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The film world premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition.

Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has lured Film Movement in North America and The Klockworx in Japan to Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River. The film has also sold to Germany and Austria (Donau Films) and South Korea (Lumix).

It world premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition and follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Deals in South Korea and Germany are currently in negotiations.

Ma Xue’s directorial debut world premieres at Rotterdam.

Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has boarded Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River which will world premiere in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition.

White River follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Reel Suspects will market premiere the title at EFM.

Produced by Yilu Partners and Dreama Pictures, the Mandarin and English language film stars Tian Yuan, Song Ningfeng and Xu Weihao.

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