27/08/2015 - Its line-up also features A Monster With A Thousand Heads, which will open the Orizzonti section at Venice before the company sets sail for Toronto

Having been absent from the Lido for the past few years, French international sales company Memento Films is making a comeback for the 72^nd Venice International Film Festival (2-12 September 2015) with two films in the official selection. One of these is the stunning Marguerite [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Giannoli
film profile] by French director Xavier Giannoli (read news article), a Franco-Belgian-Czech co-production coordinated by Fidélité Films which will have its global premiere on Friday 4 September and will be released in French theatres by Memento on 16 September.

The Memento team, headed up by Emilie Georges and managed by Tanja Meissner, will also be presenting A Monster With A Thousand Heads at Venice, the new film by Mexican filmmaker Rodrigo Plá (who won the award for Best Feature Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival with La zona [+see also:
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film profile] and participated in the Berlin Film Festival Forum in 2012 with The Delay [+see also:
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film profile]), which will open the Orizzonti section. The film tells the story of a woman trying desperately to save the life of her husband by getting him the medical treatment he needs to survive, launching an attack on a corrupt and negligent insurance company and pulling herself and her son into a dizzying spiral of violence. The film will notably have a private market screening at the Toronto Film Festival (10-20 September).

After gracing the Venetian Lido, Memento Films International will head to Canada, with three films in its line-up in different sections of the Toronto Film Festival: Cannes competitor Louder than Bombs [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Trier
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interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
film profile] by Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska (read the review and interview), which will be screened in Special Presentations, and James White by American director Josh Mond (who won the Audience Award in the Next section of the Sundance Film Festival and was screened in competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival) in the Discovery section. In Toronto, Memento will also organise a screening for buyers of documentary The Propaganda Game [+see also:
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interview: Álvaro Longoria
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The Memento team will also use Venice and Toronto to carry on pre-selling three attractive films currently in post-production: News From Planet Mars [+see also:
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film profile] by Dominik Moll (see news article – with the help of a promo reel), Mexican-French co-production The Darkness [+see also:
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film profile] by Mexican director Daniel Castro Zimbrón (with the help of the storyline and a teaser trailer) and Australian-German feature film Berlin Syndrome by Cate Shortland. That’s without, of course, forgetting the highly anticipated Slack Bay [+see also:
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Q&A: Bruno Dumont
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(Translated from French)