Based on the good traction the company got out of Debra Granik’s Sundance film Winter’s Bone, this feels like good news for a very good film. Participant Media has made the deal with Roadside Attractions to distribute Maryam Keshavarz‘s Circumstance domestically as early as this summer [/Film]. One hopes it will find an American audience.
The film was well-received at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, taking home the festival’s Audience Award. Telling the story of two young women and their star-crossed love affair in a repressed Iran, Keshavarz – who also wrote the script – got the film banned from the same country it’s set in, echoing the revolutionary waves crashing throughout her narrative. Participant Media made the deal with Roadside to distribute domestically [/Film]
Amidst what feels like endless foreign rebellion (Egypt anyone?), this film could not be more timely.
What do you know of Iran? Interested in a film about its inhabitants?