Steered by Fionnuala Jamison, mk2 Films’ international sales team might be counting on American director Tina Satter’s Reality at the European Film Market, unspooling within the 73rd Berlinale (running 16 – 26 February), a movie due for presentation within the Panorama line-up, but it’s mostly works with potential for the very near future which are set to dominate their line-up, with 11 titles in post-production and three in production.

Without a doubt, the star attraction amongst these new works is The Successor [+leggi anche:
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Two first feature films in post-production are also arriving in the mk2 line-up: How To Have Sex [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Felipe Gálvez
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An exclusive clip of French director Justine Triet’s highly awaited Anatomy of a Fall [+leggi anche:
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Other aces in post-production include Jim Capobianco’s American-French-Luxembourg-Irish animation The Inventor, Lubna Playoust’s French documentary Room 999 (working title: Situation – Views on the Future of Cinema) (whose director interviewed 29 famous filmmakers on the same subject in Cannes last year), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s French-Belgian production The Falling Star [+leggi anche:
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Also worth a mention are the animated titles in production Mars Express [+leggi anche:
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It’s considerable a line-up, set to be further enhanced by a number of other movies yet to be unveiled.