Paris-based company Lucky Number has boarded Dominga Sotomayor’s “La Perra” ahead of its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
The film is produced by RT Features, the Brazilian outfit behind Walter Salles’ Oscar-winning film “I’m Still Here,” as well as Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name;” and Planta, the Chilean company whose credits include Lisandro Alonso’s “Double Freedom;” Cannes Critics’ Week winner “Simon of the Mountain;” Nayra Ilic García’s Tribeca prizewinning “Cuerpo Celeste.”
Lucky Number will launch international sales in Cannes. Sotomayor already has a track record in the festival circuit. Her feature debut, “Thursday Till Sunday,” premiered in Rotterdam in 2012 where it won the Hivos Tiger award, while her second feature, “Mar,” premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 2015. With 2018 movie, “Too Late To Die Young,” she became the first female director to win Locarno’s best director award in 2018.
“La Perra” is headlined by Chilean actress Manuela Oyarzún (“The Good Life”), David Gaete (“A Place Called Dignity”), Selton Mello (“I’m Still Here”), Paula Luchsinger and Paula Dinamarca.
The film is set on a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, where Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. “When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy, love, and a tenderness that stirs a long-suppressed longing for motherhood. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma, forcing Silvia to confront a past she has never truly left behind,” the synopsis reads.
Lucky Number’s Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and Lenny Porte said, “‘La Perra’ is pure cinema: visually striking and narratively captivating in its depth.”
“Driven by a mesmerizing, charismatic performance, it unfolds as an emotional journey in which the life of a human being, unable to find peace or closure, mirrors and intertwines with that of a restless, wandering dog,” the trio added.
