Cineflix Rights has closed international sales for several of its shows, including more buyers for the romantic drama series So Long, Marianne.

Czech TV, ERR (Estonia), HRT (Croatia) and TET (Latvia) have acquired the series, following previously announced deals with Telefonica’s pay TV platform Movistar Plus+ for Spain and Australia’s SBS.

The 8 x 60-minute series is a copro between Montreal’s C3 Media, Greece’s Tanweer Productions and Norway’s Letters from Leonard. Its commissioning broadcasters are Bell Media’s Crave and NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster.

The series is a dramatization of the famous love story between Canadian poet and singer Leonard Cohen, played by Alex Wolff (Hereditary; pictured, right) and Marianne Ihlen, played by Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom; pictured, centre), on the Greek island of Hydra.

Cineflix Rights also sold three seasons of its Buccaneer-produced 18 x 60-minute Whitstable Pearl to Corus Entertainment for the French-language drama channel SériesPlus.

As well, CBC has committed to multiple seasons of Cineflix’s Château DIY, (244 x 60 minutes), which follows French château owners as they tackle renovation projects.

Bell Media

Bell Media has acquired Canadian distribution rights for L.A.-based Electric Entertainment’s The Librarians: The Next Chapter.

The 12 x 60-minute series is a spinoff of the original The Librarians, also prodoced by Electric, which also has a Vancouver satellite office. The series focuses on a librarian who is stuck in the present after time traveling.

The deal was brokered by Nolan Pielak, Electric’s SVP, international distribution and coproduction and Jamie Cochrane, Bell Media’s senior manager of acquisitions.

Alliance Media Partners, Vortex Media

London and L.A.-based Alliance Media Partners (AMP) has secured sales for the Canadian science-fiction film Levels in several markets around the world.

Vortex Media has acquired Canadian rights, while L.A.-based RLJ Entertainment has secured U.S. rights. Both distributors will release the film theatrically on Nov. 1. The film has also been acquired by Premiere TV for Benelux countries and Planeta Inform for CIS. It had been previously acquired by Capelight in Germany and Front Row for the Middle East.

Levels is written and directed by Adam Stern. The film stars Cara Gee (The Expanse) and Peter Mooney (Burden of Proof) is produced by Stern’s Orbital Mechanics, Tony Wosk of Middle Child Films and Kyle Bornais from Farpoint Films. Levels focuses on a man risking reality to save the life of his girlfriend.

Indiecan

Indiecan Entertainment has picked up Toronto-based Paragraph Pictures’ Auld Lang Syne for Canadian distribution.

The film, written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin (If I Were You), will have a one-week engagement at Toronto’s Carlton Cinema starting Nov. 22. It has also been picked up by Gravitas Ventures in the U.S. for a digital release on Nov. 26.

Auld Lang Syne stars Second City alum Linda Kash (Best in Show) and Genie Award nominee Mimi Kuzyk (Hill Street Blues) as two has-been actresses who hide out on a film set to avoid going home for the holidays.

The film also stars Katie Boland (Five Days at Memorial), Ryan Allen (In the Shadow of the Moon), Daniel Jun (The Fall of the House of Usher) and Gregory Calderone (Sort Of).

Photo by Nikos Nikolopoulos