{"id":347112,"date":"2026-03-19T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:15:08","slug":"the-open-reel-takes-sales-on-malaga-winner-little-tragedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/347112\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Reel Takes Sales on M\u00e1laga Winner ‘Little Tragedies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tItaly\u2019s The Open Reel<\/a> has picked up international sales rights to Daniel Nolasco\u2019s Brazilian hybrid feature \u201cLittle Tragedies\u201d (\u201cPequenas trag\u00e9dias\u201d), winner last week of the Malaga Festival\u2019s WIP Ibero-Am\u00e9rica Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film collected a \u20ac5,000 ($5,752) cash prize at MAFIZ<\/a>, M\u00e1laga\u2019s industry hub, during the festival\u2019s 29th edition, held March 6-15. Written and directed by Nolasco, \u201cPequenas trag\u00e9dias\u201d draws on an overtly personal premise to explore memory, distance and queer belonging. <\/p>\n

\n\tSet in 2011, the film begins when Nolasco leaves his small hometown of Catal\u00e3o, in Brazil\u2019s interior, for Rio de Janeiro to attend college. He is the first of a group of queer friends to leave. 10 years later, none of them remain there: some have died, while the others have moved away. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film unfolds as a personal story of memory, loss and belonging set in Catal\u00e3o, a place everyone says is \u201ctoo good to live in,\u201d hinting at the tensions beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Cec\u00edlia Brito and Nolasco for Brazil\u2019s Rensga Produ\u00e7\u00f5es, with Brito also serving as executive producer, the feature arrived to M\u00e1laga at post-production stage, with the team finishing sound and seeking partners to complete color correction and image compositing. For The Open Reel, the pickup is in line with the Italian sales company\u2019s focus on indie auteur cinema and its continued work with emerging and established filmmakers on the international festival circuit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have worked with Daniel Nolasco since his debut and know his filmography very well,\u201d Open Reel CEO Cosimo Santoro told Variety, describing \u201cLittle Tragedies\u201d as a film that weaves autobiographical elements with subtle irony and restraint.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe film also confirms Nolasco\u2019s skill behind the camera and his mastery in working with actors, qualities already evident in his earlier features \u2018Dry Wind\u2019 and \u2018Only Good Things,\u2019 and which make him one of the most compelling voices in contemporary cinema,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe themes explored in this deeply personal film, together with the fascinating and erotic imagery through which they are expressed, give us every reason to believe it can post strong sales results, as happened with his previous work, in key territories across Europe, North America and Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNolasco broke out internationally with \u201cDry Wind,\u201d which premiered in Berlin\u2019s Panorama in 2020, following a run of shorts and nonfiction work. His more recent credits include the short \u201cPedro Had a Horse\u201d and the 2025 feature \u201cOnly Good Things,\u201d which played the Frameline San Francisco Intl. LGBTQ Film Festival. <\/p>\n

\n\tBehind the camera, Nolasco is joined by cinematographer Felipe Quintelas, who previously collaborated with him on \u201cDry Wind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s The Open Reel has picked up international sales rights to Daniel Nolasco\u2019s Brazilian hybrid feature \u201cLittle Tragedies\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4216,146,85,46,169376,169377,169378],"class_list":["post-347112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brazilian-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mafiz","tag-mu00e1laga-film-festival","tag-the-open-reel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}