08/05/2018 - The firm boasts Samouni Road in the Fortnight, Dead Souls as an Official Selection special screening, plus new projects, including the upcoming film by Gianfranco Rosi

After a white-hot European Film Market in Berlin (at which it was able to surf the wave of Touch Me Not [+see also:
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The team headed up by Daniela Elstner is also officially kicking off pre-sales for the new, as yet untitled project (see the news) by Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi (Golden Lion at Venice in 2013 with Sacro GRA [+see also:
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Also recently added to the slate is the French title Whatever Happened to My Revolution [+see also:
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Another new addition is the project in pre-production Noura's Dream [+see also:
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Lastly, Doc & Films is getting pre-sales under way for the US documentary in pre-production House of Cardin by P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes, which chronicles the life of famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin.

Standing out among the market screenings are the French-Japanese doc Each and Every Moment [+see also:
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(Translated from French)