Seven contenders for the Golden Bear being sold by the French

by Fabien Lemercier

07/02/2013 - With impressive line-ups, France's numerous go-ahead international sales companies are all geared up to get on with the job at the EFM

Counting in their line-ups seven of the 19 titles in the official competition at the 63rd Berlinale which opens today, French international sales companies enjoy very good prospects at the European Film Market (from February 7th to 15th). Le Pacte will be placing its bets on The Nun [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Nicloux
film profile] by Guillaume Nicloux (interview by Jean-Labadie), Elle Driver (news) on On my Way [+see also:
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film profile] by Emmanuelle Bercot, and Wild Bunch on Camille Claudel 1915 [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile] by Bruno Dumont. Four movies by non-French filmmakers will also be in the running: Paradise: Hope [+see also:
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film profile] by Austrian director Ulrich Seidl in the Coproduction Office's line-up, In the Name of [+see also:
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interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
interview: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
film profile] by Malgorzata Szumowska of Poland proposed by Memento Films International (news), the Spanish co-production Gloria [+see also:
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film profile] by Sebastián Lelio leading the bill of Funny Balloons (news), and Harmony Lessons [+see also:
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film profile] by Kazakh director Emir Baigazin handled by Films Distribution (news).

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It's worth noting that Wild Bunch is also selling the opening film The Grandmaster by Chinese director Wong Kar-wai (out of competition) and the documentary The Spirit of ’45 [+see also:
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film profile] by British director Ken Loach (Berlinale Special); that Films Distribution will be handling the sales of It's all so Quiet [+see also:
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interview: Nanouk Leopold
film profile] by Nanouk Leopold of The Netherlands (Panorama) and Parade [+see also:
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film profile] by French director Olivier Meyrou (Panorama Doc); and that Memento will be continuing its sales of Circles [+see also:
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interview: Nikola Rakocevic
interview: Srdan Golubovic
film profile] by Serbian director Sdran Golubovic, distinguished at the Sundance Festival and screened at the Forum.

Gaumont (which will be unveiling new titles in Berlin) is negotiating for Yesterday Never Ends [+see also:
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interview: Isabel Coixet
interview: Isabel Coixet
interview: Javier Camara
film profile] by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, selected for the Panorama, while Doc & Film International (news) will be placing its hopes on a trio of selected titles: Mes séances de lutte [+see also:
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film profile] (My Fighting Sessions) by Jacques Doillon (Panorama), Bambi [+see also:
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film profile] by Sébastien Lifshitz (Panorama Documentaries) and Fatal Assistance [+see also:
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film profile] by Raoul Peck (Berlinale Special).

The line-up presented by Films du Losange (article) features the documentary La maison de la radio [+see also:
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film profile] by Nicolas Philibert (Panorama Doc), while Celluloid Dreams (which has just announced its association with the Belgian company Uconnect) is presenting the American movie Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach in the Panorama, and the Australian film Satellite Boy by Catriona McKenzie in the GenrationKplus section.

A mention also for StudioCanal which is counting on The Look of Love [+see also:
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film profile] by British director Michael Winterbottom (Berlinale Special) as its first reference, and MPM Film (news) which is offering three titles in the Panorama, in which Reels Suspects (article) and Alpha Violet (news) are also represented. Finally, Pascale Ramonda is handling the sales of the documentary Boundary (Forum), and Rendez-vous Pictures has two cards up its sleeve: Everyday Objects by Nicolas Wackerbarth (Forum) and Marussia by Eva Pervolovici (Generation Kplus).