Poch pockets three pix

BARCELONA -- New Barcelona-based distribution house Paco Poch Cinema has closed Spanish rights to Bela Tarr's Berlin Jury Grand Prix winner ''The Turin Horse,'' Mia Hansen-Love's ''Goodbye First Love'' and Andreas Dresen's ''Stopped on Track.''''Love'' received a special mention at the Locarno fest this weekend; ''Track'' shared Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize this May.Paco Poch -- whose production credits include Pedro Almodovar's 1979 debut ''Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton'' and Jose Luis Guerin's ''Innisfree'' -- has already acquired Spanish rights to Pedro Costa's ''Ne change rien,'' Hansen-Love's ''Father of My Children'' and Lluis Galter's Venice Horizons title ''Caracremada,'' which he also produced.The move into distribution comes out of frustration at not being able to co-produce such titles as ''Rien'' and ''Horse,'' Poch told Variety. Poch's next release, bowing early September, will be Anne Linsel's docu ''Dancing Dreams,'' about teens in Germany's Wuppertal being taught by choreographer Pina Bausch.On ''Dreams,'' Poch partners with Spanish production-distribution house Avalon to launch the pic.''Horse'' opens in Spain this fall after screening out of competish at October's Sitges Festival.Poch plans to attend the Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Karlovy Vary and Rotterdam's markets, and to release around two to five films a year, all subtitled -- an increasingly rare phenom in Spain.''I'm essentially a producer but I cannot accept there's no place in the market for auteur and issue films,'' Poch said.Future Poch Cinema releases include Ounie Lecomte's ''A Brand New Life'' and Goran Olsson's ''The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.'' ''Life'' will be released with Luis Angel Bellaba's Aquelarre Films.Working out of Mallerich Films, which he founded in 1994, Poch's is producing ''Genet en el Raval,'' based on a book by Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo on Jean Genet's life in Barcelona.(Emiliano de Pablos contributed to this report.) Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com