29/05/2013 - Among films chosen for Italian distribution were Jeune et Jolie by François Ozon, L’inconnu du lac by Alain Guiraudie and A Touch of Sin by Jia Zhangke

Independent Italian distributors made many acquisitions at this year’s Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film. Bim bought two films in competition, Jeune et Jolie [+see also:
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Teodora added L’inconnu du lac [+see also:
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During the 2013 Marché, Eagle Pictures chose The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes by Herlad Zwart, still in production, Spinning Gold with Justin Timberlake, by and with British actor Alan Rickman, Selfless by Tarsem Singh (in development phases) and, from the Directors’ Fortnight, Les Garçons et Guillaume à table [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Feltrinelli Real Cinema closed deals on three documentaries already seen during the Sundance Film Festival, to be distributed in Italy starting in 2014. These are The Square by Jehane Noujaim on the Egyptian revolution two years ago, Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin on the Russian feminist collective Pussy Riot and Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington by Sebastian Junger, dedicated to photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington who died in Libya during the 2011 civil war.  

(Translated from Italian)