Emiliano Rocha Minter’s post-apocalyptic horror film We Are the Flesh has been acquired by the UK-based Arrow Films, according to Variety. The movie hadn’t even yet screened at Cannes.
So that they can show the movie in the US, Arrow Films is launching its own theatrical distribution arm Stateside.
“‘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.”
The film drew the attention of Alejandro Iñarritu (The Revenant) and Carlos Reygadas (Japón).
