21/05/2005

Zentropa's sales arm Trust Film Sales finished selling Lars von Trier’s competition film Manderlay [+see also:
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Trust’s two films selected at Un Certain Regard, Dark Horse [+see also:
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Zentropa’s sales arm also continued to work on previous festival films such as Maria Blom’s Guldbagge winner Dalecarlians [+see also:
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interview: Maria Blom
film profile] sold to Taiwan, Austria (Polyfilm), Germany (Kool Film) and Switzerland (Look Now!).

The promo-reel of Storm, the €2.6m debut film by Swedish directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein was very well received, "because of its unique story and very high production value", said Klint. It was pre-sold to Mexico, Brasil, Thailand, Turkey (Pi Films) and Estonia (Estin Film).

Pre-sales were also negotiated on established woman director Susanne Bier’s new film After The wedding based on the final version of the script co-written again by Anders Thomas Jensen. It was pre-bought by Rosebud for Greece, Teodora Film for Italy and by former Yougoslavia.