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In a broad sweep of platform pick-ups, Netflix, Warner Media’s HBO Max and Movistar Plus, Telefonica’s pay TV/SVOD service in Spain, have all acquired drama thriller “High Tide” (“Marea Alta”).

From Argentine writer-director Veronica Chen, the feature premiered in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Pay TV service SomosTV has taken U.S. rights. Deals were brokered by the movie’s international sales agent, Guido Rud at FilmSharks.

Netflix has picked up rights to Latin America, where the U.S. streaming giant will make “High Tide” available from Dec. 3. HBO Max will bow the class warfare drama in Central Europe from May 2022.

Produced by Vega Cine, “High Tide” marks the latest feature from Chen whose “Smokers Only” played Sundance back in 2002, while “Agua” screened at Locarno and “Rabbit Woman” in 2013 at San Sebastián.

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France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Latin America are under discussion.

FilmSharks has announced out of the Cannes virtual market a raft of deals on Veronica Chen’s Sundance entry High Tide (Marea Alta).

Guido Rud has struck a deal with Somos for all rights in the Us, Av Jet for all rights in Taiwan, and HBO Europe for pay-tv and Svd rights for Eastern Europe.

France, Spain, Germany, Australia, and Latin America are under discussion.

The Argentinian film centres on married Laura, who grows increasingly paranoid after she has an affair with a contractor on a project at her beach house.

To open with an establishing drone shot has become something of a cliché for lower-budget films looking to create a sense of scale inexpensively, but in Argentinian director Verónica Chen’s fifth narrative feature “High Tide,” the choice feels unusually apt. The camera glides frictionlessly over an opaque turquoise sea, breakers foaming at its edges, and into a darkened beachside forest in which sits a large, modern, architect-designed house. The dispassionate sterility of the floating, impersonal image establishes the tone of Chen’s film: Whatever else it might be, it won’t be warm.

Inside the house, Laura (Gloria Carrá) a willowy and well-kept middle-aged woman, dances alone. Well, not entirely alone — three workmen watch from the partially built barbecue pit they’re constructing outside. Like a moth to a flame, the foreman, Weisman (Jorge Sesán) eventually slips into the living room and starts to dance with her. Book publisher Laura,...

Argentinian thriller screens in World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has snapped up worldwide sales rights to Veronica Chen’s Sundance-bound dramatic thriller High Tide (Marea Alta).

The Argentinian film from international festival regular Chen centres on married Laura, who grows increasingly paranoid after she has an affair with a contractor on a project at her beach house.

When the man disappears and other workers begin to encroach on her personal space, Laura takes matters into her own hands. Gloria Carrá stars with Jorge Sesan, Cristian Salguero, Mariana Chaud, Camila Fabbri, and Hector Bordoni.

Vega Cine produced High Tide,...