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France’s Wrong Films, Behind Sundance Jury Prize Winner ‘Animalia,’ Preps Beirut-Set Thriller ‘Thaoura’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Wrong Films also backed Queer Palm winner ‘Bolero’ and Morad Mostafa’s ‘I Promise You Paradise,” a Cannes Nikon Discovery laureate.
France’s Wrong Films, behind Sofia Alaoui’s Sundance Jury Prize winner “Animalia,” a sci-fi drama, is prepping another Arabic-language genre movie, David Arslanian’s feature debut “Thaoura,” which is set in Lebanon’s 2019 public protests against its worst economic crisis since 1850. Wrong Films also produced “Bolero,” by France’s Nans Laborde-Jourdáa, which walked off with a Queer Palm, and Morad Mostafa’s “I Promise You Paradise,” which scooped a Cannes Festival Nikon Discovery Prize. And as street protests erupt over a new tax imposed by the government, Manal gradually plunges into a spiral of uncontrollable violence to achieve her ends,” the latest synopsis reads.
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