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EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights to Romanian actor and director Emanuel Parvu’s thriller Three Kilometers To The End Of The World.
The feature was among three films added to the Competition line-up of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday as it announced 13 new titles in the Official Selection for its 77th edition, running from May 14 to 25.
The thriller revolves around a 17-year-old young man who is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta wetlands region in Romania.
One night he is brutally attacked on the street and the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
The cast features newcomer Ciprian Chiujdea as the protagonist alongside Bogdan Dumitrache (Best Intentions, Pororoca) and Laura Vasiliu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Memento Distribution has acquired French rights for the drama.
“The film immediately seduced us and impressed us with the scale of its staging and its sense of storytelling,” said the company.
“Through the chronicle of this village nestled in the Danube delta, Emanuel Parvu succeeds in telling the story of an entire country and an era. It is extremely powerful, fundamentally political and perfectly controlled. For us, the film bears the mark of a great auteur.”
Three Kilometers To The End Of The World is Parvu’s third feature directorial credit after Mikado, which premiered in San Sebastian’s New Directors sidebar in 2021, and the well-travelled 2017 adoption drama Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things.
As an actor, he was recently seen in Bogdan George Apetri’s crime thriller Miracle, which world premiered in Venice Horizons in 2021, and has
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