EXCLUSIVE : Naomi Kawase’s Yakushima’s Illusion, a late addition to Locarno’s competition line-up, has sold widely for Cinefrance International ahead of its world premiere today (August 15).

The film stars Vicky Krieps as the French coordinator of paediatric heart transplants who is sent to Japan, where she fights to save the life of a young child just as the man she loves suddenly vanishes. Rising Japanese actor Kanichiro also stars.

Cinefrance International, the global sales arm of Paris-based Cinefrance Studios, has sold the film to Happinet Phantom Studios in Japan, Caramel Films in Spain, September Film Distribution for Benelux, Nos Lusomundo in Portugal, Andrews’ Film in Taiwan, Mars Production in Turkey, MCF Megacom Film in ex-Yugoslavia and Independenta Film in Romania. Ad V

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