20-02-2012

Silver Bear Winner Scores Foreign Sales

By FNE Staff

    {mosimage}Bence Fliegauf's multi-awarded film Just the Wind has already been sold to seven territories, sales agent The Match Factory (www.matchfactory.de) announced.

    The film, which deals with the dire situation of Romany family in Hungary, was produced by Inforg-M&M Film (www.inforgstudio.hu), The Post Republic Halle, and Paprika Films. At the Berlinale, it won the Grand Jury Silver Bear, the Peace Film Prize, and the Amnesty International Prize.

    To date, the film has been picked up by Contact for the Benelux territories, Vertigo (Spain), Discovery for the ex-Yugoslav countries, Artcam (www.artcam.cz) for the Czech and Slovak Republics, Ama (Greece) and Joint (Taiwan).

    The Match Factory also announced the sale of EFM film Alois Nebel (www.negativ.cz) to Russian Report. (Russia).