14/02/2023 - Pre-sales are set to heat up, with Xavier Legrand’s The Successor, which is currently shooting, and eight post-production titles, including Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex

Director Xavier Legrand, whose new film The Successor is sold by mk2 Films

Steered by Fionnuala Jamison, mk2 Films’ international sales team might be counting on American director Tina Satter’s Reality at the European Film Market, unspooling within the 73rd Berlinale (running 16 – 26 February), a movie due for presentation within the Panorama line-up, but it’s mostly works with potential for the very near future which are set to dominate their line-up, with 11 titles in post-production and three in production.

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Without a doubt, the star attraction amongst these new works is The Successor [+see also:
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film profile] (awarded the Best Director and Best First Film prize in Venice 2017, as well as four Césars in 2019, including Best Film). Starring Quebec’s Marc-André Grondin in the lead role, this second feature by the French director, which is currently being shot, will revolve around 30-year-old Ellias Barnès, the newly announced artistic director of a famous Parisian luxury fashion house. Expectations are high and he starts to experience chest pains. He’s called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral, where he learns he might have inherited far worse than his father’s fragile heart... The film is produced by Alexandre Gavras on behalf of Parisian firm KG Productions, in co-production with Belgium’s Stenola Productions and Canada’s Metafilms. Distribution in France will be overseen by Haut et Court.

Two first feature films in post-production are also arriving in the mk2 line-up: How To Have Sex [+see also:
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film profile] by Felipe Gálvez (likewise selected for Next Step), which was produced by Chile (Quijote Films) in co-production with Argentina (Rei Cine), Denmark (Snowglobe), the UK (Quiddity Films) and France (Ciné-Sud Promotion).

An exclusive clip of French director Justine Triet’s highly awaited Anatomy of a Fall [+see also:
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Other aces in post-production include Jim Capobianco’s American-French-Luxembourg-Irish animation The Inventor, Lubna Playoust’s French documentary Room 999 (working title: Situation – Views on the Future of Cinema) (whose director interviewed 29 famous filmmakers on the same subject in Cannes last year), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s French-Belgian production The Falling Star [+see also:
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Also worth a mention are the animated titles in production Mars Express [+see also:
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film profile] by Jérémie Périn (pre-sold via demo reel) and A Winter’s Journey by Alex Alfrecht, and, in pre-production, Paul Bolger’s Outfoxed!.

It’s considerable a line-up, set to be further enhanced by a number of other movies yet to be unveiled.

(Translated from French)