10/02/2011

With three films selected in the different sections at the 61st Berlin Film Festival, which kicks off today, French international seller Films Distribution intends to strike some successful deals at the European Film Market where it will sell 21 titles in total.

Standing out in the line-up are Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile] (see news), which will open the Panorama; directorial duo Jean-Loup Feliciolli and Alain Gagnol’s animated film A Cat in Paris [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see news), which will have its international premiere in the Generation section; and Dutch director Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement [+see also:
trailer
film profile], set to screen in the Forum.

The market will unspool the world premieres of José Alcala’s Fabienne (see news); and Maurice Barthélémy’s comedy Low Cost. Other screenings include My Wife’s Romance by Djamshed Usmonov (see news); Burning Desire by Bernard Jeanjean (see news); No Trespassing [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Hélène Angel (see news); and My Buddy [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Marc Esposito.

At Berlin, Films Distribution will also sell, on the basis of promo-reels, a slew of enticing films in post-production, including Mia Hansen-Love’s Goodbye First Love (see news); Jens Lien’s Sons of Norway; Vincent Garenq’s Guilty (see news); Danielle Arbid’s Beirut Hotel; Robert Guédiguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro (see news); Julie Delpy’s Skylab (see news); Lars Blumers’s Mike (see news); Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance (see news); Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de Flore; and Marina Zenovich’s documentary Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out.

Rounding off this impressive line-up are three new titles: 11 Flowers by China’s Wang Xiaoshuai, Stella Days by Ireland’s Thaddeus O’Sullivan and Kids Stories by Siegfried (Sansa).

(Translated from French)