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 [+lee también:
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Pitching itself as a feel good movie, the auteur comedy Tel Aviv On Fire [+lee también:
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Indie Sales intends to make some good deals at Toronto with a further four films, including Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Emmanuel Mouret (starring Cécile de France, Edouard Baer, Alice Isaaz and Laure Calamy), which is due to make its world premiere in the Platform competition. Love and cruel revenge in eighteenth century high society are on the cards in this Moby Dick Films production (co-produced by Arte France Cinéma and Reborn Production), which will be released in French cinemas by Pyramide on 12 September.

Also world premiering (in the Special Presentations programme) as part of Indie Sales’ line-up at Toronto is Mothers' Instinct [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse, which focuses on a friendship between two women – played by Veerle Baetens and Anne Coesens – that takes a dramatic and disturbing turn. A Versus and Haut et Court production (which will be managing the film's French release).

Indie Sales will also be negotiating at Toronto with Core of the World [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Natalia Meschchaninova, a production involving Russia and Lithuania (Just A Moment), due to make its international premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section. The film – several sequences of which had been shown at the Arcs Film Festival's Work in Progress – will then head off to the66^th San Sebastian Film Festival (from 21 to 29 September) where it will participate in the New Directors competition. 

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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Finally, the rich line-up will also include the hybrid animation film Another Day of Life [+lee también:
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entrevista: Raúl de la Fuente
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It should be noted that Indie Sales will also be working on M [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Yolande Zauberman (special jury prize at Locarno), Paris Pigalle [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] 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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the Italian director Matteo Rovere.