Cannes 2009 Producer’s Patch: The Match Factory

After a crazy year where they brought six or seven titles to Cannes (including Tulpan, Waltz with Bashir) in various competition categories, this year The Match Factory bring only a pair of titles in Ajami and Kinatay. Nonetheless, they also bring along their batch of well-performing films from Berlin. They aren’t a production company, but highly selective sales company that work with producer’s from all over the world. And that is why I’m including them in this producer’s patch series. Update: they just included Aktan Arym Kubat’s next feature The Light to their stable.

CONTACT HIGH  by Michael GLAWOGGER – Completed
THE DUST OF TIME  by Theo ANGELOPOULOS – Completed
AJAMI  by Scandar COPTI – Completed
DORFPUNKS  by Lars JESSEN – Completed
GERMANY 09 (DEUTSCHLAND 09)  by Fatih AKIN – Completed
GIGANTE  by Adrián BINIEZ – Completed
KINATAY  by Brillante MENDOZA – Completed
THE MILK OF SORROW  by Claudia LLOSA – Completed
BULLET IN THE HEAD (TIRO EN LA CABEZA)  by Jaime ROSALES – Completed
A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS  by Wayne WANG – Completed
BACK TO AFRICA  by Othmar SCHMIDERER – Completed
CHIKO  by Özgür YILDIRIM – Completed
CLOUD 9 (WOLKE 9)  by Andreas DRESEN – Completed
FLAME & CITRON (FLAMMEN & CITRONEN)  by Ole Christian MADSEN – Completed
JERICHOW by Christian Petzold – Completed
LIVERPOOL  by Lisandro ALONSO – Completed
LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES  by Stefan ARSENIJEVIC – Completed
MILK (SUT)  by Semih KAPLANOGLU – Completed
O’HORTEN  by Bent HAMER – Completed
PANDORA’S BOX  by Yesim USTAOGLU – Completed
REVANCHE  by Götz SPIELMANN – Completed
TEZA  by Haile GERIMA – Completed
THE HEART IS A DARK FOREST by Nicolette KREBITZ – Completed
THE PRINCESS OF NEBRAKSA  by Wayne WANG – Completed
TULPAN  by Sergey DVORTSEVOY – Completed
WALTZ WITH BASHIR  by Ari FOLMAN – Completed
WHAT NO ONE KNOWS (DET SOM INGEN VED)  by Søren KRAGH-JACOBSEN – Completed