08/02/2022 - The sales agent is tackling this year’s Berlinale with the French director’s newest movie, the tantalising Coma

Best Friend Forever are limbering up to take part in the European Film Market, which is unspooling online from 10 to 17 February, as part of the 72nd Berlinale. The international sales agent based in Brussels has added another prestigious author to its catalogue, in the form of Bertrand Bonello and his latest work Coma [+see also:
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film profile], which is a hybrid project blending live action shots, animation and social media videos. Due to be presented within the Encounters competition, the film plunges viewers inside the mind of a young woman confined to her bedroom who only understands the world though screens. She navigates from window to window and from one media form to another, guided by a mysterious female YouTuber. The cast stars Louise Labeque (previously seen in the filmmaker’s earlier opus Zombi Child [+see also:
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Best Friend Forever will also be throwing its weight behind another new title, The Island [+see also:
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film profile]). This movie was presented in a premiere in Rotterdam a few days ago, within the Big Screen competition.

Best Friend Forever will also be flaunting an attractive French line-up, including A Change of Heart [+see also:
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Likewise jostling within the line-up, we find French documentary A French Revolution [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Gras
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Last but not least, Best Friend Forever are also set to manage sales of Caroline Monnet’s Quebecker film Bootlegger, which has just enjoyed its international premiere at the Göteborg Film Festival.

(Translated from French)