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Immigrants And Influencers: Evocative Cannes’ Premieres ‘To A Land Unknown’ & ‘Wild Diamond’ Debut In Limited Release – Specialty Preview
'To A Land Unknown', 'Wild Diamond', 'We Are Guardians', 'Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story', 'Sovereign' among new indie films opening this weekend.
Watermelon Pictures is testing the market with Cannes-premiering To A Land Unknown among a handful of well-reviewed and thoughtful narrative films from Wild Diamond to Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight and Sovereign, and documentaries We Are Guardian s and Apocalypse In The Tropics hailing from the Croisette, Venice and Telluride and with distributors more upbeat on the indie/arthouse scene than they’ve been in some time. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief John Bouchart, setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. Shot in a close, character-driven vérité style, the film explores the complex intersections of politics, history, economics, and science, shedding light on the global implications of deforestation in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems and the Tembé and Guajajara people struggle to preserve their ancestral lands.
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