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Exclusive: Sales company inks deals on From Business To Being, Silentium.

A raft of deals have been concluded by newcomer German sales agent Mindjazz Pictures International (Mpi) ahead of its first launch at the Cannes Marche.

Brooklyn-based arthouse label Kimstim has secured all North American rights to Hanna Henigin and Julian Wildgruber’s From Business To Being [pictured] and Sobo Swobodnik’s feature documentary Silentium – From Life In The Convent.

Speaking exclusively to Screen, Alessandro Lombardo, Mpi’s head of sales and theatrical distribution, said that buyers from Latin America and Spain had also picked up Henigin and Wildgruber’s documentary about three executives – a former investment banker at Lehman Brothers, a project manager in the automotive industry and a regional manager at a pharmacy chain – embarking on a quest to find ways out of the “rat race”.

Argentina’s Energia Entusiasta secured Latin American VoD rights, while Spain’s Cameo Media acquired exclusive home video and DVD...

Exclusive: Netflix has taken world rights to Trainer!, a documentary about coaches in Germany’s Bundesliga.

Fledgling German sales agent Mindjazz Pictures International (Mpi) is making its bow at this year’s European Film Market (Efm) and has secured deals with Netflix and French distributor Kmbo as well as presenting four market premieres in Berlin.

Netflix acquired worldwide rights for Aljoscha Pause’s documentary Trainer! which follows three Bundesliga coaches - Frank Schmidt, André Schubert and Stephan Schmidt – for a whole season and Marc Pierschel’s Live And Let Live examining our relationship with animals and the rise of veganism.

Meanwhile, French distributor Kmbo picked up all rights to Sobo Swobodnik’s feature documentary Silentium – From Life In The Convent and will release the film in French cinemas this spring.

Mpi has lined up four market premieres for the Efm. There are two documentaries by Nahuel Lopez: Hope, about the avant-garde violinist Daniel Hope and El Viaje...