Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has acquired Hysteria, a new UK comedy from director Tanya Wexler starring Rupert Everett, Sally Hawkins, Jonathan Pryce and Ashley Jensen.

The romantic comedy - which is already building buzz - is based on a true story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England. Shooting will start in October.

Also new to the slate is Lola Doillon’s drama In Your Hands. Kristin Scott Thomas and Pio Marman star in the story of a young man who kidnaps the female surgeon he believes responsible for his wife’s death. Mars will release the film in France. The director’s first feature Just About Love? ran in Un Certain Regard in 2007.

Elle recently acquired Un Certain Regard title Los Viajes Del Viento by Ciro Guerra about a man’s emotional journey across Columbia and the boy who becomes his pupil. In official selection, the company also boasts Un Certain Regard title Samson & Delilah from Australia’s Warwick Thornton.

Elle is currently in production on two previously announced films: Srdjan Dragojevic’s St George Shoots The Dragon and Juan Carlos Medina’s Painless. Market screenings will be held for Anna Wintour documentary, The September Issue; Rachid Bouchareb’s London River; Pascale Pouzadoux’s Changing Sides and Sundance hit Dead Snow.

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