CANNES - At the close of the Festival de Cannes, Sony Pictures Classics was finalizing North American buys on two fest titles.
After reports SPC would leave the fest empty handed, the distributor nabbed the Dardenne Brothers' Albanian immigrant in competition drama "The Silence of Lorna" and Bent Hamer's Un Certain Regard portrait of an elderly Norweigan train driver, "O'Horten." As previously reported, SPC is also taking home James Toback's docu "Tyson."
The distributor is taking advantage of a soft market with deals said to be in the low- to mid-six-figures. SPC is one of the few studio specialty divisions with a strong appetite for foreign fare, making Cannes a typically fertile shopping ground for them.
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