Paris-based sales agent Cat&Docs has acquired international rights to Visions du Réel competition title My Paper Life about two Syrian girls adjusting to a new life in Belgium.
The debut feature documentary of Belgium-based Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena will world premiere at the Swiss documentary film festival, running from April 7-17 in the lakeside town of Nyon.
My Paper Life centres on the two eldest daughters of a Syrian refugee family living in Brussels and their growing collection of drawings and dreams.
The young women recall their journey from Syria and reflect on their plans for the future and what their new life in Brussels has in store.
The film is produced by Hanne Phlypo for Belgium’s Clin d’oeil films and Eugénie Michel-Villette for France-based Les Films du Bilboquet in coproduction with Wild Heart Productions, Atelier Graphoui, the Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (CBA) and Shelter Prod.
“The film is already generating a lot of interest from festivals and potential buyers and we hope that it will find its place in the world of screens more easily than its protagonists in that of real life,” said Cat&Docs CEO Catherine Le Clef.
At Visions du Réel, the documentary specialist is also handling Children Of The Mist by Vietnam’s Diem Ha Le in the Grand Angle section; the festival’s closing film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk; and both The Oath by Laura Poitras and Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson as part of Johnson’s Special guest programme at the festival.
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