Key Players in the Cannes Market: The Match Factory

The German sales co. known for providing the fest circuit and art-house plexes with subtitled stuff from around the globe will set fire to the Director’s Fortnight section this year. If I’m counting right, The Match Factory supply the fest with a five titles including The Light Thief (see pic above), The City Below, the including the much discussed on this site Cam Archer’s sophomore feature, and they nabbed a Main Comp spot for one of the most celebrated directors of the decade in Apichatpong Weerasethakul latest – a sort of “ghost” story.

EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE (ALTING BLIVER GODT IGEN) by Christoffer BOE – Completed
SHIT YEAR by Cam ARCHER – Completed
THE CITY BELOW (UNTER DIR DIE STADT) by Christoph HOCHHÄUSLER – Completed
THE LIGHT THIEF by Aktan Arym KUBAT – Completed
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO NN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAAT) by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL – Completed
12 PACES WITHOUT A HEAD (ZWÖLF METER OHNE KOPF) by Sven TADDICKEN – Completed
ABOVE THE STREET BELOW THE WATER (OVER GADEN UNDER VANDET) by Charlotte SIELING – Completed
BAD FAMILY (PAHA PERHE) by Aleksi SALMENPERÄ – Completed
HONEY (BAL) by Semih KAPLANOĞLU – Completed
HOWL by Jeffrey FRIEDMAN – Completed
MURDER FARM (TANNÖD) by Bettina OBERLI – Completed
ON THE PATH (NA PUTU) by Jasmila ZBANIC – Completed
SUBMARINO by Thomas VINTERBERG – Completed
THE HUNTER (SHEKARCHI) by Rafi PITTS – Completed

A RATIONAL SOLUTION by Jörgen BERGMARK – Completed
AJAMI by Snndar COPTI – Completed
DESERT FLOWER (WÜSTENBLUME) by Sherry HORMANN – Completed
GIGANTE by Adrián BINIEZ – Completed
HIROSHIMA by Pablo STOLL – Completed
KINATAY by Brillante MENDOZA – Completed
LOLA by Brillante MENDOZA – Completed
ME TOO (YO TAMBIEN) by Álvaro PASTOR – Completed
PEPPERMINTA by Pipilotti RIST – Completed
SOUL KITCHEN by Fatih AKIN – Completed
THE MILK OF SORROW (LA TETA ASUSTADA) by Claudia LLOSA – Completed
WEDDING FEVER IN CAMPOBELLO (MARIA IHM SCHMECKT’S NICHT) by Neele Leana VOLLMAR – Completed
WHISKY WITH VODKA by Andreas DRESEN – Completed