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Julio Torres’ Surreal Immigration Comedy ‘Problemista’, Iranian Drama ‘Shayda’ Debut, With 25-Year Old Doc ‘Pitch People’ – Specialty Preview
A24 opens Julios Torres' Problemista starring Tilda Swinton and Sony Pictures Classics is out with 'Shayda' at the indie film box office.
Two well-reviewed indies are taking a bow in limited release in the shadow of Dune, A24’s Problemista by Julio Torres, and Shayda from Sony Pictures Classics, the feature debut of Noora Niasari. This surreal comedy adventure amid the treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system follows Torres’ Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador trying to land a spot at Hasbro’s incubator program. When he’s fired from the cryogenic center where he tends to a frozen painter (rapper RZA), he needs a sponsor fast to stay in the U.S. and begins working with the artist’s oddball wife (Swinton) to arrange a gallery show of her former spouse, who only painted pictures of eggs.
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