Les Films du Losange looks ahead to the future in Berlin

by Fabien Lemercier

06/02/2025 - The French sales agent will kick off pre-sales on hotly anticipated works The Chronology of Water by Kristen Stewart and Resurrection by Bi Gan

Les Films du Losange looks ahead to the future in Berlin

Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots on the set of The Chronology of Water (© Andrejs Strokins)

The final preparations are under way for the European Film Market (running from 13-19 February), unspooling within the 75th Berlinale, for the international sales department of French firm Les Films du Losange, which is also keeping an eye on upcoming festival deadlines. The team led by Alice Lesort will be pre-selling two films in post-production, which feature among the most hotly anticipated works of the new season: The Chronology of Water by US director Kristen Stewart and Resurrection by China’s Bi Gan, two features involving French production outfit CG Cinema.

Marking the directorial feature film debut of famed actress Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water notably stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Kim Gordon and Jim Belushi in its cast. Adapted by the neo-filmmaker, in league with Andy Mingo and Lidia Yuknavitch, from the latter’s book of the same name, the story revolves around a young woman called Lidia who’s growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol and who’s struggling to find her way. She manages to escape her family and to get a university place where she takes refuge in literature. Little by little, words begin to offer her unexpected freedom...

After Kaili Blues (which scooped Best Director in Locarno 2015) and the hypnotic work Long Day’s Journey Into Night [+see also:
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