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Fresh off the world premiere of Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz’s Bérénice Béjo-starring “Mexico 86” in Locarno’s Piazza Grande, France’s Tripode Productions has come on board to co-produce the upcoming feature “Uptight Ass,” from writer-director Matija Gluščević and co-writer Dušan Zorić. The duo’s last collaboration, “Have You Seen This Woman?,” played at Venice Critics’ Week in 2022.

The film, which will be presented at the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Co-Production Market, follows a self-centered and emotionally closed-off middle-aged teacher who, faced with his father’s illness, must embark on a probing journey of his own to retrieve the love and vulnerability he has buried deep inside.

“Uptight Ass” is produced by Čarna Vučinić for Naked, the Belgrade-based production company she co-founded with Gluščević and Zorić, in co-production with Tripode’s Guillaume Dreyfus and Tena Gojić of Croatian outfit Dinaridi Film.

In a director’s note,...

Guatemalan born director César Diaz, a 2019 Camera d’Or winner for “Our Mothers,” pulls from his past to provide a harrowing and earnest look at an activist’s inner tumult in his latest title, “Mexico 86.”

Bowing at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Aug.10, the film centers on the toils and sacrifice of its resident revolutionary Maria, played by Academy Award nominee Bérénice Béjo (“The Artist”).

French sales are handled by Bac Films, with Bac and Goodfellas taking on international rights. Benelux distribution goes to O’Brother while Swiss sales are handled by Xenix Film.

The project is produced by Belgium’s Need Productions and French outfit Tripode Productions and co-produced by Pimienta, Menuetto, France TV, Rtbf, Voo & Be TV, Proximus and Shelter Prod with associate production credits to Yk Well Enterprise and Yukunkun.

From her decision to rebel against an unjust regime on through to her exile in Mexico,...