Champions [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. The movie produced by Morena Films and distributed in Spain by Universal, which has already been sold in France (Le Pacte), Germany (Concorde), Switzerland (Praesens), Italy (Movies Inspired) and as far afield as China (Joy Pictures), will be on show at the upcoming European Film Market, and its sales will be handled by Spanish sales agent Latido Films, which also has another premier-league film in its catalogue: the fantasy-drama When the Trees Fall [+lire aussi :
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Other co-productions being handled by Latido include: Mi obra maestra [+lire aussi :
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interview : Rodrigo Sorogoyen
interview : Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel …
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Another animated title is Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas by Carlos Hernández, a film based on the creations of illustrator Paco Roca (see the news) and again toplined by Raúl Arévalo. There is also a documentary in the guise of Altamira: the origin of art [+lire aussi :
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Lastly, three other titles stand out particularly in the catalogue of Latido, a company dedicated to promoting Spanish film beyond the Iberian Peninsula: the Colombian flick The Sacrifice by Jaime Osorio, the Argentinian documentary El mejor sommelier del mundo by Nicolás Carreras, and the Argentinian-Colombian co-production Killing Jesus by Laura Mora, which made a huge splash at the most recent Toronto, Chicago and San Sebastián Film Festivals, among others.