07/02/2025 - The French sales agent will be betting on Ancestral Visions of the Future in Berlinale Special, and on Dreams in Nightmares and The Ugly Stepsister in the Panorama section

It is with a beautiful line-up that French sales agent Memento International (directed by Émilie Georges) will land at the European Film Market (13-19 February) of the 75th Berlinale. Good deals are therefore on the horizon, in particular thanks to three films in Official Selection.

The documentary Ancestral Visions of the Future [+see also:
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The Memento International sales team led by Alexandre Moreau will be negotiating for two titles selected in Panorama. The former, the US-Taiwanese-British production Dreams in Nightmares by US filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford, centres on three thirty-something black and queer women going on a trip through the Midwest in search of a lost friend. The latter, The Ugly Stepsister [+see also:
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At the EFM, Memento International will also be surfing on Atropia by Hailey Gates, winner of the Grand Prize in the US Dramatic competition in Sundance, a film produced by the Ways & Means (US), Luca Guadagnino for Frenesy Films (Italy) and Naima Abed and Émilie Georges for Paradise City (France-UK).

Also in the lineup are the films in post-production Unidentified by Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour, the Italian-French co-production Primavera by Damiano Michieletto (led by Indigo Film and starring Tecla Insolia and Michele Riondino in the part of Antonio Vivaldi) and Nino In Paradise by Belgian filmmaker Laurent Micheli (article). And lest we forget Arenas [+see also:
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(Translated from French)