04/05/2017 - Pre-sales will kick off at Cannes for the new Yann Gonzalez film as well as a rich slate of movies that also includes I Am Not a Witch, selected in the Directors’ Fortnight

With a line-up boasting 12 titles, French international sales agent Kinology, managed by Grégoire Melin (backed up by Gaëlle Mareschi), will certainly not be lacking in trump cards at the Film Market of the 70^th Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May). Standing out among them is a film that will have its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight: I Am Not a Witch [+see also:
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At Cannes, Kinology will be launching pre-sales for Knife + Heart [+see also:
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Also present among the market premieres on Kinology’s line-up are the US movie Gook by Justin Chon, which won the Audience Award in the Next section at Sundance, and three titles in production: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam (a production being staged by Spanish outfit Tornasol, starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgard and Joana Ribeiro), A Polar Year [+see also:
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Kinology will also continue pre-selling a number of titles in post-production, including Spirou & Fantasio’s Great Adventures by Alexandre Coffre, Money [+see also:
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film profile] by Xavier Gens. And last but not least, the firm’s line-up also includes Annette by Leos Carax (toplined by Adam Driver), the shoot for which is slated to take place this summer.

(Translated from French)