Key Players in the Cannes Market: The Match Factory

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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

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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