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Kani Releasing Acquires North America Rights To Japanese Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Title ‘Desert Of Namibia’
Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios Corp is selling Yoko Yamanaka's Gen Z drama, which premiered in Cannes Directors Fortnight.
Yamanaka’s second feature following 2018 award-winning drama Amiko, the film is about a disaffected 21-year-old working in a beauty salon, where the expectations placed on women her age are difficult to ignore. “Yamanaka is one of the most uncompromising and exciting filmmakers working today, committed to a stubbornly personal body-of-work that examines and upends tropes about womanhood in the Japanese context,” said Kani Releasing co-founder and artistic director Ariel Esteban Cayer. The Cannes FIPRESCI jury praised the film for its “intrepid exploration of contemporary shades of neurodivergence, captured through images that ceaselessly probe the distance between its central characters as they navigate the spaces of 21st century Japan.”
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