01/02/2011

True to its editorial policy based on quality auteur films that cross European borders, Le Pacte will sell six European co-productions at the European Film Market at the 61st Berlinale (February 10-20, 2011).

Promo-reels will be shown for Patricia Mazuy’s French/German co-production Girls’ Sport (see news), featuring Marina Hands, Bruno Ganz and Josiane Balasko; Michale Boganim’s French/German/Polish co-production Land of Oblivion (see news), which looks back at the Chernobyl disaster and stars Olga Kurylenko; and Donald McIntyre’s UK/French co-production The Sins of The Father – A Very British Gangster II.

The company run by Jean Labadie (with the help of Camille Neel as head of international sales) will also negotiate deals for John Shank’s Belgian/French/Swiss co-production Last Winter (see news – in post-production); and complete sales for, among others, Saverio Costanzo’s Italian/German/French feature The Solitude of Prime Numbers [+see also:
trailer
interview: Luca Marinelli
film profile] and Olias Barco’s Belgian/French title Kill Me Please [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

There will be a market screening of Mathieu Amalric’s astonishing The Screen Illusion (a contemporary adaptation of a Corneille play staged by the Comédie Française). Pre-sales will also get underway for Katia Lewkowicz’s French comedy Bachelor Days Are Over (currently in production), which traces a man’s last four days before his marriage and stars Benjamin Biolay, Emmanuelle Devos and Nicole Garcia.

(Translated from French)