Mubi has bought Mascha Schilinski‘s Cannes competition film “Sound of Falling” for the U.S. and a string of international territories, Variety has learned.
Besides the U.S. Mubi has taken “Sound of Falling” for the U.K., Ireland, Turkey and India.
The drama, which world premiered last week to rave reviews, marks Schilinski’s follow-up to her 2017 debut “Dark Blue Girl.”
Variety’s Guy Lodge hailed the movie as a “shattering” epic that sends its director “into the big leagues” with an “astonishingly poised and ambitious second feature.” MK2 is representing the film internationally.
It’s the latest in a string of acquisitions scored by Mubi at Cannes. The company has also bought Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” for North America, Latin America (excluding Brazil), the U.K., Ireland and India.
The company produced “The Mastermind” and has retained several territories for the film and, before the festival began, bought rights for the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India to Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which on Wednesday received a huge 15-minute standing ovation. During the festival, Mubi also snapped up multiple rights — including the U.S. — for Lynne Ramsey’s “Die My Love,” and later Latin American and Indian rights to Julia Ducournau’s genre-hopping drama “Alpha.”
