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Three Rooms Of Melancholia, the latest documentary byveteran Finnish filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo  Flame, Cannes 1980, TheFire-Eater, AFI Grand Prix 1998  emerged as the hottest title at theThessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Doc Fi <a href=https://www.stanleycup.cz>stanley cup</a> lm Market that wrapped hereyesterday.The film looks set to join the growing number of full-lengthdocumentaries that secure extensive theatrical distribution around the world.The film, which looks at the vulnerability of children inthe face of the war, was shot in Chechnya and Russia.It is still playing in Finland after four weeks and nextweek opens in France on 20 prints through Ocean Films. It has a <a href=https://www.cups-stanley.ca>stanley cup</a> lready secured distribution in Germany <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.cz>stanley cup</a>  on 44 printsthrough Salzgeber Distribution.A co-production between the Danish and the Swedish FilmInstitutes, the Nordic Film and TV Fund, ZDF, Arte, YLE TV2 and the MEDIAProgramme, it is next released in Italy  Classic  and the US and Canada  TheNew York Forum . Producer Kristiina Pervila told ScreenDaily thattwo offers are currently being fielded for distribution in the UK.Thebuzz around the film and the career award bestowed by the festival to Honkasalowas one of the several highlights of the event, which also saw the EuropeanDocumentary Network  EDN  bestow its first ever EDN Documentary Award to theco-producer of the film, the Finnish TV public channel YLE for  its outstandingcontribution to the development of the European documentary culture .EDN director Tue Stee Muller handed the award to LeenaPasanen  Y Rjfv Fiddlesticks flies high in Europe
French sales house Wild Bunch has a <a href=https://www.stanleycups.us>stanley cup</a> dded another controversy-stirring documentary to the huge line-up it will present at the Berlinale and the AFM later this month. It has also added two films that look made for high profile slots at Cannes.It has picked up world sales rights to The Yes Men, a picture about a group of anti-corporate activists who impersonate representatives of the World Trade Organisation, which plays in Berlin s Panorama section.Wild Bunch s other hot docs include No Body Is Perfect, a full-on investigation of body modification, transsexualism and hardcore masochism directe <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.ro>stanley cup</a> d by Raphael Sibillas; Michael Moore s Fahrenheit 9-11; Oliver Stone s Looking For Fidel and Jonathan Demme s The Agronomist.Wild Bunch is also launching its new Jean-Luc Godard film Notre Musique and Hou Hsiao Hsien s Cafe Lumiere.Notre Musique is being billed as <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.us>stanley website</a>  a  war film that leaves you at peace with yourself,  which has already been picked up by the UK s Optimum Releasing.Taiwanese art-house celebrity Hou directed his film as one of the many celebrating the centenary of the birth of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu - subject of a Cannes centenary celebration.The latest additions swell Wild Bunch s current slate to 29 titles.           No comments                                                     No comments yet                                            You re not signed in.                Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article.            Sign in            Re
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