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BERLINALE 2013 Market

Three films in the Panorama for MPM Film

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- New talents and worldwide cinema in the young Parisian company’s line-up, with Workers topping the bill

Launched in autumn 2011, the international sales activities of MPM Film (a production company founded in 2007 by Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre) have rapidly found their place on the markets. At the European Film Market of the 63rd Berlinale, the team managed by Pierre Menahem will negotiate for three films selected for the Panorama. Amongst them, the Mexican-German coproduction Workers [+see also:
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 (photo) stands out. It is José Luis Valle’s first feature film, which relates the struggle of a man fighting for his retirement rights in Mexico and a cleaning lady whose employer becomes a dog due to an inheritance.

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At the Panorama, MPM Film will also be counting on the British-Lebanese documentary A World Not Yours by Mahdi Fleifel (which premiered in Toronto) and the Argentine-Brazilian feature film Habi, The Foreigner by Maria Florencia Alvarez.

Market screenings will also include the premieres of the American-British coproduction Museum Hours [+see also:
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by Jem Cohen (set in Vienna and rewarded by the CICAE in Lugarno), the Turkish-German feature film Mold [+see also:
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by Ali Aydin (Lion of the Future at the previous Mostra in Venice) and A Month in Thailand [+see also:
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by Romanian director Paul Negoescu (widely praised at the Critics' Week in Venice and selected for numerous international festivals).  

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(Translated from French)

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