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Congratulations to Laura Bispuri for the Firebird Award SWORN VIRGIN won at the Hong Kong International Film Festival!

VICTORIA has won the Main Prize at Beaune International Thriller Festival!

Congratulations to director Sebastian Schipper and his wonderful team!

Great news arrive from this year's Berlinale, where two of The Match Factory titles that took part of the festival have been awarded.

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay received each one Silver Bear for Best Actress and Actor for their performances in Andrew Haigh's 45 YEARS.

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen was awarded for his camera work in Sebastian Schipper's VICTORIA with the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.

Congratulations to both teams for their great work!

We are happy to make the acquisition of THE SECOND MOTHER by Anna Muylaert official. And we are also happy to announce that it will be world premiering at Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Competition as the only one Latin American film.

Congratulations to Christian Petzold for the Special Jury Award Joåo Bénard da Costa PHOENIX won yesterday at the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival!

Very good news from the Emirates, where LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher has been awarded best film of the New Horizons Competition (for 1st and 2nd feature) with the Black Pearl Award at the 2014 Abu Dhabi IFF.

Good news from Austria, where WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, Opening Film of the festival, has received an Honourable Mention of the jury. Viktória Petranyi and Zsófia Psotta were there, too.

We are very proud to announce the participation of 10 titles of ours at the this year's BFI London IFF:

PHOENIX by Christian Petzold (competition)
BYPASS by Duane Hopkins (Dare)
DANCING ARABS by Eran Riklis (Debate)
LISTEN UP PHILIP by Alex Ross Perry (Laugh)
ZERO MOTIVATION by Talya Lavie (Laugh)
ALTMAN by Ron Mann (Love)
THE CUT by Fatih Akin (Journey)
LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher (Journey)
WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó (Thrill)
SNOW IN PARADISE by Andrew Hulme (Thrill)

We are proud to announce that PHOENIX by Christian Petzold (starring Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Hoss), ITSI BITSI by Ole Christian Madsen and TIGERS by Danis Tanović will have its world premiere at Toronto IFF.

We are very proud to announce the participation of four titles of ours at the 71st Venice International Film Festival:

THE CUT by Fatih Akin at Venice Competition.
BYPASS by Duane Hopkins at Venice Orizzonti Competition
ALTMAN by Ron Mann at Venice Classics
THE STATE-MAFIA PACT (LA TRATTATIVA) by Sabina Guzzanti at Venice Out of Competition

The Match Factory wants to congratulate the team of LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher for their success in this year's edition of Filmfest München, where the film has won the Cinevision Award 2014.

The jury statement was: "The Cinevision Award 2014 goes to 'Le Meraviglie' by Alice Rohrwacher. The film has everything we love to see in cinema: An original voice, always suprising and a wonderful cast. With a personal visual language, Alice Rohrwacher creates a precise and poetic universe of an unusual family and their struggle to survive. The film enchanted us."