U.Okay.-French film agency Alief has pounced on the worldwide product sales rights to “Luna Rosa: The seventh Ascension of Atabey,” the fourth perform by Puerto Rican multi-hyphenate Omar Rodríguez-López, frontman for Grammy-winning band, The Mars Volta.
“That’s his most cohesive, completely narrative film however,” Alief co-partner Miguel Angel Govea instructed Choice, together with: “Omar pulls a magic trick alongside together with his visually and aurally lovely film, managing to tug us in with placing footage.”
A meld of sci-fi and dystopian genres, “Luna Rosa” is about in Borinquen, the Indigenous Taíno title for Puerto Rico. It follows Zur’na (carried out by Flora Sylvestre), who ventures into enemy territories managed by American colonial forces looking for her missing brother. By way of her journey, Rodríguez-López critiques the enduring outcomes of American imperialism, drawing on influences from conventional Latin American cinema and cult B-movies. The consequence’s a pulsating world full of intricate rituals, ideas administration and menacing holograms.
Alief has shared its teaser in exclusivity with Choice. The company is already fielding gives from Spain, Colombia, Argentina and the U.Okay. whereas Mexico’s Piano is distributing it in Mexico.
SXSW London will host the film’s U.Okay. premiere on June 6 as part of its official alternative. “The film is exactly the sort of intersection of sensibilities and artforms that we have to champion on the inaugural SXSW London,” talked about the pageant’s head of show, Anna Bogutskaya.
Pic was shot in black and white in Mexico and incorporates a ranking composed by Rodríguez-López and Purple Scorching Chili Peppers’ guitarist John Frusciante, who has contributed to some of The Mars Volta’s albums.
Piano Mexico’s Head of Distribution, Ester Bernal hails “Luna Rosa” as “one of many forward-thinking approaches to Latin American science fiction.”
“By way of the imaginative and prescient of Omar Rodríguez López, the film delivers an unparalleled fantasy whereas unfolding a sharp and extremely efficient social critique,” she talked about, together with that distribution plans consists of art work dwelling circuit screenings, complemented by specific screenings in several areas exterior the traditional exhibition circuit.
The German-Puerto Rican-Mexican manufacturing was financed by Germany’s Clouds Hill Motion pictures, part of the Clouds Hill Group, which includes the music label that handles The Mars Volta.
Rodríguez-López’s Telesterion Inc. and Mexico’s Kintsugi Cine, Peliculas Extrañas, MalaCOSA Cine are moreover producers.
Rodríguez-López, himself the subject of a documentary, “Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Weird” by Nicolas Jack Davies, is presently capturing his fifth perform in Texas, this time a Western.
Alief’s Cannes slate consists of Polish dystopian drama “Excellent Summer time season” (SXSW 2025), Indian of us horror pic “Bokshi” (IFFR 2025), Canadian-Korean Fipresci prizewinner “Mongrels” (Tallinn Black Nights Film Pageant 2024), Colombian-French-German supernatural drama “Horizonte” (TIFF 2024), German-British thriller “Lonely Musketeer” and BBC Motion pictures dramatic thriller “Fringe of Summer time season.”
