Rediance Expands to China: Capturing the Sky with Eryk Rocha’s ‘The Falling Sky’ and Grand Tour

Rediance, an international sales agent based in China, has acquired the world sales rights to the feature documentary film “The Falling Sky.” The film is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month in the Directors Fortnight section.

Rediance will handle Chinese-speaking territories for “The Falling Sky,” which is directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha. The documentary showcases the indigenous community of Watorikɨ as its main subjects and captures a funeral rite called the reahu, where they work together to hold up the sky and prevent it from falling. The film serves as a shamanic critique of the destruction of the Yanomami way of life due to intrusions by outsiders.

Rocha’s tenth feature film, “The Falling Sky,” is praised for its captivating visuals, meticulous sound design, and powerful words from Davi Kopenawa that delve into the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and knowledge. Co-director Carneiro da Cunha, an artist and activist who has worked extensively in the Brazilian Amazon, collaborated with Rocha on this project.

In addition to “The Falling Sky,” Rediance will also handle Chinese-speaking territories for a co-production project by Miguel Gomes titled “Grand Tour.” This film premieres in the festival’s main competition. Rediance continues to do business with its recent titles from the Berlin International Film Festival, including Nele Wohlatz’s “Sleep With Your Eyes Open” and Qu Youjia’s “She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones.” Last year, they also handled Anthony Chen’s “The Breaking Ice.”