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48 premieres at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema

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- 600 distributors hailing from 50 countries, 90 films and some red-hot line-ups at the Paris-based market organised by UniFrance, which kicks off today

48 premieres at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema

The 17th Rendez-vous with French Cinema gets under way today in Paris, acting as a perfect springboard for sales and promotion activities just weeks away from the Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Festivals. Running until 19 January and organised by UniFrance, it serves as an opportunity for 36 French international sales agents to screen 90 French films (including 48 market world premieres) and negotiate deals for the entirety of their line-ups with 600 distributors hailing from 50 countries. The event will also be the setting for the world’s biggest press junket (featuring 135 journalists and 1,000 interviews with 120 French artists) and the launch of the fifth edition of My French Film Festival (16 January-16 February – read the article).

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MK2 (read the news) and Pyramide (read the article) are among the sales outfits that will be springing into action, but it is also worth highlighting the market premieres of A trois on y va [+see also:
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by Jérôme Bonnell (read the article) and A 14 ans by Hélène Zimmer (read the news), sold by Versatile; Un homme idéal by Yann Gozlan (read the article), which is on SND’s slate; L'art de la fugue by Brice Cauvin (read the news) on offer from Films Distribution; and Caprice [+see also:
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 by Emmanuel Mouret (read the article), which is handled by Kinology.

There will also be premieres for Ladygrey [+see also:
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interview: Jérémie Renier
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by Alain Choquart (read the article - The Bureau Sales), Max et Lenny [+see also:
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by Fred Nicolas (read the article - Alpha Violet), Boomerang [+see also:
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 by François Favrat (read the news - TF1 International), La résistance de l'air [+see also:
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by Fred Grivois (read the article), and I Kissed a Girl by Noémie Saglio and Maxime Govare, which are sold by Gaumont.

Also of note are the premieres of The Night Watchman by Pierre Jolivet (read the news - Indie Sales), Les jours venus by Romain Goupil (read the article) and Mon amie Victoria by Jean-Paul Civeyrac (read the news) for Les Films du Losange; Discount [+see also:
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by Louis-Julien Petit and The Art Dealer by François Margolin for Other Angle Pictures; and Papa Lumière [+see also:
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by Ada Loueilh (read the article - Le Pacte). Doc & Film International, which will be unveiling Zouzou [+see also:
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by Blandine Lenoir, is also organising a screening of Raoul Peck’s Murder in Pacot [+see also:
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, which has been selected in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlinale after it was shown at Toronto.

EuropaCorp will have three premieres: Buddy Guards [+see also:
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by Tristan Aurouet, the animated title 108 Rois-Démons by Pascal Morelli and Dominique Farrugia’s Bis; while Pathé International will be showing off Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone by Sylvie Ohayon (read the article).

Wild Bunch – which, as per usual, is turning up brandishing an extremely high number of titles – will be getting a gala screening for Patrice Leconte’s comedy Une heure de tranquillité and will be launching pre-sales for a whole raft of movies: the upcoming work by Jacques Audiard (which it is selling together with Celluloid Dreams – read the news), My Golden Years by Arnaud Desplechin (read the news), Marguerite et Julien [+see also:
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by Valérie Donzelli (read the article), Les Anarchistes by Elie Wajeman (read the article), The Fear [+see also:
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by Damien Odoul (read the article), Evolution [+see also:
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 by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (read the article), In the Shadow of Women by Philippe Garrel (read the article), Joann Sfar’s The Lady in the Car and a Gun [+see also:
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(read the article), La fille du patron [+see also:
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The Boss’s Daughter) by Olivier Loustau (read the article), Lolo [+see also:
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interview: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon
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by Julie Delpy, The Sweet Escape [+see also:
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by Bruno Podalydès and the documentary Ice and the Sky [+see also:
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 by Luc Jacquet.

UniFrance’s Paris-based event offers some excellent opportunities for distributors to guarantee themselves a competitive edge, in the same way as all these forthcoming films do. All of the French sales agents (including Memento Films International, Bac Films, Elle Driver, Alfama, Coproduction Office, Urban Distribution, Wide, Premium Films, Reel Suspects, Ecce Films, La vie est belle and so on) will be taking part and are looking to the future – much like StudioCanal, which is kicking off pre-sales for the animated film Un monde truqué [+see also:
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interview: Christian Desmares and Fran…
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(read the news) and Mon Roi [+see also:
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by Maiwenn (read the news).

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(Translated from French)

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