'Americano,' 'Night' unveil foreign sales

SAN SEBASTIAN -- Vindicating its new worldwide sales strategy, France's Bac Films has started sales on San Sebastian Competition player "Americano," plus Toronto hit "Sleep deprived Evening." Co-starring Salma Hayek in their first French role, "Americano" marks the directorial debut of actor-switched-author-helmer Mathieu Demy, boy of Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, who's honored having a 2011 San Sebastian retrospective.A semi-autobiographical emotional journey, "Americano" follows Martin (Demy), a Paris real estate agent, who travels to La, where he was elevated, to remain his dead mother's matters. Troubled by recollections, he'll remove to Tijuana, meeting his mother's close friend Lola (Hayek), who dances at Americano, a sex club. Geraldine Chaplin and Chiara Mastroianni ("Chicken With Apples") co-star.After its Toronto world preem, "Americano" was acquired for Benelux (Imagine Film Distribution), South usa (California Filmes) and Colombia (Babilla Cine). As formerly reported, MPI Media Group acquired U . s . States rights, which is arranging a spring theatrical release. Bac releases in France this December.Meanwhile, Frederic Jardin's "Sleep deprived Evening," a nightclub-set thriller with Tomer Sisley ("Largo Winch"), closed U.K. (Icon), Canada (eOne), South usa (California) and China (Domo Media). Major territory pre-sales include Germany (Tiberius Film) and Russia (Luxor Ing.) U.S. and Japan they're under settlement."An art movie with commercial elements," "Americano's" San Sebastian selection is "key," mentioned Bac's Gilles Sousa, since it'll have before general audiences. A The nation purchase would depend how well it screens, he added.Under Bac owner Roch Lerner, Sousa remains upped to Bac Films sales mind, and former Funny Balloons professional Mathieu Robinet attracted on as sales-purchases professional.Bac now focuses on less films for worldwide, aims for early purchases, forget about requires its pick-ups to snag distribution via Bac in France, which is "absolve to acquire films for appropriate for worldwide areas," Sousa mentioned at San Sebastian. The sales company may even "return into festivals."Another Bac title, "The Enemy," from Belgian avant-garde visual artist Nicolas Provost, plays San Sebastian's fest fave sidebar Zabaltegi Pearls. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com