This year, more than most, Berlin's European Film Market was an opportunity to gauge the health of the global indie industry.
Judging from the business done over the past week — the 2021 EFM wraps Friday — the general assessment would be: The patient is stable and the prognosis is promising. "For the first time in many markets, we are seeing a proper supply of films: we've got movies for every taste, every budget, every genre," says Stefano Massuzi of Italian distributor Lucky Red. "With progress on vaccines and the promise of theaters reopening it feels like a restart." That optimism was reflected in the ambition of some of the films brought to the 2021 EFM.
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