The Revenant director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu and Carlos Reygadas are backing horror thriller We Are the Flesh (Tenemos la carne), a flagship title from another new wave of Mexican producers and directors, Variety reveals.
Mexican Emiliano Rocha Minter’s first feature, “We Are the Flesh is set in a post-apocalypse Mexico, where a brother and sister, Lucio and Fauna, wander a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter. They find their way into one of its last surviving buildings, where a man makes them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world. As they help him transform the building into a womb-like cave, a disquieting sexual relationship emerges, along with a dynamic in which darker instincts do their destructive work.”
Pictured above, We Are the Flesh will world premiere Feb. 2 at the Rotterdam Fest’s Bright Future section, with Inarritu and Reygadas taking a “present” credit.
