IFC takes US; Film won screenplay prize in Venice.

MK2 has sold Olivier Assayas’ Something In The Air (Apres Mai) to more than 20 territories.

The film won the screenplay award in Venice and screened in TIFF Masters. It will go on to San Sebastian, Busan and New York.

MK2 has sold the film to the US (IFC Films), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films), Germany and Austria (NFP), Italy (Oficine UBU) Benelux (A-Film), Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia (MCF Megacom Films), Sweden (TriArt), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Switzerland (Agora), Brazil (Imovision), Taiwan (Filmware) and Israel (Orlando).

The film, which is loosely autobiographical, is about teenagers living in 1971 France.