The traditional venues chosen by Film Europe to extend its movie portfolio on a regular basis are made up of the holy trinity of the festival circuit (Berlin, Cannes and Venice), on which the company also based its new Be2Can distribution model (read the news). Last year’s festival hits Son of Saul [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : László Nemes
interview : László Rajk
fiche film], Taxi and Dheepan [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Jacques Audiard
fiche film] made it onto Film Europe’s slate after their premieres on the Croisette, and the same scenario played out on the Lido in Venice, where the company bought Lorenzo Vigas’ Golden Lion winner From Afar and Aleksandr Sokurov’s latest project Francofonia [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]; the firm even ventured beyond the borders of the European continent, acquiring American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson’s cinematic essay Heart of a Dog [+lire aussi :
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The company went on a shopping spree at the 66^th edition of the Berlinale in order to add new oeuvres to the line-up of the upcoming Be2Can Festival in October. The new acquisitions include the Tunisian love story Hedi [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Mohamed Ben Attia, the French-German drama Things to Come [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Mia Hansen-Løve
fiche film] by Mia Hansen-Løve, starring Isabelle Huppert, Thomas Vinterberg’s latest effort The Commune [+lire aussi :
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interview : Thomas Vinterberg
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Q&A : André Téchiné
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Q&A : Anne Zohra Berrached
fiche film] by Anne Zohra Berrached, and Bence Fliegauf’s latest film, Lily Lane [+lire aussi :
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Film Europe revealed the rest of its slate to Cineuropa, which boasts Michel Gondry’s comedy Microbe & Gasoil [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] and Nils Gaup’s Nordic epic The Last King [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nils Gaup
fiche film]. Among the other recent arrivals is Emir Kusturica’s eagerly awaited first fiction feature since 2007’s Promise Me This [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], On the Milky Road [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], starring the director himself and Monica Bellucci. Another film currently in post-production which is bound to be added to Film Europe’s line-up is Bertrand Bonello’s Paris Is Happening [+lire aussi :
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interview : Bertrand Bonello
fiche film], which tackles the topics of riots and terrorism.

The company managed to secure several titles ahead of their premieres – most notably some films rumoured to be unveiled at Cannes: Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Fille de Brest [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]; the US-Danish horror-thriller The Neon Demon, starring Keanu Reeves and Elle Fanning, and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn; the Belgian film The Unknown Girl [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
fiche film] by the Dardenne brothers; Hirokazu Koreeda’s offbeat family drama After the Storm; the long-awaited epic mystical documentary Voyage of Time [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Terrence Malick; and Jerome Salle’s adventure biopic about the Cousteau family, The Odyssey [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. Besides the projects in post-production, Film Europe has already acquired one project preparing to enter the production stage: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s sophomore feature, Luxembourg (read the news).