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NEW FROM “Barbet Schroeder has made yet another compelling documentary that demands to be seen.” “GENUINELY HORRIFYING!” – Film Comment “There’s an ever-present sense of rage and despair burbling beneath the placid surface of Barbet Schroeder’s film.” – Slant Magazine WINNER! OFFICIAL SELECTION FREEDOM AWARD CANNES, CPH:DOX BEST DOCUMENTARY LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL Barbet Schroeder is one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific directors of our time. Some of his most popular films includeSingle White Female, Kiss of Death, and Murder by Numbers. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and for the Palme d’Or for his 1987 film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway “This is an important documentary that Evil comes in many forms. In Myanmar, it manifests in the casual racism and Islamophobia of inﬂuential, charismatic Burmese Buddhist monk not only illuminates the rank underbelly Ashin Wirathu. Through interviews with international journalists and of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar, but community leaders who protest against Wirathu’s views, activist footage also captures one of the first major tests of Rohingya persecutions, and through powerful storytelling, acclaimed faced by the new political order.” director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune, Koko: A Talking Gorilla, and Barﬂy) slowly, but inexorably, builds his case. Perhaps most damning – The New York Review of Books of all are the interviews with the man himself; couching his rhetoric in nationalist fervor. THE VENERABLE W. A film by Barbet Schroeder • From Distrib Films • An Icarus Films Release Established in 2013, Distrib Films brings the latest 2017 • 100 min • Color • in English, French, Spanish, Burmese (with English subtitles) • Not Rated SRP: $26.98 • UPC # 8-545-6500316-3 French and European movies to the US. PRE-BOOK 4/21/20 – STREET 5/19/20 EXCLUSIVELY HomeVideo.IcarusFilms.com • Tel: 1 (800) 876-1610 • Email: [email protected] DISTRIBUTED BY.

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