"The Julia Set" Sells Out Every Territory Through HanWay Films
HanWay Films has sold every territory in the world for "The Julia Set," a coming-of-age drama directed by Niki Byrne, Variety reported on 13 November 2026.
A territory is a country or region where a film can be shown in cinemas or on television. Sales agents such as HanWay sell those rights one market at a time, and a film is sold out when each market has a buyer.
Sony Pictures Classics, the specialty label of Sony Pictures, acquired the United States and a long list of key international markets. Those include the United Kingdom, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Eastern Europe excluding Poland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel and Asia excluding Singapore. The United States, with Canada, is known in the trade as the domestic market.
Twelve more buyers took other territories. Sphere picked up Canada, while SND took France and Vuelta took Germany. Other deals went to Kino Swiat for Poland, Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais for Portugal, Shaw Renters for Singapore and Bir Film for Turkey. The rest of the list covers Greece, Latin America, the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia and the airline market.
The film stars Chase Infiniti as Julia Fischer, a math prodigy. Christopher Briney plays Pascal, Jason Isaacs plays Aleksander and Gillian Anderson plays Anne. Nina Hoss, Carmen Ejogo, Chloe Bailey, Nico Hiraga, Liz Lin and Alex Dillard are also in the cast.
The film premiered in Toronto, one of the festivals where sales agents and buyers meet to decide which films will reach audiences in the months and years ahead. Deals made at festivals like this one often set the map of where a film can be seen long before it opens anywhere.
For a film that has not yet reached cinemas in most places, a full set of buyers is a clear signal of the market's interest. The next step is how each buyer chooses to release the film.
