Rediance, a leading international sales agent based in China, has acquired the world sales rights to the highly anticipated feature documentary film “The Falling Sky.” The film is set to make its debut at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival next month in the Directors Fortnight section.
Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, “The Falling Sky” explores the Amazonian Yanomami people as its main subjects. The documentary is based on the book of the same name by shaman and Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa and French anthropologist Bruce Albert. The film captures a funeral rite called the reahu, which showcases how the community collectively works to hold up the sky and prevent it from falling. This powerful imagery serves as a shamanic critique of the destruction of Yanomami way of life due to intrusions by outsiders.
Rocha’s tenth feature film, “The Falling Sky,” is widely praised for its captivating visuals, meticulous sound design, and the profound words of Davi Kopenawa that delve into the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and knowledge. Co-director Carneiro da Cunha, an artist and activist who has worked extensively in Brazilian Amazon, collaborated with Rocha on this project.
“The Falling Sky” is produced by Aruac Filmes and co-produced by Hutukara Associação Yanomami and Stemal Entertainment with Rai Cinema, in partnership with Les Films d’Ici. In addition to “The Falling Sky,” Rediance will handle Chinese-speaking territories for another highly anticipated project at Cannes – “Grand Tour,” a co-production project by Miguel Gomes premiering in the festival’s main competition.
Rediance continues to be a major player in international film distribution, showcasing their latest titles from prominent festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival. They have recently handled films like Nele Wohlatz’s “Sleep With Your Eyes Open” and Qu Youjia’s “She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones”. Last year they also handled Anthony Chen’s critically acclaimed film “The Breaking Ice”.
