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9765 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 19/09/2025.

Ropes gets results for Reel Suspects

Ropes gets results for Reel Suspects

Despite the health crisis, the French international sales agent has sealed deals for the thriller by Spain’s José Luis Montesinos and is readying itself for the online Marché du Film  

20/05/2020 | Cannes 2020 | Marché du Film

20 feature films in competition in Annecy

20 feature films in competition in Annecy

The new animation opuses by Joann Sfar, Rémi Chayé, Mariusz Willczynski and the duo composed of Ben Stassen and Jérémie Degruson will headline the online event unspooling 15–30 June  

19/05/2020 | Annecy 2020

Manuel Chiche  • Distributor, The Jokers

Interview: Manuel Chiche • Distributor, The Jokers

"We’re not trying to predict the future anymore"

French firm The Jokers head Manuel Chiche sheds light on the dilemmas currently faced by independent distributors who must either wait for cinemas to re-open or opt for VOD releases  

18/05/2020 | France

French distributors take the VoD path

French distributors take the VoD path

Uncertainty over the re-opening of cinemas in France is forcing distributors to make difficult and, at times, counterintuitive decisions in order to clear their backlog of films  

15/05/2020 | Distribution | Releases | Exhibitors | France

Christian Volckman  • Director of The Room

Interview: Christian Volckman • Director of The Room

"I could introduce ideas such as mental labyrinths: the puzzle of the human mind"

French director Christian Volckman talks about his transition to fiction via The Room, genre cinema and trepidation towards the form in France  

14/05/2020 | /France/Luxembourg/Belgium

First clapperboard to slam on Erasing Frank in July

First clapperboard to slam on Erasing Frank in July

Steered by Frank Production and Otherside Stories, Gábor Fabricius’s first feature takes a peak behind the Iron Curtain and to the heart of the state-led oppression of anti-conformist minds  

13/05/2020 | Production | Funding | Hungary

Andrea Queralt  • Producer, 4 A 4 Productions

Interview: Andrea Queralt • Producer, 4 A 4 Productions

"The future is yet to be written"

One of the EFP’s 2020 Producers on the Move, Andrea Queralt of French firm 4 A 4 Productions speaks of her career, her projects and the current predicament  

13/05/2020 | Producers on the Move 2020

Review: The Room

Review: The Room

For his first foray into fiction fourteen years after the animated work Renaissance, Christian Volckman offers up a chilling, thrilling and abstract genre film  

12/05/2020 | Films | Reviews | France/Luxembourg/Belgium

Mathieu Debusschère  • Managing Director, ARP

Interview: Mathieu Debusschère • Managing Director, ARP

"Funding is at risk for French works over the next two years"

Mathieu Debusschère, Managing Director of the ARP, offers his analysis of the crucial and urgent need to include platforms within the French film funding system  

11/05/2020 | France

Cannes will reveal its list of films given the Cannes 2020 label in June

Cannes will reveal its list of films given the Cannes 2020 label in June

The festival will put an official seal on the films that would have been part of its 2020 selection. It will be on the directors, producers and sales agents to decide, as Venice remains uncertain  

11/05/2020 | Cannes 2020

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