EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to Fire Of Wind, the latest feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus.
Fire Of Wind debuted at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival.
The film was produced by Mateus and Pedro Costa of Clarão Companhia, in collaboration with Fabrice Aragno of Casa Azul Films and Richard Copans of Les Films d’Ici.
Cinema Guild will release the film in theaters in 2025. Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion.
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