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Spanish independent sales company Feel Sales has acquired “The Cottage,” Argentine filmmaker Silvina Schnicer’s debut solo feature, and will present it to interested buyers at this year’s European Film Market.

“The Cottage,” “La Quinta” in Spanish, follows an upper-middle-class family in Argentina as they retreat to their vacation home for winter break, only to discover signs of an intruder. The family patriarch, Rudi, tries to convince the other homeowners in the community that Tomás, the gatekeeper, is to blame and should be fired. Meanwhile, the neighborhood kids, unsupervised by their parents, engage in mischief that escalates into an unspeakable act. As the family grapples with the consequences, they are forced to bury a dark secret about the horrors committed by their 12-year-old son.

Feel Sales’ Luis Collar and Yeniffer Fasciani said of their latest acquisition: “We found in ‘The Cottage’ a fresh and unexpected experience. This story explores...

The Marrakech Film Festival unveiled its 2024 lineup on Thursday and set that Luca Guadagnino would replace Thomas Vinterberg as its jury president. The other jury members will be Andrew Garfield, Jacob Elordi, Virginie Efira, and Ali Abbasi. Vinterberg “had to excuse himself for family reasons,” festival organizers said.

The Marrakech fest on Thursday also unveiled the lineup for its competition, 11th Continent, and Moroccan Panorama sections, as well as gala and special screenings. In the competition, 14 films will compete for the Étoile d’Or, or Golden Star.

The 21st edition of the fest in Morocco will also honor Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and, posthumously, pay homage to Moroccan star Naïma Elmcherqui. The Marrakech fest takes place Nov. 29-Dec. 7.

Check out the full lineup for the 2024 edition below.

Competition

Across The Sea (LA Mer Au Loin)

by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / France, Morocco, Belgium

with Ayoub Gretaa, Anna Mouglalis, Grégoire Colin, Omar Boulakirba,...

Mubi to release in US, Latin America, UK, other regions.

Argentina’s selection committee has submitted Rodrigo Moreno’s Cannes Un Certain Regard entry The Delinquents (Los Delincuentes) as this season’s international feature film contender.

The Delinquents: Cannes review

Mubi acquired rights for North America, UK & Ireland, Latin America, Turkey, Italy, India, and Benelux from Magnolia International.

The Delinquents stars Argentinian actors Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi and Margarita Molfino and follows a Buenos Aires bank employee who dreams up a plan to free himself and his co-worker from the humdrum routine of their working lives.

Laura Paredes, Mariana Chaud,...

A group of bored Argentine bank employees plan a heist and try to figure out what to do with $650,000 in the latest trailer to Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents.”

Watch the trailer embed above.

The Spanish-language film stars Argentinian actors Daniel Elías (“The Snatch Thief”), Esteban Bigliardi (“The Summit”), Margarita Molfino (“The Accused”), and features Laura Paredes, Mariana Chaud (“La Flor”), Cecilia Rainero (“Trenque Lauquen”) and Germán De Silva (“Las Acacias”).

According to the film’s official synopsis: Bank employee Morán (Eliás) schemes to steal enough money to liberate himself from corporate monotony, then confesses and serves prison time while his co-worker hides the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román (Bigliardi) later encounters a mysterious woman who will transform him forever.

“I punch in every day,” Morán says in the trailer. “All that for what?”

“The Delinquents” was written and directed by Moreno, who was a...

"I punch in every day... All that for what?" We all wonder this every day, right...? Mubi has revealed the official US trailer for an acclaimed Argentinian film titled The Delinquents, originally Los Delincuentes in Spanish. This premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to rave reviews, and it's set to open this fall across the world thanks to Mubi giving it a proper release. This slow burn heist film is about a couple of bankers in Argentina. Morán and Román are looking for freedom and adventure. One commits a robbery, discovering an alternative to his boring life, while the other hides money that doesn't belong to him. Their destiny as new criminals will bring them together. It's a story about how both having money and not having money can be a burden, and it's nearly impossible to escape from the shadow of money and find true freedom.

The best capers are endowed with a professional gambler’s spirit of self-assured play, and this inherent mischievousness is both taken to logical extremes and given a less flashy treatment in Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents. The film constantly toys with its audience, deploying genre cues only to sidestep their expected payoffs and moral resolutions. Whether one interprets the routes that it takes as relatively frivolous fun or serious arthouse theme-making hardly affects the pleasure of watching it. That distinction is just one of many that are defied in a film that treats the very notion of identity like an easily foiled con man.

The Delinquents alternatingly dares the viewer to read it as a caper flick, a moral parable, a comedy of coincidences, and an existential probe. It probably lands closest to the latter, though in fine existential fashion, it also cautions against searching for too much weighty significance in its story.

Spain, China, Middle East among buyers for Rodrigo Moreno’s selection.

Magnolia International has reported ongoing robust trade on Cannes Un Certain Regard selection The Delinquents (Los Delincuentes) following the multi-territory Mubi deal and has licensed a raft of additional key territories.

Rights to Rodrigo Moreno’s film have gone in Spain (Filmin), Greece (Weirdwave), Taiwan (Filmware), China (Hugoeast), Middle East (Gulf), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Israel (New Cinema), and worldwide airlines rights (Anuvu), with other territories under negotiation.

As previously reported Mubi acquired the Argentinian filmmaker’s crime thriller for North America, UK, Latin America, Italy, Benelux, Turkey, Germany, and India.

Most of us know the illicit rush of the sick day slyly pulled when you’re not really sick. The turning you ignore on your commute, but that one day, for no real reason, you take. Oh, that sudden, intoxicating sniff of freedom! It’s perhaps the closest thing that many of us get as adults to the ceaseless adventure we thought, as children, we’d be living. Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno’s delightful “The Delinquents” knows the feeling too. Over the course of its droll, meandering, indefinably strange three hours, it may well persuade you that the crazy thing is not to break from your normal routine. The crazy thing is to ever go back.

Filmmakers have long been attracted to the heist format for the high drama it can generate, but Moreno begins his movie with a bank robbery so banal it’s hard to believe that’s actually what is going on.

The Spanish-language comedy-drama screens at Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

Mubi has acquired Rodrigo Moreno’s Cannes Un Certain Regard entry The Delinquents in an all-rights deal for North America, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey, Italy, India and Benelux.

The global distributor and streaming service will release the Spanish-language comedy-drama theatrically in North America, the UK and other territories, with release plans and exclusive streaming dates expected to be announced soon. Magnolia International is representing worldwide rights to the film.

Starring Argentinian actors Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi and Margarita Molfino, The Delinquents centres on a Buenos Aires bank employee...

Rodrigo Moren’s “The Deliquents” has been scooped up by Mubi out of the Cannes Film Festival. The distributor has acquired the rights to the film in North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey, Italy, India, and Benelux and has plans for both a theatrical and streaming plan in the coming months.

According to the film’s official synopsis: Morán (Daniel Eliás) is a bank employee in Buenos Aires who dreams up a risky plan to liberate himself and his co-worker Román (Esteban Bigliardi) from the shackles of working life: Morán will steal enough cash from the bank to fund their retirement if Román hides the money for him after he confesses and serves prison time; in three years’ time, they’ll reunite, split the cash, and never have to work again.

Departing to the countryside to fulfill his side of the deal, the less adventurous Román finds himself transformed...

Exclusive: Here at the Cannes Film Festival, Mubi has taken rights in North America, UK, Italy, Latin America, Turkey, India and Benelux to Un Certain Regard movie The Delinquents (Los Delincuentes).

Mubi will theatrically release the Spanish-language comedy-drama in North America, UK, Latin America, and some of their other markets.

The deal was negotiated between Mubi and Magnolia International who represents worldwide rights to the film.

Rodrigo Moreno’s feature stars Argentinian actors Daniel Elías (The Snatch Thief), Esteban Bigliardi (The Summit), Margarita Molfino (The Accused), Laura Paredes, Mariana Chaud (La Flor), Cecilia Rainero (Trenque Lauquen), and Germán De Silva (Las Acacias).

Pic follows Morán and Román, who are both looking for freedom and adventure. One commits a robbery, discovering an alternative to his boring life, while the other hides money that doesn’t belong to him. Their destiny as new criminals will bring them together.

Pic is produced...

There are movies that grab you by the throat and refuse to let go until the story ends. And there are others that playfully take your hand, guiding you into stories that blossom and fold in on themselves several times over, leading to endings that are more like beginnings.

For the past five years, a crop of films from Argentina has been specializing in the latter type, telling long, winding, labyrinthine stories inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague — especially Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating and his serial epic, Out 1 — as well as Latin American postmodernists like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño.

With mammoth running times and multiple characters, Mariano Llinás’ six-part, 13-hour La Flor (2018) and Laura Citarella’s two-part, six-hour Trenque Lauquen (2022), are the best-known examples of the genre. Enigmatic and absorbing, they have found a fanbase at festivals and on specialty streaming sites,...

Magnolia Pictures International has acquired worldwide sales rights — including U.S. sales rights — to heist comedy-drama “The Delinquents” from Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno (“The Custodian”). The film will world premiere as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.

In “The Delinquents,” the routine lives of two bank employees, Morán and Román, break down when Morán steals a small fortune from the bank’s vault. On the run, he glimpses a possible alternative to the gray life he’s been living and, in addition, falls in love. But he is forced to choose between this radical alternative and following through on his heist plans, so he resigns himself to a short prison stint. His colleague Román, unwillingly in possession of the stolen money, feels trapped by the secret he’s keeping; his paranoia increases until he too finds a way out, and also discovers a new love.

Regress & Repress: Palavecino’s Woman on the Verge of Sustaining Interest

A young girl crying alone in a room opens Argentinean director Santiago Palavecino’s latest feature, Algunas Chicas (Some Girls), which turns out to be a recurring motif in a film exploring distressed female psyches and the ebb and flow toward nervous breakdowns. At first exuding the promising glow of a psychological thriller with its foreboding flawed female protagonist, the film evolves into a case study of an unbalanced mind as out of control actions and surprising details surface in the less charismatic second half of the film. Consistently dark and exceptionally photographed, Palavecino’s themes and locale may recall Lucretia Martel but isn’t quite in the same league as interest and narrative cohesion aren’t sustained.

Celina (Cecilia Rainero) is a successful surgeon that mysteriously decides to visit old college buddy Delfina (Augustina Liendo) at her rural home.

I don’t know: you wait ages for a meandering and insipid piece of Argentinian slow cinema only for two to come along at once. Much like fellow competition entrant El Primio (The Prize), Un Mundo Misterioso (A Mysterious World) is by its own admission an eventless slog caught up in the details and lacking in story.

The film’s clueless and socially inadequate protagonist Boris – played by Esteban Bigliardi, who resembles a hispanic Joel Coen – is suddenly dumped by his girlfriend Ana (Cecilia Rainero) in the first scene, throwing him off balance in a world he can no longer understand. This is the best scene in the film as the conversation is funny, going around and around in circles because he can’t understand what she means by “some time apart”. “Some time? How much?” he repeatedly asks – of course, she can’t say.

As the scene continues it becomes amusingly concerned with semantics.