\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to \u00c1rru, the musical drama following a S\u00e0mi family\u2019s fight to protect their land from looming environmental threat. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe film from writer-director Elle Sofe Sara will get a theatrical release in early 2027 before launching on digital platforms later next year.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film follows \u201ca family of S\u00e0mi reindeer herders as their way of life and Indigenous land face threat from an encroaching mining project. As protests and conflict continue, single mother Maia (Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska) turns to a long lost family member (Mikkel Gaup), giving rise to long buried family wounds and secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe feature uses traditional S\u00e0mi song and dance \u201cto portray familial catharsis and the connections between communities and their lands\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing its world premiere at Berlin, the movie went on to play Sydney and the Nordic Film Festival, and made its North American premiere at this year\u2019s Tribeca film festival.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe project was produced by Elisa Fernanda Pirir, Mimmi Sp\u00e5ng, Elle Sofe Sara and Jani P\u00f6s\u00f6. Executive producers include Jim Stark, Kristine Ann Skaret, Gary Cranner, and Axel Helgeland.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe deal was negotiated by Steven Bestwick of The Yellow Affair and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard on behalf of Obscured Releasing. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe Yellow Affair has also sold \u00c1rru to international territories including Angel Distribution (Denmark), B\u00ed\u00f3 Parad\u00eds (Iceland), Filmwelt (Germany, Austria), Fivia (Ex-Yugoslavia), Otaku Mt\u00fc (Baltics), Palace (Australia \/ New Zealand). Theatrical distribution in Norway will be handled by Norsk Filmdistribusjon. The movie is a co-production with Garagefilm International (Sweden) and It\u2019s Alive (Finland).<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI look forward to sharing our subtle musical family drama, \u00c1rru, with audiences in the U.S. in collaboration with Obscured Releasing,\u201d said director Elle Sofe Sara. \u201cWith \u00c1rru, I wanted to tell a story about the resilience of women, the complexities of family bonds, and the power of finding one\u2019s voice in the face of silence. I\u2019m so pleased to have found a partner in Obscured who believes in the film and its journey to audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cElle Sofe\u2019s intimate and elegiac film showcases the passion of a family as they protect their way of life through beautiful and emotional ways,\u201d added RJ Millard and Bill Guentzler. \u201cHer originality of voice and storytelling are exemplified by the combination of dance, song and protest in creating something truly riveting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to \u00c1rru, the musical drama following a S\u00e0mi family\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[270324,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-597591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-arru","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}