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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,...

Exclusive: Paris-based outfit Reel Suspects has picked up international sales rights to Argentine horror Los Que Vuelven (The Returned) which this week has its world premiere at Argentina’s premier film festival Mar del Plata.

Writer-director Laura Casabé’s period film set in 1919 follows a wealthy landowner’s wife who gives birth to her third stillborn child. Desperate, the woman asks her indigenous housekeeper to bring the child back to life, but when she arrives the baby’s not alone.

Earlier this year the film was included in a Blood Window showcase of Ibero-American genre films and works in progress at the Cannes film festival market. It was the only project in the lineup by a female director.

Starring are Lali González, María Soldi, Alberto Ajaka, Javier Drolas, Edgardo Castro and Cristian Salguero. Producer is Alejandro Israel.

Casabé’s previous films have played at festivals including Sitges, FrightFest, Sanfic, Bifff and Guadalajara.

Business continues after strong response to The Sleepwalkers and Chilean drama Los Fuertes.

Buenos Aires-based boutique sales agency Meikincine has announced key Asian deals on its slate trio of When You No Longer Love Me, Delfín, and Witch.

The company led by Lucia Meik and Julia Meik licensed Japanese rights during Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) to Interfilm Co on Marcelo Páez Cubells’ Witch (Bruja). After the festival it struck deals with Benchmark Films for Taiwan on Igor Legarreta’s drama When You No Longer Love Me (Cuando Dejes De Quererme), and Beijing Hualu Newmedia for China on Gaspar Scheuer’s Delfín.

Emiliano Torres’ Argentinian western took the two top prizes at the works-in-progress event.

Emiliano Torres’ western The Winter (El Invierno) was the big winner at the 29th Toulouse-San Sebastian Films In Progress event, taking home two prizes.

The Argentinian drama took the Toulouse Films In Progress Prize, which comes with a grant for post-production services and initiatives to help promote the film, as well as the Cine Plus In Progress Special Prize, which comes with a guaranteed purchase of the film from the network, worth $16.8k (€15k).

Set in Patagonia, The Winter stars Cristian Salguero (Paulina) and Alejandro Sieveking (The Club) in the story of a young man who becomes the foreman of a large rural estate against the backdrop of a seemingly never-ending winter.

Elsewhere, a special mention was given to Maitre Alberdi’s Children (Los Ninos) by the Films in Progress jury, while Felipe Braganza’s Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! won...