09/02/2016 - With Tomcat in the Panorama section and seven films in post-production, the Parisian sales company will be well-armed at the EFM

Well-equipped as ever when it comes to high-quality European films, French international sales company Films Distribution will arrive at the European Film Market of the 66^th Berlin Film Festival (11-21 February 2016) on Thursday with a hearty line-up featuring 17 films, which should bring the company a good amount of business. 

Nicolas Brigaud and François Yon’s team will most notably be selling a feature film that will have its world premiere on Saturday 13 February in the Panorama section: Tomcat [+see also:
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film profile] by Austrian filmmaker Händl Klaus. Produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion, this drama, starring Philipp Hochmair and Lukas Turtur, centres around a couple whose perfect happiness is shaken by a sudden and unexpected outbreak of violence.

Films Distribution’s line-up also features seven highly promising films currently in post-production which will be pre-sold at Berlin, almost all of them on the basis of a promo reel. Among them is The Stopover [+see also:
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interview: Delphine and Muriel Coulin
film profile] by sisters Delphine et Muriel Coulin, which is already generating buzz (the film will star Soko and Ariane Labed – see news article), as well as French-Belgian-German co-production The Young Karl Marx [+see also:
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film profile] by Raoul Peck (see news article - starring Auguste Diehl, Stefan Konarske and Vicky Krieps), Frantz [+see also:
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Q&A: François Ozon
film profile] by François Ozon (news article – starring Pierre Niney and Paula Beer – scheduled for release in late 2016), documentary Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women by Hubert Woroniecki (a Realitism Films production that retraces the footsteps of the founder of the Elite modelling agency), and Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe [+see also:
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interview: Maria Schrader
film profile] by Maria Schrader (with Joseph Hader in the title role playing the famous writer – a production led by German production company X Filme Creative Pool with France and Portugal). 

Films that will be sold at the EFM on the basis of their screenplays include the highly anticipated The Heart [+see also:
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interview: Katell Quillévéré
film profile] by Katell Quillévéré (see news article – the film adaptation of the book of the same name by Maylis de Kerangal which will star Anne Dorval, Emmanuelle Seigner, Tahar Rahim, Kool Shen and Bouli Lanners, among others) and French-Belgian-Italian feature Brotherhood [+see also:
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film profile] by the duo Renaud Fély - Arnaud Louvet (starring Jérémie and Yannick Renier, Elio Germano, Alba Rohrwacher, Eric Caravaca and Olivier Gourmet – see news article).

Unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival, Agnus Dei [+see also:
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interview: Lou de Laâge
film profile] by Anne Fontaine and Halal Love (and Sex) [+see also:
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film profile] by Assad Fouladkar are two of the ten feature films in Films Distribution’s line-up that will be screened at the European Film Market, as part of a programme also featuring, among others, Dark Inclusion [+see also:
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interview: Arthur Harari
film profile] by Arthur Harari (see news article) and Good Luck Algeria [+see also:
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film profile] by Farid Bentoumi (see news article).

(Translated from French)