UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up all UK rights to Berlin International Film Festival competition title Small Cuts (Petites Coupures).

Artificial Eye will release the French-language film this autumn. Directed by Pascal Bonitzer, the Rezo Films production stars Daniel Auteuil and Kristin Scott Thomas.

The veteran distributor is also releasing another Berlin film, Gillies MacKinnon's Pure, in May. The portrait of the bond between a drug-addicted mother and her son screens in the Panorama section.