MetFilm Sales

17/12/2025

10/12/2025

NAME ME LAWAND starts in Japanese cinemas this week!
We are grateful to our partners at ニューセレクト for bringing Ed Lovelace's award-winning and critically acclaimed doc to audiences in Japan.

NAME ME LAWAND follows five-year-old Lawand, who is on a quest to find a world where there are people like him — people who will understand him. Since birth, Lawand has been profoundly deaf and unable to communicate with those around him. He undertakes a treacherous journey with his family from Iraq to Derby, home of the Royal School for the Deaf. But this new life soon comes under threat when the family face deportation. Along with members of the Derby community, they begin a new quest — a fight to stay in the place they now call home.

03/12/2025

We are thrilled that Michael Premo's award-winning and critically acclaimed HOMEGROWN is coming to audiences in North America from January 6, 2026.

Shot across battleground communities and key flashpoints of national tension between 2018 and 2025, the documentary reveals the lived experiences of people whose determination to turn their beliefs into action places them on the front lines of America’s political divide.

The film will be released exclusively in partnership with GATHR.
Pre-order now 🔗 https://homegrown.film/

Doc Society Catapult Film Fund

26/11/2025

24/11/2025

LADY wins at PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival!

Huge congratulations to Samuel Abrahams, who received the prestigious Best Director – First Feature award.

The festival’s programming team explains: "Off-the-wall, sharp and with just the right amount of absurdity, LADY makes you laugh at privilege while rooting for its bizarrely lovable heroine. It’s a comedy of manners turned upside down – and one of the most entertaining portraits of human need you’ll see in a long while."

21/11/2025

🎥 We are thrilled to be working with Ross McElwee on his award-winning feature documentary REMAKE.

REMAKE had its Dutch premiere at IDFA this week, having also played at doclisboa and Stockholm International Film Festival since its World Premiere at Venice.

Read more in Screen International here:
https://www.screendaily.com/news/venice-documentary-winner-remake-acquired-for-international-sales/5211195.article

The film is produced by Mark Meatto and Ross McElwee for Giant Squid Productions, in association with Impact Partners. Executive producers are Geralyn White Dreyfous, Jenny Raskin, Ian Darling, Adam and Melony Lewis, Regina K. Scully and Brynn Kelly. Cinetic Media is handling North American rights.

EXCLUSIVE: Film began buyer conversations at IDFA this week.

23/10/2025

LADY is a Screen International LFF pick!

International reporter Ben Dalton joins Screen Podcast host Wendy Mitchell, editor-in-chief Matt Mueller and deputy editor Louise Tutt to discuss this year's Hidden Gems.

🎤 Listen now on Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.

The team also reflect on a stellar edition of the BFI London Film Festival.

20/10/2025

A bittersweet and surreal summer unfolds inside a crumbling Soviet-era wellness resort in Odesa, where guests seek healing, love and distraction.

SANATORIUM is Ireland's entry to the 98th The Academy Awards. Audiences in UK and Ireland can now see the film on BBC, premiering on BBC Storyville on 21 October, from 22:00 on BBC 4 and BBC iPlayer.

🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mfx6/episodes/player

17/10/2025

With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy

08/10/2025

🌟 Ophélia Kolb wins the Zürcher Filmpreis 2025!
The lead in The Courageous wins for her performance in the film, directed by Jasmine Gordon.

The jury statement:
A single mother tries everything she can to pretend to her three children that everything is fine again. Despite conflicts with the authorities, a lack of money and happiness, she storms through this film with criminal energy and unstoppable love. Ophélia Kolb's portrayal of the harried character takes on a breathless dynamism. The result is a pull that viewers cannot resist and that carries the film. Together with the child actors, a very fragile picture of a family emerges, one to whom we wish all the happiness in the world, despite all the obvious obstacles.

SWISS FILMS

08/10/2025

🎰 Luck is for Losers! BEAT THE LOTTO launches on Netflix UK/IRE on 9th October.

A rip-roaring tale about the mathematician who, along with a ragtag syndicate, plotted to fix Ireland’s National Lottery in 1992, captivating the nation and sparking rabid debate.

🛎"A wildly entertaining underdog story" (Cara O'Doherty) - set your reminder now.