Paris-based auteur-driven sales boutique Alpha Violet has acquired world distribution rights to two titles set to world premiere in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), running over Nov. 7-23.

One candidate for Tallinn’s main Grand Prix, “18 Holes to Paradise” is helmed by Portuguese filmmaker and New York Film Academy graduate João Nuno Pinto, known for his acclaimed debut “America” (2010), “Mosquito,” which was a Rotterdam Fest opener in 2020, and crime series “Natural Law.”

Penned by “Mosquito’”s Fernanda Polacow, the drama is set at a drought-stricken Portuguese country home. It tells of “landowners and staff who recount the same events from irreconcilable perspectives, revealing a fractured world on the brink of collapse,” reads the logline. In the ti

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