Spain’s Soul Pictures Boards Indian Festival Favorite ‘Two Friends’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Spanish company Soul Pictures has boarded international sales on Indian filmmaker Prasun Chatterjee’s debut feature “Two Friends” (“Dostojee”).Set in 1992-93, when Hindu-Muslim tensions escalated in India in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the Bombay bomb blasts and percolated down to a remote village on the India-Bangladesh border, the film follows the friendship of two eight-year-old boys.
Palash, the son of a Hindu Brahmin and Safikul, whose father is a Muslim weaver, are best friends, but fate intervenes.The film world premiered at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival, played at the Dhaka International Festival and will play at the Goteborg Film Festival from this Friday.
Previously, it participated at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum and at Indian lab Film Bazaar from where it went to the Cannes Film Market as part of the ‘Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes’ initiative.
The online Cannes 2020 is where Soul Pictures founder Nicos Beatty was introduced to “Two Friends.” “I met the director Prasun Chatterjee and what touched me the most was the clarity he had about how to tell the story and the tenderness and passion he exuded when making the pitch,” Beatty tells Variety.“We were living a post-pandemic process that had left all of humanity beaten and seeing stories like ‘Two Friends’ reminds us of our childhood, of our best friend, of our relationship with life and death.
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