Visit Films Acquires International Rights to Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato’s Pensive San Sebastián New Director’s Title ‘Surfacing’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Holly Jones New York-based indie sales outfit Visit Films has acquired international distribution rights to Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato’s pensive second feature “Surfacing” (“La Llegada Del Hijo”) ahead of its global debut on Sunday as part of the San Sebastián Film Festival’s prestigious New Director’s Competition. “We have had the privilege of helping launch films in San Sebastián for many years and are so pleased to be working on ‘Surfacing.’ Atán and Pivato have crafted a delicately balanced film that threads the fine needle of emotional subtlety and full-blooded passion.

It exists as an example of the duality of human existence and will be a thrilling watch for audiences,” Visit President Ryan Kampe said in a statement.

The Argentine directors previously worked on 2017’s “The Desert Bride,” (“La novia del desierto”) which screened at Cannes as part of its Un Certain Regard section, going on to stun audiences as part of the Horizontes Latinos program at San Sebastian before nabbing the Argentine Film Critics Association’s silver condor plaudit for Best Debut Feature.

Once again pivoting from established and rigid gender norms, in “Surfacing,” Atán and Pivato manage a simmering account of Sofía (Maricel Álvarez ), a woman torn between the love and loyalty she’s meant to dole out to her misguided son (Angelo Mutti Spinetta) and the happiness she’s found while being apart from him during his incarceration. “With this film, our second, we further explore the questions about motherhood, a role society has expected women to embrace since time immemorial, that we asked in our first joint production, ‘TheDesert Bride,'” Atán and Pivato said in a statement.