26/01/2016 - The French sales agent has a plethora of titles on its slate, including the Danish psychological horror film selected in the Panorama and the market premiere of Fanny’s Journey

Spurred on by an excellent 2015, French international sales agent Indie Sales will be turning up very well equipped at the European Film Market of the 66th Berlin Film Festival (11-21 February). Standing out on its slate is the psychological horror film Shelley [+see also:
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film profile] by Danish director Ali Abbasi, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama section. Co-produced by Sweden, the filmmaker’s feature debut stars Romanian actress Cosmina Stratan (winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes in 2012 for Beyond the Hills [+see also:
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interview: Cosmina Stratan
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
film profile]), Norway’s Ellen Dorrit Petersen (Blind [+see also:
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interview: Eskil Vogt
interview: Eskil Vogt
film profile]) and Denmark’s Peter Christoffersen. The plot revolves around a couple living in a remote forest who, unable to have children of their own, pay a young Romanian woman to be a surrogate mother. But strange and dreadful events start to accompany the pregnancy... 

Among the market premieres at Berlin, Indie Sales will unveil Fanny's Journey [+see also:
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Another market premiere will also be held for the animated film Dofus - Book 1: Julith [+see also:
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film profile] by Anthony Roux and Jean-Jacques Denis, a film adaptation of the famous online multiplayer game, produced by Ankama and set to be released in France on 3 February, courtesy of Gebeka Films.

At Berlin, the team headed by Nicolas Eschbach will also be hard at work on pre-sales with films in post-production, such as In Bed with Victoria [+see also:
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interview: Justine Triet
film profile] by Justine Triet (read the article – which stars Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud and Laurent Poitrenaud), Cessez-le-feu [+see also:
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film profile] by Emmanuel Courcol (read the article – toplined by Romain Duris and Céline Sallette), Wulu [+see also:
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film profile] by Daouda Coulibaly (a production by La Chauve-Souris and Asta Films that depicts the rise and fall of a young drug dealer from Mali, played by Ibrahim Koma) and the animated titles My Life as a Zucchini [+see also:
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interview: Claude Barras
film profile] by Claude Barras (read the news) and Another Day of Life by Raúl de La Fuente (co-produced by Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary). And this is not to mention the market screenings of the hard-hitting The Convoy [+see also:
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film profile] by Frédéric Schoendoerffer (read the news – on the cinema listings in France since last Wednesday), What We Become [+see also:
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film profile] by Danish director Bo Mikkelsen (which was screened at such festivals as BFI London, Sitges and Gérardmer) and the San Sebastián-awarded titles The White Knights [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile] by Belgium’s Joachim Lafosse and The New Kid [+see also:
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interview: Rudi Rosenberg
film profile] by Rudi Rosenberg.

(Translated from French)