Les Films du Losange to sell Nobody’s Hero in Berlin

by Fabien Lemercier

03/02/2022 - Set to open the Panorama section, Alain Guiraudie’s film dominates the agent’s line-up, which also features Mia Hansen-Løve’s movie in post-production One Fine Morning

Les Films du Losange to sell Nobody’s Hero in Berlin

Nobody’s Hero by Alain Guiraudie

The international sales division (steered by Alice Lesort) of Films du Losange (which was taken over by Charles Gillibert and Alexis Dantec last year) are making the final adjustments to their line-up ahead of the European Film Market (unfolding online from 10 to 17 February). And one stand-out film on their books is Nobody’s Hero [+see also:
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This is the 6th feature film offered up by the filmmaker, who previously gave us No Rest for the Brave [+see also:
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film profile] (the winner of Best Screenplay in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2013) and Staying Vertical [+see also:
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Stealing focus in the sales agent’s post-production line-up for the EFM is the French-German co-production One Fine Morning [+see also:
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In terms of market screenings, Émilie Carpentier’s first feature L’horizon [+see also:
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