EXCLUSIVE: Gustavo Hernández’s US-based TLA Releasing has acquired UK, Ireland and North American all-rights to Joan Porcel’s boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ feature La Carn (lit. The Flesh), in a deal closed during the European Film Market in Berlin.
Madrid-based boutique sales outfit Begin Again has also sealed an all-rights agreement with Optimale Distribution for France and French-speaking Europe.
The film participated as a work-in-progress at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival, having emerged as a project in Match Me! in 2024. It premiered at Tallinn Black Nights in the Rebels With A Cause competition strand. Now La Carn is set to screen next at the Málaga Film Festival’s Zonazine section, followed by Barcelona’s D’A Film Festival.
Blending performance, fiction and radical experimentation, La Carn unfolds as an unsettling psychological thriller centred on artist Lluís Garau, who develops a performance piece after immersing himself in the anonymous online platform Chatroulette. His encounter with a mysterious man who recounts a nearby murder in chilling detail draws the project into increasingly intimate territory, probing obsession, isolation and the porous line between digital fantasy and lived experience.
The feature is produced by Charli Bujosa’s Mansalva Films, with MN Studios and Helsinki Films as co-producers, and with the participation of Spanish SVOD platform Filmin and Balearic public broadcaster IB3. Porcel previously directed Samantha Hudson: A Story Of Faith, Sex And Electro-Queer, which enjoyed a strong run on the international festival circuit.
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