IFC Films picks up spanish cannibal film WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) has been picked up by IFC Films for future release via their quasi-genre based arm IFC Midnight.  We Are What We Are is being summarized as a dysfunctional family tale where the family just happen to be cannibals.

Synopsis (Source: Wild Bunch)

A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge – how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies… and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they sate their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge… But without human meat the family will die.Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre – a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret and driven by monstrous appetites.

No word on release yet as it was just acquired from Cannes from IFC.  Wild Bunch handled the sale to IFC.

I’m always interested in cannibal tales.  My recent favorite was 1999’s Ravenous.  So, to say that We Are What We Are is a film that I am looking forward to is an understatement.