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‘Fire Of Wind:’ Locarno & NYFF Title From Marta Mateus Lands North American Distribution Via Cinema Guild
'Fire Of Wind' debuted at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival
Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion. “Mateus is a rare filmmaker, one whose deep sense of form, language, gesture, and poetry is inseparable from her political commitment to the working class of her home region,” McCarry said in a statement. Cinema Guild’s other upcoming releases include Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me, Shinji Somai’s Love Hotel, Hong Sangsoo’s By the Stream and What Does That Nature Say to You, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, and the films of João César Monteiro.
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