Martin Blaney in Berlin

The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.

After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, produced by Bridgit Folman Film Gang with France's Les Films d'ici and Germany's Razor Film.

In addition, the sales outfit has three premieres in Un Certain Regard:

Cloud Nine (Wolke Neun) by Andreas Dresen (Summer In Berlin), produced by Rommel Film;

O'Horten by Norwegian director-producer Bent Hamer (Factotum);

Tulpan by Sergey Dvortsevoy, produced by Pandora Film with partners from France, Russia and Poland.

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