Be For Films sets course for Cannes’ Critics’ Week
- The Brussels-based international sales agent, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, is presenting The (Ex)perience of Love and Le Ravissement
Be For Films, a Brussels-based outfit and subsidiary of Playtime launched in 2014 and directed by Pamela Leu, is this year presenting two films selected for Critics’ Week during the Marché du Film (running 16 - 24 May), an event unfolding within the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
The firm will be reunited with the similarly Brussels-based duo Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, whose first feature film Madly in Life [+see also:
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interview: François Pirot
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film profile] at the gathering last year. (Ex)perience of Love is co-produced in France by Delphine Schmidt and Guillaume Dreyfuss on behalf of Tripode Productions. It will be distributed in France by KMBO and in Belgium by Imagine. The film is expected to be released in the autumn.
Be For Films’ other selected movie is Le Ravissement [+see also:
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The Marché du Film will likewise see the sales agent organising screenings of Thierry Binisti’s French-Belgian co-production The Channel [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Mariage
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Last but not least, Be For Films are set to unveil new images from Julien Carpentier’s La vie de ma mère [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Seron
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interview: Xavier Seron
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(Translated from French)
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