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BERLINALE 2019 EFM

Les Films du Losange pins its hopes on Hellhole

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- The French company will be selling Bas Devos's latest film, selected for Berlin’s Panorama section, as well as the forthcoming films by Balibar, Weisse, Micheli, Harrison, Salhab and Armanet

Les Films du Losange pins its hopes on Hellhole
Hellhole by Bas Devos

As part of its seven-film line-up, the international Parisian sales company, Les Films du Losange (managed by Margaret Ménégoz) will be pinning its hopes on Hellhole [+see also:
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by Belgium's Bas Devos at the 69th Berlinale (from February 7 to 17) European Film Market, which is due to make its world premiere on the 8 February in the Panorama section.

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A film about three characters, each confronted by personal difficulties in modern-day Brussels, the filmmaker's second feature film (after winning the Grand Prix in the Generation 14 section at Berlin in 2014 with his first film, Violet [+see also:
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) stars the Italian actress, Alba Rohrwacher, the Dutchman Willy Thomas and Belgians Hamza Belardi and Lubna Azabal. The film was produced by Minds Meet and co-produced by the Dutch outfit Phanta Vision

Run by Alice Lesort, Les Films du Losange will also be showcasing a teaser for Jeanne Balibar's marvellous comedy (currently in post-production) Wonders in the Suburbs [+see also:
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trailer
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The company will also be touching down at the market with a teaser for The Audition [+see also:
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interview: Ina Weisse
interview: Ina Weisse
film profile
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by the German director Ina Weisse, which is currently in post-production and stars Nina Hoss (Best Actress at Berlin in 2007 for Yella [+see also:
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and also appreciated in Barbara [+see also:
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interview: Christian Petzold
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, Phoenix [+see also:
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making of
interview: Christian Petzold
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and the TV series, Homeland), the French actors Simon Abkarian, Serafin Mishiev and Ilja Monti and the Danish actor Jens Albinus. Written by the director with Daphne Charizani, the screenplay focuses on a violin teacher who takes a young talented boy under her wing, whom she fixates on to the point of forgetting everything else, including her own family... The feature film was produced by the German company Lupa Film and co-produced by the French outfit Idéale Audience.

Three other titles in post-production also feature in the company’s line-up: the Belgian-French production Lola [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Laurent Micheli
film profile
]
by Laurent Micheli, Particles [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Blaise Harrison
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by Blaise Harrison and The River [+see also:
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by the Lebanese director Ghassan Salhab (appreciated at Toronto in 2010 with The Moutain and at the 2015 Berlinale with The Valley [+see also:
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). 

Finally, Les Films du Losange will also be showcasing a musical documentary currently in production: Oh Les Filles! [+see also:
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]
  by François Armanet (noticed in the Panorama section at the Berlinale in 2002 with Dandy). This Incognita Films production hashes out the history of bunch of female French rock stars over a number of decades, from 1960s pop icons to big names in the social media era, as well as a few 1970s rebels along the way, focusing in particular on the likes of Françoise Hardy, Catherine Ringer, Christine and the Queens, Vanessa Paradis, Brigitte Fontaine and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

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(Translated from French)

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