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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andreas Dresen
scheda 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 [+leggi anche:
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In the Encounters strand, Beta Cinema will showcase Arcadia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Yorgos Zois
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intervista: Yorgos Lanthimos
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
scheda film]). World rights are available, excluding Greece and Bulgaria.

The first market premiere is that of Goebbels and the Führer [+leggi anche:
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The second market premiere is for Per Fly’s IFFR-screened film Hammarskjöld [+leggi anche:
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Finally, the third market premiere is that of Familiar [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Călin Peter Netzer
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intervista: 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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (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.