The distributor has picked up North American rights from Film Factory Entertainment to Spain’s foreign-language Oscar contender. Separately, Cohen Media Group has acquired 30 films from the Merchant Ivory Productions library .

Flowers

Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga directed Flowers (Loreak), Spain’s first Oscar selection in the Basque language of Euskara.

The film follows three women whose lives collide through a tragic event.

Music Box Films opens the film at New York’s Paris Theater on October 30 followed by Los Angeles November 27.

  • Cohen Media Group chairman and CEO Charles S Cohen has acquired 30 films from the Merchant Ivory Productions library including Howards End, Maurice, Shakespeare Wallah and Heat And Dust. Cohen Media Group will restore and re-release the titles under the Cohen Film Collection in association with James Ivory.