Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s documentary How To Save A Dead Friend has secured a theatrical release deal for France with La Vingt-Cinquieme Heure.
The film has a tentative release date of October 4, 2023, with Syroechkovskaya set to participate in a promotional tour in the territory around the release with Q&A screenings live-streamed in other cinemas through French platform CUULT.
How To Save A Dead Friend is sold by Swiss-based Lightdox. A co-production between Sweden, Norway, France and Germany, it debuted at Visions du Reel in April last year, winning a special jury mention; and has since played in the Cannes ACID selection, and won prizes at Guanajuato, DOC NYC and Singapore among others.
Filmed over the course of 12 years, the film follows a love story between two millennials living in Russia under the oppressive government of Vladimir Putin.
Documentary specialists Lightdox also has Arnaud Robert and Paolo Woods’ Happy Pills and Luke McManus’ North Circular on its current slate.
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