Film Europe Media Company has grown in size and strength by shopping for titles at the three biggest festivals, which have then become regular fodder for its own Be2Can festival and brand (read the news), assimilated into a multi-level distribution model. “Our niche is around 60 titles annually from the main competitions at the Berlinale, Cannes and Venice,” says Ivan Hronec (read the interview), the company’s CEO. After just one (yet spot-on) acquisition from this year’s Berlinale, Ildikó Enyedi’s Golden Bear-winning film On Body and Soul [+lee también:
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Film Europe’s Cannes slate consists of Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to The Lobster [+lee también:
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
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entrevista: Sergei Loznitsa
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entrevista: Andrey Zvyagintsev
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entrevista: Ruben Östlund
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
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Q&A: Arnaud Desplechin
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The latest acquisitions thus enter the Film Europe library, and the company has stated that its mission is to build “a festival library of the highest quality and bring the audience uncompromising referential cinema quality at all levels of distribution”. The domestic audience will be able to see the films in October during the Be2Can event in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. “The Be2Can concept is unique, but not only in Central Europe,” says Hronec. “I can reveal that we are preparing to expand it beyond the borders of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.”