The prolific Mexican producer-distributor, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, also has a robust presence at the Morelia Film Festival where it participates in the fest with Manuela Martelli’s “The Meltdown,” which it co-produced, and with five films it distributes
\n\nPiano, the Mexican production and distribution company behind Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning “Triangle of Sadness,” has boarded Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Jengira’s Magnificent Dream,” producer Julio Chavezmontes has confirmed. Tilda Swinton is attached to the project.
\n\nJust like Östlund’s multi-Oscar-nominated dark comedy, “Jengira’s Magnificent Dream” dovetails with Piano’s ongoing commitment to international collaborations with filmmakers whose work challenges conventional cinematic boundaries.
\n\nWeerasethakul’s follow-up to “Memory,” which also starred Tilda Swinton and which Piano co-produced alongside Colombia’s Burning, among others, follows Thai widow Jengira who travels to the ancient rock forest of Sigiriya in central Sri Lanka to scatter her husband’s ashes. Blurred visions distort Jengira’s sense of time and space, drawing her across various time periods. Guided by science and empathy, she becomes a living portal between past, future and spirit. Blending 1970s sci-fi aesthetics with a timeless world where cell phones are the only markers of temporal difference, the film blurs the boundaries between memory, history and the supernatural.
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