Locarno Player ‘The Days Off,’ Lucila Mariani’s Dreamlike Argentine Debut, Boarded by Inwave Films (EXCLUSIVE)

The Paris and Beijing-based sales outfit takes worldwide rights to the four-country co-production, which bows in Locarno's Filmmakers of the Present

By Emiliano de Pablos

Emiliano de Pablos

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Inwave Films, the international sales company with offices in Paris and Beijing, has acquired worldwide sales rights to “The Days Off,” the debut feature from Argentine writer-director Lucila Mariani, ahead of its world premiere in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present.

Blending coming-of-age drama with a dreamlike, science-fiction edge, the film filters Argentina’s economic instability and the pull of the digital world through the perspective of a child searching for an escape.

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