Paradise City Sales has closed territorial deals on “Wolfram,” Warwick Thornton‘s Berlinale competition entry, as a trailer for the film is released. Buyers so far span Europe and beyond: Cherry Pickers in Benelux, Unicorn in Italy, Ama Films in Greece, MCF Megacom across ex-Yugoslavia and Filmarti in Turkey, with Anuvu taking airline rights. Dark Matter handles the filmmaker’s home territory of Australia and New Zealand, with additional deals ongoing. Rooted in the same fictional world as “Sweet Country” – Thornton’s 2017 drama that took prizes at both Venice and Toronto – the new film moves the action to the wolfram mining fields of 1930s central Australia, where the arrival of two violent opportunists tears apart a fragile community and sets three Aboriginal children on a journey across the outback to find a home. Thornton again shot the film himself, with McGregor and Tranter, who wrote “Sweet Country,” returning to script. Popular on Variety Deborah Mailman, a veteran of “The New Boy” and “Total Control,” leads the cast as Pansy, joined by Thomas M. Wright and Pedrea Jackson reprising their “Sweet Country” roles as Kennedy and the now-18-year-old Philomac. The ensemble also includes Errol Shand, Joe Bird, John Howard, Aidan Du Chiem, Ferdinand Hoang, Jason Chong, Matt Nable, Luka May Glynn-Cole, Anni Finsterer, Gibson John and Natassia Gorey Furber. David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin of Bunya Productions – whose slate includes “Sweet Country,” “The Drover’s Wife” and “Limbo” – produce, with Drew Bailey and David Tranter co-producing. Cecilia Ritchie and Kurt Royen executive produce. Screen Australia backs the project in association with Screen Territory and National Indigenous Television, with Screen NSW and the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund among additional supporters. “Sweet Country” traveled to more than 50 festivals and sold to upward of 70 territories after its prize-winning runs at Venice and Toronto. Thornton’s subsequent credits include “The New Boy,” which brought Cate Blanchett to Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2023, and the Caméra d’Or-winning “Samson and Delilah” from 2009. Paradise City’s current Berlinale slate also includes Anthony Chen’s competition entry “We Are All Strangers” and Mees Peijnenburg’s “A Family,” which earned a Generation Special Mention, alongside Moshe Rosenthal’s Sundance World Dramatic Competition title “Tell Me Everything.” Watch the trailer here: