‘Lost and Found,’ with ‘Money Heist’ Star Alvaro Morte, Scores First Sales (Exclusive)

Lost And Found” has closed first sales to Italy (Eagle Pictures), France (Kmbo) and Taiwan (Creative Century Entertainment) on thriller “Lost and Found,” starring Álvaro Morte, “Money Heist’s” Professor, and directed by “The Head” helmer Jorge Dorado.The caliber of the distributors – Eagle Pictures is one of Italy’s most muscular mainstream buyers, for instance – and the movie’s high-profile talent package confirm “Lost and Found” as a preeminent title in Spain’s currently most exportable product line: Upscale ambitious thrillers with a social-issue underbelly.Filmax, “Lost and Found’s” sales company, screened a promo at Berlin’s European Film Market.

The first sales news comes just before the film’s first market screening at a private event at Cannes.In “Lost and Found,” Morte plays Mario, who leads a solitary existence working at a Lost and Found office.

One day, a suitcase arrives, found at the bottom of a river.

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