06/05/2014 - Sales are in the crosshairs for The Ardor at a special screening, Run in Un Certain Regard and Love at First Fight at the Fortnight

The Ardor by Pablo Fendrik

With three feature films set to have their world premieres at the 67th Cannes Festival (14-25 May 2014), the French international sales agent Bac Films is gearing up for an extremely active Marché du Film on the Croisette. Mathieu Robinet and Gilles Sousa’s team has two titles at its disposal that have been accepted in the Official Selection, among its other assets. The Ardor [+see also:
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film profile] by Pablo Fendrik (who came to fame at the Cannes Critics’ Week with La sangre brota in 2008), starring Gael García Bernal (a member of the Official Competition jury this year), will be unveiled in a special screening, while Run [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] by Philippe Lacôte (read the article) will be duking it out in Un Certain Regard.

Also standing out in the line-up is Love at First Fight [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Cailley
film profile] by young French director Thomas Cailley (read the article), which has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight.

Purely on the market front, Bac Films will be showing Tristesse Club by Vincent Mariette (read the article) and will be pursuing pre-sales for three films in post-production: The President by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (a co-production involving the UK, Germany, Georgia and France), Fusi by Iceland’s Dagur Kari and The Great Man by Sarah Leonor (read the article). And last but not least, the firm will be supplementing the already very impressive sales for Human Capital [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Virzì
film profile], by Italian director Paolo Virzi (which has just earned Valeria Bruni Tedeschi the Best Actress Award at Tribeca), among other titles.

(Translated from French)