Primarily busy with the ten Golden Bear contenders (whose winner is set to be announced at the end of the afternoon tomorrow) gracing their line-ups (The Passengers of the Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mikhaël Hers
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intervista: Carla Simón
intervista: Carla Simón
intervista: Giovanni Pompili
scheda film] by Carla Simón for mk2 Films, The Line [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ursula Meier
scheda film] by Ursula Meier for Memento International, Both Sides of the Blade [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Claire Denis and Before, Now & Then by Kamila Andini for Wild Bunch International, Peter von Kant [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by François Ozon and Everything Will Be Ok [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rithy Panh
scheda film] by Rithy Panh for Playtime, Rimini [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ulrich Seidl
scheda film] by Ulrich Seidl for Coproduction Office, One Year, One Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isaki Lacuesta
scheda film] by Isaki Lacuesta for StudioCanal, and Un été comme ça by Denis Côté for Shellac), French international sales agents have also made the most of the spotlight offered by the (online) European Film Market - unfolding within the 72nd Berlinale - to announce some tantalising new titles.

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Coproduction Office created a buzz, kicking off pre-sales on Club Zero [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Austria’s Jessica Hausner and revealing its protagonist to be Australian star Mia Wasikowska (as a teacher in an elitist establishment who forges bonds with five pupils which take a dangerous turn). Filming on Hausner’s second English-language film after Little Joe [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (in competition in Cannes 2019, where it earned its lead the Best Actress award) is due to commence in July. For the record, the director has been selected for Cannes, within the Un Certain Regard section, an additional three times and has competed once in Venice in 2009. Club Zero is produced by Austria’s Coop99, Germany’s Essential Filmproduktion, Coproduction Office UK and French firm Parisienne de Production, with the backing of Eurimages, Arte France Cinéma and ZDF/Arte (as part of the Grand Accord agreement), as well as ORF, BBC Film, the Austrian Film Institute, the Vienna Film Fund, FISA (Film Industry Support Austria) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

Coproduction Office has likewise launched pre-sales on Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which is already in post-production and is the sequel to current Berlin competitor Rimini.

Another major name in the world of European arthouse cinema is set to join Pathé International’s line-up, namely Italian director Matteo Garrone and his movie Io Capitano [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which is due to start shooting in March. Selected to compete in Cannes four times (notably winning the Grand Prize in 2008 by way of Gomorrah [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and a Best Actor award for Dogman [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Matteo Garrone
scheda film] in 2018) and once in Berlin (in 2004), the filmmaker is steering production on his new opus via his company Archimede and with the support of RAI Cinema and Belgian-Luxembourg outfit Tarantula.

mk2 Films, meanwhile, has kicked off pre-sales on two new promising titles in post-production (read our news): Nezouh [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by the French director of Syrian origin Soudade Kaadan (the filmmaker’s second feature after The Day I Lost My Shadow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Soudade Kaadan
scheda film],  scooping Venice’s Film of the Future Lion in 2018), which was developed in Cannes’ Cinéfondation Workshop in 2019 and produced by British firm Berkeley Media Group alongside Zajal Productions and Parisian outfit Ex Nihilo; and Love Life [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kōji Fukada
scheda film] by Japan’s Kôji Fukada (who nabbed the Jury Prize within Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2016 for Harmonium [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and the 2020 Official Selection label for Fidèles), which is co-produced by Paris outfit Comme des Cinémas.

Last but not least, Elle Driver is staking its bets on La Maternal [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which is currently in post-production, and the second feature by Spain’s Pilar Palomero, who stormed her way onto the film scene with Schoolgirls [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pilar Palomero
scheda film] (unveiled in the Berlinale’s Generation programme in 2020, bagging itself four Goyas in 2021, including the title of Best Film, to name just a few).