EXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has boarded Radu Mihaileanu’s Afghanistan-set drama Look At The Sky, Trust The Mountains (Tu Me Diras) and will launch sales at next week’s Paris Rendez-Vous.
The film is set just after the Taliban seized Kabul in 2021 and follows a French Embassy agent who fails to evacuate an Afghan family. When the parents are executed, he takes their 11-year-old daughter, who blames him for their death, across Afghanistan on a dangerous journey to reach the Uzbek border, with the two forming a life-changing bond.
It stars Pierre Lottin, whose recent roles include The Marching Band and François Ozon’s The Stranger, alongside Marwa Haqjoo and Karim Seghair. Elzévir Films and Oï Oï Oï Productions produce, and ARP Selection will release the film in France.
It is Romanian filmmaker Mihaileanu’s seventh feature and his first since 2016’s The History Of Love. His other films include 1998’s Train Of Life, which won an audience award at Sundance, 2005 Berlin premiere Live And Become and 2011 Cannes Competition title The Source.
Alexandre René, VP international cinema sales at France tv distribution, and Julia Schulte, SVP international sales, said: “Radu Mihaileanu revisits the themes that defined his early works, delivering a powerful and humanist story where childhood and the pursuit of freedom become acts of hope.”
France tv distribution’s Rendez-Vous line-up includes dramas Chemical Bond and Furcy, and animation The Violinist, and it will host a market screening for thriller The Price To Pay starring Ana Girardot and Olivier Gourmet.
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