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CANNES 2014 Market / Germany

Picture Tree International unveils its line-up for the Marché du Film

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- Lonely hitmen, depressed vampires and brave resistance fighters are due to make an appearance at Cannes

Picture Tree International unveils its line-up for the Marché du Film
Miss Sixty by Sigrid Hoerner

Berlin-based world sales and production outfit Picture Tree International is shortly to make its debut on the Riviera. The line-up that will be presented at the Marché du Film includes a handful of brand-new German comedies. 

A new experience completely changes the life of the lead character in the comedy Miss Sixty [+see also:
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, by Sigrid Hoerner. A 60-year-old molecular biologist who is forced to retire from her job receives an unusual farewell gift. The company is handing out her own oocytes that have been frozen for many years, so she decides to become a mother after all. However, the situation gets out of control when she runs into the father of her sperm donor. 

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Bad timing is also an issue in the road movie A Hitman’s Solitude Before the Shot, by Florian Mischa Böder. For eight years, a contract killer has been waiting for a call from a secret EU programme. When he is just about to give up this lonely and disciplined life, and goes on a date with a girl, his services are suddenly required.

German award-winning film actor Tobias Moretti stars as a depressed vampire in the romantic Austrian screwball comedy Therapy for a Vampire [+see also:
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by David Ruehm. Set in Vienna in the 1930s, a painter makes his living by working for Sigmund Freud, one of whose patients is a mysterious Count whom he always has to treat at night. Meanwhile, in the historical drama Stones for the Rampart [+see also:
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, Robert Glinski examines the lives of three young resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland. The picture was shot by Oscar-nominated DoP Pawel Edelman (The Ghost Writer [+see also:
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, Carnage [+see also:
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, The Pianist [+see also:
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).

Resistance is also the weapon used by a 15-year-old who is tortured by a teenage gang in the Swiss drama War, by Simon Jaquemet. Further titles at Cannes include the comedy Lovely Louise [+see also:
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by Bettina Oberli, the German box-office hit Suck Me Shakespeer [+see also:
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by Bora Dagtekin, the German East-West drama West [+see also:
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by Christian Schwochow and the Swiss omnibus film Dreamland by Petra Volpe

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