Growth of the Soil Finds Buyers Across Europe, Asia and the Americas
Hans Petter Moland's Growth of the Soil has been sold in 15 territories, the sales agent Beta Cinema announced on 10 November 2026. Deadline reported the full list of buyers, which runs from North America to Indonesia.
The film is Norway's entry for the Academy Awards, the Oscars, and it is based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel. Herbert Nordrum and Asta Kamma August star. Beta Cinema describes it as Moland's epic love story.
In North America, Greenwich Entertainment bought the rights. Neue Visionen took Germany and Austria, and Teodora Film took Italy. A Contracorriente Films picked up Spain, while Conic took the United Kingdom and Ireland. Cherry Pickers acquired the Benelux countries, which are Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and Frenetic Films took Switzerland.
Further east and south, Weird Wave bought Greece, and Scanorama took the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Vertigo Media acquired Hungary. Big Tree Entertainment took India, and Falcon Pictures took Indonesia.
Imovision acquired Brazil. Palace Films took Australia and New Zealand. Scanbox will handle the release across Scandinavia. Beta Cinema says its sales also cover Latin America.
A territory is a country or group of countries that a buyer licenses a film for, and each deal gives that buyer the right to release the film there. Sales agents like Beta sell these rights to distributors, the companies that book cinemas and push a film to audiences.
The film has already reached Norwegian audiences. It took the top spot at the Norwegian box office in its opening weekend, according to Deadline.
