15/06/2020 - The German company is bringing along a jam-packed market screening slate, including box-office hits, plus the upcoming projects by Peter Bebjak, Uberto Pasolini, Stefan Ruzowitzky and Leon Prudovsky

International sales agent Beta Cinema has announced its slate for the upcoming Virtual Marché du Film (22-26 June). Seven of its films will have market screenings, and eight upcoming projects will be available to tempt attending industry professionals looking to strike some deals.

The company is bringing Dani Levy’s The Kangaroo Chronicles [+see also:
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Two films will have private screenings. They are Corvidae, the debut feature by Joe Marcantonio, a psychological thriller that follows a pregnant young woman who finds herself surrounded by her dead boyfriend's peculiar family, from whom she can’t escape; and The Report [+see also:
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interview: Peter Bebjak
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interview: Andrey Yermak
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As for the rest of the Virtual Marché du Film’s screenings, the German company is showcasing four films: Berlin Alexanderplatz [+see also:
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interview: Burhan Qurbani
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interview: Stéphanie Chuat and Véroniq…
film profile] by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, which both had their world premieres in the main competition of the 70^th Berlinale, along with Narcissus and Goldmund [+see also:
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Lastly, Beta Cinema will be negotiating deals for eight upcoming features that are all in post-production, including the drama Nowhere Special by Uberto Pasolini (Still Life [+see also:
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interview: Uberto Pasolini
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film profile] by Leon Prudovsky, starring David Hayman and Udo Kier (see the news); the historical thriller Hinterland [+see also:
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interview: Stefan Ruzowitzky
film profile] by Stefan Ruzowitzky; the screen adaptation of the famous Italian crime comic book series Diabolik by the Manetti Bros (see the news); and the topsy-turvy romantic comedy Hello Again [+see also:
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film profile] by Maggie Peren (Colour of the Ocean [+see also:
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film profile]). The firm will also be touting three feature debuts: the dramas My Son by Lena Stahl, The Bike Thief [+see also:
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film profile] by Juan Pablo Félix, which also won the latest Films in Progress Toulouse.