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/ Brothers Dave and Kenneth both bear the scars of a shared past but handle it very differently. Their love for the same woman leads to a confrontation that climaxes when they must travel to the Ardennes to bury a corpse.
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GENRE / thriller, drama
CAST / Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Veerle Baetens DIRECTED BY / Robin Pront
SCRIPTED BY / Robin Pront, Jeroen Perceval PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / tba
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be ETA / Winter 2015/6
THE ARDENNES ORIGINAL TITLE / D’ARDENNEN
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BELGIAN RHAPSODY ORIGINAL TITLE / BRABANÇONNE
Two brass bands, the Flemish ‘St. Cecilia’ and Walloon ‘En Avant’, are contenders for national pre-selection for the final of the European Union’s Best Brass Band contest. The Walloons are blown into the final by Hugues, their exceptionally talented trumpet player; while Willy of the Flemish band hits the highest note after the band’s final chord, but afterwards drops dead on stage. But Elke, daughter of St. Cecilia’s conductor, has an idea about how to beat the competition. / Two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success in the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene.
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GENRE / musical comedy
CAST / Amaryllis Uitterlinden, Arthur Dupont, Tom Audenaert DIRECTED BY / Vincent Bal SCRIPTED BY / Vincent Bal, Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks LANGUAGE / Dutch, French RUNNING TIME / 95’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv INT’L SALES / Be for Films / Pamela Leu / pamela@beforfilms.com GENRE / drama
CAST / Tom Vermeir, Stef Aerts
DIRECTED BY / Felix van Groeningen
SCRIPTED BY / Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Menuet LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 105’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be
INT’L SALES / The Match Factory / info@matchfactory.de
BELGICA
ETA / Fall 2015
ORIGINAL TITLE / BELGICA
/ When Mavela, a member of notorious youth gang Black Bronx, falls madly in love with a boy from a rival gang, she is forced to choose between loyalty and love. This will have dramatic repercussions.
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BLACK
ORIGINAL TITLE / BLACK
GENRE / action, drama
CAST / Aboubakr Bensaihi, Martha Canga Antonio, Emmanuel Tahon DIRECTED BY / Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah SCRIPTED BY / Nele Meirhaeghe, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / French, Arabic, Lingala, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ (tbc) YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Charlotte Van Hassel / charlotte.vanhassel@caviarcontent.com ETA / Fall 2015
/ Grace, an extravagantly rich Irish woman, wants to revive a 20-year-old love affair. Yvo travels to Ireland, together with pushy Ronnie and pretends to be his dead brother Yvan. Yvo wants to steal Yvan’s money and former lover, posthumously taking revenge on the brother whom he hated so much.
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BROTHER
ORIGINAL TITLE / BROER
/ August, 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German soldiers in Ostend. Determined to avenge this crime Jean, along with his coach and young nephew, enrols in the prestigious ACM (Armoured Car Division). War is ruthless, however, and he and his friends embark on a dramatic journey that will ultimately drag them around the world.
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CAFARD
ORIGINAL TITLE / CAFARD
/ 1985: Georges is a born stallholder who can sell anything to anyone. Always. When he hears that the Pope is coming to Belgium, he senses his chance as tens of thousands of believers will be attending a Holy Mass and the adjacent Café Derby is up for rent. Georges is convinced that a fortune can be made there, but his worldweary wife and five children have seen it all before…
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CAFÉ DERBY
ORIGINAL TITLE / CAFÉ DERBY
BERLINALE COMPETITION
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
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ORIGINAL TITLE / BRAK
GENRE / animation, drama
VOICE CAST / Wim Willaert, Dinara Drukarova,
Sebastien Dewaele, Maarten Ketels
DIRECTED BY / Jan Bultheel SCRIPTED BY / Jan Bultheel
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Tondo Films
LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English, Russian, Chinese, Mongolian RUNNING TIME / 84’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Arielle Sleutel / arielle@tondofilms.be ETA / Fall 2015
GENRE / coming-of-age
CAST / Chloë Daxhelet, Wim Opbrouck, Monic Hendrickx DIRECTED BY / Lenny Van Wesemael SCRIPTED BY / Lenny Van Wesemael, Geert Verbanck PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Menuet LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Dirk Impens / info@menuet.be ETA / Spring 2015
GENRE / drama
/ Fortress Europe has collapsed and Northern Europeans are forced to migrate. A middle-class man gets stranded in a coastal village in search of a passage to a promised land. There he meets a girl and a dilemma arises: whether to stay with her in this fallow place or continue his overseas quest at an immoral price.
GENRE / drama
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FALLOW
CAST / Koen De Bouw, Titus De Voogdt, Koen De Graeve, Udo Kier DIRECTED BY / Geoffrey Enthoven SCRIPTED BY / Pierre De Clercq PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Fobic Films LANGUAGE / Dutch, English RUNNING TIME / 115’ (tbc) YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Mariano Vanhoof / mariano@fobicfilms.com INT’L SALES / Films Boutique / info@filmsboutique.com ETA / Fall 2015
/ In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death - happy to create their effects in cinema but unhappy to suffer them in life.
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ORIGINAL TITLE / EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
GENRE / drama
CAST / Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Lisa Owen DIRECTED BY / Peter Greenaway SCRIPTED BY / Peter Greenaway
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Potemkino LANGUAGE / English
RUNNING TIME / 105’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Peter De Maegd / pdm@potemkino.be
INT’L SALES / Films Boutique / info@filmsboutique.com
CAST / Tibo Vandenborre, Aurora Marion DIRECTED BY / Laurent Van Lancker
SCRIPTED BY / Elvis Peeters, Laurent Van Lancker PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Polymorfilms LANGUAGE / Dutch, English, French RUNNING TIME / 75’ (tbc)
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Ellen Meiresonne / contact@polymorfilms.be ETA / Summer 2015
/ When a nurse discovers that her partner is the father of a new-born twin, she decides to steal the baby girl and separate her from her brother, who subsequently grows up in a street gang. Ten years later, however, the children’s paths cross. They are attracted to each other but ultimately discover that neither of them is able to escape their past.
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GALLOPING MIND
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ORIGINAL TITLE / GALLOPING MIND
THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED ORIGINAL TITLE / THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
PITCH / A group of Kuchi children live in a mine-field surrounding Bagram airforce base, digging out anti-personnel mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers in a lapis lazuli mine. The trajectory of the blue gemstones goes towards Tajikistan and China through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children escape into personal fantasies and dreams.
/ When two totally different people have completely different musical tastes, there is always a Plan B: loving one another. A romantic tragicomedy about rock dreams, crooner passion and an unpredictable love story.
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LEE & CINDY C. ORIGINAL TITLE / LEE & CINDY C.
/ Remsk and Sarah are a neurotic, passionate couple. He is a struggling writer who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders; she is mentally unstable and addicted to weed. Bill is an actor with an ego while Nicky constantly sucks up to her husband. At a party in Antwerp, Remsk was so drunk that he invited Bill and Nicky to join them on their vacation in France where his father owns a villa, assuming they would never come. Then Bill calls Remsk to say they are on their way.
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LIEBLING ORIGINAL TITLE / LIEBLING
/ After his mother’s death, eight-year-old Nino skips school, stops washing and eats crisps for breakfast. At first it seems great fun, but the boy comes to miss the attention and affection from his dad and his brother. When he discovers he can talk to animals, his pet rabbit Bobby proves invaluable.
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LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO ORIGINAL TITLE / HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO
GENRE / drama
CAST / Jerry Killick, Imola Kezdi, Orsi Toth, Natali Broods DIRECTED BY / Wim Vandekeybus SCRIPTED BY / Wim Vandekeybus PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / English, Hungarian RUNNING TIME / 100’ (tbc) YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be ETA / Fall 2015
GENRE / documentary
DIRECTED BY / Pieter-Jan De Pue SCRIPTED BY / Pieter-Jan De Pue
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film
LANGUAGE / English, Farsi, Pashtu, Waghi, ... RUNNING TIME / tba
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be ETA / Fall 2015
GENRE / romantic comedy
CAST / Bert Verbeke, Nathalie Meskens, Ann Van den Broeck DIRECTED BY / Stany Crets SCRIPTED BY / Stany Crets PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Eyeworks LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / tba YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Peter Bouckaert / peter.bouckaert@eyeworks.tv ETA / Fall 2015 GENRE / comedy
CAST / Steve Aernouts, Ellen Schoenaerts, Bert Haelvoet, Minke Kruyver DIRECTED BY / Ellen Schoenaerts SCRIPTED BY / Steve Aernouts, Ellen Schoenaerts PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 80’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be
GENRE / family film
CAST / Koen De Graeve, Rohan Timmermans, Rifka Lodeizen DIRECTED BY / Simone van Dusseldorp SCRIPTED BY / Urszula Antoniak CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Savage Film LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 81’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Bart Van Langendonck / info@savagefilm.be INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution / info@attractiondistribution.ca
/ On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s paralyzed so he can drink and gamble while the two women tend to the sheep. Lucifer senses an opportunity and plays the miraculous healer. He forces Emanuel to walk again, seduces Maria and makes Lupita doubt about her faith.
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LUCIFER ORIGINAL TITLE / LUCIFER
ORIGINAL TITLE / TROUW MET MIJ
GENRE / dramatic comedy
/ Holiday coach driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, he has to bring a motley crew of partygoers to an electronic music festival in Croatia. His journey soon turns into a life-changing trip that confronts him with his long lost son.
GENRE / tragi-comedy
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PARADISE TRIPS ORIGINAL TITLE / PARADISE TRIPS
/ Sarah is 34 and wants a baby. The love of her life, Alex, wants everything but a baby, while Sarah’s ex boyfriend, bachelor Bart, needs money to go to the Air Guitar World Championship in Osaka, Japan. Sarah dumps Alex and convinces Bart to get her pregnant in exchange for money. They’ll sleep together seven times after which they’ll never see each other again. Or at least that’s the plan…
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PLAN BART ORIGINAL TITLE / PLAN BART
/ The cross-frontier migrant’s life ‘within the system’ – an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues – becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul doesn’t want to admit it, but the arrival of Lidia, a Russian girl makes a difference. Hope? Surely not! A future? Get real! December is also the ninth month of Martina’s pregnancy. But, just when the situation seems hopeless, help is at hand. A Christmas story.
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PROBLEMSKI HOTEL ORIGINAL TITLE / PROBLEMSKI HOTEL
CAST / Gabino Rodriguez, Norma Pablo, Maria Toral Acosta, DIRECTED BY / Gust Van den Berghe SCRIPTED BY / Gust Van den Berghe PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Minds Meet LANGUAGE / Spanish RUNNING TIME / 108’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / Tomas Leyers / info@mindsmeet.be INT’L SALES / NDM / fm@mantarraya.com
/ Following a brief affair, gym teacher Jurgen decides to marry his fellow teacher Sibel. But that’s not what their families expected: Jurgen’s Flemish parents don’t understand why their only son dumped his previous girlfriend to marry a colleague; while Sibel’s Turkish brother is agitated by her impulsive decision. Jurgen and Sibel look forward to their big day. But are they marrying not just each other, but their families as well?
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MARRY ME
GENRE / drama
CAST / Sirin Zahed, Dries De Sutter, Burak Balci DIRECTED BY / Kadir Balci
SCRIPTED BY / Kadir Balci,
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private View LANGUAGE / Dutch, Turkish RUNNING TIME / 90’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / info@aprivateview.be
INT’L SALES / Cinemavault / sales@cinemavault.com
CAST / Gene Bervoets, Jeroen Perceval, Cedric Van Den Abbeele DIRECTED BY / Raf Reyntjens SCRIPTED BY / Raf Reyntjens PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Helena Vlogaert / helena.vlogaert@caviarcontent.com ETA / Summer 2015 GENRE / romantic comedy
CAST / Wine Dierickx, Wouter Hendrickx, Jeroen Perceval DIRECTED BY / Roel Mondelaers SCRIPTED BY / Roel Mondelaers, Hans Van Nuffel PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 87’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 CONTACT / ivy.vanhaecke@caviarcontent.com / charlotte.vanhassel@caviarcontent.com
GENRE / tragical comedy, Christmas parable, drama
CAST / Tarek Halaby, Evgenia Brendes, Gökhan Girginol DIRECTED BY / Manu Riche SCRIPTED BY / Steve Hawes, Manu Riche PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Cassette for Timescapes LANGUAGE / Illegalian RUNNING TIME / 110’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Emmy Oost / emmyoost@telenet.be ETA / Summer 2015
/ What would you do if you could change the past? This is the story of Viktor, a brilliant young professor who discovers a way to manipulate time. Now he can finally change the past and help his beloved Lena. But as Viktor soon learns, changing the past is not without risk.
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THE SUM OF HISTORIES ORIGINAL TITLE / TERUG NAAR MORGEN
/ Pierre is one of the plantation managers pouring chemicals into the poor region of Misiones. In love with a young militant he tries to step back. But with the social war going on, switching sides is not so easy.
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LA TIERRA ROJA
GENRE / drama, romance, science-fiction
CAST / Koen De Graeve, Matteo Simoni, Robrecht Vanden Thoren DIRECTED BY / Lukas Bossuyt SCRIPTED BY / Lukas Bossuyt PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Caviar LANGUAGE / Dutch RUNNING TIME / 90’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Helena Vlogaert / helena.vlogaert@caviarcontent.com ETA / Fall 2015
GENRE / drama
CAST / Geert Van Rampelberg, Eugenia Ramírez Miori DIRECTED BY / Diego Martinez Vignatti
SCRIPTED BY / Diego Martinez Vignatti, with the collaboration of Nicolas Saad, Mélanie Delloye CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private View LANGUAGE / Spanish RUNNING TIME / 100’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / info@aprivateview.be INT’L SALES / Latido Films / latido@latidofilms.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / LA TIERRA ROJA
/ A team of three pets – a playful ferret, a sweet canary and a know-itall stick insect – head out to ask Saint Nicolas for presents for their animal friends and themselves. The journey is filled with adventures and their relationships become severely tested – especially Fred the ferret who has to choose between his love of toys and his love for his friends.
GENRE / animation
/ Brussels. Dealing with the capital’s grim underbelly on a daily basis, taciturn homicide detective Leo Woeste lives with Kathleen and her five-year-old son. But his convictions start to crumble when Kathleen unexpectedly becomes pregnant. His very last homicide case, involving a death-obsessed dealer in Congolese cult statues, slowly drags him deeper into the wasteland, far away from his wife and his role as a father.
GENRE / psychological thriller
/ In a desperate attempt to leave her past behind, Nina wanders the motorways of Europe. She meets Matthias, a German truck driver, and joins him on his journeys. Nina doesn’t reveal much about who she is, though. Gradually it becomes clear that Nina’s drive to hang around in the truckers’ scene is a result of the pain caused by the ultimate betrayal that has befallen her.
GENRE / drama
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TRIPLE TROUBLE
DIRECTED BY / Albert ‘t Hooft, Paco Vink
SCRIPTED BY / Michiel Snijders, Arnoud Rijken CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Vivi Film LANGUAGE / Dutch
RUNNING TIME / 67’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
CONTACT / Veerle Appelmans / veerle@vivifilm.be INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution /
info@attractiondistribution.ca
ORIGINAL TITLE / TRIPPEL TRAPPEL PITCH
WASTE LAND ORIGINAL TITLE / WASTE LAND
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ZURICH ORIGINAL TITLE / ZURICH
CAST / Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods, Babetida Sadjo DIRECTED BY / Pieter Van Hees SCRIPTED BY / Pieter Van Hees
PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Epidemic LANGUAGE / French, Dutch RUNNING TIME / 97’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
CONTACT / Eurydice Gysel / eurydice@epidemic.be INT’L SALES / Be for Films / Pamela Leu /
pamela@beforfilms.com
CAST / Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Barry Atsma DIRECTED BY / Sacha Polak SCRIPTED BY / Helena Van der Meulen CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / A Private View LANGUAGE / Dutch, German RUNNING TIME / 89’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015 CONTACT / Dries Phlypo / info@aprivateview.be INT’L SALES / Beta Cinema / Thorsten Ritter / thorsten.ritter@betacinema.com
BERLINALE SCREENINGS SELECTED FILMS
SCREENING AT THE MARKET
COMPETITION
BELGIAN RHAPSODY 7 February, 13.00, CineStar 2 10 February, 9.30, dffb-Kino INT’L SALES / Be for Films
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO February, 12.15, Berlinale Palast (press screening) February, 19.00, Berlinale Palast February, 12.00, Friedrichstadtpalast February, 13.00, Zoo Palast 1 February, 18.00, Friedrichstadtpalast February, 21.15, Friedrichstadtpalast INT’L SALES / Films Boutique 11 11 12 12 12 15
LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO 8 February, 14.30, CinemaxX 12 9 February, 11.30, Marriott 1 INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution LA TIERRA ROJA 8 February, 18.45, CinemaxX 18 INT’L SALES / Latido Films
GENERATION THE TIE February, 10.00, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 February, 10.30, CinemaxX 1 February, 9.30, Zoo Palast 1 February, 10.00, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain INT’L SALES / Lumière 10 12 13 15
TRIPLE TROUBLE 5 February, 13.30, CinemaxX 13 7 February, 9.30, CinemaxX 14 INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution WASTE LAND 8 February, 9.00, CinemaxX 3 10 February, 17.45, CineStar 2 INT’L SALES / Be for Films
FORUM ZURICH 6 February, 11.30, CinemaxX 6 (press screening) 7 February, 19.00, Delphi-Filmpalast 9 February, 11.00, CineStar 8 10 February, 22.30, Arsenal 1 14 February, 20.00, Cubix 9 8 February, 17.10, CinemaxX 13 (market screening) INT’L SALES / Beta Cinema
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