Film Sales and Distribution Deals

World sales rights to Yashasvi Juyal’s debut feature “The Ink-Stained Hand and a Missing Thumb,” which premiered in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima Competition, have gone to Bangkok-based Diversion. The film’s next stop is the Singapore International Film Festival, where it will have its Asian premiere in th

The pull between leaving Pakistan and staying rooted there drives “Dancers,” writer-director Eshah Shakeel’s coming-of-age drama about two young people in a Punjab town near Lahore who bond through clandestine dance lessons. The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busa

EXCLUSIVE: V Studios, the Vietnamese production arm of Korean exhibitor CJ CGV, has closed multiple deals on supernatural fantasy Red Woman, including sales to NewGates Corporation for Japan and Mockingbird Pictures for the US and Canada. The film, which is V Studios’ first fully in-house produced f

Having boarded as the sales agent of Locarno Film Festival’s “The Green Eyes,” Kinology has pre-sold “The Green Eyes” to Benelux (Cinart), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Turkey (Chantier) and the former Yugoslavia region (MCF). Distribution in France will be handled by Haut et Cour

A Kino Lorber U.S. pick-up on Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-Creation” heads sales for Madrid-based Latido Films at last month’s Cannes which also take in theatrical deals in major markets over half the world for pregnant trans man drama “9 Moons.” In further notable transactions, Gael García