Venice Competition Title ‘Love’ Sells to Further European Territories (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Love,” which premiered in Venice competition, and received the film critics’ prize Bisato d’Oro, has sold to additional European territories.
The film will screen in Busan’s World Cinema strand next month. The film has secured distribution for Greece (One from the Heart), Baltics (Best Film Baltics), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Poland (Aurora), and Hungary (Vertigo Media).
The film has already been sold to North America (Strand Releasing), France (Pyramide), U.K. and Ireland (Modern Films), Germany and Austria (Alamode), Italy (Wanted Cinema), Benelux (September Film), Spain (Filmin), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Pilot Film), and Switzerland (Xenix Film).
Lefteris Adamidis, partner and head of acquisitions at One from the Heart, told Variety: “’What the World Needs Now Is Love’ sings Dionne Warwick and we feel that indeed the world urgently needs films like ‘Love’: gentle, compassionate and intelligent.” “Love” centers on Marianne, a pragmatic doctor, and Tor, a compassionate nurse, who are both avoiding conventional relationships.
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