MK2 Films, the firm behind six movies taking part in at Cannes together with Leonor Serraille’s competitors title “Mom and Son,” has acquired French and worldwide rights on the Raoul Peck catalogue from Velvet Film.
MK2 Films will begin promoting the library of movies throughout the Cannes Film Pageant. The Raoul Peck assortment includes documentary and fiction, together with the HBO documentary collection “Exterminate All the Brutes” which earned Peck a DGA Awards nomination.
The gathering additionally consists of “I Am Not Your Negro,” the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, in addition to the highly effective “Lumumba: Loss of life of a Prophet,” the restored, 4K model of which performed at Cannes Classics final yr. The doc is a historic investigation weaving Peck’s childhood reminiscences and a tribute to a number one determine of recent African heritage.
MK2 Films may even now characterize Peck’s “Haitian movies,” a mini-collection comprising three fiction movies and a documentary, “Haitian Nook,” “Moloch Tropical,” “Deadly Help” and “Homicide in Pacot,” a take a look at Haitian society from dictatorship to democracy over 50 years.
“We’re extraordinarily proud to characterize Raoul Peck’s important and political work. He’s a vital voice of right this moment, echoing via his movies with a relentless assault on racism, genocide and colonialism”, mentioned Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2 Films’ CEO.
Peck mentioned he was happy to have discovered such a “famend, established but modern dwelling” for his movies. ICM Companions represents Peck’s movies in North America.
The Raoul Peck Assortment joins MK2 Films’ sprawling library of over 800 movies from France and round the world, together with the collections of François Truffaut in 1999, Charles Chaplin’s in 2001, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy’s in 2017 and Jacques Rozier’s earlier this yr. The library additionally boasts movies by Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch, Alain Resnais and Gus Van Sant.
MK2 Films can also be repping traditional movies restored in 2K and 4K from movie pioneers resembling D. W. Griffith and Alice Man-Blaché, to Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Buster Keaton, in addition to modern filmmakers resembling Jia Zhang-Ke, Joachim Trier, Céline Sciamma, Xavier Dolan and Mati Diop.
MK2 Films can also be dealing with a number of movies world premiering throughout completely different sections of the competition: Serraille’s (“Jeune Femme”) transferring household saga “Mom and Son” in competitors; in addition to Serge Bozon’s musical romantic comedy “Don Juan” with Tahar Rahim at Cannes Premiere; Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” with Vicky Krieps and Davy Chou’s “All The Folks I’ll By no means Be” set for Un Sure Regard; Emmanuelle Nicot’s blistering debut “Love In keeping with Dalva” and Clément Cogitore’s (“The Wakhan Entrance”) “Sons of Ramses” starring Karim Leklou.