EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based style specialist Reel Suspects has boarded world gross sales on Turkish director Orçun Behram’s horror The Funeral forward of its premiere on the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, higher often known as MotelX.
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FAMU and Columbia College Chicago-educated Behram beforehand made waves with with 2019 dystopian drama The Antenna, in regards to the residents of a tower block terrorized by a brand new communications system. The movie performed at a lot of festivals together with Toronto and London.
New movie The Funeral stars widespread Turkish actor Ahmet Rifat Sungar (The Wild Pear Tree, Actress) as a solitary hearse driver who’s driving the physique of a younger homicide sufferer again to her household within the East of the nation.
One night time, he opens the again doorways of the hearse to search out the useless lady making unusual grunting noises. He is instantly captivated by her magnificence and falls in love.
Together, they set off on a mission to avenge her dying, leaving a path of corpses of their wake. Rising younger actress Cansu Türedi performs the useless lady.
Behram additionally produced with Müge Özen, whose current credit embrace Nisan Dag’s 2020 awards winner When I’m Done Dying.
The Funeral will debut in MotelX’s Silver Melies competitors, current winners of which embrace Welsh-language horror The Feast and Danish Tuscany holiday-set psychological thriller Speak No Evil.
MotelX runs from September 12 to 18.
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