Toronto indie distributor Mongrel Media has acquired the Canadian rights to four more films at this week’s Cannes Film Festival and market.
The new titles are: Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru) and Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie), all of which are in competition, and Bastards (Les salauds), which is in the Un Certain Regard program.
Mongrel will release the films in 2014.
These acquisitions are in addition to its festival purchases that were unveiled last week. Those included Ethan and Joel Coens’ Inside Llewyn Davis.
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), starring Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, is English-language drama from French director Arnaud Desplechin. It focuses on a Native American soldier’s psychological challenges after seeing combat in World War II. The script was written by Desplechin with Kent Jones and Julie Peyr.
Written and directed by Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, Like Father, Like Son tells the story of a successful businessman who finds out that his biological son was switched with another child after birth.
Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie), is a coming-of-age portrait of a 17-year-old French girl that takes place over four seasons and four songs. It is written and directed by French filmmaker François Ozon.
In Bastards (Les salauds), a ship captain played by Vincent Lindon is called to Paris to hunt down a man believed to be responsible for the crisis that destroyed his sister’s family. It is directed by Claire Denis, who co-wrote the script with Jean-Pole Fargeau.