Deepa Mehta’s film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children continues to rack up international sales.

International sales agent FilmNation attending the European Film Market in Berlin said it has sold the Canadian-UK co-production to Metropolitan in France and Telemunchen in Germany.

The picture, which started shooting February 6 in Sri Lanka, also secured pre-sales to DeAPlaneta in Spain, Village Roadshow in Australia and New Zealand, Paradiso for the Benelux and Ascot Elite in Switzerland.

Entertainment One earlier picked up the UK rights to the picture, which saw Mehta and Rushdie collaborate on the screenplay (Rushdie and Metha in photo).

Midnight’s Children portrays Saleem, and his changeling twin Shiva, born just after midnight on August 15, 1947, as India gained its independence from Britain.

The English-language picture is top-lined by Shabana Azmi, Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Nandita Das, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Seema Biswas.

Mehta (shown) has shot her India-based projects in Sri Lanka since the Water shoot on location in Varanasi.

Midnight’s Children is produced by David Hamilton, with executive Producers Doug Mankoff and Andrew Spaulding from Echo Lake Entertainment and Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik from Toronto-based Blue Ice Entertainment.