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Wavelength Pictures seeking further sales in this week’s Efm.

Kino Lorber has taken North American distribution rights to Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect, Mark Noonan’s biographical documentary.

The feature is a profile of Irish-American architect Kevin Roche, who is still working at the age of 95. The film combines his personal reflections with cinematic representations of his architecture shot by DoP Kate McCullough.

The doc was released theatrically in Ireland in October 2017. Salzgeber & Co Medien will release the film in Germany in March.

Producers Wavelength Pictures will be seeking further sales at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin. The deal was negotiated by Richard Lorber, CEO of Kino Lorber and John Flahive, MD of Wavelength Pictures.

John Flahive produced the feature with Nicky Gogan of Still Films as executive producer alongside Keith Potter of the Irish Film Board, which backed the project along with the Ford Foundation and the Graham Foundation.

Exclusive: UK distributor also acquires upcoming sports biopic Borg vs McEnroe, Directors’ Fortnight title After Love and Scottish indie music doc Lost In France.

Curzon Artificial Eye has swooped on four buzz titles at the Cannes Film Festival, acquiring UK and Eire rights to Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, Shia Labeouf-starrer Borg vs McEnroe, Joachim Lafosse’s After Love and Niall McCann’s Lost in France.

The pre-buy of serial killer drama The House That Jack Built continues the distributor’s long-standing relationship with the controversial Danish director, stretching back to Antichrist and includes Melancholia and Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II. The deal was negotiated with Susan Wendt at TrustNordisk.

The $9.8m project will shoot in Sweden this year, before a Copenhagen shoot in 2017. Zentropa producer Louise Vesth revealed details of the highly-anticipated feature to Screen in Cannes earlier this week, when several early deals were revealed.

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Dublin's Darklight Film Festival has announced the participants for the Heroes Edition Guest Programmers for the festival which takes place in October. Festival Director Nicky Gogan has also announced that Lance Weiler will return to the festival this year as Symposium Key Note speaker. Early bird tickets are currently available for the event and participants are being accepted for Tyrell's 'My Environment, My Film' workshop and competition event. The guest programmers chosen for 2010 include Animator David O'Reilly (Please Say Something); art/music/technology collective Synth Eastwood; independent gig promoters and record label Skinny Wolves; Film & Animation History lecturer and musician Michael Connerty; digital rights expert and documentary filmmaker Caroline Campbell (Alibi) and producer Katie Holly (One Hundred Mornings). Darklight 2010: Heroes Edition will take place 28 - 31 October 2010 in and around Temple Bar.