30/08/2018 - With two films showing at Venice, five at Toronto and three at San Sebastian, the French sales company is booming

The festival round at the end of summer promises to be particularly fruitful for the French international sales company Indie Sales. The team, managed by Nicolas Eschbach (and supported by Clémentine Hugot) will be showcasing eight feature films as part of its line-up at the Venice-Toronto-San Sebastian triptych, with a total of ten selections (two titles scoring a double whammy), including five world premieres and one international premiere.

Indie Sales will be showcasing two films due to make their world premieres on the Lido at the 75^th Venice Film Festival, which kicked off yesterday. Real Love [+see also:
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Pitching itself as a feel good movie, the auteur comedy Tel Aviv On Fire [+see also:
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Indie Sales intends to make some good deals at Toronto with a further four films, including Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+see also:
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Also world premiering (in the Special Presentations programme) as part of Indie Sales’ line-up at Toronto is Mothers' Instinct [+see also:
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Indie Sales will also be negotiating at Toronto with Core of the World [+see also:
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Finally, the Brazilian animated film Tito and The Birds by Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar and André Catoto, which premiered at Annecy Film Festival, will be screened in the Discovery programme at Toronto.

The Indie Sales team will be then head to San Sebastian to showcase three titles. As well as Core of the World, the New Directors competition will also see the world premiere of the first feature film by the French director Romain Laguna, Meteorites [+see also:
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It should be noted that Indie Sales will also be working on M [+see also:
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film profile] by Cédric Anger (starring Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lellouche as police members who infiltrate the porn industry - French release on 19 September via Mars Films), and the Italian feature film – currently in post-production – Romulus and Remus, The First King [+see also:
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(Translated from French)