10/02/2014 - Diplomacy, When Animals Dream, The Gate and Samba are among the company’s wide-ranging catalogue of films; it is also in talks with many distributors

With no fewer than 20 titles in its line-up, it’s full steam ahead for Gaumont’s international sales division at the European Film Market at the 64th Berlinale. One movie in official selection, the Franco-German co-production Diplomacy [+see also:
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The promo-reel screening organised on the first day of the market has already done the trick for the Danish thriller in post-production When Animals Dream by Jonas Arnby, which was pre-bought by the United States (via Radius-TWC), the UK (Altitude Film), Germany (Prokino), Greece (Odeon) and Australia (Madman).

Standing out among the new works in the line-up are three French movies that are currently being filmed: the historical drama The Gate by Régis Wargnier (starring Raphaël Personnaz and Olivier Gourmet – read the interview with producer Jean Cottin), Through The Air [+see also:
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Among the post-production film sales based on the promo reel, Cécile Gaget and Yohann Comte’s team is also working on Gemma Bovery by Anne Fontaine (produced by ciné@ and Albertine Productions, and adapted from the eponymous graphic novel by Posy Simmonds; it stars British actress Gemma Arterton and French actor Fabrice Luchini), Breathe by Mélanie Laurent (read the article) and the Korean feature The Target (a remake of the French thriller Point Blank).

Also in post-production are Samba by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (the directors of The Intouchables [+see also:
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Lastly, among the market screenings in Berlin, Gaumont presented the thriller Mea Culpa [+see also:
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(Translated from French)