Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent“The Bike Thief,” “Hello Again – a Wedding a Day” and “Karnawal” are among the hottest titles on Beta Cinema’s sales slate for the virtual version of the American Film Market, which starts Monday.The Munich-based sales company will give Matt Chambers’ “The Bike Thief” its market premiere at AFM, following its world premiere this week in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival.
Beta recently showed the film to select British buyers in a private screening in London and is now negotiating the U.K./Ireland deal.The movie, starring Alec Secareanu (“God’s Own Country”) and Anamaria Marinca (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”), explores the question of how far a father would go in present-day London to.
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