Geopolitical Hotspots, Gaza, Ukraine,Taiwan, Draw Doc Buyers
variety.comEd Meza @edmezavar Hard-hitting documentaries centering on some of the world’s most critical geopolitical flashpoints have proved hot sellers for Java Films.
The Paris and London-based distributor closed a number of deals this week at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV market in Biarritz for provocative works that examine life in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian city of Gaza, the causes of the Ukraine war, and rising tensions between the U.S.
and China over the vital supply of semiconductors. Chiara Avesani and Matteo Delbò’s “Erasmus in Gaza” follows Riccardo, an Italian final-year medical student who wants to be a trauma surgeon and travels to war-torn Gaza on an Erasmus exchange program in order to receive battlefield training and write his thesis on explosive bullet wounds.
The young medic is not prepared for the brutality of war, however. The film, produced by Barcelona-based Arpa Films, sold this week to Japan’s NHK and Portuguese broadcaster SIC.
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