After warming up its engines last week at the online Pre-Cannes Screenings, the international sales team of mk2 Films, headed by Fionnuala Jamison, is getting ready for intense activity on the Croisette at the Marché du Film ( 6-15 July) of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. It will be there with plenty of ammunition, with a line-up including among other titles an armada of seven films which will be having their world premiere in the various sections of the festival. Shining bright in the line-up is The Worst Person in the World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Trier
scheda film] by Joachim Trier, which will mark the second participation in the race for the Palme d’Or (after Louder Than Bombs [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Trier
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intervista: Joachim Trier
scheda film]. The film’s French release on 13 October is organised by Memento Distribution.

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Standing out in Official Selection are four other films from mk2’s line-up, including two in Un Certain Regard: Women Do Cry [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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intervista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
scheda film] and this time working in the realm of fiction to explore the contradictions of their country – an Activist 38 production with French companies Ici et Là Productions and Arte France Cinéma) and House Arrest from Russian filmmaker Alexey German Jr (who already played in competition in Venice and Berlin with Gaspartum, Soldat de papier, Under Electric Clouds [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Milan Maric
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mk2 is also selling two documentaries selected in new programmes in the Official Selection: Cow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andrea Arnold
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Q&A: Andrea Arnold
scheda film]) which will be unveiled in Cannes Premiere, and Invisible Demons by Indian director Rahul Jain which is playing in the ephemeral section Cinema for the Climate.

Also standing out in the line-up are two feature films selected in Directors' Fortnight : A Chiara [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jonas Carpignano
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intervista: Jonas Carpignano
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intervista: Jonas Carpignano
scheda film] and back with a film produced by Stayblack with Rai Cinema, with French company Haut et Court — who will also handle the film’s French distribution — and with Arte France Cinéma) and The Braves [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Souheila Yacoub
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Great deals are to be expected for mk2 among its rich selections of films currently in pre-sales with, currently in production, the musical Don Juan [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Serge Bozon
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intervista: Marie Kreutzer
intervista: Marie Kreutzer
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Also set to be pre-sold, based on a promoreel, are the films (currently in post-production) The Good Boss [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, Petite Solange [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Axelle Ropert
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scheda film] by Carine Tardieu and The Love Letter [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jérôme Bonnell.

Also in post-production is Costa Brava, Lebanon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mounia Akl (presold on script) and, in pre-production, the American/French production Silver Star by Ruben Amar (set to film in late 2021). Worth pointing out finally are four enticing animated films in the line-up: currently in pre-production are The Inventor by Jim Capobianco and Outfoxed! by Paul Bolger, and already being made are A Winter’s Journey by Alex Alfrecht and Mars Express [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jérémie Périn
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