Film Festivals

Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: The Match Factory

Published on May 17, 2012

Experts in auteur cinema, German sales company The Match Factory have quite the sampling this year with names such as Thai Joe (Mekong Hotel – see pic above), Fatih Akin (Polluting Paradise) and Directors’ Fortnight invited The Dream and the Silence by Jamie Rosales proudly making us say ich liebe dich the label, and let us not forget Loznitsa’s In the Fog which is being featured in the Main Comp category.

IN THE FOG (V TUMANE) by Sergei LOZNITSA
MEKONG HOTEL by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
POLLUTING PARADISE (MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN) by Fatih AKIN
THE DREAM AND THE SILENCE (SUEÑO Y SILENCIO) by Jaime ROSALES
AND IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER (ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE) by Stéphane ROBELIN
BARBARA by Christian PETZOLD
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (WAS BLEIBT) by Hans-Christian SCHMID
IN THE NAME OF THE GIRL (EN EL NOMBRE DE LA HIJA) by Tania HERMIDA
JUST THE WIND (CSAK A SZÉL) by Bence FLIEGAUF Photo Gallery
POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO (KEBUN BINATANG) by Edwin
TABU by Miguel GOMES
THE SLEEPING VOICE (LA VOZ DORMIDA) by Benito ZAMBRANO
THE WALL (DIE WAND) by Julian PÖLSLER Photo Gallery

Related Topics:Cannes 2012, The Match Factory

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).