09/01/2026 - 500 foreign buyers and 120 international journalists will be in Paris between 13 and 20 January to discover and meet talent from the French cinema and audiovisual world

Comédie Française by Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau

The Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, hosting the biggest markets and press junket in the world for French film and audiovisual works, are returning for their 28th edition which will open on Tuesday 13 January, following the 6th Export Day taking place the previous day (which will notably involve the unveiling of French films’ performance abroad in 2025).

Stealing focus on the agenda, which runs up until 20 January, are the two markets set to unspool between 13 and 17 January, involving 400 buyers (hailing from 40 countries) and 48 French international sales agents on the film side, and 100 buyers (travelling from 24 countries) and 50 French export firms from the audiovisual world. There’s also the press junket, unspooling between 17 and 20 January, which will see 120 international journalists (hailing from 30 countries) meeting an equivalent number of French artists (filmmakers, actors, showrunners, etc.) who are heading up works scheduled for broadcast abroad in 2026.

The Meetings will be complemented by a variety of events, such as presentations of the French Cinema Prize which will go to director Cédric Klapisch, the 2nd Unifrance Distributor Prize (endowed with 10,000 euros and going to a foreign distribution company whose promotional and release campaign for a French film is deemed particularly ambitious and innovative) and the 1st Unifrance Broadcaster Prize, and the revelation of the 10 to Watch – in the world of young French film talent - in 2026.

Standing tall among the 39 films enjoying market premieres (out of the 71 feature films jostling on the agenda) is Charades’ Comédie Française by Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau, which is set to open the Meetings.

Pyramide International will leap into action with premieres of Maigret and the Dead Lover by Pascal Bonitzer and the documentary We, The Orchestra of Paris by Philippe Béziat.

Best Friend Forever will screen A Russian Winter by Patric Chiha (due to world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama line-up), Vade Retro [+see also:
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Playtime will be in attendance with Jérôme Bonnell’s The Arrangement [+see also:
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film profile] (notably starring Swann Arlaud who was nominated for the Best Actor Lumière).

Le Pacte will be in on the action with Guillaume Nicloux’s Mi Amor (due to enjoy its world premiere in Rotterdam’s Limelight section).

Goodfellas will unveil Guillaume Ivernel’s animated movie The Legendaries.

SND will be wagering on Murder in the Building by Rémi Bezançon (set to close Rotterdam), Oh La La 2 by Julien Hervé, Whatever It Takes by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti and Wanted Santa by James Huth.

Lucky Number will offer up David Roux’s Mrs (read our article).

Elle Driver will screen The Vanished Girl by Camille Ponsin (article).

France tv distribution will be pinning its hopes on The Price To Pay by Anthony Déchaux (article).

Gaumont will share The American Dream by Anthony Marciano (article) and You Found Me by Alice Vial.

MPM Premium will screen Vanishing Goats by Marie Rémond (article).

Pathé Films will arrive armed with Marsupilami by Philippe Lacheau and Police Flash 80 by Jean-Baptiste Saurel (article).

Les Films du Losange will unveil Hugo by Pascal Bonitzer.

Be For Films will wager on The Girls From Above [+see also:
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interview: Bérangère McNeese
film profile] by Bérangère McNeese.

StudioCanal have high hopes for The Desert Child by Gilles de Maistre.

Ginger & Fed will be present with LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour by Lisa Azuelos, Santiago: The Camino Therapy by Yann Samuell and Anna vs the Kids by Diane Clavier.

Kinology will screen Hell in Paradise by Leïla Sy.

The Bureau Sales will stand out with The Wild Soul by Salomé Stévenin.

WTFilms will offer up a raft of market premieres in the form of The Night Bus [+see also:
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film profile] by Morade Aïssaoui, Mother and Law by Pierre Mazingarbe, The Better Me by Nicolas and Bruno, Tough Luck by Gérard Jugnot, Ferris Wheel by Julien Hosmalin and It’s All Good by Patrick Cassir.

Other Angle Pictures will present Become Awesome by Léo Grandperret and The Last Concert by Alexandre Arcady.

Last but not least, Studio TF1 will present a market premiere for The Perfect Family by Ludovic Bernard.

A full complement of French international sales agents are set to leap into action at the 28th Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, with screenings also on the horizon via mk2 Films, The Party Film Sales, Totem Films, Paradise City Sales, Indie Sales, Loco Films, The Pool Films, Logical Pictures International/Pulsar Content, Cinéfrance International, Celluloid Dreams and Urban Sales.

(Translated from French)