The French firm is selling Rithy Panh’s new film, a documentary produced by Catherine Dussart, which will enjoy its world premiere in competition in Berlin. One year after shining bright at the festival with François Ozon’s By the Grace of God, the French international sales firm Playtime is making a return to the Berlinale (whose 70th edition will run from 20 February to 1 March) with yet another of its titles - Irradiated, by Rithy Panh - selected to participate in the competition, a fact which it intends to use to its advantage at the European Film Market. As implied by the pitch, this documentary written by the French-Cambodian filmmaker in league with Agnès Sénémaud and Christophe Bataille follows the same lines as the director’s earlier works: "being a survivor isn’t something that can be expressed through words. You have to experience and move closer to this irradiation which might.
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