The National Film Board had a busy MIPTV, signing a handful of deals for some of its highest-profile docs. The Cannes market saw Sundance Channel and Animal Planet pick up the U.S. TV rights for The Wild Horse Redemption, about convicts taming wild mustangs, while New Video secured the U.S. home video rights.

Sundance and New Video also picked up Patrick Reed’s Doctors Without Borders doc Triage: James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma, the latest buzz-maker coproduced by White Pine Pictures’ Peter Raymont (A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman), screening at this month’s Hot Docs festival.

Sundance also acquired David Paperny’s Confessions of an Innocent Man, about William Sampson, the Vancouver businessman who was arrested, interrogated, tortured and held in solitary confinement in a Saudi prison for more than two years over his alleged involvement in a car bombing.

Meanwhile, last week saw European buyers snap up titles including Brenda Longfellow’s Weather Report, which was acquired by Spain’s TV3 Catalunya and France’s Groupe AB. The latter also acquired Neil Docherty’s Dead in the Water, about the future of the world’s water supply.

Italy’s RAI TV picked up the nature doc series Humanima, while distributor Morefilm-Germany acquired Austrian TV rights for the five-part climate change doc series Arctic Mission.

Indonesia’s Metro TV locked up the Oscar-winning short Ryan and Oscar nominee Madame Tutli-Putli.