With one title in the race for the Golden Bear, a further film premiering in Panorama and an impressive eight films set to be presented as market screenings, world sales agent Beta Cinema seems all set for a successful Berlinale.

In particular, the company is pinning its hopes on Nora Fingscheidt’s Golden Bear contender System Crasher [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nora Fingscheidt
fiche film]. The director’s feature debut won the main Works in Progress Award at Les Arcs in December and centres on nine-year-old Benni, a troubled girl who gets expelled from school. “We are delighted to have secured System Crasher and to be working with Nora Fingscheidt. We consider her to be one of Germany’s most talented and exciting up-and-coming directors,” Tassilo Hallbauer, Beta Cinema’s vice-president of sales and acquisitions, stated. “The way she leads her terrific actors and creates emotions in System Crasher completely overwhelmed us. Benni grabbed us and just didn’t let go for weeks. Suffice it to say that we have barely ever seen a director exploring the complicated and varied psyche of a child in this much detail. But ultimately, it’s about the universal themes of love and rejection, and that’s why we believe in the great international potential of this wonderful film.”

Also sparkling on Beta Cinema’s line-up is Edward Berger's episodic family drama All My Loving [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sven Taddicken
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interview : Florian Henckel von Donner…
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interview : Marcus H. Rosenmüller
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interview : Wolfgang Fischer
fiche film]. The latter four are also scheduled to be presented as market screenings.

At Berlin, Beta Cinema will also be organising market screenings of Mack the Knife [+lire aussi :
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interview : Emma Drogunova
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Lastly, the company also boasts some eagerly awaited projects on its pre-sales slate, including Karl Markovics’ Nobadi [+lire aussi :
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