Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentSales agent Le Bureau Films is set to launch sales at the Cannes Virtual Market on British writer and director Aleem Khan’s “Afterlove.” Variety has been given an exclusive image of the film, which is one of only five selected to receive the Cannes Critics’ Week Label. “Afterlove,” set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, centers on Mary Hussain, who suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband.
A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just 21 miles across the English Channel in Calais.The cast includes Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, Talid Ariss and Nasser Memarzia.
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