Kani Releasing Acquires North America Rights To Japanese Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Title ‘Desert Of Namibia’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Kani Releasing has acquired North American rights to Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert Of Namibia from Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios Corp.
The youth drama, starring popular newcomer Yuumi Kawai (Look Back, Plan 75), premiered in Directors Fortnight at this year’s Cannes film festival, where it won the FIPRESCI prize, and is scheduled to screen at the inaugural Directors’ Fortnight Extended in Los Angeles this weekend.
Yamanaka’s second feature following 2018 award-winning drama Amiko, the film is about a disaffected 21-year-old working in a beauty salon, where the expectations placed on women her age are difficult to ignore.
Bored with her boyfriend, she begins a new relationship that quickly become volatile and prompts her to take a few steps inside the desert of her emotions.
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