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EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, Competition title Close has sold to Lucky Red for Italy, Vertigo Films for Spain and Lev Cinemas for Israel. The Match Factory is handling sales on Lukas Dhont’s second feature, about how an intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys is unexpectedly…

Voracious arthouse streaming company and distributor Mubi continues to ramp up operations beyond its initial online business model and has today closed an eye-catching deal to buy European indie sales giant The Match Factory. According to Mubi, The Match Factory's current management team will remain in place and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Following their collaboration on Aki Kaurismäki’s Berlin winner The Other Side Of Hope, Euro sales firm The Match Factory and Finnish producers Bufo have re-teamed on dystopian sci-fi thriller Memory Of Water (Veden Vartija). Saara Saarela's (Twisted Roots) film, set in a waterless world of the future, sees…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your good-looking first English-language clip for Laura Bispuri's new drama Peacock’s Paradise (Il Paradiso Del Pavone), which will unspool in the Horizons strands of the Venice Film Festival. The film stars Cannes best actress winner Dominique Sanda and Venice best actress winner Alba Rohrwacher…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor and SVOD service MUBI is continuing its remarkable buying spree at Cannes 2021. The growing player has now taken rights from The Match Factory to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes Competition drama Memoria for Germany, Italy, Latin America (excluding Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru…

If you haven't heard of The Match Factory, you probably don't work in the international arthouse film arena. The German sales and production outfit is one of the world's leading champions of auteur cinema and has consistently been involved in a raft of festival-winning titles since its inception in 2006. From Cannes…

EXCLUSIVE: European arthouse sales force The Match Factory and ICM Partners are teaming up to jointly represent four films playing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Match Factory and ICM Partners will co-rep North American rights on Nanni Moretti's Competition film Tre Piani (Three Floors), and Ryusuke…

Deadline this week sat down with a group of leading German industry professionals to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the local and international marketplace in the aftermath of COVID-19. Germany was the first European major to re-open cinemas, while some productions have started back up, but what does…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a positive one for the Euro film industry – shooting has resumed on Tochter (English translation Daughter), a co-production between significant producers from Germany, Greece and Italy. The project is being heralded as one of the first post-COVID international co-pro to get back underway in Europe…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first trailer for Tribeca Film Festival world premiere selection Kokoloko by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala). The Spanish-language film follows a woman named Marisol who is caught between her possessive and aggressive cousin, Mauro, and passionate but inert lover, Mundo…

Neon has nabbed North American rights to Memoria, the Tilda Swinton-starring Colombian drama from Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The secretive project stars Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is set in…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first international trailer for A-list festival regular Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes Un Certain Regard drama The Invisible Life Of Eurídice Gusmão, which is being sold on the Croisette by The Match Factory. RT Features, Pola Pandora, Sony Pictures, Canal Brasil and The Match Factory are behind the…