Neon has picked up North American rights to New Order,the new feature from Mexican director Michel Franco that won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month.
The feature, which also played at the San Sebastián and Toronto fests, and is screening at the upcomingLondon and Chicago film festivals, is a look at a violent uprising against the wealthy ruling class.
While protests rage outside, a party of 1-percenters continues unawares. But theirreckoning is coming and when it does, the results are harrowingly violent.
Franco conceived New Order years before the current Black Lives Matter uprisings, but his dystopian story appears ripped from the headlines.
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