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market premiere to epic Finnish drama Once Upon A Time In The North. Another new pick-up is Uncle Hank, the new feature from Elbert van Strien, whose Two Eyes Staring sold widely last year in Cannes. German outfi t Aktis Film is giving an interna-
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Swedish drama Eat Sleep Die, and two new projects from Swedish production outfit Atmo — Betty Bangkok, starring Clark Johnson from The Wire, and Viking Line, a feature from Stefan Constanti- nescu, whose short Family Dinner screens in Crit- ics’ Week. TrustNordisk is holding its fi rst market screen-
ings of Norwegian action-adventure Escape, Swed- ish thriller Easy Money II, and Anti Jokinen’s intense family drama Purge. TrustNordisk will be pre-selling Bekas, Karzan Kader’s drama about two homeless boys in Kurdish Iraq who become obsessed by Superman. Now in post-production, the fi lm is being touted as “a Swedish Slumdog Mil- lionaire”. Also up for pre-sales is Mikkel Norgaard’s police thriller The Keeper Of Lost Causes. TrustNor- disk will be screening a promo of glacier-set action thriller Frost and has Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt (already selling well) in Competition. Show- ing an appetite for culinary cinema, TrustNordisk is also presenting Zentropa Spain’s new comedy, Tasting Menu, about a separated couple who meet again at the best restaurant in the world the night before it closes. Dutch producers Fu Works and Talent United Film will be presenting footage of Ate De Jong’s now-shooting The Bombardment, an epic story about the bombing of Rotterdam during the Sec- ond World War. Dutch Filmworks has taken Dutch rights.
Rai Trade will be giving a market premiere to Marco Tullio Giordana’s Piazza Fontana: The Ital- ian Conspiracy (aka Story Of A Massacre). The fi lm, which won multiple nominations for Italy’s Don- atello awards, is about the Piazza Fontana bomb- ing in 1969 in Milan.
Another Italian seller, Intra Movies, is giving a world premiere in the market to The Lithium Con- spiracy, Davide Marengo’s drama set against the backdrop of the fight for natural resources in developing countries.
Adriana Chiesa is selling new feature doc Giuseppe Tornatore: Every Film My First Film. The fi lm, currently in post-production, features interviews with many of Tornatore’s collabora- tors and admirers. Chiesa is also holding the fi rst market screenings of romantic teen comedy 10 Rules For Falling In Love, directed by Cristiano Bortone.
Feature docs continue to have traction in the market. Svensk is holding closed market screen- ings of new feature doc Liv & Ingmar. Backed by the Norwegian Film Institute, Dheeraj Akolkar’s
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tional market premiere to Uta Arning’s coming-of- age fantasy love story Snowchild and is selling Orchestra Of Exiles, the new feature doc about Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jewish violin prod- igy who gave up his career to create an orchestra of Jewish musicians in the desert outback of Palestine in 1936. Arri Worldsales is presenting footage of Paula
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fi lm tells the story of the long personal and creative relationship between actress Liv Ullmann and revered Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Meanwhile, Austrian outfi t Autlook is bringing
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three new docs to Cannes: Eames: The Architect And The Painter; About Face: Supermodels Then And Now and Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. Spanish outfit DeAPlaneta is holding private screenings of thriller Operation E, set in Colombia in 2008 as fraught negotiations are held to save the baby of a hostage held by the FARC guerilla group. Directed by Miguel Courtois Paternina, the film stars Luis Tosar (Cell 211) and Martina Garcia (Bunker).
Latido is giving a market premiere to Argentin- ian title From Tuesday To Friday (from the produc- ers of Puzzle) and to All Is Silence, the new fi lm from Jose Luis Cuerda. The company will also be screen- ing festival hit Violeta Went To Heaven.
Meanwhile, Barcelona-based Filmax Interna- tional is presenting several genre projects among them I Will Die Tonight, the new horror pic from Miguel Angel Vivas (Kidnapped); Jor- dan Barker’s Spain-Canada co-produc- tion Torm , due to shoot at the end of the year; comedy thriller Stranded, scripted by Jaime Bartolome; and Patricia Ferreira’s Malaga Film Fes- tival winner The Wild Ones.
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Stockholm-based NonStop Sales has picked up a brace of Dutch titles: Threes Anna’s psy- chological drama Silent City and Jesse James Miller’s comedy drama Becoming Redwood which features songs by Cat Stevens and Phil Collins. It will also be giving a
van der Oest’s The Domino Effect. Produced by Kasander Film and with an international cast including James D’Arcy, the fi lm is about a group of different people across the world whose lives suddenly become connected because of the global fi nancial crisis. Arri will also have footage of fam- ily horror pic Vampire Sisters, based on the best- selling children’s book by Franziska Gehm. Sony will release in Germany. M-Appeal is beginning sales on Israeli title Out
In The Dark, directed by Michael Mayer and chart- ing the relationship between a Palestinian student and an Israeli lawyer. Madrid-based 6 Sales is presenting several new
fi lms, among them Fernando Trueba’s feature The Artist And The Model (which will hold private screenings). Co-scripted by Trueba alongside leg- endary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, whose credits include Belle De Jour and The Tin Drum, the story is about an elderly sculptor in occupied France in 1943 inspired by a beautiful young Span- ish refugee. 6 Sales will also be screening footage of Sebas-
tian Silva’s untitled thriller (formerly known as Magic Magic). Sony has already taken the US and Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, South Africa and Eastern Europe on the fi lm, starring Michael Cera and Juno Temple. 6 Sales is also presenting footage of Jonathan Newman’s fantasy adventure Mariah Mundi starring Michael Sheen and Mark Strong. Canada’s Delphis is giving a market premiere to
Sonny Boy, Maria Peters’ Dutch Oscar entry. Sola Media will be holding its world premiere
screenings of family fi lm Victor And The Secret Of Crocodile Mansion. Vicente Canales’ Barcelona-based Fear Factory
has several new genre projects in the market, among them Miguel Larraya’s action-slasher pic- ture Afterparty, about a TV star and three girls stalked by a mysterious killer. The Hungarian National Film Fund, which now
has an active sales arm, will be presenting The Dis- trict! 3D by Aron Gauder, the 3D remake of the Annecy Crystal Globe winner The District!, and Peter Bergendy’s 1950s-set spy thriller The Exam. Its upcoming projects include comedy Couch Surf by Zsombor Dyga.
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