On a hot streak after the 2018 edition, where it was selling five films from the Official Competition, the international sales team of French group mk2 Films, headed up by Juliette Schrameck (with help from Fionnuala Jamison), will be making its way to the Marché du Film at the 72^nd Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May) with equally high expectations, as four titles on its slate are in the running for the 2019 Palme d’Or.

You could even say that the future belongs to mk2 Films, given that the four titles in question are helmed by filmmakers who will be taking part in the Cannes competition for the first time (and three of whom are women): Portrait of a Lady on Fire [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Céline Sciamma
scheda film] by France’s Céline Sciamma (toplined by Adèle Haenel – due for release in France on 18 September, courtesy of Pyramide Distribution), Sibyl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Justine Triet
scheda film] by her fellow countrywoman Justine Triet (boasting a star-studded cast including Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Niels Schneider and Sandra Hüller – which will be distributed in French theatres by Le Pacte on the same day as its Cannes screening, 24 May), The Whistlers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Corneliu Porumboiu
scheda film] by Romania’s Corneliu Porumboiu (distributed in France by Diaphana) and the French-Belgian-Senegalese co-production Atlantics [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mati Diop
scheda film] by Mati Diop (a feature debut set to be released in France by Ad Vitam).

Interestingly, mk2 Films will be handling the French distribution of another hopeful for the Palme d’Or: Matthias & Maxime by Canada’s Xavier Dolan.

Also standing proud on the line-up is a feature debut by a female director that will be world-premiered in the Official Selection, as part of the Un Certain Regard programme: Port Authority [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by the USA’s Danielle Lessovitz. 

At the Marché du Film, mk2 Films will also be pressing on with pre-sales for several titles in post-production: Gloria Mundi [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Robert Guédiguian
scheda film] by Robert Guédiguian, Arab Blues [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Manele Labidi
scheda film] by Manele Labidi (see the article – with Golshifteh Farahani in the lead role), A Girl Missing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Japan’s Koji Fukada and the documentary Looking for Gilles Carion by Mariana Otero.