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BERLINALE 2015 Market / France

Indie Sales has high hopes for Dofus - Book I: Julith

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- Four brand-new titles are on the slate of this rapidly growing French sales agent, including the highly anticipated feature debut produced by Ankama Animations

Indie Sales has high hopes for Dofus - Book I: Julith
Dofus - Book I: Julith by Anthony Roux and Jean-Jacques Denis

Four new movies have been added to the line-up of Paris-based outfit Indie Sales, headed by Nicolas Eschbach, which will be sharing a stand with Memento at the European Film Market during the 65th Berlinale (5-15 February 2015).

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Pre-sales will get under way for three features currently in post-production: I'm All Yours [+see also:
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 by Baya Kasmi (read the article), French Blood [+see also:
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 by Diastème (read the article) and The New Kid [+see also:
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 by Rudi Rosenberg (read the news).

Also standing out among the new additions is the animated film Dofus - Book I: Julith [+see also:
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 by Anthony Roux and Jean-Jacques Denis, which is currently in production and is scheduled to get a release in French theatres in February 2016, courtesy of Gebeka. A new spin on the transmedia strategy being undertaken by Ankama (which is trying its hand at film production for the very first time), the movie lies at the crossroads of the stories developed in the successful online multiplayer game, the animated TV series and the comic books. The movie is set in the majestic city of Bonta, where young Joris happily whiles away his days in the magic shop owned by his adoptive father, Kerubim Crépin. But one day, when he decides to approach his lifelong idol, a Boufbowl megastar, he is gripped by a strange sensation. A sensation that may well put the entire city in jeopardy…

The array of post-production titles on Indie Sales’ slate also includes the Danish horror flick What We Become (Sorgenfri) by Bo Mikkelsen (read the article), for which a promo reel will be presented at Berlin, and the English-language thriller Don't Grow Up by Thierry Poiraud (read the article), which will also have a promo reel on offer.

Also of note among the post-production titles are two films that have their sights set on the upcoming major festivals and are being pre-sold based on their screenplays: The White Knights by Belgian director Joachim Lafosse (read the article – starring Vincent Lindon, Louise Bourgoin, Valérie Donzelli and Reda Kateb) and Maryland [+see also:
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 (working French title – international title: Close Protection) by French director Alice Winocour (with Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger toplining – read the article).

Two further features in post-production will be pre-sold at Berlin complete with a teaser to back them up: Suburra [+see also:
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 by Italy’s Stefano Sollima (read the article – who turned a lot of heads with his feature debut ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards [+see also:
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 and the Gomorra TV series) and Fast Convoy [+see also:
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 by Frédéric Schoendoerffer (read the article). Lastly, the line-up includes the Swiss-French animated film My Life as a Zucchini [+see also:
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 by Claude Barras (boasting a screenplay by Céline Sciamma), which is in production.

Finally, Journey to China [+see also:
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 by Zoltan Mayer (read the article – starring Yolande Moreau in the lead), the crime film The Night Watchman by Pierre Jolivet (read the news – starring Olivier Gourmet as the lead character), the Franco-Israeli feature Atlit by Shirel Amitay and the animated movie Moomins on the Riviera [+see also:
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 by Xavier Picard (read the news) are just some of the market screenings that will be taking place at Berlin.

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(Translated from French)

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