Scorching on the heels of Neon buying Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed Palme d’Or potential “The Secret Agent” for North America, Mubi has now swooped in to purchase the movie for numerous different main territories.

The fast-rising distributor, streamer and manufacturing firm picked up the movie — among the many most warmly obtained of Cannes thus far — for Latin America (excluding Brazil), the U.Okay., Eire and India, with launch plans to be introduced quickly.

The deal was negotiated between Mubi and mk2, who’re dealing with worldwide gross sales.

Set in Brazil in 1977, “The Secret Agent” follows Marcelo, a know-how professional in his early 40s who’s on the run. He arrives in Recife throughout carnival week, hoping to reunite along with his son however quickly realizes that the town is way from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.

The movie is led by’ Wagner Moura and in addition stars Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, and Hermila Guedes. It was produced by Emilie Lesclaux. Co-producers embody Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Olivier Barbier, Leontine Petit, Erik Glijnis, Fred Burke and Sol Bondy. It’s a Cinemasópio, MK Productions, Lemming Movie and One Two Movies presentation.

In its evaluation, Selection described the movie as a “terrific 70s thriller” and “dazzling interval drama.”

The deal marks one more movie from Cannes 2025 official competitors lineup to be added to Mubi’s slate (a theme that has continued for a number of years). The corporate produced “The Mastermind” and has retained a number of territories for the movie and, earlier than the competition started, purchased rights for the U.Okay., Eire, Latin America, Turkey and India to Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” which on Wednesday obtained an enormous 15-minute standing ovation. Throughout the competition, Mubi additionally snapped up a number of rights — together with the U.S. — for Lynne Ramsey’s “Die My Love,” and later Latin American and Indian rights to Julia Ducournau’s genre-hopping drama “Alpha.”