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Paris-based sales house MPM Premium has soldRohan ParashuramKanawade’sIndian LGBTQ+ dramaCactus Pearsto Salzgeber for release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, fresh off of the film’s Grand Jury Prize win in World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance.

The debut featureis about a 30-something man from the city who must spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in his native village where he bonds with a local farmer.

Cactus Pearswas the only Indian film in Sundance’s competition and the first Marathi-language film ever to premiere at the festival. TheUK-Indian co-production is produced by Lotus Vision, Moonweave Films and Bridge Postworks.

French romantic comedy “This Charming Girl” and French comedy “Vanishing Goats” have joined the slate of Paris-based sales company MPM Premium, which will introduce the films to buyers at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris.

“This Charming Girl,” directed by Jean-Luc Gaget and co-written with Raphaële Moussafir, will be released in France by Nour Films. The cast is led by Pauline Clément, Arthur Dupont, Emilie Caen (“Ducobu”) and Karin Viard.

The film centers on Clémence, a quiet yet amusing Parisian, who had a complicated childhood. At the age of 30, she struggles with low self-esteem. Fate intervenes when she meets Paul, a man with a domineering personality whom everyone calls “Paul Pot.” Clémence begins to ask herself: could he be the one?

The production companies are La Féline Films, Les Films du Capitaine and Karé Productions.

“This Charming Girl” will have a market screening at Rendez-Vous on Jan. 16.

Marie Rémond’s “Vanishing Goats,...

MPM Premium has acquired international rights to Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Pease’s queer coming-of-age drama Fine Young Men.

The film is set in a Catholic school and follows a young boy who develops a crush on another male student. It is produced by Mexico’s Pisito Trece Producciones, Home Films, Alameda, Zamora, Bhd, Malvalada, France’s Local Films, and Spain’s Televisión Española.

MPM’s Cannes slate also includes Marie Rémond’s starry romantic comedy Vanishing Goats in which Remond writes, directs and stars in her first feature opposite José Garcia, Gustave Kervern, Olivia Cote, Anne Le Ny and Lolita Chammah.

"It's a total void." Signature Entertainment in the UK has revealed an official trailer with English subtitles for a French horror thriller film titled The Tower. This first premiered at the 2022 Deauville Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Sitges, Rome, and Fantasy Filmfests. From the description, it's a French version of Ben Wheatley's High-Rise thriller, about how the residents of a build going crazy when they have to figure out how to survive together. The inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the residents try to organize themselves, but to ensure their survival, they gradually succumb to their most primitive instincts, then sink into horror. The Tower stars Angéle Mac, Hatik, Kylian Larmonie, Merveille Nsombi,...