Berlin-based sales outfit Pluto Film will be selling Portuguese-French co-production Night Passengers by Pedro Cabeleira at Cannes' Marché du Film (13-21 May), which is also world-premiering in Cannes’ ACID sidebar. The ACID programme describes the Portuguese-language film as a “gangster film like no other”, playing with tropes of the genre and blending crime and thriller elements.

Cabeleira’s first feature, the low-budget film Damned Summer [+leggi anche:
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The film was penned by Cabeleira together with Diogo Figueira. The cast features Ana Vilaça, Cleo Diára, Rafael Morais, Tiago Costa, Sérgio Coragem, André Simões and Henrique Barbosa. Cinematography is by Leonor Teles. The film was produced by Abel Ribeiro Chaves for Portugal’s OPTEC Filmes and co-produced by Edyta Janczak-Hiriart of France’s Kometa Films.

In Cannes, Pluto Film will also continue to sell German thriller Hysteria [+leggi anche:
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