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BERLINALE 2013 France

Arizona Productions under a lucky star

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- With Harmony Lessons in competition and In Bloom at the Forum, the Parisian company shines in Berlin and will bet on six other films in 2013

It is a great start to the year for the French company Arizona Productions which has just unveiled two very appealing movies in Berlin: the excellent Harmony Lessons [+see also:
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 (photo - review) in competition by young Kazakh director Emir Baigazin (co-produced with Germany) and the surprising In Bloom [+see also:
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 (review) by the duo Nana Ekvtimishvili - Simon Gross (coproduced with Georgia and Germany) in the Forum section. A very promising double take, which follows the selection in competition at the recent Rotterdam Film Festival of Wachtower by Turkish director Pelin Esmer, which had premiered globally in Toronto.

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Headed by Guillaume de SeilleBénédicte Thomas and Rémi Roy, Arizona will also finish production of three other titles this year. Amongst them, Je ne suis pas lui, stands out. It is the fourth feature film by Turkish director Tayfun Pirselimoglu (selected twice in Berlin for the Forum and once in Locarno), and is being co-produced with Zuzi Film (Turkey), Bad Crowd (Greece) and Bredok (Germany), with the backing of the Turkish Ministry of Culture, the CNC and Eurimages. Also worth mentioning, Le murmure des pierres by Iraqi director Shawkat Amin Korki (in co-production with the German company Mitos Film amongst others) and Caméléons, the first film by Azerbaijani directors Elvin Adigozel and Rufat Hasanov.

The filming of three other projects will start before the end of the year, signed by Georgian director George Ovashvili (nominated for the 2009 European Discovery Award with The Other Bank [+see also:
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), Kazakh director Nariman Turebayev (whose first two feature films were selected in competition in Lugarno in 2003 and 2012) and Columbian director Oscar Ruiz Navia (winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Berlinale’s Forum 2010 with his first feature film La Barra).

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(Translated from French)

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