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The Match Factory has unveiled the trailer for Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's 2023 Palme d'Or contender Fallen Leaves and revealed the synopsis and first sales for the drama. The company said the film followed in the wake of Kaurismäki’s working-class trilogy spanning Shadows in Paradise, Ariel…

The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights on U.S. cinematographer and filmmaker Sean Price Williams's feature directorial debut The Sweet East ahead of its world premiere in Directors' Fortnight in May. Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the movie is described…

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory will be handling world sales on Wim Wenders’ Japan-set Cannes Competition entry Perfect Days. The film reunites three-time Oscar nominee Wenders (Wings Of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club) with Cannes, where he has debuted 12 movies and previously won the Palme d’Or for Par…

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for German director Christian Petzold's new film Afire, following its award-winning world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The work was feted with Berlin’s Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize on Sunday evening (Feb 25) by an…

EXCLUSIVE: The Match Factory has unveiled a slew of deals for German director Christian Petzold's Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire. The summertime comedy-drama, which world premiered in Berlin’s main competition, revolves around a disparate group of people thrown together in a holiday…

EXCLUSIVE: German director Christian Petzold returns to the Berlinale’s Competition this year with ensemble drama Afire about a group of four loosely connected, young people who come together in a small holiday home on Germany's Baltic coast. Amid a sweltering hot, rainless summer, an emotional…

EXCLUSIVE: The Larrain Brothers' Fabula and German sales powerhouse The Match Factory have unveiled a brooding, atmospheric trailer for Christopher Murray's Sundance title Sorcery exploring indigenous resistance via witchcraft in the late 19th Century. Set in 1880, on the remote island of Chiloé, off…

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino Lorber, has acquired all U.S. rights to the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman from The Match Factory. The feature debut of composer Pierre Földes, will open theatrically at Film Forum in New York in April 2023 before expanding…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the first trailer for Italian director Gianni Amelio’s Venice Golden Lion Contender Lord Of The Ants inspired by the real-life story of persecuted gay, left-wing intellectual Aldo Braibanti. The poet, playwright, academic and director – who had been part of the anti-fascist resistance during World…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first trailer for Iranian director Vahid Jalilvand's third feature Beyond the Wall ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival next week. The drama follows a blind man called Ali, whose suicide attempt is interrupted by his concierge, informing him that a…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal a first English-language clip for German director Sophie Linnenbaum's buzzy debut feature The Ordinaries, ahead of its international premiere in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition on Sunday (July 3). The picture arrives at the Czech festival fresh from its world premiere in…

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has acquired Lukas Dhont's Cannes Competion entry Close for the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India. Starring Lea Drucker (Custody), Émilie Dequenne (Our Children), Kevin Janssens (Revenge) and newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, the film will get its world premiere on the…