28/04/2016 - The sales agent’s slate includes Never Ever and The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, as well as Fool Moon, which will be unveiled as a special screening

Reda Kateb, Wim Wenders and Sophie Semin during the shoot for The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Six premieres are on the cards for the international sales team of Paris-based company Alfama Films at the Film Market of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016). Among them is Fool Moon [+see also:
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At the Film Market, Alfama’s sales team, headed by Andrea Dos Santos, will also be organising market premieres for two in-house productions, upon invitation only: Never Ever [+see also:
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film profile] by Benoît Jacquot (toplined by Mathieu Amalric – read the article – released in France on 7 September) and the Franco-German co-production The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez [+see also:
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Other market premieres on the menu include The Young One [+see also:
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interview: Alberto Morais
film profile] by Spaniard Alberto Morais (read the article).

Lastly, among the pre-sales at Cannes, Alfama will be working hard to shift The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam (read the article – the famously “cursed” project by the filmmaker), which will begin shooting in September, and its project The Captain by Robert Schwentke (in co-production with German outfit Filmgalerie 451 and Poland’s Opus Film).

(Translated from French)