Hong Kong’s Cappu Movies has taken over international gross sales for “Banr,” Erica Xia-Hou’s Canadian-Chinese language drama a couple of 40-year marriage examined by Alzheimer’s illness.
After its world premiere within the Narrative Options lineup on the 2025 Slamdance Movie Competition, the movie is heading to the Asian Contents & Movie Market on the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition, the place Cappu is introducing it to consumers.
Sui Li and Baoqing Li star because the couple, with Xia-Hou as their daughter towards an unprofessional solid. Because the spouse’s reminiscence fades, the movie reveals love, loneliness and pressure settling into the household’s each day routine. About two-thirds of the movie was shot observationally, in a documentary type.
“If reminiscence disappears, does love disappear with it? » stated Xia-Hou. “Reminiscence can disappear, an individual can disappear, and even a life collectively can turn into unrecognizable – however love can stay after the reminiscence that when contained it disappears. »
Xia-Hou wrote, directed and produced the movie. It reunites her with Cappu after “Fox Hunt,” which she co-wrote with director Leo Zhang and starred in alongside Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Cappu, who owns unique worldwide rights to “Fox Hunt,” has already offered it to a number of territories. Xia-Hou’s credit additionally embody the 2017 Jackie Chan motion movie “Bleeding Metal,” which she co-wrote and starred in.
Janice Woo of Cappu Movies stated, “The movie takes a detailed have a look at the on a regular basis selections a household makes when a liked one begins to lose their reminiscence. We look ahead to introducing it to consumers in Busan and serving to it attain audiences around the globe.”
Cappu’s Busan vary additionally contains ‘Fox Hunt’; “Éphémères”, the Tribeca title by Shan Jiang; The World Warfare II spy sequence “Operation Doolittle,” advised in 9 episodes; the martial arts movie “Lion Fist”; the Australian comedy-drama “Her Final Snicker” by Pleasure Hopwood; Stas Mareev’s “Overstake,” a sci-fi motion thriller; and “Zombie Airplane,” an motion comedy starring Vanilla Ice, Sophie Monk and Chuck Norris.