Launched last May, international sales company Best Friend Forever, the Belgian branch of Parisian company Indie Sales, will be well armed at the European Film Market of the 70^th Berlinale with four of its features selected, one of them in Panorama, one in the new competitive section Encounters, and two in Forum.

French documentary If It Were Love [+lee también:
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entrevista: Patric Chiha
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ficha de la película] (unveiled in the Panorama section of the 2016 Berlinale). Adapted from Gisèle Vienne’s Crowd, this new work follows 15 young dancers of various origins on tour with a show exploring the rave scene of the 1990s. From theatre to theatre, their work evolves and develops into strange and intimate relations. Is the rave scene contaminating life, or the opposite? Production was handled by Charlotte Vincent for Parisian company Aurora Films.

Best Friend Forever will also be presented in the brand new competitive section Encounters with Camilo Restrepo’s Los conductos [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], a feature debut co-produced by France (5 à 7 Films), Colombia (Mutokino and Montañero Cine) and Brazil (If You Hold A Stone). Set in Medellin, the story centres on Pinky who is on the run, having just escaped from the grip of a religious sect. As he finds a place to stay and a job in a factory, he questions everything around him. But while putting the puzzle of his broken life back together, violent memories return to haunt him with a vengeance…

The Best Friend Forever team led by Martin Gondre and Charles Bin will also be negotiating on two other feature films presented in the Forum section. Award-winning Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude (winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2015 Berlinale for Aferim! [+lee también:
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entrevista: Radu Jude
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Also worth noting is the addition to the line-up of French film I Comete - A Corsican Summer, currently in post-production, directed by and starring Pascal Tagnati who will be acting alongside Jean-Christophe Folly (Blind Spot [+lee también:
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At the European Film Market, Best Friend Forever will be showing Valley of Souls [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] from Belgian/Colombian filmmaker Nicolás Rincón Gille (discovered in Busan, winner in Marrakech and recently shown in the Voices section of Rotterdam) and closing sales on Atlantis [+lee también:
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entrevista: Valentyn Vasyanovych
ficha de la película] from Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych (winner of the Best Film award in the Orizzonti section in Venice, shown in Toronto and awarded at both Les Arcs and Tromsø) and on Oleg [+lee también:
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entrevista: Juris Kursietis
ficha de la película] from Latvian director Juris Kursietis (revealed in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes).