The wheeling and dealing at the European Film Market reflects art-house distributors’ hunger for fresh films. Besides the high demand for competition entries such as Stations of the Cross [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Dietrich Brüggemann and Beloved Sisters by Dominik Graf, several EFM titles are catching the attention of the buyers and were picked up right away.

With his Norwegian distribution outfit Fidalgo Films, Frank L. Stavik secured the rights to the romantic French drama Violette [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Martin Provost about writer Simone de Beauvoir, while Tom Abell from British Peccadillo Pictures acquired Perspektive Deutsches Kino title Der Samurai [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Till Kleinert as well as Panorama entry Test by Chris Mason Johnson. The film, which is set in the San Francisco modern dance scene in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, has been sold to Axel Schmidt’s ProFun for the German-speaking territories as well as to ABC Cinemien in Belgium.

At the EFM, the international sales agents are also looking for great products. ZDF Enterprises acquired the rights for the live-action film Pettson and Findus, which is based on the books by Swedish writer Sven Nordqvist. In addition, Global Screen picked up the sales rights for Marco Kreuzpainterner’s new film, Coming In, which tells the story of a gay hairdresser who falls in love with a woman.