15/02/2011

Polish director Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Lech Majewski
film profile], which played Sundance and Rotterdam before premiering at the European Film Market, has been sold by Wide Management to a handful of territories, including the Netherlands (Contact Film), Japan and Korea.

According to Wide’s Managing Director Loic Magneron, deals with France and the US will be sealed by the end of the market.

The film starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer is inspired by Pieter Bruegel's 1564 masterpiece, Christ Carrying a Cross and focuses on a dozen characters from the painting.

The Swedish documentary Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, which screened in the Berlinale’s Panorama Dokumente sidebar has so far sold to Australia and New Zealand and negotiations are underway with Germany.

“The film has received an excellent response,” said Magneron who picked up the title for international distribution (outside North America) at the beginning of the market. Magneron says Göran Olsson’s film will be added to the catalogue of its company’s newly created documentary arm Wide House, headed by Anais Clanet.