Sundance Selects continues on its spree of Cannes competition acquisitions for US.

Sundance Selects has picked up US rights to Cannes competition entries The Kid With A Bike from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Bertrand Bonello’s House Of Tolerance.

Svp of acquisitions and productions Arianna Bocco and svp of business and legal affairs Betsy Rodgers brokered the deal with Wild Bunch for The Kid With A Bike, about a young child’s quest for love.

House Of Tolerance chronicles the lives of a group of sex workers at a Paris brothel at the beginning of the 20th century.

Bocco closed the deal with Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Films Distribution and negotiated a pre-sale of all US rights with the company on Mia Hansen’s romance project Goodbye First Love.

As previously reported, Sundance Selects picked up US rights to Julia Leigh’s Cannes competition entry Sleeping Beauty.

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