Highly acclaimed in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2017 and 2019 for his first two feature films, Closeness [+leggi anche:
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The cast is toplined by Irish actor Barry Keoghan (nominated for 2023’s Best Supporting Role Oscar via The Banshees of Inisherin [+leggi anche:
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Written by the director in league with Maria Stepnova, the story follows 15-year-old Pyteh who lives in New Jersey’s Circasssian community where his father and aunt run a restaurant specialising in Circassian cuisine. But their business is struggling. When he’s not helping out in the restaurant, the young man is training to become a professional wrestler. However, when one of his father’s misguided schemes goes sour, Pyteh must face up to the man that his beloved father is, and isn’t, and finds himself contending with a level of brutality which forces him to grow up sooner than he’d like…

Butterfly Jam is being produced by Pascal Caucheteux on behalf of Parisian firm Why Not Productions alongside American outfit AR Content and Goodfellas (with the latter also steering world sales), in co-production with Arte France Cinéma and Pictanovo (Hauts-de-France region). Cinematography was entrusted to Jomo Fray (Nickel Boys).

For the record, Why Not Productions have recently put forth Indomptables [+leggi anche:
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