• Fatherland

  • Sold to 17 territories, including Greece and Japan

• Coward

  • Sold to 20 territories, including Switzerland and South Korea

• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

  • Sold to 4 territories, including Greece

For all of them, Mubi has rights for North America, the UK, Ireland + 5 other territories

Interestingly, Mubi is partnering with 7 territories for the release of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasmi. The subject matter is super risque so not surprising it has sold less well worldwide.

Mubi made one pick-up as well, Latin streaming rights for Denominación de Origen. It’s all about two tin Chillian towns warring over who makes the best sausage (trailer).

• Int. Sales Rep: 193 (Die My Love)

• Dir: Steven Soderbergh

Synopsis:

John Lennon’s final interview on Dec 8, 1980, hours before his death. He and Yoko Ono discussed music, politics, and fatherhood. Soderbergh’s doc presents the complete conversation with reflections from those present.

King’s Daughter

• Int. Sales Rep: WTFilms (Infested)

• Dir: Pascal Plante (Red Rooms)

• Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond)

Synopsis:

Follows the doomed voyage of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to marry in New-France. The youngest, Catherine Moitié, 13, and others endure 111 days of disease, famine, vermin, and death.

Children Untold (Watashi no Shiranai Kodomotachi)

• Int. Sales Rep: Intramovies (Charlie Says)

• Wri/Dir: Nishikawa Miwa (Under the Open Sky)

Synopsis:

Follows a 12-year-old orphaned girl in post-WWII Tokyo who disguises herself as a boy to survive the underworld, while her former teacher retraces her path.

Mediawan and Goodfellas sports-focused label Round 12 acquires its first sale of a Cannes title with the documentary The Match. The film takes a closer look at the iconic 1986 World Cup Quarter Final game between Argentina and England, with the production outfit committed to developing both scripted and non-scripted projects set in the world of sports.

BFI reveals their slate for the annual Great 8 showcase, including an upcoming drama film starring Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) in his first leading role.

Ken Loach, the legendary British social-realist director, returns to Cannes for the first time in three years for a screening of his 1995 Spanish Civil War drama Land and Freedom.

MoreThan Films (Int Sales: Blue Heron) boards international sales of Swiss-French drama Summer Drift. The film follows a luxury watch factory worker who restores her aging VW Beetle, forcing her back into a male-dominated world of mechanics while confronting questions of labor and identity.

Ken Russell’s controversial The Devils (1972) is getting a 4K restoration from Warner Bros. Clockwork. This version of the film will premiere in the Classics section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

HBO Max Europe buys Canadian Drama Yaga, starring Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams. Foxtel in Australia and Sky in New Zealand have also acquired the Crave series.

Fandango Sales (formerly Vudu) buys international rights to the Cannes Classics documentary Vittorio De Sica – Staging Life. The documentary follows Italian icon Vittorio De Sica’s life, work, and legacy as a leading figure of Italy’s neo-realism movement.

Rocket Science (Int sales: Better Man) buys worldwide sales rights to Dark Ocean, the debut feature of Icelandic TV maker Glassriver. The film follows a young deckhand on his first voyage, as his team battles the powerful forces of nature.

Epicenter Films acquires French rights to Mexican drama Six Months In A Pink Blue Building. The film follows a Mexican protagonist reminiscing about his childhood memory of his father getting HIV. It is playing at Cannes Critics Week.

Vorteks buys international rights to Taiwanese thriller The Evil Inside, starring Joan Chen (The Last Emperor). The film follows a disgraced former Taiwanese star as she must gamble with the lives of the terminally ill to escape a sinister facility and return to the daughter she abandoned.

Film Factory acquires world sales rights to director Albert Pinto’s (Dir: Netflix’s Money Heist) new high-voltage thriller Lions in Winter. The film follows a grieving father who returns to a life of violence to avenge his daughter’s murder.

Bolivia’s iconic salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, is hosting a new film festival. Famous for its world’s largest mirror effect, the inaugural Salar International Film Festival (SalarFF) will start on May 28, 2026.

Malcolm D. Lee (Dir: The Best Man) and his Blackmaled Productions team up with Tribeca Studios to launch “Love & Laughs”, a new initiative for emerging new filmmakers.

House of Hope

• Dir: Marjolein Busstra (We Don’t Talk)

• Int. Sales Rep: First Hand Films (Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country)

• Prod. Comp: 100% Films

• Dist: Cinema Delicatessen (Citizenfour in the Netherlands)

• Trailer

Synopsis:

A determined educator and her husband operate a progressive school in the West Bank, striving to maintain a peaceful learning environment while surrounded by regional conflict and daily challenges.

Beyond a $10,000 prize, the powerfully timely feature-length doc now automatically qualifies for Oscar consideration.

To see the rest of the winners, click here.

The Marché du Cannes (Market) has some hot projects:

The Mannequin

• Int. Sales Rep: Studiocanal

• Cast: Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Lili Reinhart (Riverdale)

• Dir: Sean Byrne (Dangerous Animals)

• Prod. Comp: Studiocanal’s Sixth Dimension (Silent Night, Deadly Night)

• Has sold to Elevation Pictures for distribution in Canada

Synopsis:

Follows Charley and Sadie as they are thrown into a fast-escalating nightmare involving a manhunt for a serial killer.

I Want A Great Love Story

• Int. Sales Rep/French dist: Pyramide (Fatima)

• Cast: Stacy Martin (The Brutalist)

• Prod. Comp: Saïd Ben Saïd (Elle)

A passionate and idealistic young man struggles to find his place in life. When his older sister invites him to spend a few days with her fiancé’s family in a quiet village in Bas-Saint-Laurent, the meeting of the two families leads to life-changing moments for everyone involved.

Marx

• Int. Sales Rep: Odyssey International (Prisoner of War)

• Cast: Mekhi Phifer (ER), Bren Foster (Life After Fighting)

Synopsis:

Follows two brothers, Axel, a fearless fighter, and Ian, a strategic operator, who are pulled into a deadly power struggle when violent conflict erupts in the Vegas underworld.

The Oscar shortlisted short film Extremist is getting made into a feature.

• Prod: Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content (Leviathan)

• Dir/Wri: Aleksandr Molochnikov (Tell Her)

Synopsis:

The feature will expand on the premise of Molochnikov’s short film and “follow three distinct perspectives based on the real life ordeals of Russian citizens living in the country since the start of the war in Ukraine.”

The Punishing

• First Look

• Int. Sales Rep: Ignite

• WME and UTA are handling domestic rights

• Cast: Cara Delevingne, John Boyega

Synopsis:

Follows a desperate couple in rural Iceland who confront a centuries-old curse that forces them to choose between love and survival.

Sales

Vision Board

• Int. Sales Rep: Concourse Media (Sovereign)

• Cast: Lucy Hale

• Presold to multiple territories

  • Wild Bunch for Germany, CDC for Latin America, Rialto for Australia

Synopsis:

Follows a struggling fashion designer who, after drunkenly creating a vision board, wakes up living her dream life with a mansion, fashion empire, and perfect romance, but realizes achieving everything may cost her authentic self.

The Servant

• Int. Sales Rep: Mk2 (Sentimental Value)

• Cast: Colman Domingo, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin (The Crown), Noah Jupe (Hamnet)

• Dir/Wri: Francis Lee (God’s Own Country)

Synopsis:

Follows an entitled British man who moves into a beautiful apartment on Central Park in 1950s New York and becomes embroiled in a wicked power play with his manservant.

A Farewell to Arms (Based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel)

• Int. Sales Rep: Embankment Films (The Miracle Club)

• Cast: Tom Blyth (Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)

• Dir: Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart)

Synopsis:

Frederic Henry, a volunteer ambulance driver, falls in love with his nurse in Italy during World War One.

Murdering Michael Malloy

• Int. Sales Rep: Archstone Entertainment (Chili Finger)

• Cast: Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner)

• Dir: Raymond De Felitta (City Island)

Synopsis:

Bar owner Tony Marino and partner Bastogne insure drunk Michael Malloy, then try killing him for money. But Malloy won’t die. As schemes fail, Marino and Malloy bond, leading to a tragic sacrifice in Depression-era New York.

The Last Druid

• Int. Sales Rep: AGC Studios (Eden)

• Cast: Russel Crowe, Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones)

• Dir: William Eubank (The Signal)

Synopsis:

An Emperor discovers a secluded Druid stronghold, forcing a peaceful Celtic elder to take up arms and protect his family and people from annihilation.

Stand Up

• Int. Sales Rep: Loco Films (dist. Mr. Nobody Against Putin)

• Dir: Mari Sanders (miniseries Handicapable)

• Premiering at Tribeca

Synopsis:

Follows Vera, a 23-year-old woman whose life is upended when an accident leaves her in a wheelchair, as she must choose between her old world or a new one with Xander, who has always lived with disability.

Dead Miles

• Int. Sales Rep: VMI Worldwide (Perfectly Imperfect)

• Cast: Grace Caroline Currey (Shazam!)

• Dir/Wri: Tom Levesque (Shut Eye)

Dead End

• Int. Sales Rep: EST N8 (Sugar Mill)

• Dir: Chan Chun-hao (The Roar)

• Cast: Daniel Hong (Miss Shampoo)

Spanish actor turn director Paz Vega’s sophomore directorial venture Ana No after last year’s Rita has been sold at Cannes by Film Factory Entertainment. An intimate but epic journey across ‘60s Spain, BTeam Pictures (dist. Sirāt) will handle distribution in Spain.

Run, With No Tears

• Int. Sales Rep: Films Boutique (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)

• Dir: Nabil Ayouch (Everybody Loves Touda)

• Cast: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), Maryan Touzani (Dir: Adam)

Synopsis:

The film follows two women who travel to Morocco on a mission to adopt another woman’s baby.

The Road Home

• Int. Sales Rep: Palisades Park Pictures (The Revisionist)

• Dir: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)

• Cast: Johnny Flynn (Beast, Ripley), Cynthia Eryvo (Wicked), Guy Pearce (Memento)

Synopsis:

Exiled trumpeter Hugh Masekela is torn between loyalties when the Anti-Apartheid Movement, led by his mentor Trevor Huddleston, boycotts his friend Paul Simon over Graceland. Breaking from his mentor, Masekela teams with fellow exile Miriam Makeba to form a supergroup aimed at bringing South Africa’s voice to the world.

Twilight of the Dead

• Int. Sales Rep: The Syndicate (Gone in the Night)

• Dir: The Paz Brothers (Jeruzalem)

• Cast: Kate Beckinsale (Underworld)

Synopsis:

The film will be set on a decimated earth where the last vestiges of humanity are trapped between warring factions and an evolving undead threat.

A Young Widow’s Guide to Life

• Int. Sales Rep: StudioCanal (The Life of Chuck)

• Dir: Mackenzie Munro (Boot Camp)

• Cast: Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars)

Synopsis:

Tess Fuller (Hale), a 30-year-old widow who remains emotionally stuck five years after the death of her husband. On the anniversary of his passing, Luke’s childhood friend publishes a letter he left behind asking the town to help Tess create a list of things to try to start over and move on with her life.

Amazing Grace

• Int. Sales Rep: Screenbound International Pictures

• Cast: Hannah Walters (Adolescence), Daniel P. Lewis (Our Kid)

• Dir: Ruth Carney (Shetland)

Synopsis:

A man on the brink of suicide and deeply isolated forms an unexpected bond with a crisis helpline volunteer who helps him confront the childhood abuse, addiction, and shame he has spent a lifetime trying to survive.

Tiger

• Int. Sales Rep: MMM (Gatillero)

• Dir: Anshul Chauhan (December)

• Premiered at the Busan International Film Festival

Synopsis:

Taiga, a 35-year-old man works at a massage parlor while navigating gay porn auditions under the pseudonym Tiger. After learning that his father is critically ill, he returns to his hometown, where he must confront the people and memories he once left behind.

Salón De Belleza

• Int. Sales Rep: The Pool Films (Stronger than the Devil)

• Directorial debut: Nathalia Acevedo (actress in Post Tenebras Lux)

• Cast: Sam Louwyck (The Wonders)

Synopsis:

Set in a beauty salon in a city ravaged by a mysterious disease which becomes a refuge for the afflicted as they linger between life and death.

Black Bear Pictures (Train Dreams, The Imitation Game) serves as the sales rep for shark thriller Zipline, selling at the Cannes Market. The filmmaking team is also reuniting for another survival film, No Way Down. No plot details yet, but we can expect a survival drama like Zipline, which follows college students trying to escape a lagoon as a killer shark lurks beneath.

Someone Special

• Int. Sales Rep: Fearfolks (Thailand dist. Backrooms)

• Dir(s): Petong Sakulchai and Ariel Feng

• Cast: Sirat Intarachote (4 Kings)

Synopsis:

A young painter crippled with deep-seated violent tendencies confronts his demons after an unexpected meeting with a therapist living one floor above him.

Bloodwood

• Int. Sales Rep: Essential Film Group (Netflix’s Night of the Reaper)

• Dir/Wri: Robert Menzies (prod. House at the End of the Street)

• Cast: Henry Ian Cusick (Lost), Garret Dillahunt (No Country for Old Men)

Synopsis:

An American tracks his wife’s killer into the Amazon for a clean execution, but is drawn into human trafficking and a rainforest with a mind of its own. As reality fractures and the hunter becomes hunted, he faces the guilt he came to bury.

Deadlocked

• Int. Sales Rep: Film Mode Entertainment (The Last Stop in Yuma County)

• Dir: Roel Reiné (Classified)

• Cast: Scott Adkins (The Rip), Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat)

Synopsis:

A routine jury site visit turns deadly when a mercenary kill team storms the location in search of a secret ledger detailing citywide corruption. Trapped inside, a disgraced ex-cop-turned-bailiff must protect the surviving jurors and battle the attackers outside while exposing a traitor within.

The Influencer Project

• Int. Sales Rep: Film Bridge International (The Unholy Trinity)

• Prod: Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project)

• Cast: Chiara King (UK influencer)

Cannes Market additions, including films with Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Rooney Mara (Carol), Paul Walter Hauser, and Simon Rex.

40 Years of Fuckin’ Up

• Int. Sales Rep: VMI Worldwide (Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm)

• U.S. Sales: TBD

• Cast: Punk band NOFX

• Dir: James Buddy Day (Charles Manson: The Final Words)

Synopsis:

The film delivers a raw and deeply personal look at the band’s journey from underground outsiders to one of the most influential independent acts in music history.

This documentary will explore the career and legacy of the legendary skater punk bank NOFC best known for their 1994 gold-certified album “Punk in Drublic”.

The Things We Hide

• Int. Sales Rep: Minerva Pictures (The Conformist, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci)

• U.S. Sales: TBD

• Cast: Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Angela Sarafyan (Westworld) , Manny Montana (Good Girls)

• Dir: Amir Noorani, Eric Bergemann (A Slice of Romance)

Synopsis:

The film follows a couple named Naomi and Logan who, after a psychological breakdown nearly destroys their marriage, retreat to a remote farmhouse to seek a fresh start. That’s when terrifying events begin blurring the line between trauma, paranoia, and the supernatural.

We hope to see a blend of Howery’s ability to pull comedy out from horrifying situations with Sarafyan’s uncanny performance – a perfect mix for a psychological horror film.

Angel City

• Int. Sales Rep: Braham Entertainment (The Millennial)

• U.S. Sales: TBD

• Cast: Chris Kattan (A Night at the Roxbury), Noel Braham (The Millenial), Stakiah Lynn Washington (Wildcards)

• Dir: Noel Braham

Synopsis:

Angel City follows a second-generation immigrant rideshare driver who defies his family’s expectations to pursue his childhood love of acting, only to watch his housing security collapse as he chases the dream.

Angel City will be an adaptation of Noel Braham’s short film Watchtower. We would love to see how Noel Braham explores the myth and reality of L.A.

Quest for Love

• Int. Sales Rep: Hanway Films (Shame)

• U.S. Sales: WME Independent

• Cast: Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Rooney Mara (Carol)

• Dir: Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is in Us All),

Synopsis:

In the charming Marais district of Paris, a fiercely independent woman with a dangerous capacity for violence attempts to connect with her estranged ten-year-old son, forcing her to question if she is capable of true love before her darkest impulses take over.

Don’t Get Up!

• Int. Sales Rep: Films Boutique (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)

• U.S. Sales: Celsius Entertainment (Magazine Dreams, starring Jonathan Majors)

• Cast: Simon Rex (Red Rocket)

• Dir: Shaun Higton

Synopsis:

An ordinary man is trapped on a motel toilet rigged with a bomb that will detonate if he stands, forced to pay $220,000 while cut off by flooding. As the clock ticks, he battles a mysterious caller and his own past while an FBI agent races to uncover the truth.

The Official Mistress

• Int. Sales Rep: North.Five.Six (Regretting You)

• U.S. Sales: TBD

• Cast: Mckenna Grace (Regretting You), Paul Walter Hauser (The Naked Gun), Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes)

• Dir: Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity)

Synopsis:

A historical drama about King Louis XVI’s pursuit of an official mistress to silence rumors of impotence at court. Meanwhile, a humble cook risks treason to become the King’s taster in a desperate attempt to save the woman he loves.

Raid Pacific

• Int. Sales Rep: VMI Worldwide (Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm)

• U.S. Sales: TBD

• Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloodsport)

• Dir: Steven Luke

Synopsis:

The story follows Captain William Pierce (Van Damme), a decorated U.S.-French submarine commander tasked with a high-stakes mission: to transport a small unit of Marine raiders deep into enemy-controlled waters. Their objective is to destroy a critical Japanese outpost — one that could shift the balance of the war.

The Species

• Int. Sales Rep: Hanway Films (Shame)

• U.S. Sales: UTA Independent Talent Group

• Cast: Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs), Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter), Mia McKenna-Bruce (How To Have Sex), Tom Hollander (Pride and Prejudice)

• Dir: Justin Chadwick (Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom)

Synopsis:

After Charles Darwin’s death, his widow Emma battles her son and a publisher over releasing his atheist autobiography, fearing it may jeopardize his afterlife and their reunion.

The Teller

• Int. Sales Rep: Altitude Film Sales (Into the Deep)

• U.S. Sales: CAA Media Finance (Obsession for U.S.)

• Cast: Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)

• Dir: Ben Ripley (wri: Source Code)

Synopsis:

A timid, overlooked bank teller with incredible sleight-of-hand dexterity teams up with a rogue FBI agent to rob her own bank.

Ripley’s directorial debut brings together two Oscar nominees and an Emmy winner in a film described as being in the vein of The Usual Suspects and The Town.

White Elephant

• Int. Sales Rep: Black Bear (Train Dreams)

• Cast: Nick Jonas (Power Ballad), Kathryn Newton (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come), KJ Apa (Riverdale)

• Dir: Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs. Evil)

Synopsis:

Follows eight friends whose annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.

Now feels like a great time for ensemble-driven horrors, just like Newton’s Ready or Not, White Elephant taps into the chaotic and darkly comedic survival thrillers built around young casts that perform so well.

A Poet

• Int. Sales Rep: SBS International (Last Summer)

• Prod: Saïd Ben Saïd (Elle)

• Dir: Nathan Silver (Between the Temples)

An English-language version of Simón Mesa Soto’s 2025 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner (trailer), the Colombian dramedy follows a failed poet who found new purpose in mentoring a teenage girl.

The remake continues Cannes’ growing pipeline of international titles quickly being adapted for American audiences. (Another Round, The Intouchables).

Interference

• Int. Sales Rep: Pia Patatian’s Noora Films (Oh, Canada)

• Dir/Wri: Mel Rodriguez III (In Stereo)

• Cast: Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), James Badge Dale (The Departed)

Synopsis:

When a wealthy American expat in Spain is arrested for a string of crimes he insists he didn’t commit, he must navigate a web of deception, surveillance, and buried secrets before the life he built is destroyed from the inside.

Fishburne adds yet another “agent” character to his growing list not long after his CIA operative role in last year’s The Amateur (2025).

Lineage

• Int. Sales Rep: Veteran (Prime’s Pretty Lethal)

• U.S. Sales: CAA Media Finance (Bugonia for U.S.)

• Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Adam Bessa (Harka), musician Raye

• Dir: Yann Demange (Top Boy)

The crime drama not only marks the screen debut of award-winning musician Raye, but it reunites Huppert with Bessa who are both starring in the Cannes in-competition title Parallel Tales from filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.

Iron Ribbon

• Cast: Sarah Gadon (Enemy)

• Dir/Wri: Jaroslaw Maresewski (Bikini Blue)

• Prod. Comp: DG Productions (The Wall Between)

Synopsis:

The true story of Stanislawa Uminska, the Polish actress put on trial in the 1920s, and the electrifying criminal case which captivated Paris with a taste of fame, passion, misery, and murder.

Driver

• Int. Sales Rep: Alliance Media Partners (The School Duel)

• Cast: Dafne Keen (Deadpool & Wolverine), Aidan Gillen (Peaky Blinders)

• Dir Debut: Patrick Ireland (dir/wri short film Ill Fear the Land)

Synopsis:

A traumatised ex-con working as a driver for his pimp former cellmate forms an unlikely bond with a young sex worker as they struggle to escape the cycles of poverty, crime, and violence that threaten to consume them both.

Synergy Systems

• Int. Sales Rep: Cinetic Media (The Perfect Neighbor)

• Cast: Will Forte, Tiffany Haddish, Eric André

• Dir Debut: Toby Harvard (wri. The Greasy Strangler)

• Prod. Comp: Talon Entertainment (Atonement)

Synopsis:

Follows a terminally indecisive date analyst who uncovers his employer is a front for an apocalyptic doomsday plot and must step up as humanity’s last line of defense despite being wildly unprepapered.

Maitreya

• Int. Sales Rep: Fortitude International (The End of the Tour)

• Cast: Pamela Anderson, Debbie Harry

• Dir: Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia)

• Prod. Comp: Caviar (Sound of Metal)

Synopsis:

Follows a rising star in the New Age Healing community who, after learning her father is dying, brings her entire family to a conference in India to test her healing theories while secretly gathering material for her next book.

Red Stick Hoods

• Int. Sales Rep: Iuvit Media Sales (And So It Goes)

• Cast: Stephen Dorff (True Detective), Kevin Dillon (Entourage)

• Dir: Lance Kawas (Good Thief)

Synopsis:

Set in Baton Rouge’s neon-lit underworld, Red Stick Hoods follows a seasoned criminal and his volatile young partner as a routine job spirals into a violent chain reaction neither can control.

Gersh is betting on AI, boarding Answr for North American rights ahead of its first time screening at the Cannes market. Written and directed by Stephen Kay (dir. Yellowstone), the thriller set in an isolated Icelandic weather station follows a grieving young man who develops an eerie bond with an AI chatbox. Just one of the industry’s biggest talent agencies is joining the current wave of AI-themed projects actively being packaged and sold at Cannes.

Homewrecker

• Int. Sales Rep: North.Five.Six (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die)

• Cast: Allison Williams (Get Out), Michelle Randolph (Scream 7)

• Dir: Xavier Gens (Netflix’s Under Paris)

Synopsis:

During a heart-breaking domestic revelation, three star-crossed Americans are suddenly forced to work together to survive a terrifying unexplained global event that threatens to destroy life as they know it.

The Man Who Stole Portugal

• Int. Sales Rep/Prod. Comp: Beta Cinema (sales rep: Amrum)

• Cast: Richard E. Grant, Dominic West (The Wire), Emily Fairn (Saturday Night)

• Dir: Thomas Napper (The Wheel of Time)

Synopsis:

Based on Murray Teigh Bloom’s book. Follows Alves Reis in 1920s Lisbon who, determined to provide for his wife Maria and family, invents his way upward, with his biggest bluff becoming one of history’s greatest cons.

Doug Liman is attached to direct a new Black Bear film headed to the Cannes Market.

Star One

• Int. Sales Rep/Prod. Comp: BlackBear (Train Dreams)

• N.A. Sales Rep: CAA (Bugonia for U.S.)

• Dir: Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow)

• Cast: Miles Teller, Eddie Redmayne

Synopsis:

Two mismatched CIA agents, one charismatic (Teller), the other strait-laced (Redmayne), who must work together to execute a top secret mission.

• They Like The Dark

  • Cast: Liam Hemsworth

  • Prod Co: Ridley Scott’s ScottFree

  • US Sales Rep: UTA/CAA

  • International: Fortitude

Synopsis:

A half-blind bomb tech who wakes chained in a warehouse with no memory of his arrival and must rely only on his instincts and his loyal service dog to survive the horrors that hunt him in the dark.

Joe Swanberg is back.

The king of Chicago Mumblecore behind indie favs like Digging for Fire and Drinking Buddies is back with The Sun Never Sets.

Synopsis:

Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists they take space to evaluate the relationship. During their break, Wendy runs into her ex, Chuck, forcing them into a volatile triangle.

The volatile triangle and intermingled relationships were part of what made Drinking Buddies (2013) an easy watch. The naturalism of the dialogue is juxtaposed with the sudden intensity.

The cast is great of The Sun Never Sets is great: Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson, Cory Michael Smith, Debby Ryan. Some familiar Swanberg faces, some newcomers.

Browler

• Int. Sales Rep: Capture Entertainment (Seven Snipers)

• Dir: Scott Adkins (actor in The Rip)

• Cast: Scott Adkins, Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat)

Synopsis:

A disgraced MMA champion is pulled into a violent underworld by the sins of his past, armed only with his fists, he must hit men, criminal gangs, and his own inner demons to protect those he loves.

Reset

• Int. Sales Rep: Fortitude International (The End of the Tour)

• Cast: Orlando Bloom, Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The Bluff)

• Dir: Matt Smukler (Wildflower)

Synopsis:

A woman (Chopra Jonas) who wakes up in the middle of the wilderness days from civilization with no memory of how she got there, finding that her only chance of survival is to trust a charming stranger (Bloom).

Christmas Inc.

• Int. Sales Rep: Architect (Winner)

• Dir: Avgousta Zourelidi (Monster High: Electrified)

• Prod. Comp: Cantilever Media (The Amazing Maurice)

Synopsis:

Goldie, an ambitious elf assistant, is sent to shut down the last traditional toy workshop, but discovers the magic of homemade toys and the misfit elves, leading her to protect it.

Kevin Spacey is among the leading men attached to films headed to this year’s Cannes Market. In the WW2 drama Melodies In The Forest, Spacey will play a world-renowned conductor whose wartime past resurfaces. In his recent return to Hollywood, Spacey is continuing to work mostly in the European indie space, yet this project marks a significant step up in scale.

U.K.’s Blue Eyes Film and Distribution (The Merchant of Venice) will handle worldwide sales rights. Filming will begin this fall in the Czech Republic.

Sebastian Stan is set to share the screen with Ana de Armas in espionage thriller Impunity from filmmaker Felipe Gálvez (dir. Cannes premiering The Settlers). Stan is learning Spanish for the role with the film centered on a landmark international case surrounding the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (Stan) and the lengths covert operatives will go to strip him of his immunity.

Pathé (The Room Next Door) is producing as well as handling international sales and distribution for France and Switzerland at the Cannes market.

Beta Cinema has added two films to its market lineup.

The Other Side

• Cast: Nina Hoss (Tár)

• Dir/Wri: Mariko Minoguchi (The Colony)

Synopsis:

Follows Hanna, a former doctor isolated in the Alpine wilderness after losing her family to disease, whose survival is tested when she encounters an injured stranger.

The Rome Eight

• Cast: Oliver Masucci (Netflix’s Dark), Felix Krammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front)

• Dir: Hannu Salonen (Murder by the Lake)

Synopsis:

Follows rowing coach Karl Adam who defies convention with radical training methods, transforming a group of misfits into an unstoppable crew for the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Other Sales:

The Last Resort

• Int. Sales Rep: Voltage Pictures (Wind River)

• Cast: Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story)

• Dir: Donald Petrie (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)

• N.A. Dist: Vertical Entertainment (Dracula)

Synopsis:

A career-focused woman travels to the Philippines to evaluate a potential resort site. Amidst stunning landscapes and friendly locals, she unexpectedly finds herself drawn to the country’s beauty and a charismatic pilot named Ben.

Iron Jane

• Int. Sales Rep: Highland Film Group (Land of Bad)

• Cast: Eiza González (Baby Driver), Brandon Sklenar (The Housemaid)

• Dir/Wri: Lissette Feliciano (Women is Losers)

Synopsis:

Follows Janie John (González), who, after a childhood shaped by neglect and invisibility, is pulled into a world that finally sees her, where pain is power and bodies are built, not born.

Oddities

• Int. Sales Rep: Raven Banner Entertainment (Climax)

• Dir/Wri: Tyler Savage (Stalker)

• Cast: Lilimar (Inside Out 2), Lovie Simone (Forever)

Synopsis:

When two self-destructive best friends accidentally kill their drug dealer, they have to flee town. Stopping at a roadside antique shop, they quickly discover that the older woman running the place isn’t as sweet as she seems.

Eyes Along The Valley

• Cast: Stephen Lang, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey (Hacksaw Ridge)

• Worldwide Sales Rep: Architect (The Georgetown Project)

Synopsis:

A 1950s crime-thriller.

Becoming Capa

• Cast: Esther McGregor (We Were Liars), Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora), Danny Huston

• DP: Pawel Pogorzelski (Hereditary)

• International Sales Rep: HanWay Films (Carol, La Cocina)

Synopsis:

Celebrated war photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa fall in love in a tale of audacity and defiance against a world in political turmoil.

Kaet Might Die

• Cast: Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), Ken Jeong

• Dir: Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Bleecker’s Bone Lake)

• Domestic Sales Rep: Capture Entertainment and CAA

• International Sales Rep: Capture Entertainment (Dark Jungle)

Synopsis:

Designer Kaet McAnneny trains for NYC Marathon, but breast cancer diagnosis disrupts life. Her marriage faces turmoil, relapses, yet unexpected positives emerge over 18 months, based on ‘Boobs Gone Rogue’ memoir.

Follow Mode

• Dir/Wri: Ben Leonberg (Good Boy)

• Wri: Alex Cannon (Good Boy)

• Prod: Temple Hill (Smile)

• International Sales Rep: Protagonist Pictures (The Brutalist)

Synopsis:

Follows a group of teens who knock a drone out of the sky and discover it contains footage of a serial killer’s crimes, then must expose the killer before becoming victims.

Maybe We Should

• Cast: Heather Graham

• Dir: A.J. Tesler (Hero Mode)

• Worldwide Sales Rep: Concourse Media (The Little Hours)

Synopsis:

A heartwarming, inspirational family film based on the true story of one family’s effort to build a groundbreaking center for children. The film weaves magical realism and humor into an uplifting story about resilience and community.

The Neverending Pillow Fort

• Voice Cast: Sofia Rose, David Tennant, Guy Pearce, Teresa Palmer

• Prod Co: Crayola Studios

Three Cannes market horrors:

Vorteks (Dubai-based sales agency) acquires international sales rights for SXSW horror hit Grind. Directed by Ed Dougherty, Brea Grant, and Chelsea Stardust, the film follows four interconnected stories that center around the gig economy, hustle culture, and the evils of late-stage capitalism. The film debuted in the Midnighter section of SXSW last month and gained praise from critics and audiences alike.

Blue Finch Films (U.K. sales and distribution outfit) takes the worldwide sales rights to horror feature Recluse. The film follows Joan, a sound recordist who visits her father’s burnt estate, only to pick up on ghostly audio that uncovers a dark family secret. The film will have its world premiere in the Escape From Tribeca section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. Henry Chaisson (Producer: M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant) directed the film.

MPX (global film sales agency) acquires worldwide sales rights to U.S. indie horror Swipe. Directed by Sean Whalen (Actor: Twister), the film follows a young woman who is trying to save her brother from a sadistic, mute family of women after a dating app hook-up leads to his disappearance. Hana Mae Lee (Pitch Perfect), Ray Santiago (Meet the Fockers), and Dominique Columbus (Road House) star in the film.

Buffalo 8 Distribution acquires feature documentary Ice Ice Baby – Hop Hop’s 1st Global #1. The feature documentary will follow Rob Van Winkle or Vanilla Ice, and the unprecedented success of his chart-topping single Ice Ice Baby – the first hip-hop song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The doc includes interviews with Monte Lipman (CEO of Republic Records) and Daniel Glass (Founder of Glassnote Records).

Sender

• Int. Sales Rep: Concourse Media (Sovereign)

• Dir/Wri: Russell Goldman (prod. Apple TV+’s The Lost Bus)

• Cast: Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus), Britt Lower (Severance), Jamie Lee Curtis

• Prod. Comp: Comet Pictures (Prime’s Scarpetta)

• Premiered at SXSW

Synopsis:

After receiving a series of unwanted packages containing unnervingly targeted items, a woman tumbles down a paranoid rabbit hole to find her mysterious sender.

Flyover

• U.S. Sales Rep: Convoke Media (Succubus)

• Dir: Jackie! Zhou (Sound Designer: Didi)

• Cast: Hayley Law (Riverdale), Luke Cook (Hacks)

Synopsis:

Follows a group of women who leave Los Angeles for a flyover state to test whether their dating struggles are rooted in geography or something far more personal.

Director Park Chan-wook’s biggest American movie.

Park Chan-wook’s (Dir: Oldboy, No Other Choice) next project is a western thriller, The Brigands of Rattlecreek, written by S. Craig Zahler (Wri: Dragged Across Concrete).

The cast is star-studded:

• Matthew McConaughey

• Austin Butler

• Pedro Pascal

• Tang Wei (Decision to Leave)

The film will follow a sheriff and a doctor in a frontier town that is terrorized by a gang that uses a thunderstorm to rob its residents.

Park’s direction and S. Craig Zahler’s writing are characterized by unflinching violence that isn’t for the shock factor, but has a narrative elegance that enhances the emotional arc of the story.

Park often showed his love towards the Western genre in many interviews, especially the 1974 Neo-Western film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah (trailer) – so we can expect a gritty grindhouse-meets-arthouse film from the Korean director. We would love to see Park’s obsessive yet beautiful take on the Western genre.

Legendary’s 193 (Die, My Love) will serve as the sales rep.

Matt Smith has never met a strange role he didn’t want to make weirder.

The Doctor Who actor is joining Imogen Poots (The Chronology of Water) in The Salamander Lives Twice, a left-field mystery headed to the Cannes market with sales rep Embankment Films.

Here’s the synopsis:

Follows a stranger who washes ashore on a remote island with no memory. Taken in by Iris, her daughter Goggy, and their butler Baby, he’s drawn into their decaying world of revenge, family betrayal, and violence.

Much like his House of the Dragon character, which we will finally see on our screen again this June, Smith thrives on unpredictability, balancing an incontestable charm with an enigmatic edge that leaves his intentions constantly in question. A man with no memories, the role gives Smith ample room to play with a shifting sense of self and the kind of offbeat absurdity he does so well.

Warner Bros. International TV Production Sweden’s Adult Supervision

• Cast: Gustaf Skarsgård (Vikings)

• Sales Rep: Heretic (Triangle of Sadness)

Synopsis:

When a middle-aged man joins his 13-year-old daughter on a school trip in an attempt to repair their relationship, he soon finds himself caught up in conflicts that stir dark memories from his past.

Miss You, Love You

• Int. Sales Rep: Architect (I Don’t Understand You)

• Dir/Wri: Jim Rash (dir. The Way, Way Back)

• Cast: Allison Janney, Bonnie Hunt, Andrew Rannells (A Simple Favor)

• Prod. Co: Madison Wells (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Synopsis:

A widow plans husband’s funeral. Estranged son sends an assistant instead of coming himself. Widow grieves with a stranger.

Bitcoin

• Dir: Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow)

• Cast: Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher (Now You See Me), joining Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson

• Prod. Comp/Int. Sales Rep: 193 (sales rep: Die My Love)

Synopsis:

Follows a man’s quest to prove he created Bitcoin, a claim that puts his life in peril and sets off a high-stakes race between tech billionaires and world leaders with the financial system hanging in the balance.

Studiocanal is going all in on Bill Condon’s South African musical, set to finance, produce, and release the film in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Road Home

• Int. Sales Rep: Palisades Park Pictures (Fast Charlie)

• Dir: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)

• Wri: Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian)

• Cast: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)

Synopsis:

Exiled from his native South Africa, trumpeter Hugh Masekela is pulled between two worlds when the anti-apartheid movement, led by his mentor and fierce anti-apartheid advocate, launches a boycott against Hugh’s friend Paul Simon, over his township music-inspired album Graceland, accusing Simon of violating the United Nations’ Cultural Boycott.

Embers

• Int. Sales Rep: Embankment Films (The Father)

• Dir: István Szabó (Mephisto)

• Wri: Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons)

• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Viggo Mortensen

• Prod. Comp: Bell Media (Heated Rivalry)

Synopsis:

Henrik and Konrad were inseparable friends once. They reconnect decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance, uncovering the secret that tore them apart and the woman at the center of it.

Cornerstone (Pillion) boards as international sales rep for:

When Darkness Loves Us

• Dir: James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen)

• Cast: Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Marlon Williams (Sweet Tooth)

• U.S. Dist: Bleecker Street Media

Synopsis:

When a pregnant young woman becomes trapped in an underground cave system, she must learn to survive in a world totally devoid of light. But she discovers true darkness within herself when she emerges 15 years later.

Alex Proyas (Dir: The Crow, I, Robot) is using AI to make his new film Heaven.

Synopsis:

A man agrees to be uploaded to an A.I. metaverse afterlife and discovers it more closely resembles hell than heaven.

The use of AI actually seems like a perfect creative choice here, and one that allows the filmmaker to paint on a bigger canvas. He spent 10 years trying to get this up, so this is a massive win. From Ex Machina Studios and K5 International.

Complex Texas

• Int. Sales rep/Prod. Comp: VMI Worldwide (sales: Goodfellas)

• Dir: Jared Cohn (Hold Your Breath)

• Cast: Kevin Dillon (Entourage), Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Danielle Vasinova (The Madison)

Synopsis:

Follows three low-level criminals who accidentally pull off a $300M heist and find themselves stranded in a small West Texas town where every desperate resident is willing to trade their morals and lives for the fortune.

Love and War

• Int. Sales Rep: Alliance Media Partners (Dead Eyes)

• Dir: Lisa Mulcahy (Lies We Tell)

• Cast: Samantha Morton (Minority Report, Morvern Callar)

Synopsis:

A mother is forced to enter war-torn Syria to recover her daughter after the child is taken across borders by her estranged husband.

Also…

Neon’s Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020, trailer) is getting a sequel. Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Part will pick up immediately from the ending of the previous film, as we follow Aida searching for her sons, who were taken by Serbian forces during the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. Paris-based sales company Indie Sales has been appointed to oversee international sales at the Cannes Market.

Cannes’ Market’s The Unlucky starring Ludi Lin (Mortal Kombat) is picked up by Media Move (Sales Rep: The Lure).

The Playmaker (Sew Torn) boards international sales for Lieblingsfilm’s Horse on a Stick, a family adventure about competitive hobby horsing. The film is set for a Cannes Market debut.

Ahead of its Cannes premiere in the ACID section, Celluloid Dreams (sales rep. The Maiden) has boarded international sales for Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou). From French director Paul Nouhet (Salut les zins), the story follows friends reuniting in the same place they took their first trip a decade before, the mecca of skateboarding, Barcelona.

Pluto Film (Berlin-based sales company) gets the international rights for a pole-dancing drama feature Exotic. Directed by first-time feature director Sonja Orlewicz‑Zakrzewska, the film follows a writer who wants to master pole dancing, only to find that the journey turns into a profound act of self-discovery.

Synopsis:

Two rival gangs of local and visiting teens compete in the dangerous sport of cliff diving one summer.

Luxbox (Magellan, A Poet) serves as the sales rep. Dumon’s latest film was the wacky sci-fi The Empire.

Mini Tidbits:

Luxbox also has boarded Diego Luna’s Ashes.

Ira Sachs’ In Competition film The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, is bought for French distribution by Memento (Pillion).

Cannes Market:

Studiocanal is going all in on Bill Condon’s South African musical, set to finance, produce, and release the film in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Road Home

• Int. Sales Rep: Palisades Park Pictures (Fast Charlie)

• Dir: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)

• Wri: Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian)

• Cast: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)

Synopsis:

Exiled from his native South Africa, trumpeter Hugh Masekela is pulled between two worlds when the anti-apartheid movement, led by his mentor and fierce anti-apartheid advocate, launches a boycott against Hugh’s friend Paul Simon, over his township music-inspired album Graceland, accusing Simon of violating the United Nations’ Cultural Boycott.

Plus, Alex Proyas (Dir: The Crow, I, Robot) is using AI to make his new film Heaven.

Synopsis:

A man agrees to be uploaded to an A.I. metaverse afterlife and discovers it more closely resembles hell than heaven.

The use of AI actually seems like a perfect creative choice here, and one that allows the filmmaker to paint on a bigger canvas. He spent 10 years trying to get this up, so this is a massive win. From Ex Machina Studios and K5 International.

Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) picks up Aquí (Cannes Premiere).

Payal Kapadia (dir: All We Imagine as Light) is returning to Cannes as the president of the jury for the 65th Critics Week section. She won the Grand Prix in 2024 for her beautifully moving sophomore film All We Imagine as Light (trailer), celebrated for its portrayal of hope, dreams, and a longing for a better life.

Studio TF1 (sales rep: Lucky Star) has landed worldwide sales for Forsaken (L’Abandon), a true story thriller feature. Led by Anatomy of a Fall actor Antoine Reinartz, the film will chronicle the final days of a French school teacher’s life, whose death sparked outrage over secularism and freedom of speech across the country. The film is set to debut (out of competition) at Cannes.

French director Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) is set to direct The Godforsaken Sea, an epic period film following an elite group of sailors attempting to circumnavigate the globe alone, non-stop, and without assistance. Delamarre is known for his high-octane action films, with his newest project gearing up to be his most intense story yet. The Godforsaken Sea will be at the Cannes Film Market.

The Wing (New Zealand Film Post & Finance company) launches for International Co-Productions. The outfit will offer international producers with post-production services and equity financing mechanisms.

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s most high-profile films:

Butterfly Jam

• Dir/Wri: Kantemir Balagov (Cannes breakout Beanpole)

• Cast: Barry Keoghan, Monica Bellucci, Riley Keough, Harry Melling (Pillion)

• Int. Sales Rep: Goodfellas

Synopsis:

A Circassian-American teen in New Jersey balances working at his family’s struggling ethnic diner with his wrestling aspirations, until his father’s risky decision forces him to face harsh realities and grow up quickly.

Never would I have predicted a movie set in New Jersey would be one of the headlining films at Cannes, but crazier things have happened!

Opening the section, Balagov’s English-language debut features a cast of strong young actors and a raw coming-of-age story that feels both personal and universally relatable.

Clarissa

• Dir: Aerie and Chuko Esiri (This Is My Desire)

• Cast: Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), David Oyelowo (Selma)

• Worldwide Dist/Int. Sales Rep: Neon

Synopsis:

A re-imagining of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” set in Lagos.

Woolf’s 1925 landmark novel perfected a stream of consciousness style that, reimagined today, with Edebiri in the titular role, could bring the story’s interiority to life in a really cool, cinematic way.

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

• Dir: Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant)

• Cast: Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air), Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders), Daryl McCormack (Wake Up Dead Man)

• Prod. Comp: BBC Film

• Int. Sales Rep: Charades (Int. Sales The Testament of Ann Lee)

Synopsis:

Five childhood friends face adult struggles: Patrick and Shiv’s relationship strains over a secret, Oli parties destructively, Conor awaits fatherhood with business dreams, and wealthy Rian can’t escape his past despite moving away.

In addition to direction from BAFTA nominated Barnard, screenwriter Enda Walsh who’s fantastic track record of book to screen adaptations (Die My Love, Small Things Like These) makes this one to definitely look out for.

Diary of a Chambermaid (Journal d’une femme de chambre)

• Dir: Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn)

• Cast: Ana Dumitrascu (Immaculate), Amélie Prevot (Band of Spies)

• Prod. Comp: SBS Productions (Benedetta)

Synopsis:

A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau’s “The Diary of a Chambermaid.”

Jude’s comedy and contemporary adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s classic novel is bringing him to Cannes (shockingly) for the first time. Diary… marks back-to-back projects for Dumitrascu, who starred in Jude’s satirical horror Dracula last year.

Mini Tidbits:

Two American directors are being featured in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Reed Van Dyk is making both his Cannes and directorial debut with Atonement, an Iraqi war drama starring Kenneth Branagh and Succession’s Hiam Abbass.

One of the few documentaries in the section Neon’s Once Upon A Time in Harlem is from New York’s own David Greaves, the son of the late great William Greaves (dir. Symbiopsychotaciplasm: Take One), making its way to Cannes after a strong reception at its premiere at Sundance earlier this year.

The widely absurd and quirky French director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) is bringing two films to the festival this year. Full Phil, the father-daughter dramedy starring Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart, will screen in the midnight section, and his debut animated feature Le Vertige is closing out the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.

The 9th Season of Canneseries dropped its official selection.

In Competition, includes:

Disney+’s Alice and Steve

• Cast: Nicola Walker, Jemaine Clement

• Writer: Sophie Goodhart (7 eps Sex Education)

Synopsis:

Alice is devastated when her best friend Steve (Clement) starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy. She’s going to lose her best friend and her daughter in one fell swoop.

First look and more details here.

Movistar Plus+ (2 series)

• Yo Siempre A Veces

Synopsis:

Laura gets pregnant after a weeklong, drug-fuelled love story with Rubén. Five months after their son Mario was born, they were already breaking up, and not exactly on good terms.

• Se tiene que morir mucha gente

Synopsis:

Bárbara, Maca and Elena are friends from school. Bárbara is stuck in a job she hates and addicted to benzos. Maca is struggling to make it as an actress. Elena is married and pregnant, apparently living her dream life. When Bárbara hits rock bottom, everything is set to explode.

Prime Denmark’s Snake Killer

Synopsis:

When his informant is killed, Brian “Smiley” Petersen and fellow narcotics officers from the infamous Uropatruljen battle a crime syndicate, using extreme methods that often cross legal boundaries.

More info here.

5th Season’s Summer of 84

• Creator: Björn Stein (Dir: Underworld Awakening)

• Studio Media Res

Synopsis:

When a group of teenagers spend another summer in the archipelago, expectations are high. But a mysterious drowning and a dying mermaid turn the idyllic season into something that threatens both their friendship and survival.

Also, Martin Zandvliet (dir: Sony Pictures Classics’ Land of Mine) is directing and writing HØST.

Full list of selections here, including out-of-competition series from HBO and BBC (Half Man) and Apple (Star City).

Television:

Secret Service

• Int. Sales Rep/Prod.Comp: All3Media International (AMC+ The Assassin)

• Cast: Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man)

Global Pre-Sales include:

• ARD Plus (Drive My Car) - Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Synopsis:

A British intelligence officer races against time to uncover a UK politician’s potential ties with the Kremlin, risking her reputation and family, as a murder and election looms.

Curious by Nature (Enquête parallèle)

• Sales Rep: France TV Distribution (Frantz)

• Cast: Florence Pernel (Three Colors: Blue)

• Ireland/U.K./N.A. distributor: Walter Presents (The Island)

Synopsis:

Fred, a former war correspondent now working as a local TV journalist, investigates crimes in rural France alongside her cameraman while forming a new family with her adopted daughter and mother.

Film:

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

• Int. Sales Rep: Mister Smith Entertainment (Dangerous Animals)

• Dir: Grant Gee (debut)

• Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

Secured distribution deals across Europe, including:

• UFO (4 Lions) - France

• Cinemaran (Backseat Fighter) - Spain

• Wanted Cinema (The Chronology of Water) - Italy

Synopsis:

Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans forms his perfect trio, recording two groundbreaking albums. When his brilliant young bassist dies tragically, Evans is devastated. The story follows Evans’ journey to overcome grief and return to music.

A Tale of Two Cities

• Int. Sales Rep: Federation Studios (Girl Climber)

• Cast: Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Ian Pirie (The Last Duel)

• Prod. Comp: BBC One (The Traitors)

• Dist: Amazon Prime Video

• Sold to 3x distributers including Canada’s CBC and Belgium’s RTBF.

Synopsis:

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, falls in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Gone

• Created by George Kay (Lupin)

• Cast: David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Eve Myles (Torchwood)

• Prod. Comp: All3Media International (The Assassin)

• N.A. Dist: BritBox (Ludwig)

Synopsis:

Local Headmaster Michael Polly who becomes the prime suspect in his wife Sarah’s disappearance when he encounters gutsy Detective Annie Cassidy in a compulsive game of cat and mouse.

London TV Screenings.

Beta Film picks up two projects. And makes some sales:

Ludwig II.O

• Int. Sales Rep: Beta Film (Couture)

• Cast: Luis Pintsch (22 Lengths), Felix Mayr (Unorthodox)

• Prod. Comp: W&B Television (Dark)

• Filming has wrapped

• Headed to the London TV Screenings

Synopsis:

Follows psychologist Gustav Zimmermann who reviews a psychiatric report on King Ludwig II to determine if the king is incompetent to rule, uncovering secrets of power struggles and forbidden love.

The Other Royals - A Máxima Story

• Int. Sales Rep: Beta Film (Amrum)

• Prod. Comp: Millstreet Films (Starz’ The Couple Next Door)

• Spinoff of flagship series Máxima

Synopsis:

Focuses on two figures orbiting the Dutch crown, starting in 1999 when Mabel Wisse Smit and Margarita de Bourbon de Parme meet their future royal partners and begin navigating the pressures of life under intense public scrutiny

Beta Film’s sale:

Patience

• Int. Sales Rep: Beta Film

• Creator: Laurent Burtin (wri. The Intern)

• Cast: Ali Ariaie (Hulu’s The Great), Liza Sadovy (A Real Pain)

• U.K. Dist: Channel 4 Television (Leaving Neverland)

• Sells in 100 territories

Synopsis:

Patience catalogues evidence in the Yorkshire Police records department. A brilliant self-taught criminologist with keen crime scene instincts, her talent is spotted by Metcalf, opening new worlds for the archivist.

Banijay’s acquisition of comedy challenge series:

You Laugh You Lose

• Int. Sales Rep: Banijay Entertainment (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man)

• Prod/DistComp: Yoshimoto Kogyo (LOL: Last One Laughing)

Synopsis:

Comedians are forbidden to laugh while comics try to make each other crack.

Banijay Rights joins the BBC’s The Clickbait Clinic with Stacey Dooley, a six-part docuseries investigating some of the internet’s biggest health hacks to find any truths. The doc will screen a portion at the LTVS today.

Berlin sales rep pick up:

We Are All Strangers

• Int. Dist: Paradise City Sales (Drift)

• Dir/Wri: Anthony Chen (Ilo Ilo)

• Prod. Comp: Giraffe Pictures (Wet Season)

• Premiere: Berlin (main competition)

Synopsis:

In bustling Singapore, three families from different social classes navigate their intertwined lives, challenging traditional values and exploring the bonds that connect people beyond blood relations.

The first ever Singaporean entry to compete in Berlin, Paradise is continuing its collaboration with Chen securing a number of deals worldwide shortly following the festival premiere of We Are All Strangers.

BAFTA:

BAFTA Emerging Talent Jury Member Jonte Richardson has stepped down following the incident over the weekend which saw John Davidson, a man with Tourette’s syndrome, shouted a racist slur at Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan during the ceremony. Davidson issued a statement saying, “I am, and always have been deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning.”

Warner Bros International Television Production producer, Wall to Wall (Netflix’s Dope), is debuting two nonfiction documentary projects at the London TV Screenings this week. Full details here.

Moon mission doc Artemis

• Prod. Comp: Wall to Wall (for BBC Two)

Synopsis:

A 60-minute special offering unparalleled access to NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission.

L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes

• Prod. Comp: Wall to Wall (for BBC)

• Cast: Ian McKellan (Lord of the Rings)

Synopsis:

Using previously unheard audio recordings from the private conversations, British artist L.S. Lowry’s own words are brought to life as he reflects on his childhood, artistic journey and the industrial Britain that shaped his vision.

A Woman of Substance

• U.S. Distributor/streamer: BritBox

• Int. Sales Rep: Banijay Rights (Peaky Blinders)

• Cast: Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice), Keith Lomas (Heads of State)

• Prod. Comp: The Forge (Netflix’s Collateral)

Series Synopsis:

From servant’s quarters to business empire, Emma Harte’s indomitable spirit propels her rise from poverty to riches, yearning for one unattainable love.

A Very Good Boy

• Dir: Sébastien Lifshitz (Berlin title Little Girl)

• Cinematographer: Paul Guilhaume (Emilia Pérez)

• France dist: ARTE (Peaky Blinders)

• Prod. Comp: Agat films & Cie (Cannes title Forever Young)

Synopsis:

An aging French gay porn icon recounts his life story in a beautifully existential portrait that intertwines personal narrative with the history of the gay rights movement.

A World Gone Mad - The War Diaries of Astrid Lindgren

• Dir/Wri: Wilfried Hauke (feature length debut)

• German dist: Farbfilm Verleih (Quo Vadis, Aida?)

• Prod. Comp: Auto Images (Little Big Girl)

Synopsis:

Through Astrid Lindgren’s (Pippi Longstocking creator) own wartime diaries and reconstructions, the film explores the Swedish author’s formative years at the outbreak of World War II, reflecting on life, art, and survival.

A Fox Under a Pink Moon

• Int. Sales Rep: CAT&Docs (Citizenfour)

• Dir: Mehrdad Oskouei (Sunless Shadows)

Synopsis:

Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe using her mobile phone, offering a raw, deeply personal account of her journey and hopes for a new life.

You can check out all of the docs playing at next month’s CPH:DOX festival here.

A Woman of Substance

• Int. Sales Rep: Banijay

• Dir: John Hardwicke (Knights of the Realm)

• Cast: Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice)

• Prod. Comp: The Forge (Netflix’s Collateral)

• Dist: Channel 4

Synopsis:

From servant’s quarters to business empire, Emma Harte’s indomitable spirit propels her rise from poverty to riches, yearning for one unattainable love.

Falling

• Int. Sales Rep: Banijay

• Wri: Jack Thorne (Adolescence)

• Cast: Jason Watkins (The Crown), Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You)

• Prod. Comp: The Forge (The Miniaturist)

• Dist: Channel 4

Synopsis:

A nun and a priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.

Two projects pick up sales reps:

Eléo & Nova

• Int. Sales Rep: Global Constellation (Charlie the Wonderdog)

• Dir: Jérémy Comte (short film Fauve, Berlin title Paradise)

• Prod. Comp: Max Films International (The Power of the Dog)

Synopsis:

Left to their own devices in a remote country house in northern Canada during an endless heatwave, four siblings, a young boy and his three sisters, find themselves cut off from the outside world by a prolonged power outage.

Tristan Forever

• Int. Sales Rep: Radiance

• Dir/Wri: Tobias Nölle (Berlin winning Aloys)

• Prod. Comp: Hugofilm Features (Jill)

Synopsis:

A Paris doctor who’s been friends with a Tristan da Cunha fisherman for 3 years makes one final journey to the world’s most remote inhabited island, planning to settle there permanently.

Hedgehogs in the Haze (Ježevi u magli)

• Dir: Danis Tanović (Oscar-winning No Man’s Land)

• Cast: Džana Pinjo (In the Land of Blood and Honey), Maja Izetbegović (Karlovy’s Regained Memory)

• Going to Berlin’s Co-Pro Series Pitch Fest

Synopsis:

Revolves around three best friends as they deal with myriad issues, including doggy finances, overbearing partners, and an unexpected tryst with the criminal underworld.

Mini Tidbits:

TLA Releasing (Mysterious Skin) and Optimale (Shelter) have acquired U.S. and UK distribution for Locarno film, Lunar Sway, a queer dark comedy. The sophomore film of director Nick Butler (The Legacy of Cloudy Falls), Lunar Sway is about a young man pining for his ex who simultaneously reconnects with his estranged birth mother.

• Dir: Arsen A. Ostojic (A Wonderful Night in Split)

• Cast: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement)

• Original music by Diane Warren and Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid)

Synopsis:

On the recently colonized Crystal Planet, 11-year old Rea befriends a dinosaur-like cub named Burgy, who was separated from his mother by a mutant monster.

Prosecution

• Int. Sales Rep: New Europe Film Sales (Lamb)

• French dist: Memento (Pillion)

• Dir: Faraz Shariat (Future Drei)

Synopsis:

Centers on a young prosecutor Seyo Kim, who is determined to confront far-right violence in eastern Germany.

Bone Keeper

• Int. Sales Rep: Reinvent Yellow (Frostbite)

• Dir/Wri: Howard J. Ford (Escape)

• Cast John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings)

Synopsis:

Centers on six young friends who enter a remote cabin.

• Int. Sales Rep: north.five.six (Regretting You)

• Financier: Constantin Film (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die)

• Dir/Wri: Josh Boone (Regretting You)

Synopsis:

Follows a hitman in Honolulu who faces a spiritual crisis when he finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young woman he accidentally killed during a botched attempt on his life.

Heavens: The Boy and His Robot

• Int. Sales Rep: Prestige International Pictures (Seeds)

• N.A. dist: Radial Entertainment (Americano)

• Dir/Wri: Rich Ho (Fall)

Synopsis:

The journey of a struggling young pilot, Kai, and his fighter mecha, Little Dragon, set against a backdrop of epic galactic warfare told with action, humor, and heart, rekindling wonder in adults and sparking the imaginations of children.

Villain 2

• Int. Sales Rep: Double Dutch (A Quiet Passion)

• Cast: Craig Fairbrass (Netflix’s One Piece)

The Mise En Scène Company at EFM:

Forge

• Int. Sales Rep: The Mise En Scène Company (Anchorage)

• Dir: Jing Ai Ng (debut)

• Cast: Kelly Marie Tran (The Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Andie Ju (Beef)

• Premiered: SXSW

Synopsis:

Siblings accept a millionaire’s offer to replace and sell his family’s art collection as an underappreciated FBI agent, hungry for a career-making case, closes in.

Desert Road

• Int. Sales Rep: The Mise En Scène Company (The Magnificent Meyersons)

• Dir: Shannon Tripplett (prod. Godzilla)

• Cast: Kristine Froseth (The Assistant), Ryan Hurst (Saving Private Ryan)

• Premiered: SXSW

Synopsis:

A young photographer who, after a car breakdown on a remote desert road, finds herself lost in a time loop and must master its rules to engineer an escape before she is trapped forever.

Pesta

• Int. Sales Rep: Charades (Flow)

• Dist: GKIDS (Little Amelie or the Character of Rain)

• Dir: Hanne Berkaak (debut)

Synopsis:

A romantic horror movie about Astrid, a devout noble girl who falls in love with the pagan rebel Eilev. When Eilev is taken prisoner, Astrid is faced with a horrifying decision: lose him or turn into the monster she dreads the most, Pesta.

Monster Mia

• Int. Sales Rep: Sola Media

• Wri: A.B. Saddlewick (based on book by)

• Trailer

Synopsis:

Expelled student Mia and her pet rat Quentin arrive at Rotwood Academy, where she’s the only human among monster classmates. With Principal Van Vlad’s hatred of humans, she must team up with monsters to thwart his schemes.

Wash Away

• Int. Sales Rep: Finecut

• Dir: Takuya Miyahara (short film Suck)

Synopsis:

The thriller centers on two vacationers who receive a free stay at an isolated lakeside getaway, where they encounter sinister forces tied to local folklore about water’s ability to cleanse the soul.

Berlin:

Not a Hero

• Int. Sales Rep: MMM Films

• Dir/Wri: Rima Das (Village Rockstars)

• Premiere: Berlin (Generation section)

Synopsis:

A city boy moves to his village, where his bitter aunt lives. He makes friends with a horse and local children, embarking on adventures that reveal life’s wonders and his own bravery.

Series Mania:

Europe’s largest TV-centred festival, Series Mania, is kicking things off with the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale prequel series The Testaments. With Ann Dowd and OBAA’s Chase Infiniti, the series drops on Hulu and Disney+ two weeks after.

The Peaky Blinders movie, The Immortal Man, will also be playing for the first time shortly after.

CJ ENM’s Korean military drama The Legend of Kitchen Soldier will have its world premiere at Series Mania.

Series Mania kicks offon March 20th.

NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.

Dead Deer High
Director: Jo Rochelle, Producer/Screenwriter: Joshua Roark
Created by teachers, Dead Deer High follows a team of high school slam poets and their English teacher as they prepare for a national poetry competition one year after a tragic shooting changed their lives forever. Cast: Zack Kozlow, Holden Goyette, Kyla Brown, Christian Cruz, Ayanna Berkshire, Joseph Bertót, Madelyn Grace, Aaron Cammack, Julia Prud’homme, Audrey Kennedy Kozlow (World Premiere)

The Fox (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Dario Russo, Producers: Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings, Carly Maple
In this darkly comic folktale, an affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman. Cast: Jai Courtney, Emily Browning, Damon Herriman, Claudia Doumit, Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Olivia Colman (International Premiere)

Love Language
Director/Screenwriter: Joey Power, Producers: Bert Hamelinck, Allison Hironaka, Ari Lubet, Colin Jost, Jeff Grosvenor
An aspiring author with a side hustle writing wedding vows for other people reconnects with her long-time crush, only to learn he is the fiancé of one of her new clients. Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos, Manny Jacinto, Isabel May, Lukas Gage, Billie Lourd, Chloe Fineman, Zach Zucker, Morgan Jay, Bobbi Althoff, Marchánt Davis, Dan Perrault (World Premiere)

A Safe Distance (Canada)
Director: Gloria Mercer, Producers: Nic Altobelli, Aidan West, Gloria Mercer, Screenwriter: Aidan West
After a woman is abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest, she befriends a pair of notorious fugitives on the run from the law, and becomes dangerously entangled in their relationship. Cast: Bethany Brown, Tandia Mercedes, Cody Kearsley, Chris McNally (World Premiere)

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Incredible features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.

Baby/Girls
Directors: Alyse Walsh, Jackie Jesko, Producers: Melissa Leardi, Alex Waterfield

Set in post-Dobbs Arkansas, baby/girls follows three teens living in a Christian maternity home as they navigate pregnancy and early motherhood. The film offers an intimate, unfiltered look at girlhood and motherhood colliding in the American South. Featuring Grace Dulaney, Ariana Green, Olivia Malott, Audra Dulaney, Brian Rivera, Paula Woods (World Premiere)

FESTIVAL FAVORITE
Acclaimed standouts from festivals around the world.

Big Girls Don’t Cry (New Zealand)
Director/Screenwriter: Paloma Schneideman, Producers: Vicky Pope, Thomas Coppell
Rural New Zealand, 2006. Over one transformative summer, 14 year-old Sid Bookman discovers desire, identity and the internet, as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by. Cast: Ani Palmer, Rain Spencer, Noah Taylor (Texas Premiere)

Chasing Summer
Director: Josephine Decker, Producers: Rob Guillermo, Ray Maiello, Nihaar Sinha, Houston King, Sam Pressman, Paula Paizes, Screenwriter: Iliza Shlesinger
After losing both her job and boyfriend, Jamie retreats to her small Texas hometown where friends and flings from a fateful high school summer turn her life upside down. Cast: Iliza Shlesinger, Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Tom Welling, Megan Mullally, Aimee Garcia, Cassidy Freeman, Jeff Perry (Texas Premiere)

Cookie Queens
Director: Alysa Nahmias, Producers: Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck, Alysa Nahmias, Jennifer Sims
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide. Featuring Nikki B., Olive G., Shannon Elizabeth S., Ara E. (Texas Premiere)

Joybubbles
Director: Rachael Morrison, Producer: Sarah Winshall
In the 1950s, a boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and hungry for connection, his obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking in the 20th century. Featuring JoyBubbles, Steve Wozniak, Toni Engressia (Texas Premiere)

VISIONS
Audacious, risk-taking artists who demonstrate innovation and creativity.

Sinner Supper Club
Directors: Daisy Rosato, Nora Kaye, Producers: Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, Jackie Monoson, Screenwriters: Nora Kaye, Daisy Rosato
An NYC friend group reunites to throw an “eviction funeral” for Genevieve; as the night progresses and a heat wave traps them together, their long-ignored problems boil over. An improvised gay mumblecore ghost story shot on an iPhone in six days. Cast: Ashil Lee, Elise Kibler, Genevieve Simon, Jayae Riley Jr., Nora Kaye, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, Daisy Rosato (World Premiere)

24 BEATS PER SECOND
Vibrant films showcasing the sounds, culture, and influence of music and musicians.

Stages
Director: Ryan Booth, Producers: Val Hill, Morgan Stevenson Cooper, Russell Wayne Groves, JOLENE, Screenwriter: Bradley Jackson, Dan Steele
A year after the tumultuous break-up of his band, Ben Garza sets off on his first ever solo tour. Life on the road is different now, as Ben learns alongside his ride-or-die tour manager, Rita and his spotlight-stealing opening act, Jessie. Cast: David Ramirez, Leslie Grace, JOLENE, Jake McMullen, Rafael Casal, Abner Ramirez, Amanda Sudano Ramirez, Jerry Ferrara, Marc Menchaca, David Strathairn (World Premiere)

The Man with the Big Hat
Director/Screenwriter: Austin Sayre, Producers: Stephanie Moore, David Broad, Aaron Colussi, Jay Newberg, Diana Zuniga, Cherry Brown, Austin Sayre
Experience the unraveling of fame’s illusions as 1970’s Texas singer-songwriter Steven Fromholz embarks on a soul-stirring journey of self-discovery and the true meaning of success. Featuring Lyle Lovett, Ray Benson, Terry Lickona, Butch Hancock, Bobby Bridger, Mike Williams, Dan McCrimmon, Janey Lake, Darcie Jane Fromholz, Felicity Rose Fromholz (World Premiere)

TV PROGRAM

TV SPOTLIGHT
Exciting new series from around the world

Woodstockers
Showrunner: Corbin Bernsen, Director: Oliver Bernsen, Producer: Zoe Rosenberg, Screenwriters: Corbin Bernsen, Joshua Michael Stern, Henry Bernsen
When his marriage collapses and his best friend dies, an aging hippie who went to Woodstock in 1969 and never left must finally reckon with a life shaped by peace, love, and too much weed. Cast: Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Tobolowsky, Barbara Hershey, Susan Ruttan, Maggie Lawson, Willie C. Carpenter, John Glover, Lee Wilkof, Lea Delaria, Jilian Medford
(World Premiere)

COMPETITION AWARDS
The Narrative Feature Competition, the Documentary Feature Competition, and Special Awards will be announced on Wednesday, March 18 along with all the Short Film Program winners, which are eligible for Jury Awards within their respective screening categories, and XR Experience Competition. 2026 Special Awards include the SXSW Best of Texas Award, Redbreast Unhidden Award, Vimeo Staff Pick Award, Agog Immersive Impact Award, and the Janet Pierson Champion Award presented by Indiewire. All film categories, except Special Events, will be eligible for category-specific Audience Awards, which will be certified by the accounting firm of Maxwell Locke & Ritter and announced via sxsw.com the following week.

SXSW is proud to be an official qualifying festival for the Academy Awards® Short Film competition. Winners of our Best Animated, Best Narrative and Best Documentary Short Film categories become eligible for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards (Oscars). Any British Short Film or British Short Animation that screens at SXSW is eligible for BAFTA nomination. Films are also eligible for the Independent Spirit Awards, more information on eligibility.

Written by the SXSW press team.

Summer’s Last Resort

• Int. Sales Rep: Blue Fox Entertainment (Sidelined: The QB and Me)

• Cast: Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill), Jerry O’Connell (Billions)

Synopsis:

A high-strung teen’s vacation takes a turn when she’s trapped with her free-spirited mom’s try-hard boyfriend, who also happens to be her vice principal.

Buzzkill

• Int. Sales Rep: Blue Fox Entertainment (Big Girls Don’t Cry

• Dir: Jem Garrard (R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead)

• Wri: Suzanne Keilly (Sundance’s Slumber Party Massacre)

• Cast: Siena Agudong (Sidelined: The QB and Me), Brec Bassinger (Final Destination: Bloodlines)

Synopsis:

When a group of sorority sisters find themselves trapped with a vengeful killer, party-girl Nora knows that the drunker she gets, the more her tipsy memories start revealing clues about who’s murdering her friends.

The films are set to be exclusively released on Tubi with production on going on both.

Korean powerhouse Finecut also adds two new acquisitions to its EFM slate.

3D animated feature Long Long Night

• Int. Sales Rep: Finecut (Burning)

• Dir: Youm Kyu-Bock (debut)

• Going to EFM

Synopsis:

The last rhino of his kind befriends a penguin hatched from an abandoned egg, embarking on a journey to the ocean together.

The Day She Returns (Geunyoga doraon nal)

• Int. Sales Rep: Finecut (I Saw the Devil)

• Dir: Hong Sangsoo (Cannes’ In Our Day)

• Cast: Song Seon-mi (Golden Time)

• Premiere: Berlin (Panorama section)

Synopsis:

After completing an indie film, an actress struggles to recall details from her three press interviews when asked to recreate them during her acting class.