Vertical Entertainment Acquires Tribeca-Bound Satire ‘Land Of Dreams’ Starring Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon & Isabella Rossellini – Watch The Trailer
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June.
The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)Set in a near-future America which has closed its borders and become more insular than ever, the story follows Simin (Sheila Vand), an Iranian American woman on a journey to discover the core of what it means to be a free American.
Simin works for the Census Bureau—the most important government agency of her time. In efforts to understand and control its populous, the government has begun a program to record the citizens’ dreams.
Simin, one of the Census Bureau’s lead dream catchers, is unaware of this devious plot. As she forms connections with love-struck poet Mark (William Moseley) and a cynical detective (Matt Dillon) tasked with her protection, Simin’s morals, connection to community and safety become tested in unforeseeable ways.In addition to Vand (Snowpiercer), Moseley (Medieval) and Dillon (Capone), Land of Dreams stars Isabella Rossellini (Spaceman), Joaquim De Almeida (Queen of the South), Christopher McDonald (American Crime Story), Anna Gunn (Sully) and Gaius Charles (Alice), among others.
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