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With three selected films in the Main Comp (Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love, Walter Salles’ On the Road) and one in the Un Certain Regard section (Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways) you could say that French sales/production/distribution company MK2 are spoiled this year. Where buyers might want to focus their attention is the film that wasn’t yet ready and is posed for a Venice showing in Olivier Assayas’ Something in the Air (see pic above).

After The Battle by Yousry Nasrallah

Like Someone In Love by Abbas Kiarostami

On The Road by Walter Salles

A Monkey On My Shoulder by Marion Laine

Fire By Louboutin (Feu By Louboutin) by Bruno Hullin

Kinshasa Kids (Le Diable N’Existe Pas) by Marc Henri Wajnberg

Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan

Leadersheep (Tous Au Larzac!) by Christian Rouaud

Nuts (Ouf) by Yann Coridian...

The folks who brought us Certified Copy, Dogtooth and To the Sea have a huge film in their possessions that might topple the Venice Film Fest. MK2, the Sales Agent, Theatrical Distribution and Production Company must be close to selling out all the territories for Walter Salles' On the Road, but in the mean time they've got Beauty playing in the Ucr, The Fairy opening the Directors' Fortnight, a doc on Charlotte Rmpling and are bringing back Melies' A Trip to the Moon to life. Here is the entire slate which includes Xavier Dolan's next. Beauty (Skoonheid) by Olivier Hermanus - Completed On The Road by Walter Salles - Post-Production The Fairy (La Fee) by Dominique Abel - Completed A Trip To The Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) by Georges Melies - Completed Black Venus (Venus Noire) by Abdellatif Kechiche - Completed Charade by Stanley Donen -...