30/01/2014 - The line-up features Alain Resnais in competition, We Come as Friends in a Special Screening and The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq at the Forum

For the second consecutive year, the French international sales company Le Pacte, managed by Jean Labadie, will feature in its line-up a contender for the Golden Bear. The competition of the 64^th Berlinale (February 6 to 16, 2014) indeed includes Life of Riley [+see also:
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The programme of the Berlinale Special includes We Come as Friends [+see also:
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Le Pacte’s sales team, managed by Camille Neel, will also negotiate the pre-sales at the European Film Market of several titles in production that should be followed closely: Timbuktu The Sorrow of Birds by talented Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako (also produced by Les Films du Worso), Queen & Country by the British award-winning veteran director John Boorman (for which a promo reel will be screened), The Kindergarten Teacher by Israeli rising star Nadav Lapid (coproduced by France via Haut et Court and Arte France Cinéma) and Wild Live by Cédric Kahn (article).

It is finally worth noting two post-production films: the documentary Salt of The Earth (ex Shade and Light) by duo Wim Wenders - Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Hippocrates by Thomas Lilti (article). Finally four previously unveiled titles will be screened at the market in Berlin: the 3D documentary Amazonia by Thierry Ragobert, The Referee [+see also:
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interview: Yossi Aviram
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(Translated from French)