01/09/2009

French international sellers will arrive in force tomorrow on the Lido for the opening of the 66th Venice Film Festival, with line-ups including 11 of the 23 titles in competition.

MK2 is handling sales for Persécution [+see also:
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Other films include those on the line-up of Coproduction Office (Lourdes by Austria’s Jessica Hausner, Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgium’s Jaco van Dormael); and Films Distribution (Il Grande Sogno [+see also:
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Several other French sales companies will be in attendance at Venice, including Pyramide, who are selling Yousry Nasrallah’s Egyptian production Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (out of competition). Meanwhile, Umedia will be hoping for success with Felipe Hirsch and Daniela Thomas’ Brazilian feature Insolação, in the Horizons section.

Orly Films is managing sales for Claude and Nathan Miller’s I’m Glad that My Mother Is Alive [+see also:
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film profile] and The Blood and The Rain by Colombia’s Jorge Navas), while Nova Film International will negotiate sales for Goran Paskaljevic’s Serbian/Albanian co-production Honeymoons [+see also:
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Finally, in Critics’ Week, Wide will sell Domaine [+see also:
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(Translated from French)