Major festivals come and go and continue to smile on French international sales agency Luxbox (directed by Fiorella Moretti). After Cannes (Légua [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mohamed Ben Attia
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ficha de la película] and Ex-Husbands in competition) and most recently Sundance (with the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition and a special acting award for Girls Will Be Girls [+lee también:
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Standing out among them is Who Do I Belong To [+lee también:
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Jennyfer Gautier’s sales team at Luxbox will also be presenting in Berlin the Argentine-German-Swiss co-production Reas [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Lola Arias, screening in the Forum section, a hybrid musical comedy set in a Buenos Aires prison (a Gema Films and Sutor Kolonko production with Mira Films as co-producers) with Martín Benchimol as director of photography.

Finally, Luxbox will also be selling Through Rocks and Clouds (Raíz) by Peru’s Franco García Becerra, which will be presented in the Generation Kplus section. The story centres on Feliciano, an eight-year-old alpaca herder, who is euphoric: Peru has the chance to qualify for the World Cup! But the machinations of a mining company endanger his village and threaten Feliciano’s world and his dreams…