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CANNES 2022 Marché du Film

Luxbox se lleva tres películas dirigidas por mujeres a Cannes

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- El agente de ventas presenta Mediterranean Fever de Maha Haj en Un Certain Regard, y Sous les figues de Erige Sehiri y 1976 de Manuela Martelli en la Quincena

Luxbox se lleva tres películas dirigidas por mujeres a Cannes
Mediterranean Fever, de Maha Haj

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With three features from female directors in various Cannes sections, the French sales company Luxbox (lead by Fiorella Moretti and Hédi Zardi) will arrive with optimism at the Marché du Film (from 17 to 25 May) of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

In the line-up, Mediterranean Fever [+lee también:
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by Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj is particularly notable and will be shown in the Un Certain Regard section, a programme that had revealed her in 2016 with her first fiction feature, Personal Affairs [+lee también:
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. The director’s new work centres on Waleed (40), who lives in Haïfa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He forms a close relationship with his neighbour (a small-time crook) with an ulterior motive. But when the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship between the two men, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters… Production is driven by Germany's Pallas Film, France's Still Moving, Cyprus' AMP Filmworks and Palestine's Majdal Films, in association with Metafora Production.

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Luxbox also has two first fiction features on display in Directors’ Fortnight. French-Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri will present Under the Fig Trees whose scenario dives amongst the fig trees, where during the summer harvest, young women and men develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections… The film is produced by the Tunisians of Henia Production and the French company Maneki Films, and co-produced by the Swiss of Akka Films and the Germans of In Good Company.

The second title sold by Luxbox that will be screened in Directors’ Fortnight is 1976 by Manuela Martelli. Produced by Chile, Argentina and Qatar, the film is set in Chile in 1976. Three years after Pinochet’s coup, Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter holidays. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet, bourgeois life she is used to.
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In the Marché du Film, Luxbox will be pre-selling two European co-productions with Latin America which are currently in post-production. A promoreel will be shown for Pornomelancholia [+lee también:
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by Argentinian filmmaker Manuel Abramovich, centred on a famous sex-influencer who decides to audition to play Emiliano Zapata in a porno about the Mexican revolution (co-produced by the French company Dublin Films and already acquired by Filmin for Spain and Épicentre for France). Presales will also begin for Martínez by Mexican director Lorana Padilla (co-produced by France) centred on a lonely accountant pushed to retire and for whom the death of his neighbour, a woman his age, will make him realise that his life is still ahead of him.

Finally, in the Marché du Film, the Luxbox team will complete sales for Dos estaciones by Mexican filmmaker Juan Pablo González, unveiled in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and which was co-produced by French company In Vivo Films.

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