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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."

We are proud to unveil the three titles that have been officially selected for this year's edition of Cannes Film Festival:

OFFICIAL COMPETITION:
LE MERAVIGLIE (THE WONDERS) by Alice Rohrwacher

UN CERTAIN REGARD:
SNOW IN PARADISE by Andrew Hulme
WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó

Good luck to all of them!

We proudly announce the nominations for the German Film Awards 2014. Erwin Wagenhofer's ALPHABET aspires to get the Best Documentary Award. Carla Juri is nominated as Best Actress for her incarnation of Helen Memel in David Wnendt's WETLANDS, which also competes for the Best Edition award.

We are happy to announce that the following titles of our catalogue will take part of the 2014 edition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

- LOSE MY SELF by Jan Schomburg (World Premiere - in competition)
- QISSA by Anup Singh (Opening Film)
- NIGHT MOVES by Kelly Reichardt
- THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE by Philip Gröning
- OCTOBER NOVEMBER by Götz Spielmann
- REDEMPTION by Miguel Gomes