Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to “4 Daughters,” Kaouther Ben Hania’s movie which competed on the Cannes Movie Competition.
The competitors’s sole Arab movie, “4 Daughters” mixes documentary and fiction to inform the story of a Tunisian mom whose two elder daughters joined ISIS. It gained L’Oeil d’or or “Golden Eye” Award at Cannes for greatest documentary and is now set to roll off into the worldwide pageant circuit. Kino Lorber plans to launch it theatrically this fall, adopted by a digital and residential video launch on all main platforms.
The New York-based distribution firm has excessive hopes for “4 Daughters” throughout the subsequent awards season. Final 12 months’s L’Oeil d’Or winner, “All That Breathes,” went on to earn an Oscar nomination for greatest documentary. Ben Hania beforehand earned an Oscar nomination along with her 2020 movie “The Man Who Offered His Pores and skin” within the worldwide function movie class.
The movie delves into the story of Tunisia’s Olfa Hamrouni who rose to worldwide prominence in April 2016 when she publicized the radicalization of her two teenage daughters who had left Tunisia to battle with ISIS. Their complicated household historical past is thru intimate interviews and reenactments, that includes Egyptian-Tunisian star Hend Sabry as an actor who should play Hamrouni and will get teaching from the actual Olfa on tips on how to put together for the position. It additionally stars two of the 4 daughters as themselves and actresses Ichraq Matar and Nour Karoui as the 2 different daughters misplaced to ISIS.
The movie questions the character of reminiscence, the load of inherited trauma, and the ties that bind mom and daughter.
The deal for “4 Daughters” was brokered by Kino Lorber Senior Vice President Wendy Lidell and Samuel Blanc for The Get together Movie Gross sales. Along with the offers beforehand introduced throughout Cannes, “4 Daughters” has additionally been offered to Canada (Mongrel / Metropole), Iceland (Bio Paradis), Baltic Nations (Estofilm), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), Romania (Dangerous Unicorn), and Hungary (Vertigo Media). The German launch might be dealt with by Fast Eye Films.
“We had been instantly captivated by Kaouther Ben Hania’s highly effective documentary 4 Daughters, a riveting piece of filmmaking that takes an progressive and provocative method to nonfiction storytelling,” mentioned Lidell.
“Ben Hania casts completed actors to carry out alongside her real-life documentary topics, including a layer of complexity that provides company to her collaborators and mines reality from the area it occupies between reality and reminiscence,” Lidell continued.
Selection critic Jessica Kiang in her overview referred to as “4 Daughters” a “Compelling, formidable hybrid” and famous that one of many elements that makes the movie gripping is that “We’re not used to seeing this overtly experimental an method utilized to a narrative in regards to the every day struggles of Arab ladies in a majority-Islamic North African nation.”
“4 Daughters” is produced by Tanit Movies, in affiliation with Cinetelefilms and Twenty Twenty in co-production with Pink Sea Movie Competition Basis, ZDF/Arte, and Jour2Fête. The movie is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha in affiliation with Habib Attia and Thanassis Karathanos.
