The traditional venues chosen by Film Europe to extend its movie portfolio on a regular basis are made up of the holy trinity of the festival circuit (Berlin, Cannes and Venice), on which the company also based its new Be2Can distribution model (read the news). Last year’s festival hits Son of Saul [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: László Nemes
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Q&A: Jacques Audiard
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scheda film]; the firm even ventured beyond the borders of the European continent, acquiring American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson’s cinematic essay Heart of a Dog [+leggi anche:
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The company went on a shopping spree at the 66^th edition of the Berlinale in order to add new oeuvres to the line-up of the upcoming Be2Can Festival in October. The new acquisitions include the Tunisian love story Hedi [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mohamed Ben Attia, the French-German drama Things to Come [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Mia Hansen-Løve
scheda film] by Mia Hansen-Løve, starring Isabelle Huppert, Thomas Vinterberg’s latest effort The Commune [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thomas Vinterberg
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Q&A: André Téchiné
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Q&A: Anne Zohra Berrached
scheda film] by Anne Zohra Berrached, and Bence Fliegauf’s latest film, Lily Lane [+leggi anche:
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Film Europe revealed the rest of its slate to Cineuropa, which boasts Michel Gondry’s comedy Microbe & Gasoil [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and Nils Gaup’s Nordic epic The Last King [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nils Gaup
scheda film]. Among the other recent arrivals is Emir Kusturica’s eagerly awaited first fiction feature since 2007’s Promise Me This [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], On the Milky Road [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], starring the director himself and Monica Bellucci. Another film currently in post-production which is bound to be added to Film Europe’s line-up is Bertrand Bonello’s Paris Is Happening [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
scheda film], which tackles the topics of riots and terrorism.

The company managed to secure several titles ahead of their premieres – most notably some films rumoured to be unveiled at Cannes: Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Fille de Brest [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]; the US-Danish horror-thriller The Neon Demon, starring Keanu Reeves and Elle Fanning, and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn; the Belgian film The Unknown Girl [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne
scheda film] by the Dardenne brothers; Hirokazu Koreeda’s offbeat family drama After the Storm; the long-awaited epic mystical documentary Voyage of Time [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Terrence Malick; and Jerome Salle’s adventure biopic about the Cousteau family, The Odyssey [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]. Besides the projects in post-production, Film Europe has already acquired one project preparing to enter the production stage: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s sophomore feature, Luxembourg (read the news).