Berlin-based M-Appeal has picked up international sales rights to Dutch director Michiel van Erp’s “Downtown,” which it will launch at the Cannes Film Market next month. The film is described as an “homage to the liberating nightlife that offered a sense of paradise to many young men in the 1980s.” The film pulls the audience onto the dance floor of the hedonistic nightclub Downtown in Amsterdam, where Ronnie and Lennart spend most of their nights. Ronnie sets the mood from the DJ booth, while