a very challenging period,” Gharavi said successful a statement. “At a clip erstwhile nan world was reasoning profoundly astir separation and connection, this movie explored what it genuinely intends to cognize a personification aliases a place.”
Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, Head of Global Theatrical Distribution astatine BUFF Studios, added: “Shadows of Beirut represents precisely nan benignant of internationally resonant storytelling BUFF Studios is focused connected bringing to audiences done our UK theatrical slate. Cannes is nan first measurement successful introducing nan movie to world partners arsenic we move into its income and distribution phase.”
