Düsseldorf, Germany-based Patra Spanou Film has picked up world sales rights to “The Newcomers” (“Los nuevos”), the latest film from Mexico’s Rodrigo Plá (“The Other Tom”) in his first venture into kid-targeted films. According to Patra Spanou, she acquired it soon after its world premiere at Locarno’s Kids Screenings. “I have been following Rodrigo Plá´s
“My Father’s Kora” (“La Kora de Mon Père”), a Benin-Switzerland-Germany production, will have its world premiere Aug. 9 at Locarno’s Open Doors section, which has focused on 42 countries of the African continent since 2025. The film follows Souleymane Everston Adowo Freudenreich, an Afro-German trans man who travels to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father’s
Brussels-based Be For Films has acquired the international sales rights to “Sisters” (Hermanas), Spanish director Ione Hernández Sáenz’s debut feature film, ahead of the premiere at Toronto Film Festival in the Discovery Section. The film follows sisters Chelo and Marta, whose lives are about to change forever. That summer, an unexpected event shakes the foundations
The Zurich Film Festival will pay tribute to filmmaker Martin McDonagh as it gives a gala premiere to his latest film, “Wild Horse Nine,” starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. The London-based director will receive the festival’s prestigious A Tribute To … Award in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to cinema,” and will also take
Boutique sales company Odd Slice Films has acquired worldwide rights to documentary “Concrete Land,” the debut feature of Palestinian-Jordanian director Asmahan Bkerat, ahead of its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival‘s Semaine de la Critique. Eight years in the making, “Concrete Land” follows one of the last Afro-Palestinian Bedouin families living on the outskirts of
Jamie Armitage‘s immersive horror show “A Ghost in Your Ear” has set its New York premiere at Audible‘s off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre following a sold-out London run earlier this year. The show will run Tuesday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Nov. 15. “A Ghost in Your Ear” goes inside an audiobook recording session gone deadly wrong