02/09/2010

With eight of 23 films in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and ten other titles screening in different parallel sections, the offering from French international sales outfits features plenty of gems which they hope to make shine at Venice and later this month in Toronto.

Among the Golden Lion contenders are MK2’s Vénus noire [+see also:
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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile] by Abdellatif Kechiche, Pathé International’s Miral [+see also:
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film profile] by Julian Schnabel, and Wild Bunch’s (which didn’t get its hands on We Believed [+see also:
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interview: Mario Martone
interview: Mario Martone
film profile] by Italian helmer Mario Martone and is now being sold by Rai Trade) Potiche [+see also:
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film profile] by François Ozon and Antony Cordier’s Happy Few [+see also:
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film profile]. French outfits will also be selling non-domestic majority productions, with Le Pacte pinning its hopes on The Solitude of Prime Numbers [+see also:
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interview: Luca Marinelli
film profile] by Italian helmer Saverio Costanzo, Films Distribution on Sad Trumpet Ballad [+see also:
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interview: Álex de la Iglesia
film profile] by Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, Funny Ballons on Post Mortem [+see also:
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film profile] by Chilean director Pablo Larrain (a German co-production) and Memento Films International on Russian feature Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko.

Selected out-of-competition, Spanish production Lope [+see also:
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film profile] by Andrucha Waddington is being sold by Wild Bunch, while three films screening in the Horizons section feature on the French line-up: Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty at Pyramide, French-Portuguese co-production Dharma Guns [+see also:
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film profile] by F.J. Ossang at UMédia and Gianfranco Rosi’s El Sicario, room 164 [+see also:
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film profile] at Doc & Film International.

Wild Bunch is also handling sales for Bertrand Blier’s The Clink of Ice [+see also:
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film profile] at Venice Days which also sees Colifilms Diffusion selling The Place in Between by French helmer Sarah Bouyain, Wide Management is handling sales of Crime Scene by Holland’s Walter Stokman and Doc & Film International is negotiating for Noir océan [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgium’s Marion Hänsel.

Lastly, Pyramide is doubly present at Critics’ Week with Angèle et Tony [+see also:
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film profile] by French helmer Alix Delaporte and Israeli-French co-production Lies by Eitan Zur.

(Translated from French)