Two contenders for the Palme d’Or in Memento’s line-up
- With Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont and Le Client by Asghar Farhadi in competition, this year’s Film Market looks very promising
French sales company Memento Films International, which always comes to Cannes well-equipped, has this year beaten its own record when it comes to films in competition, with two contenders for the Palme d’Or of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016): Slack Bay [+see also:
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film profile] in 2013, with another film co-produced by Memento, which will distribute it in France on 2 November). For the record, the Parisian company sold the films that won the Palme d’Or in 2008 and 2014, The Class [+see also:
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interview: Carole Scotta
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In addition to these two gems, the team, headed up by Emilie Georges and managed by Tanja Meissner will kick off at the Film Market with pre-sales for Greek-German co-production Dias by British director Jonathan English, who will start filming on this action thriller set in the heart of a specialised motorised police unit fighting crime in Athens in September. The company is also expected to announce sales for an Italian film that is set to start filming any day now.
Memento will also be continuing with pre-sales for Midwife [+see also:
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interview: Martin Provost
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interview: Aslı Özge
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(Translated from French)
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