'Mother' covers ground

World Brief

By ADAM DAWTREY

Renaissance Films has pre-sold Roger Michell's "The Mother" to Concorde in Germany, Atalanta in Portugal, Odeon in Greece, Shani Films in Israel and A Film/Cinelibre in Benelux.

Pic, fully financed by BBC Films, was previously picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for North America. It stars Anne Reid and Daniel Craig in a drama about a widow who has an affair with her daughter's boyfriend.