Global Sales Agent Rediance Acquires Worldwide Distribution Rights for “The Falling Sky” at Cannes Film Festival

Rediance, a global sales agent based in China, has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the documentary film “The Falling Sky.” The movie will make its debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month in the Directors Fortnight section. Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, “The Falling Sky” centers on the Amazonian Yanomami people as its main focus.

Based on the book of the same name by shaman Davi Kopenawa and French anthropologist Bruce Albert, the film showcases the indigenous community of Watorikɨ through a funeral rite called reahu. It captures how they collectively work to hold up the sky and prevent it from falling. The documentary is a powerful critique of outsiders’ destruction of the Yanomami way of life.

Rocha’s tenth feature film, “The Falling Sky,” is praised for its stunning visuals, meticulous sound design, and Davi Kopenawa’s powerful words that delve into the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and knowledge. Co-director Carneiro da Cunha, an artist and activist who has worked extensively in Brazilian Amazonia, collaborated with Rocha on this project.

Rediance will also handle Chinese-speaking territories for “Grand Tour,” a co-production project by Miguel Gomes premiering in competition at Cannes. In addition to “The Falling Sky,” Rediance will also distribute Chinese-speaking territories for Gomes’ “Grand Tour.” The company continues to do business with their recent titles from Berlin International Film Festival, including Nele Wohlatz’s “Sleep With Your Eyes Open” and Qu Youjia’s “She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones.” Last year they handled Anthony Chen’s “The Breaking Ice.”