19/05/2013 - M-Appeal's Russian drama The Major, is screening on May 19 in Critics’ Week, and the company has announced a few sales on its other market screening Two Mothers by German director Anne Zohra Berrached

The small Berlin-based sales operation M-Appeal is attracting buyers’ interest in Cannes for the Russian drama The Major and for its other market screening Two Mothers [+see also:
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Specialised in Latin America, Eastern Europe, genre and queer fare, the company has sold the lesbian movie Two Mothers to TLA Releasing for UK, France, Benelux and Poland. The film that screened at the last Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino will open domestically in June.

On the eve of the Cannes screening of the Critics Week entry The Major, CEO Maren Kroymann told Cineuropa she was expecting to close a major deal on the film. “We picked it up just before Cannes from producer Timur Bekmambetov (Bazelev). The director Yuri Bykov had attracted quite a lot of attention on his debut film To live and this is his second feature.”

M-Appeal is also expecting good business from its upcoming Hungarian/German film A Land of Storms [+see also:
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film profile] by Ádám Czási. “It’s a triangle love story filmed in a unique auteur original style that can attract audiences outside the core gay target group,” said Kroymann.

Other titles on M-Appeal’s line up include the Greek film The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas that screened at the Forum in Berlin 2013, and Carlos Machado Quintela’s Cuban/Venezuelan film The Swimming Pool winner of Best First Film in Miami and La Havana 2013.