Kira Kovalenko’s Russian drama Unclenching The Fists won the Grand Prize in Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar this year.The film is produced by Ukranian-Russian super-producer Alexander Rodnyansky with Sergey Melkumov.
Set in a former mining town in North Ossetia, the pic follows a young woman who struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.
Mubi has taken rights to the pic for North America, UK and Ireland, Latin America and India, the streamer said on Twitter.A special mention was given to Tatiana Huezo’s Mexican feature Prayers For The Stolen.Joining Arnold on the jury were were Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour, French actress Elsa Zylberstein, Argentinian filmmaker Daniel Burman,
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