By Leo Barraclough

International Features Editor

Patra Spanou Film has acquired international sales rights to Johanné Gómez Terrero’s coming-of-age tale “Sugar Island,” which will have its world premiere at Venice Days, an independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival. The first trailer has been released (above).

In the film, Makenya is thrust into adulthood by an unplanned pregnancy, forcing her to take premature responsibility for her body and life, pushing her boundaries and giving her new insights into the society she lives in and her spirituality.