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CANNES 2019 Marché du Film

Be For Films touting the Directors’ Fortnight-selected Tlamess

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- The subsidiary of French group Playtime, founded in Brussels five years ago, will be at Cannes to promote the new film by Tunisia’s Ala Eddine Slim, among others

Be For Films touting the Directors’ Fortnight-selected Tlamess
Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim

Tlamess [+see also:
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interview: Ala Eddine Slim
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]
, which is being sold internationally by Brussels-based outfit Be For Films, is the second feature by Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim, whose feature debut, The Last of Us, took home two awards from the 2016 Venice Film Festival. The film tells the story of S, a young soldier in the Tunisian desert. When his mother dies, he gets a week’s leave and goes back home. But he never returns to the barracks and becomes the target of a manhunt through the backstreets of his working-class neighbourhood, before vanishing into the mountains. Several years later, a young woman married to a rich businessman finds out that she’s pregnant. One morning, she disappears into the forest… The movie was produced by Exit Productions (Tunisia) and Still Moving (France).

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Five years ago, Pamela Leu moved to Brussels to start running Be For Films, a new player in the international sales market and the Belgian subsidiary of French firm Playtime. Buoyed by a catalogue that includes myriad movies screened at a range of festivals, Be For Films champions arthouse films hailing from many different backgrounds.

The company will also be presenting Stars by the Pound by France’s Marie-Sophie Chambon (see the news) at Cannes, where it will be part of the Cannes Ecrans Junior programme. The firm will also be organising market screenings for Victor & Célia [+see also:
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 by Pierre JolivetEscapada [+see also:
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interview: Sarah Hirtt
film profile
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, the feature debut by young Belgian director Sarah HirttThe Best of Dorien B. [+see also:
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interview: Anke Blondé
film profile
]
, another feature debut by Belgian helmer Anke Blonde, and the Belgian documentary My Name is Clitoris [+see also:
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]
 by Daphné Leblond and Lisa Billuart-Monet.

In the coming months, Be For Films will be handling the international sales of Tench [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Patrice Toye
film profile
]
 by Patrice Toye, the very first images of which will be shown at the market, as well as those of Just Kids [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Anamaria Vartolomei
interview: Christophe Blanc
film profile
]
 by Christophe Blanc, and the Belgian films The Barefoot Emperor [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jessica Woodworth
film profile
]
 by Peter Brosens and Jessica WoodworthWorking Girls [+see also:
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interview: Anne Paulicevich and Frédér…
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]
 by Frédéric FonteyneCleo [+see also:
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film profile
]
 by Eva Cools, and Into Dad's Woods [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Véro Cratzborn
film profile
]
 by Vero Cratzborn (see the news).

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(Translated from French)

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