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\nMubi has made its first major buy of this year at the Cannes Film Festival, swooping in to acquire Lukas Dhont\u2018s Coward<\/em> ahead of the awards ceremony Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe arthouse streaming picked up all rights to the film, a WWI drama about queer love in the midst of the horrors of war, for North America. Mubi already secured rights for Coward<\/em> across most of its international footprint ahead of Cannes. It snatched up rights across the U.K.\/Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Latin America and Australia\/New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company released Dhont\u2019s previous film, Close<\/em>, which premiered in Cannes in 2022 and went on to secure an Oscar nomination for best international feature in multiple international territories.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe acquisition marks Mubi\u2019s first domestic buy of this year\u2019s Cannes festival. Two years ago, Mubi scored a hit when it snatched Demi Moore\u2019s breakout film, The Substance,<\/em> at Cannes. The Coralie Fargeat horror\/satire went on to top $17 million at the U.S. box office. Mubi\u2019s big buy in Cannes last year, Lynne Ramsay\u2019s Die My Love<\/em>, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, was less successful, earning just $5.5 million stateside.<\/p>\n

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\nCoward<\/em> follows Pierre (newcomer Emmanuel Macchia), a soldier newly arrived at the front and eager to prove himself, who meets Francis (Valentin Campagne), a flamboyant character who tries to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting on a theatre show. While the violence erupts around them, a romance grows between the two men as they try to find ways to escape the brutality of war.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film reunites Dhont with his Girl<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Close<\/em> co-writer Angelo Tijssens, and his brother\/producer Michiel Dhont. The movie was produced by Reunion, Lumen, Topkapi Films & Versus (Opus) in co-production with France 2 Cin\u00e9ma, VTM, RTBF, Proximus, BeTV & Orange. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is distributed in Benelux by Lumi\u00e8re and in France by Diaphana Distribution. The Match Factory is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

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