EXCLUSIVE: Paradise City Sales, the Paris-based sales outfit previously known as Memento International, has acquired international rights to Damien Hauser’s Kenya-set drama Memory Of Princess Mumbi, which will world premiere in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori before screening as a Centrepiece title at Toronto.

Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Hauser’s fourth feature is a dystopian fable set in an imaginary Africa in 2093, in which a young filmmaker played by Abraham Joseph attempts to make a documentary about a global conflict from 20 years earlier and finds himself in a love triangle with an aspiring actress (Shandra Apondi) and a prince (Samson Waithaka).

Shot entirely in Kenya with a local cast, crew and production team, the film is the first Kenyan feature to be selected for Giornate degli A

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