Fernando Eimbcke’s Berlin competition title ‘Flies’ captured by key European buyers

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin competition title Flies, by Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, has sold to a slew of European territories by Alpha Violet.

The film, about a woman who has retreated into solitude after a devastating loss until her path crosses with that of a nine-year-old boy, has been acquired for Germany (Piffl Medien), Italy (Fandango), Switzerland (Xenix), Greece (One From The Heart), and Portugal (Leopardo Filmes). It has also sold to Taiwan (Hooray Films).

In Spain, Flies will be released by A Contracorriente Films as part of the WIP Latam Industry Award it received at last year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival, where the film was showcased as a work-in-progress.

Produced by Mexico’s director label Kinotitlán and Teorema — headed by Eréndira Núñez Larios and director-producer Michel Franco — Flies is written by Eimbcke and Vanesa Garnica.

Eimbcke ranks among Mexico’s leading contemporary filmmakers. His 2004 film Duck Season premiered at Cannes that year and went on to win 11 Mexican Academy Awards. 2008’s Lake Tahoe took Berlin’s Alfred Bauer and Fipresci prizes, and three Mexican Ariel awards.

He won San Sebastián’s Silver Shell for Club Sándwich in 2013, and his latest 2025 Olmo, screened in San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos and Berlin’s Panorama.

Flies was the second-highest-rated competition title on Screen’s jury grid during the 2026 Berlinale.

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