08/02/2017 - With a line-up featuring Annette by Leos Carax, I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni and A Polar Year by Samuel Collardey

Ten titles, three of which are brand new, comprise the line-up of French international sales company Kinology, which intends to do well at the European Film Market of the 67^th Berlinale (9-19 February 2017), where it will most notably continue pre-sales for English-language film Annette by Leos Carax, filming on which has been announced for the beginning of next summer with American star Adam Driver heading up the cast and the participation of Rihanna. Recently supported in co-production and pre-sales by Arte France Cinéma, the 6^th feature film by the cult filmmaker of Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais sang, Les amants du Pont-Neuf, Pola X and Holy Motors [+see also:
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Kinology’s line-up also includes a film currently in post-production which become the object of desire of a great many sellers when it was presented in December at Work-in-Progress at the Les Arcs European Film Festival: I Am Not a Witch [+see also:
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The team led by Grégoire Melin (supported by Gaëlle Mareschi) will also use Berlin to kick off pre-sales for A Polar Year [+see also:
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The third new addition to Kinology’s line-up is Spirou & Fantasio’s Great Adventures by Alexandre Coffre (Borderline [+see also:
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Currently in post-production are two English-language genre films by hard-hitting French filmmakers: French-Canadian horror flick Incident in a Incident in a Ghost Land [+see also:
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Currently in pre-production is Girls With Balls [+see also:
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(Translated from French)