Janus Films Acquires North American Rights to Cannes Jury Prize Winner 'The Dreamed Adventure'
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Janus Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Valeska Grisebach's film "The Dreamed Adventure," set in Bulgaria, shortly after it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The borderlands drama, set on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, was the final Palme d'Or contender to screen at Cannes 2006 and received critical praise as a remarkable realist drama.
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· 2 pulledThe final Palme d'Or contender to play in Cannes' 2006 edition last Friday, Grisebach's borderlands drama kept the wind in the sales of the main competition right up to the end, and went on to win the Jury Prize.
Deadline critic Damon Wise proclaimed the film 'a remarkable piece of work, a realist drama that homes in on a drab lawless town on the Bulgaria-Turkey border'
Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Valeska Grisebach’s Bulgaria-set The Dreamed Adventure just days after it won an award at Cannes.
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