GKIDS has announced it will release Salvador Simó’s Bunel In The Labyrinth of the Turtles on August 16th in Los Angeles. The film, based on a Spanish graphic novel, will be screening in competition at the Annecy Festival next week. A rare and unusual meditation on the nature of art and the torment of the artist, the feature will receive its qualifying theatrical run at Landmark’s Nuart theatre in West LA.

SYNOPSIS:
In a stranger-than-fiction tale befitting the master surrealist filmmaker, Bunel In The Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the true story of how Luis Buñuel made his second movie. Paris, 1930. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are main figures of the Surrealist movement, but Buñuel is left penniless after a scandal surrounding his film L’Age d’Or. However, his good friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket with the promise that, if he wins, he will pay for his next film. Incredibly, luck is on their side, and so they set out to make the movie, an ambitious documentary on the Las Hurdes region in Spain. Both a buddy adventure and fascinating episode of cinematic history, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles presents a deeply affecting and humanistic portrait of an artist hunting for his purpose.