Portuguese distributor Pantheon has picked up Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay and this year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow by Peru’s Claudia Llosa.
The Match Factory handles the sales for both films. The agent says that it is in negotiations for Kinatay with a distributor in the Benelux and has attracted “strong interest” from Asian territories, the UK, Germany and Austria.
The Film scooped the best director award in Cannes last month.
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s latest project Lola is the second surprise film added to the Venice Film Festival main competition line-up.
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon won the Palme d’Or on Sunday night (May 24) in Cannes.
Germany’s The Match Factory has picked up international rights to Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay, which has been selected to screen in competition at Cannes.
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