Now a firmly established name on the international sales agent scene - a status further ratified by the Cannes Grand Prize bagged by Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment N°6 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Juho Kuosmanen
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The team led by Bérénice Vincent and Laure Parleani will notably be kicking off pre-sales on four new films, all in post-production. The first work to land in their showcase (of which they will screen the first few images) is The Woodcutter Story [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mykko Myllylahti
scheda film], which is the first feature film offered up by Finnish screenwriter Mikko Myllylahti (a project which won Critics’ Week’s Next Step Prize in 2019 and was selected for Cannes’ Cinéfondation Workshop that same year – read our news) and is an Aamu Film Company production involving Dutch firm Keplerfilm, Denmark’s Beofilm and Germany’s Achtung Panda!.

Another debut feature film in the line-up, coming courtesy of an actress this time round - Italian talent Jasmine Trinca - is Marcel! [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] whose cast includes Alba Rohrwacher, Maayane Conti and Giovanna Ralli, and which tells a tale based around a mother-daughter relationship. This movie is produced by Cinema Undici in co-production with RAI Cinema and Totem Atelier.

Totem will also officially launch pre-sales on two other first feature films: French-Moroccan production Animalia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sofia Alaoui
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intervista: Katarina Stark
scheda film] by Germany’s Anna Roller (read our interview at Karlovy Vary, on the occasion of the European Film Promotion’s Future Frames programme), which is produced by Kalekone Film and which sees three high-school students embark upon an Italian road trip which takes an unexpected turn…

Four other titles steal focus on the agent’s post-production film slate: Bowling Saturn [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Patricia Mazuy
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intervista: Cristina Grosan
scheda film] by Romanian-Hungarian director Cristina Grosan and Tiger by Romania’s Andrei Tanase (news).

Joining these offerings are two additional films which have just been unveiled in Goteborg and which are set to be screened at the online EFM - Maya Nilo (Laura) [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Sweden’s Lovisa Sirén and Miss Viborg [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marianne Blicher
scheda film] by Danish director Marianne Blicher – and, rounding off the Totem Films line-up, a selection of films previously showcased on the festival circuit: Moneyboys [+leggi anche:
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intervista: C.B. Yi
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intervista: Samuel Theis
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intervista: Michaela Pavlátová
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intervista: Gábor Fabricius
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