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Spain’s Latido Films has acquired three titles ahead of their world premieres at the Málaga Film Festival, including competition title Away.

Local star Mario Casas headlines as a man who travels to the Dutch city of Utrecht with his family for a football match. After experiencing a panic attack, he decides to remain in the city, severing all ties with his past and with no money, friends, home or knowledge of the language.

It is directed by first-time feature filmmaker Gerard Oms and produced by Barcelona’s Zabriskie Films has produced the film with Revolver Amsterdam.

“This semi-autobiographical film...

Building on bullish business between Berlin’s European Film Market and the eve of this week’s Málaga Festival Spanish Screenings, Madrid-based Latido Films has unveiled a slew of several dozen deals, led by sales in major European territories of Eva Libertad’s Berlin smash “Deaf” (“Sorda”) and a U.S. pick-up on Bartosz M. Kowalski’s horror film “Night Silence.”

“Deaf’s” release in France will be handled by Paris-based Condor Distribution. Piffl Medien bought the film’s rights for Germany & Austria, while Lucky Red inked Italian rights. The U.K. & Ireland rights were acquired by Curzon, and CineArt took Benelux.

Further “Deaf” buyers include Agora in Switzerland, Outsider in Portugal, Feelgood Entertainment in Greece, Lev Cinemas in Israel and the Association of Czech Film Clubs for Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The film has also been acquired in China by Wise Media, Australia (Madman), Japan (New Select) and Indonesia...

Exclusive: Rising Spanish-Colombian filmmaker Gala Del Sol has signed with M88 for representation.

Del Sol is coming off the Sundance premiere of Rains Over Babel, her genre-bending debut feature, which she wrote, directed, and produced. Reimagining Dante’s “Inferno” through a queer, tropical-punk lens, the film is set in the mythical City of Maya, a retrofuturistic version of Cali, Colombia, and centers around Babel, a legendary dive bar that serves as a purgatorial meeting point for lost souls. Presiding over this enigmatic establishment is La Flaca, the city’s Grim Reaper, who challenges patrons to gamble years of their lives in hopes of altering their destinies.

After launching at Sundance, Rains Over Babel went on to make its European premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this month.

Previously, Del Sol was a finalist for the Student Academy Awards with her short film Pasajeros en trance, which was her thesis from Chapman University.

In the retro-futuristic, pop-punk imagination of Spanish Columbian writer-director Gala del Sol (Natalia Hermida) and her unmissable, queer-coded feature-length debut, Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel), Cali, Colombia exists in a sublime liminal space, at the crossroads between the real and the fantastical, the natural and the supernatural, and the material (body) and the immaterial (soul). There’s nothing like Rains Over Babel and chances are, nothing like Rains Over Babel will follow it, at least not anytime soon. Rains Over Babel centers on the “Babel” of the title, a nightclub bar that doubles as the nexus for del Sol’s ambitiously ambiguous version of Purgatory-on-Earth. Nominally owned and operated by Gian Salai (John Alex Castillo), the nightclub hosts all manner of natural and supernatural events,...

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A selection of Spanish titles being sold at the European Film Market.

“My Friend Eva,” Cesc Gay

A romantic comedy about Eva, who, after 20 years of marriage, seeks to rediscover love and passion, directed by “Truman” helmer Gay. “Cesc’s films are always highly anticipated. He’s a director who’s given us so much success in the past,” says the film’s sales agent.

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*”The Virgin of the Quarry Lake,” Laura Casabé

Set in 2001 Argentina, this film follows Natalia, who uses dark incantations to win back her love, leading to self-empowerment and a dramatic conclusion. A buzz title at last month’s Sundance market.

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*”Fury,” Gemma Blasco

A young actress, Alex, grapples with trauma and isolation after a New Year’s Eve assault. Her brother’s misguided support leads them down dark paths, while Alex finds solace in theatre. Headed to SXSW’s global program this year.

On day four of the Festival, Bill Condon’s highly anticipated Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Max Walker-Silverman’s sophomore feature, Rebuilding, will premiere at Eccles Theatre. Additionally, Hal & Harper; Selena y Los Dinos; Mad Bills to Pay; Oh, Hi!; Train Dreams, and Move Ya Body: The Birth of House will debut in Park City.

Walker-Silverman returns to Sundance with Rebuilding, his sophomore feature following the success of his 2022 debut, A Love Story. This American Western tells the story of a rancher (Josh O’Connor) who must rebuild his life and his family after a devastating wildfire destroys their farm. Meghann Fahy, Amy Madigan, and Kali Reis co-star alongside O’Connor. Cast and crew attended the premiere at the Eccles Theater, on Jan 26 in Park City.

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Latido Films, which previously bet on Latin arthouse cinema in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s breakout, “Lullaby,” have acquired international sales rights to Colombian filmmaker Gala del Sol’s debut feature, “Rains Over Babel” (“Llueve sobre Babel”), ahead of its Sundance world premiere and European bow at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Latido will also celebrate at Rotterdam the international premiere of “The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortes,” one of the standout first features at last September’s San Sebastian Festival, marking the feature debut as a director of Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana, his stage name as a singer-songwriter.

Latido’s Juan Torres brokered the deal on “Rains Over Babel” and told Variety they found the title “a modern, entertaining, fun project that also has a lot of depth and scope in its ideas.” Adding, “It’s a powerful cinematic experience...