31/01/2013 - It’s All So Quiet by Nanouk Leopold and Parade by Olivier Meyrou, both selected for the Panorama, also stand out in this very rich line-up

One year after the success of the Canadian feature film War Witch (still in the running for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), the French international sales company Films Distribution will arrive with high hopes at the 63rdedition of the Berlinale, to begin on February 7th. Harmony Lessons [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Emir Baigazin (photo) is indeed present in the line-up competing for a Golden Bear. This first feature film by a 28 year-old Kazakh filmmaker was co-produced by the German companies The Post Republic and Rohfim. The screenplay delves to the heart of the conflict between the individual and marginalizing and violent mechanisms, through the misfortunes of an adolescent who dares to stand up to ostracism and blackmail, at the risk of destroying himself.

At the European Film Market, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and François Yon’s team will also be selling two titles selected for the Panorama: It’s All So Quiet [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nanouk Leopold
film profile] (article) by Dutch director Nanouk Leopold, and the documentary Parade [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by French director Olivier Meyrou (Hold Up Films production), centered around a trapeze artist paralyzed from the waist down after a fall, who starts to work again with two young acrobats.

Market screenings will feature the worldwide premiere of the comedy The True Life of Teachers (article) by the duo Emmanuel Klotz – Albert Pereira-Lazaro. An exciting wave of promo-reels is also on the menu with images from A Castle in Italy (article) by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Aga by Hiner Saleem, Domestic Life (article) by Isabelle Czajka, the animated film Ogy and the Cockroaches by Olivier Jean-Marie, The Brotherhood of Tears (article) by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Cupcakes by Israeli director Eytan Fox, and the pre-apocalyptic and footballistic Goal of the Dead by the Benjamin Rocher - Thierry Poiraud duo.

The rest of the line-up from Films Distribution promises a radiant future with, amongst the titles to come: Bird People (news) by Pascale Ferran, Suzanne (article) by Katell Quillévéré, Eastern Boys (news) by Robin Campillo, Vandal (article) by Hélier Cisterne, Playing Dead (article) by Jean-Paul Salomé, the Franco-Israeli comedy Kidon by Emmanuel Naccache, Salvo by Italian duo Fabio Grassadonia – Antonio Piazza, Via Castellana bandiera by their compatriot Emma Dante, Wandering Stars by German director Benjamin Heisenberg, Xenia by Greek director Panos Koutras and Saint-Laurent by Bertrand Bonello.

(Translated from French)