Fast-growing indie sales, distribution and production company Alief has acquired the global sales rights to writer-director Amanda Kramer’s “Give Me Pity!” which will world premiere at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam on Jan. 29 in an honored position as the closing film of the event’s Filmmakers in Focus section.

Following its world premiere, which has just been announced by the Rotterdam Festival, Alief will bring the film to the Berlinale’s European Film Market for its market debut in February.

Kramer’s recognition as one of this year’s Filmmakers in Focus at Rotterdam takes in her feature film “Please, Baby Please,” starring Andrea Riseborough and Demi Moore, which opens the festival on Jan. 20 with its world premiere. Kramer spent years at the head of her own underground dance label in Los Angeles and several years ago shifted to filmmaking.

According to her festival bio, Kramer “takes inspiration from art,...