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Fabien Lemercier


9722 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 16/07/2025.

Winterbottom and O'Brien hope to win over French audiences

Two English/Irish productions open on a combined 150 screens today, proving that European cinema is well represented in France, where 2006 has been a very good year in terms of cinema attendance,...  

07/06/2006 | Releases | France

Winning films for Celluloid Dreams

After a very successful Berlin Film Festival market, in particular for Oskar Roehler’s Elementary Particles, French sales outfit Celluloïd Dreams, headed by Hengameh Panahi, continued its good run...  

06/06/2006 | Market | France

Advance on receipts for Garcias, Fitoussi, Estrougo and Forestier

At the second session of 2006, the first advance on receipts commission of the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) selected four fiction feature projects. These include the...  

02/06/2006 | Funding | France

Pyramide sells Changement d’adresse to several territories

The Cannes Market was a successful one for the international sales team at Pyramide, directed by Eric Lagesse, which acquired this year’s Directors’ Fortnight surprise – Changement d’adresse (lit....  

01/06/2006 | Market | France

Gémini Films on the right track with Dans Paris

Screened as the closing film in the Directors’ Fortnight, Dans Paris by Christophe Honoré (see news), starring Romain Duris and Louis Garrel, was popular among audiences and critics alike and also...  

31/05/2006 | Market | France

A good market for Les Films du Losange

The international sales team at Les Films du Losange has come back from Cannes with a smile on its face. The outfit made several deals at the market and more are set to be made, with several...  

30/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | France

Good sales for French companies

French international sales agents at the Cannes Film Market have been keeping a low profile due in most part to the extension of negotiation periods to the weeks following the festival, but also...  

29/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | France

The winners speak

Ken Loach (Palme d’Or for The Wind That Shakes the Barley): "I’m shocked, I didn’t except this. But I’m in seventh heaven for all those who worked on the film with me. Because this is a story...  

28/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Awards

Rachid Bouchareb wins 2006 François Chalais Award

French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb was today announced the 2006 winner of the 10th François Chalais Award for his Days of Glory, screened in official competition (see interview). Backed by...  

28/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Awards

Loach: The director that shook the festival

It was a European sweep – with the UK, Spain and France leading the way – at the 59th edition of the Cannes Film Festival , where a surprise Palme d'Or went to veteran UK director Ken Loach for...  

28/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Palmarès

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