Three months after a smoking European Film Market topped off with the Golden Bear awarded to Mati Diop’s Dahomey [+leggi anche:
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Les Films du Losange will firstly be negotiating on behalf of two titles due to be unveiled in the Cannes Première line-up: Miséricorde [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alain Guiraudie
scheda film] by French director Alain Guiraudie and the medium-length movie C'est pas moi by his compatriot Leos Carax (produced by CG Cinéma and Théo Films together with Arte France Cinéma and Scala Films), which sees the director responding to a simple question ("where are you at?") asked by the Pompidou Centre by way of lots of enquiries about the man himself and his work.

Three other titles featuring in the Official Selection steal focus within Les Films du Losange’s line-up: The Damned [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Italy’s Roberto Minervini within the Un Certain Regard section, Filmlovers by French director Arnaud Desplechin in a special screening, and Les années déclic by fellow French filmmaker Raymond Depardon (a restored version of the 1984 movie) within the Cannes Classics line-up.

The French sales agent will also be selling La prisonnière de Bordeaux [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Patricia Mazuy
scheda film] by French director Patricia Mazuy, which is set to enjoy its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight, as well as representing – on the post-production side - Sicilian Letters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fabio Grassadonia e Antoni…
scheda film] by Italian filmmakers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (awarded the Grand Prize in Critics’ Week 2013 thanks to Salvo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fabio Grassadonia e Antoni…
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Last but not least, the Marché du Film will see Les Films du Losange rounding off sales on Mati Diop’s Golden Bear winner Dahomey, as well as on Danish director Gustav Möller’s Sons [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nicolas Philibert
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intervista: Nicolas Philibert
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