04/05/2018 - The Berlin-based international sales agent has an attractive line-up including two Un Certain Regard selections, two Directors' Fortnight titles and two films in the Critics' Week

Films Boutique is set to make quite an entrance this year at the Cannes Film Market, as eight titles on the Berlin-based international sales company's line-up have been selected in the various programmes of the festival, including two in the Official Selection: the Nordic noir Border [+see also:
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The Directors’ Fortnight will open with Birds of Passage [+see also:
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The list of Cannes selections that the German sales agent will be touting at the market is rounded off by Swiss helmer Marcel Gisler's gay love versus football-themed Mario [+see also:
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interview: Teresa Villaverde
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The other titles that Films Boutique has on offer at the Film Market (Riviera G3) include several 2018 Berlinale movies – Mani Haghighi's Pig (Iran), Markus Imhoof's documentary Eldorado [+see also:
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interview: Katharina Mückstein
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