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Protagonist Pictures and mk2 films have come aboard to jointly handle worldwide sales on Michel Franco's April's Daughter (Las Hijas de Abril), which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard lineup. The Spanish-language feature from Mexico is Franco's fourth film to be invited to the festival. The story follows…

Chronic, the 2015 Cannes favorite that won the best screenplay award and was written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco (After Lucia, Daniel and Ana), has finally found its way into U.S. theaters and will bow September 23. The story centers on David (Tim Roth), an in-home nurse who works with terminally…

The winner for Un Certain Regard, the Cannes Film Festival’s second-most prestigious competition, will be announced Saturday. And if what has happened to 2012 winner Michel Franco (for After Lucia) is any indication, that filmmaker could be in for some big things ahead. Franco, just three years later, is in the main…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Tim Roth and Grimm star Bitsie Tulloch are set to star in Chronic, the English-language debut of After Lucia helmer Michel Franco. Chronic tracks a depressed nurse practitioner who assists terminally ill patients and tries to reconnect with the family he abandoned. Tulloch will play Lidia…

Mexico director Michel Franco’s Despues De Lucia (After Lucia) took the top prize today in the Un Certain Regard sidebar to the Cannes Film Festival. There was a tie for best actress for Emilie Dequenne for Joachim LaFosse’s A Perdre La Raison and Suzanne Clement for Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Always. Those were the only…