Trapero’s “The Clan” Opening in Limited Release in the U.S.

Pablo Trapero’s latest project is headed to the United States…

Fox International Productions and 20th Century Fox has announced plans to debut the 44-year-old Argentine filmmaker’s The Clan in early 2016.

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The period crime drama, which won the Best Director Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, will open on January 29 in Los Angeles and New York.

Following its debut in Venice, the film — Argentina’s entry into the Oscar race in the Best Foreign Language Film category —  was screened in Toronto and San Sebastian. The Clan also will screen at the AFI Fest next month.

The Clan tells the true story of the Puccios, a middle-class family in suburban Bueno Aires that is pulled into a world of kidnapping, ransom and murder by the family’s patriarch during the 1980s.

Guillermo Francella stars as Arquímedes, with Peter Lanzani playing his son Alejandro, a rugby star who is manipulated into helping Dad carry out meticulously planned abductions of wealthy locals. But when kidnapping turns to murder, Alejandro must face the truth that his father — his hero — is a cold-blooded killer.

Lili Popovich, Gastón Cocchiarale, Giselle Motta, Franco Masini, Antonia Bengoechea and Stefania Koessl co-star.

Trapero and the team behind last year’s Wild TalesHugo Sigman, Matías Mosteirín, Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar and Esther García — produced the film, which also plays the Miami International Film Festival this weekend.

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