H2O Motion Pictures has closed key sales here on its latest acquisition, the French-language action film Nitro. Deals have closed in the UK (Revolver), Japan (Movie-Eye), Brazil (Alphaville), and Thailand (IPA).

H2O's Mark Horowitz also announced the company has picked up Peter McNamee's thriller Let Him Be, about a film-maker who stumbles upon explosive footage about the assassination of a world leader.

H2O acquired rights from McNamee and fellow producers Martin Katz and Carol Wright.

H2O's AFM slate includes Janos Szasz' Hungarian-German-US drug drama Opium starring Ulrich Thomsen, dark comedy People Who Knock On The Door to be directed by Karl Golden, and the comedy Poor Things with Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.