International sales agent Beta Cinema has announced its slate for the upcoming Virtual Marché du Film (22-26 June). Seven of its films will have market screenings, and eight upcoming projects will be available to tempt attending industry professionals looking to strike some deals.

The company is bringing Dani Levy’s The Kangaroo Chronicles [+lee también:
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Two films will have private screenings. They are Corvidae, the debut feature by Joe Marcantonio, a psychological thriller that follows a pregnant young woman who finds herself surrounded by her dead boyfriend's peculiar family, from whom she can’t escape; and The Report [+lee también:
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entrevista: Peter Bebjak
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As for the rest of the Virtual Marché du Film’s screenings, the German company is showcasing four films: Berlin Alexanderplatz [+lee también:
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entrevista: Burhan Qurbani
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entrevista: Stéphanie Chuat y Véroniqu…
ficha de la película] by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, which both had their world premieres in the main competition of the 70^th Berlinale, along with Narcissus and Goldmund [+lee también:
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Lastly, Beta Cinema will be negotiating deals for eight upcoming features that are all in post-production, including the drama Nowhere Special by Uberto Pasolini (Still Life [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Stefan Ruzowitzky; the screen adaptation of the famous Italian crime comic book series Diabolik by the Manetti Bros (see the news); and the topsy-turvy romantic comedy Hello Again [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Maggie Peren (Colour of the Ocean [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]). The firm will also be touting three feature debuts: the dramas My Son by Lena Stahl, The Bike Thief [+lee también:
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