Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up international sales rights to Spanish filmmaker Jaime Rosales' directorial debut The Hours Of The Day (Las Horas Del Dia) which will have its world premiere in Cannes' Director's Fortnight sidebar on May 19.

The story about the monotony of life in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona will be one of the films eligible to compete for the Camera d'Or award. Spanish theatrical distribution is already in place with Wanda Films.

In addition, BFI will be present another Spanish-language film, Santiago Loza's Extrano, which will be showing in the Residence du Festival section, and is handling sales to Germany for Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's 'Out of Competition' entry Le Temps Du Loup.