Berlinale Competition title “Return to Dust,” written and directed by China’s Li Ruijun, has been sold to Modern Films for U.K. and Ireland, and BTeam Pictures for Spain. The film was previou…
Berlinale Competition title “Return to Dust,” written and directed by China’s, has been sold to Modern Films for U.K. and Ireland, and BTeam Pictures for Spain. The film was previously picked up by several other European distributors. M-Appeal is handling world sales.
The film centers on humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao, who have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive.as an “absorbing, beautifully framed drama.” She writes: “As a portrait of the dying end of a traditional way of life and the rapid decimation of China’s outlying rural communities, ‘Return to Dust’ is potent, often poetic in its encroaching-dustbowl imagery.
BTeam Pictures’ co-founder and partner Ania Jones said: “We were impressed by the simplicity and beauty with which the director expresses the growing love and respect between the protagonists, and their struggle to live in harmony with nature in the midst of China’s increasing modernity. It takes us back to the simpleness of sentiments and life.”
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