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Premiere at the AFM for Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart

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- About 20 French companies will try to profit from this year’s last great market with a few world premieres on the menu

Premiere at the AFM for Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart
Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart

As the last great market of the year, the American Film Market (November 6-13) will welcome in Santa Monica many French international sales companies. Amongst them, EuropaCorp will unveil three films in world premieres including the animated movie Jack and the Cuckoo-clock Heart) by duo Mathias Malzieu - Stéphane Berla (read the news – to be released in France of February 5, 2014), The Marchers by Belgian director Nabil Ben Yadir (article – November 27) and Angelique by Ariel Zeitoun (a remake of the film by the same name from 1964 with Gérard Lanvin, Nora Arnezeder and Tomer Sisley in the cast – December 18). The rest of the line-up of Luc Besson’ team doesn’t lack assets (read the news), with in particular Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello (read the news) currently if filming with a high class cast (Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Léa Seydoux, Olga Kurylenko, Louis Garrel, Amira Casar, Willem Dafoe, Amelyne Valade, Helmut Berger, Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Dominique Sanda) for a scheduled released on May 14, 2014.

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Amongst the programmed premieres of the Californian market, another animated film stands out with the Belgian production The House of Magic by duo Ben Stassen - Jérémie Degruson, sold by StudioCanal which will also unveil the British feature Cuban Fury by James Griffiths and work on its very dense line-up with a team managed for the first time by Anna Marsh (news).

Animation too for Gaumont with the premiere of The Magic Snowflake by Luc Vinciguerra, whilst Kinology will present the 3D documentary Land of Bears by Guillaume Vincent.

The very dynamic French sales companies will also be represented at the AFM notably by Pathé International (article), Films Distribution, Memento Films International, Bac Films, Celluloid Dreams, Futurikon, Le Pacte, Other Angle Pictures, Rezo, SND, TF1 International, UDI - Urban Distribution International, Wide and Wild Bunch. A large delegation that foreshadows a few announcements. To be continued...

At the AFI Festival, which will take place alongside the market from November 7-14, five French majority productions were selected with The Past [+see also:
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 by Asghar Farhadi in a special screening, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness by duo Ben Rivers - Ben Russell in the New Authors section and three titles on the menu of the World Cinema section: Grand Central [+see also:
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interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
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 by Rebecca ZlotowskiStranger by the Lake [+see also:
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
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 by Alain Guiraudie and The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh.

Several French minority coproductions are also scheduled to be screened during the AFI: Tom at the Farm [+see also:
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by Canadian director Xavier Dolan, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu, Mary Queen of Scots [+see also:
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 by Swiss director Thomas Imbach, La grande bellezza [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
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 by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, Heli [+see also:
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by Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, The Lunchbox by Indian director Ritesh Batra, An Episode of the Life of an Iron Picker [+see also:
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interview: Danis Tanović
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 by Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, Harmony Lessons [+see also:
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 by Kazakh filmmaker Emir Baigazin, In Bloom [+see also:
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interview: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simo…
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by duo Nana Ekvtimishvili - Simon Groß, and The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears [+see also:
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 by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.

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(Translated from French)

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