German world sales and co-financing outfit Beta Cinema will visit this year’s European Film Market (15-21 February) with a line-up including one competition title, one Encounters title, three market premieres, three market screenings and five projects currently in the works.

The slate is led by Andreas Dresen’s new effort, From Hilde, With Love [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andreas Dresen
fiche film] (Germany), set to play in the Berlinale’s main competition. The story is set in Berlin in 1942, and the cast includes Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin), Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner (The Pool) and Alexander Scheer (Gundermann [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Sun Alley). It zooms in on Hilde, a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member called Hans. The pair spends a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned while she is eight months pregnant. World rights are available, excluding German-speaking territories and the former Yugoslavia.

In the Encounters strand, Beta Cinema will showcase Arcadia [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]). A Greek-Bulgarian-US co-production, the film’s plot focuses on radiant psychologist Katerina, who has to confront her worst suspicions as she accompanies Yannis, a once-respected doctor, to identify the victim of a tragic car accident at an off-season seaside resort. The cast is led by Vangelis Mourikis (The King, Digger [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Yorgos Lanthimos
fiche film]). World rights are available, excluding Greece and Bulgaria.

The first market premiere is that of Führer and Seducer by Joachim A Lang (Germany/Slovakia). In it, the director of Mack the Knife [+lire aussi :
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The second market premiere is for Per Fly’s IFFR-screened film Hammarskjöld [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Sweden/South Africa). The picture sees Mikael Persbrandt (In a Better World [+lire aussi :
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Finally, the third market premiere is that of Familiar [+lire aussi :
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interview : Călin Peter Netzer
fiche film] (Romania/France/Taiwan). World-premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and helmed by Child’s Pose [+lire aussi :
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interview : Calin Peter Netzer
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Next, the Manetti brothers’ crime flick Diabolik – Who Are You? (Italy/France), Hanna Slak’s mother-and-son tale Not a Word [+lire aussi :
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Finally, Beta Cinema will be bringing along five projects currently in the works – namely, BAFTA winner Nick Hamm’s high-budget epic William Tell (UK), Tom Tykwer’s drama The Light (Germany), Jessica Hobbs’ Helena Bonham Carter-led The Offing (UK – see the news), and Hayley Easton Street’s “international eco-thriller” The Climb (UK), starring Cara Delevingne, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Hannah John-Kamen in the leading roles.