Serban, Gansel and Satrapi in Celluloid Dreams line-up
Paris-based international seller Celluloid Dreams arrives full of motivation at the European Film Market at theBerlinale with two titles in its line-up vying for the Golden Bear: Apart Together by China’s Wang Quan An (prize-winner at Berlin in 2007), which will open the official competition this evening; and Florin Serban’s Romanian/Swedish debut feature If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle [+see also:
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The company headed by Hengameh Panahi also intends to strike successful deals with We Are the Night by Denis Gansel (The Wave [+see also:
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The other big attraction will be the start of pre-sales for Waiting for Azrael by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (Persepolis [+see also:
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The film, a live-action adaptation of the comic book Chicken with Plums, will start shooting next summer with a yet-to-be-finalised cast. It will tell the story of a musician who wants to die because his wife has broken his tar (Iranian lute). But this sorrow hides another hidden pain: the failed love affair with the woman of his life, whom he has met again by chance.
The line-up also includes Frederick Wiseman’s French documentary Crazy Horse (in post-production) and Jean-Pierre Limosin’s project You Will Never Know Why, featuring Eric Caravaca and Fabrice Luchini.
Celluloid Dreams will also be hoping for success with Celine Danhier’s US documentary Bank City in the Panorama section; and collective Mexican film Revolución (helmed by ten directors including Fernando Eimbcke, Gael García Bernal and Carlos Reygadas) in the Berlinale Special.
Finally, there will be market screenings of Bruce Beresford’s Australian film Mao’s Last Dancer, Sergio Bambaren’s 3D animated co-production The Dolphin (Germany/Italy/Peru) and US actor-director Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating.
(Translated from French)
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