06/02/2013 - The Parisian company launches pre-sales of the Italian director's new movie, currently being filmed with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Valeria Golina

An enticing line-up at the European Film Market at the 63rd Berlinale (February 7th to 17th) for the French international sales company Bac Films, which will be launching the pre-sales of Human Capital, the new film directed by Paolo Virzi of Italy (award-winner in Venice in 1997, among others, and a candidate representing his homeland for the Oscar 2011 for the Best Foreign Language Film with The First Beautiful Thing [+see also:
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With nine weeks' filming commenced on Monday, the film, which is the filmmaker's 11th feature, proposes a cast with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. Adapted from the best-seller of the same title by Amercian novelist Stephen Amidon, the screenplay starts out near Lake Como with a cyclist knocked down by a jeep on Christmas Eve. What had happened exactly, and how will the accident change the destiny of two families (the wealthy Bernaschis and the Rovellis, who are facing bankcruptcy) ? Piloted by Indiana Productions, Human Capital is co-produced by RAI Cinema and the French company Manny Films.

In Berlin, Gilles Sousa's team will also be handling the pre-sales of the thriller The Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (revealed in the Critics' Week in Cannes in 2008 with Blood Appears): shooting will begin in March, with Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Braga topping the bill. Unveiled at the American Film Market, this project co-produced by Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and France takes us right to the heart of a chase in the jungle.

Also featured on the line-up, L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (The Strange Color of your Body’s Tears – article) from the Hélène Cattet – Bruno Forzani duo (French filmmakers living in Brussels), a Franco-Belgian-Luxembourg co-production currently in post-production, to be ready in the spring. After the cult movie Amer, the pair have tackled a thriller triggered by a woman's disappearance. Her husband asks himself: has she left him? Is she dead? A search that will propel him into a world of nightmare and violence.

In a market screening, Bac Films will also propose The Deep [+see also:
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(Translated from French)