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The 2024 Pop Up Residency Selects ‘The Funeral,’ the Third Feature From Brazilian helmer Carolina Markowicz (EXCLUSIVE)
The program teams the director with Ada Solomon, producer on Radu Jude’s Locarno Winner, ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.’
Solomon has worked on over 60 films, notably collaborating on several projects with festival favorite Radu Jude, including his recent Locarno Jury Prize Winner, “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.” I find her project, ‘The Funeral,’ has the two key elements for success: Allowing the audience to discover a community that’s not easily accessible and exploring a subject matter that’s highly universal. At the funeral, a clandestine daughter from his past affair comes to shake the privileged, high-status lives they’ve grown accustomed to, calling them toward reluctant inclusion.
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