Distribs be lured by Haneke's 'Amour'

PARIS -- As Unifrance's Rendez Vous small-mart started Wednesday, French production, distribution and customers company Ces Films du Losange closed pre-sales to a lot of areas for Michael Haneke's French-language drama "Amour." The helmer's lengthy looked forward to follow-as much as Cannes' Palme d'Or winning pic, "White-colored Ribbon," "Amour" was nabbed by Spain's Golem, Italy's Teodora, Japan's Longride, Australia's Transmission, Hong Kong's First Entrepreneurs, South Korea's T-cast, Israel's Lev Cinema, Brazil's Imovision, Greece's Rosebud, Argentina's CDI Films Distribution, Mexico's Mantarraya, Sweden's Folkets Bio, Portugal's Clap, and Cineart for Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands. Formerly introduced sales include Artificial Eye for your U.K. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour" involves a ageing number of outdated music professors, whose lengthy lasting love is provide the exam following a wife suffers a stroke and becomes partially paralysed. "Amour" is produced by Ces Films Du Losange, Austria's Wega Film and Germany's X Filme Creative Pool. Within the Unifrance Rendez Vous, Ces Films Du Losange will host three market premieres: Tony Gatlif's docu-drama "Indignados," which opens Berlin's Panorama section, up-and-comer Emily Atef's drama "Tue Moi," and Michael Buch's offbeat comedy "Let My People Go," which bowed in December in France. Ces Films Du Losange will distribute "Indignados" and "Tue Moi" in Gaul in March and April, correspondingly. "Indignados," that's inspired by Stephane Hessel's book "Indignez Vous," tales protests throughout Europe using the eyes from the youthful African immigrant. "Tue Moi" triggers a suicidal teenage girl who crosses paths getting a billed killer abroad, while offering to assist him hide round the condition he kills her. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com