After warming up its engines last week at the online Pre-Cannes Screenings, the international sales team of mk2 Films, headed by Fionnuala Jamison, is getting ready for intense activity on the Croisette at the Marché du Film ( 6-15 July) of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. It will be there with plenty of ammunition, with a line-up including among other titles an armada of seven films which will be having their world premiere in the various sections of the festival. Shining bright in the line-up is The Worst Person in the World [+lee también:
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entrevista: Joachim Trier
ficha de la película] by Joachim Trier, which will mark the second participation in the race for the Palme d’Or (after Louder Than Bombs [+lee también:
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entrevista: Joachim Trier
ficha de la película] in 2015) for the Norwegian filmmaker, who made a strong impression in Un Certain Regard in 2011 with Oslo, August 31st [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. The film’s French release on 13 October is organised by Memento Distribution.

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Standing out in Official Selection are four other films from mk2’s line-up, including two in Un Certain Regard: Women Do Cry [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
ficha de la película] from Bulgarian directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (well-received in Locarno in 2019 with Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
ficha de la película] and this time working in the realm of fiction to explore the contradictions of their country – an Activist 38 production with French companies Ici et Là Productions and Arte France Cinéma) and House Arrest from Russian filmmaker Alexey German Jr (who already played in competition in Venice and Berlin with Gaspartum, Soldat de papier, Under Electric Clouds [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] and Dovlatov [+lee también:
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entrevista: Milan Maric
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mk2 is also selling two documentaries selected in new programmes in the Official Selection: Cow [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] from British director Andrea Arnold (winner of the Jury Prize three times in Cannes with her fiction films Red Road [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], Fish Tank [+lee también:
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entrevista: Andrea Arnold
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Q&A: Andrea Arnold
ficha de la película]) which will be unveiled in Cannes Premiere, and Invisible Demons by Indian director Rahul Jain which is playing in the ephemeral section Cinema for the Climate.

Also standing out in the line-up are two feature films selected in Directors' Fortnight : A Chiara [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jonas Carpignano
ficha de la película] from Italian director Jonas Carpignano (already well-received in Cannes with Mediterranea [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jonas Carpignano
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entrevista: Jonas Carpignano
ficha de la película] and back with a film produced by Stayblack with Rai Cinema, with French company Haut et Court — who will also handle the film’s French distribution — and with Arte France Cinéma) and The Braves [+lee también:
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entrevista: Souheila Yacoub
ficha de la película] from french director Anaïs Volpé (produced by Unité and distributed in France by KMBO).

Great deals are to be expected for mk2 among its rich selections of films currently in pre-sales with, currently in production, the musical Don Juan [+lee también:
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entrevista: Serge Bozon
ficha de la película] from French director Serge Bozon (starring Tahar Rahim and Virginie Efira — read the article) and Corsage [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marie Kreutzer
entrevista: Marie Kreutzer
ficha de la película] by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer.

Also set to be pre-sold, based on a promoreel, are the films (currently in post-production) The Good Boss [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, Petite Solange [+lee también:
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entrevista: Axelle Ropert
ficha de la película] by Axelle Ropert, Mali Twist by Robert Guédiguian (article), The Young Lovers [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Carine Tardieu and The Love Letter [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Jérôme Bonnell.

Also in post-production is Costa Brava, Lebanon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Mounia Akl (presold on script) and, in pre-production, the American/French production Silver Star by Ruben Amar (set to film in late 2021). Worth pointing out finally are four enticing animated films in the line-up: currently in pre-production are The Inventor by Jim Capobianco and Outfoxed! by Paul Bolger, and already being made are A Winter’s Journey by Alex Alfrecht and Mars Express [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jérémie Périn
ficha de la película] by French director Jérémie Périn.