An Franco-Iranian directorial debut examining the fractured bonds of exile and family displacement is scheduled to debut at the Cannes Film Festival this month. "Into the Jaws of the Ogre," helmed by Mahsa Karampour, will be shown in the festival's ACID section, with Beijing-headquartered distribution company Rediance managing international distribution. The film follows Karampour's reunion with her sibling Siâvash, a former vocalist in an Iranian underground punk band currently in exile in New York City. Through secretly filmed material in Iran, childhood memories, and intimate conversations across highways across America, the film explores how political displacement and geopolitical tensions between...