EXCLUSIVE: Celluloid Dreams has taken international sales rights for French director Paul Nouhet’s Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou) ahead of its world premiere in Cannes parallel section ACID.
The film follows a trip to Barcelona, the mecca of skateboarding, by four friends on their first independent trip to together as they turn 18. A decade later, they reunite and reminisce about the holiday which helped shaped them and their friendships today.
Rewind Barcelona grew out of Nouhet’s 2023 medium-length autobiographical work Salut Les Zins, in which he revisited his adolescence as an avid skateboarder in Bordeaux.
Nouhet and his real-life friends Emile Pierre, Edouard Hascoët and Léo Cholet appeared as themselves with actors playing them as 13-year-olds. They return for the new feature which reconstructs real memories with fictionalized segments.
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