EXCLUSIVE: The Pool Films has acquired worldwide sales rights for Salón De Belleza set in a beauty salon in a city ravaged by a mysterious disease which becomes a refuge for the afflicted as they linger between life and death.

The picture will be the directorial debut of Mexican actress Nathalia Acevedo , who his best known internationally for her performance in Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, winning the best director award.

The Pool Films, which makes its Cannes debut this year with co-founders Gilles Sousa and Tim Belda at the helm, is launching sales on the production at the Marché du Film.

Belgian multi-disciplinary artist Sam Louwyck , whose credits include of Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders and Oscar-nominated Bullhead , stars opposite Erwan Kepoa Falé, whose credits include Honoré’s Winter Boy , Ira Sachs’ Passages and the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry Eat The Night .

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