Key territories line up for Critics Week's The Major
by Annika Pham
- The boutique sales company M-Appeal announced yesterday a number of sales closed in Cannes across its catalogue, including The Critics Week entry The Major by Yury Bykov
Berlin-based M-Appeal has registered healthy sales across its catalogue of speciality titles at the Cannes market. The hottest titles were the Critics’ Week selection The Major, the Hungarian coming-out story A Land of Storms [+see also:
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The Critics’ Week entry The Major by Yury Bykov (photo) was sold to France (Zootrope), Greece (Ama Films) and Iran (Farabi Cinema Foundation). The film will be released theatrically in all three countries. The Hungarian debut film A Land of Storms by Ádám Császi that screened at the market was picked up by TLA-Releasing for North America, UK, France and Poland. Two Mothers, by Anne Zohra Berrached, has been acquired for North America by Artsploitation Films and by TLA-Releasing for UK, France, Benelux, and Poland. Germany's Salzgeber will realease the title in 24 german cities on June 6.
Artsploitation Films picked up other titles from M-Appeal: Suddenly Last Winter by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, New York Memories and the 2012 Berlinale documentary King of Comics, both directed by Rosa von Praunheim.
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