Cannes Un Certain Regard Grand Prize Winner ‘Unclenching the Fists’ Sells to Mubi For North America, U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)

ahead of the film’s premiere that she was inspired by Sokurov’s advice to train her camera on the world around her. “He always told us that we need to show him more about ourselves. Show us how you love, show us how you live, how you treat each other, what’s going on in your families,” she said. “This was always the most important task for me.”

Wild Bunch arrived on the Croisette this year with one of its biggest slates to date, including four competition titles: Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Nabil Ayouch’s “Casablanca Beats,” Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” and Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram.” The company is also repping Ari Folman’s “Where Is Anne Frank?” which plays Out of Competition; Gaspar Noé’s “Vortex” and Arnaud Desplechin’s “Deception,” which are playing in Cannes Premiere; Yassine Qnia’s “A Brighter Tomorrow,” which bowed in Directors’ Fortnight; and Wen Shipei’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” which had a Special Screening.

Mubi has had a busy week in Cannes, where on Friday it acquired U.K., Irish and Indian rights for buzz title “The Worst Person in the World,” directed by Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier . Earlier this week, the arthouse streamer, and more territories on Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” a powerful abortion drama from the Chadian auteur that has been generating Palme d’Or buzz on the Croisette. It’s also picked up rights for North America, U.K.

Other Mubi titles in Cannes include Andrea Arnold’s “Cow,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island,” Valdimar Jóhannsson’s “Lamb,” Ducournau’s “Titane,” Leos Carax’s opening film “Annette,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” and Sebastien Meise’s “Great Freedom.”

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