Four features immersed in pre-sales, four more getting virtual market screenings and five completed films: the Memento Films International team, managed by Emilie Georges and guided by head of sales Mathieu Delaunay (aided by Alexandre Moreau), will certainly have a very varied range of ammunition at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film Online (22-26 June).

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One particularly notable recent addition to the slate is February [+lee también:
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Also shining bright on Memento’s line-up are three films that were first announced at the EFM: A Hero by Iran’s Asghar Farhadi (which is being shot this summer), the spy thriller featuring a female protagonist Huda’s Salon [+lee también:
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The virtual market screenings include This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by France’s Martin Provost (which will return to French cinemas on 22 June after getting off to a flying start just before the start of the lockdown).