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Mad Solutions Takes World Rights to ‘Dear Tarkovsky,’ Palestinian Filmmaker Firas Khoury’s Follow-Up to Fiery Cairo Fest Winner ‘Alam’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Arab distributor Mad Solutions has acquired the director's sophomore feature, a romantic comedy about a struggling filmmaker in Ramallah.
A graduate of Russian film school and a devotee of Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, Farouk is searching for an outlet for his artistic ambitions beyond the schlocky wedding videos he produces to make ends meet. Though billed as a romantic comedy, with other genre elements thrown into the mix, “Dear Tarkovsky” is rooted in Khoury’s own difficulties financing his debut, a politically charged film about a group of Palestinian-Israeli teens who plot to secretly replace the Israeli flag flying from their school’s rooftop with a Palestinian one on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day. “Alam” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before triumphing in Cairo, with Variety ’s Alissa Simon praising its “intelligent, sensitive treatment of the rarely seen, everyday lives of young Palestinian citizens of Israel.”
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