Paris-based Bac Films has picked up world sales on a trio of arthouse films by emerging talents of which one, LAND, is written and directed by LFS graduate Babak Jalali. The film's producer is Ginevra Elkann, also an LFS graduate.
Described as a ‘modern western about Indians, Whites, distance, longing, roadwork and abuse’, Jalali’s LAND explores the issue of alcoholism within a Native American community, through the tale of family awaiting the return of the body of their dead G.I. son from Iraq.
The project, which won the top prize at the Torino Film Lab in 2012 and is also supported by the Doha Film Institute, is due to shoot in New Mexico this September. Agnes Godard is attached as cinematographer.
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