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SUNDANCE 2014

Three French documentaries compete at Sundance

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- We Come as Friends by Hubert Sauper, Mr leos caraX by Tessa Louise-Salomé and Happiness by Thomas Balmès all compete at the US event

Three French documentaries compete at Sundance

Amongst the 12 titles taking part in the World Cinema Doc competition of the next Sundance Festival (from January 16 to 26, 2014), French productions take the lion’s share with three features.  

The Franco-Austrian coproduction We Come as Friends [+see also:
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by Hubert Sauper will have its world premiere in Park City. Managed by Adelante Films with KGP, the new film by the director of Darwin's Nightmare delves once again into the heart of Africa where colonization, slavery, imperialism and the war over natural resources are still very much a reality. International sales are handled by Le Pacte.

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World premiere at Sundance also for Mr leos caraX by Tessa Louise-Salomé (Petite Maison Production), which enters the poetic and visionary universe of the mysterious and solitary cult filmmaker who returned to the top with Holy Motors [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Leos Carax
film profile
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Recently screened at the IFDA, Happiness by Thomas Balmès will have its North American premiere in Park City. Produced by Quark Productions and Finnish company Making Movies Oy, the film focuses on a young eight-year-old Buddhist monk, who lives with his mother in an isolated village of the Bouthan. The road reaches the village in 2013 and, with it, electricity and television. In anticipation of the event, Pyangki’s uncle decides to go to the capital, a three-day walk away, to buy a television. Pyangki, who has never seen the city, will go with him... Coproduced by TBC Productions, the film was also backed by Arte France, WDR, NHK, YLE, DR, SVT, BBF, YesDocu, VRT, the Ile-de-France region, the CNC, the Media Programme, the Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, Procirep and Angoa.

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(Translated from French)

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