‘We Are Aliens,’ Cannes, Annecy Buzz Title, Sells Wide Across Asia (EXCLUSIVE)

By Kevin Giraud

Kevin Giraud

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Paris-based sales company Charades has closed a raft of Asian deals on Kohei Kadowaki’s animated feature ‘We Are Aliens’ ahead of its Annecy International Animation Film Festival premiere in Competition. The Japanese-French co-production has sold to Geen Narae Media in South Korea, Hooray Films in Taiwan, Shaw Organisation in Singapore, Intercontinental Film Distributors in Hong Kong and Sahamongkol Film in Thailand.

Written and directed by Kadowaki, “We Are Aliens” follows two boys in a small Japanese town whose friendship is altered by an act of betrayal that continues to shape their lives into adulthood. The feature marks the directorial animation debut of Kadowaki, a graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts whose distinctive visual style combines animation techniques with a keen observational approach to everyday life.

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