11/05/2017 - MK2 will be showcasing movies such as Radiance, which is vying for the Palme d'Or, plus April’s Daughter and Until the Birds Return in Un Certain Regard

Radiance by Naomi Kawase

The international sales team of MK2 Films, managed by Juliette Schrameck and headed up by Fionnuala Jamison, is gearing up to head to the Film Market of the 70th Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May) bearing an impressive line-up of 16 titles. Standing out among these features are three major assets that have been accepted into the Official Selection: Radiance [+see also:
film review
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film profile] by Japan’s Naomi Kawase in competition (a minority French co-production via Comme des Cinémas, set to be distributed in France on 20 September by Haut et Court) and, in Un Certain Regard, April’s Daughter by Mexico’s Michel Franco (sales shared with Protagonist Pictures) and the French-German-Algerian co-production Until the Birds Return [+see also:
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interview: Karim Moussaoui
film profile] by Karim Moussaoui (which will go on general release in French theatres on 8 November, courtesy of Ad Vitam).

At the Film Market, MK2 will continue pre-selling Money & Love by Chinese master Jia Zhangke (in pre-production and being co-produced by MK2), Cold War by Oscar-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikovski (see the article – currently in production – sales shared with Protagonist Pictures) and the French-Swiss project P.E.A.R.L. [+see also:
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interview: Elsa Amiel
film profile] by Elsa Amiel (starring Peter Mullan), the shoot for which is set to kick off imminently.

Among the well-stocked selection of films in post-production, MK2’s international sales team will continue working on shifting the documentary Maria by Callas [+see also:
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film profile] by Tom Volf, The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian (see the news), Mrs Hyde by Serge Bozon (see the article), Une saison en France [+see also:
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interview: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
film profile] by Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, M by Sara Forestier (see the article – with a new promo reel), If You Saw His Heart [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Joan Chemla (see the article – toplined by Gael García Bernal and Marine Vacth), Château by Modi Barry and Cédric Ido (see the article), Look Up by Italy’s Fulvio Risuleo (see the news), the doc Faithfull by Sandrine Bonnaire, and The Trouble With You [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Salvadori
film profile] by Pierre Salvadori.

(Translated from French)