EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has snapped up more than one key territories for Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Grand Excursion, following the movie’s global premiere in Pageant at Cannes the place it gained the Highest Director prize.

The worldwide distributor, streaming carrier and manufacturing corporate has obtained North The usa, UK, Eire, Latin The usa, Germany, Austria, Turkey and India. The corporate will unveil free up plans within the coming months.

Opening in Rangoon, Burma in 1918, the movie follows British civil servant Edward Abbot (Gonçalo Waddington) who flees fiancée Molly Singleton (Crista Alfaiate) the day she arrives for his or her wedding ceremony. Made up our minds to get married and amused by means of his transfer, Molly tracks him throughout Asia.

Grand Excursion used to be Gomes’ first function to global premiere in Pageant at Cannes, after debuting earlier critically-acclaimed motion pictures Arabian Nights in Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight in 2015 and Tabu, which performed in pageant on the Berlinale in 2012, profitable the Silver Endure.

Gomes co-wrote the screenplay with Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro, and Maureen Fazendeiro. Produced by means of Filipa Reis, the movie used to be shot in China, the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam with 3 cinematographers, Guo Liang, Rui Poças, and Sayombhu Mukdeeprom.

Uma Pedra no Sapato produced the movie with Vivo movie, Shellac and Cinéma Defacto appearing as co-producers and The Fit Manufacturing unit, Rediance and Creatps as affiliate manufacturers.