The UK’s Taskovski Films has announced that it has picked up the worldwide rights for Sanctuary [+leggi anche:
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“We strongly believe that filmmakers and actors can contribute to the protection of our planet and the environment we live in. We believe that ‘we are what we watch’ and that by distributing these films, we are, together with filmmakers, contributing to bringing about the change that we would like to see in the world,” says Irena Taskovski, founder and managing director of Taskovski Films. “It is an enormous pleasure to work with Morena Films and Javier Bardem, and to share our passion for cinema and the planet as our home.”

Taskovski is bringing the title to the European Film Market (20-27 February) along with four other documentaries screening at the Berlinale. Three of these are in the Forum section: Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă's Holocaust-centred, black-and-white, experimental documentary The Exit of the Trains [+leggi anche:
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The fifth Taskovski title that the company will be offering at the EFM is Andrey Gryazev's The Foundation Pit, a found-footage documentary on censorship in Putin's Russia. The film will world-premiere in Panorama Dokumente.