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RT Features’ ‘Bodies of Summer,’ From Berlin Winner Iván Fund, Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto, Unveils First Look (EXCLUSIVE)
RT Features and Rita Cine have announced the cast and released a first look at Iván Fund’s speculative sci-fi drama *Bodies of Summer*. Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto, the film highlights producer Rodrigo Teixeira’s expanding focus on international and Latin American cinema.
Set in a future where consciousness can survive digitally after death and return in another body, the story follows Rana, who returns after 100 years in an inexpensive, weakened body and searches for his son. The screenplay by Fund and Martín Felipe Castagnet adapts Castagnet’s award-winning novel and reunites the pair after *Dusk Stone* and *The Message*, for which Fund won a Berlin Silver Bear Jury Prize.
In short
- Iván Fund’s new sci-fi drama has unveiled its principal cast.
- The film imagines death becoming optional through digital consciousness.
- RT Features continues expanding its international and Latin American slate.
Explained simply
Iván Fund is an Argentine filmmaker whose work includes The Message, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Bodies of Summer is based on a novel by Argentine writer Martín Felipe Castagnet, and brings the two writers together again.
The film imagines a future in which a person’s consciousness can be stored digitally after death and later placed in another body. Its central character, Rana, returns after a century in a low-cost body and tries to find his son. The cast includes Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng and Argentine actors Miranda de la Serna and Marcelo Subiotto.
RT Features is a production company led by Brazilian producer Rodrigo Teixeira, while Rita Cine is an Argentine production company. Their involvement connects the film to a wider collaboration between Brazilian and Argentine cinema, and to Teixeira’s work producing films from different countries.
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