Match Factory picks up Fliegauf’s Womb
by Annika Pham
The Match Factory, the sales agent behind Gigante [+see also:
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The new film by Fliegauf, who won the Golden Leopard at Locarno 2007 for Milky Way, is, according to Match Factory Managing Director Michael Weber, “one of the most touching and impressive love stories” of recent times. Womb is being produced by Roman Paul and Gerhard Meixner (Waltz with Bashir [+see also:
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The Match Factory has two other titles in Official Selection: The Milk of Sorrow [+see also:
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The much anticipated ensemble piece Germany 09 by some of the country’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers – including Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders and Tom Tykwer – is screening as part of Perspective Deutsche Kino, and Andreas Dresen’s Cloud Nine [+see also:
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