02/05/2014 - Selected in competition, the Nuri Bilge Ceylan film shines in the line-up, with two more standing out in the Directors’ Fortnight

The French sales company Memento Films International, which with great regularity places its biggest titles in great festivals across the world, will once more be present during the 67^th Cannes Festival (14-25 May). In the line-up are a Palme d’Or contender and two feature length films in the Directors’ Fortnight.

Shining especially bright is Winter Sleep [+see also:
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Memento will also take care of the two films selected for the Directors’ Fortnight: road movie Refugiado [+see also:
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On the Croisette, the team directed by Emilie Georges and guided by Tanja Meissner will reveal its market premiere Mr. Kaplan [+see also:
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At the market, Memento will present a promoreel of a film in post-production called Still Alice by duo Richard Glatzer - Wash Westmoreland (with Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin and Kate Bosworth in the cast - a feature length film once more financed by BSM Studio), which will follow pre-sales for the screenplay of American feature going through pre-production The Free World by Jason Lee (with Cillian Murphy and Bryce Dallas Howard).

Screenings in the Memento stand will include Look Charmer by Natalia Smirnoff (discovered at Sundance) and ecological Austrian documentary Energized by Hubert Canaval. The company will definitely provide more details from the Croisette – perhaps surrounding Louder than Bombs [+see also:
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(Translated from French)