Pyramide lays out its ambitions
With three films in Official Selection, including one in competition, two in the Directors’ Fortnight and a debut feature in Critics’ Week, French international seller Pyramide will present a promising line-up at the Film Market at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, which opens tomorrow.
On the Croisette, Eric Lagesse and Yoann Ubermulhin’s team will sell Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s French/Belgian co-production A Screaming Man [+see also:
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In the Directors’ Fortnight, Pyramide will be hoping for success with Diego Lerman’s Argentinean/French/Spanish co-production The Invisible Eye [+see also:
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Among its numerous titles in post-production, Pyramide will be pinning its hopes in particular on Eran Riklis’s The Mission of the Human Resources Manager; Eitan Zur’s Lies; Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s Jimmy Rivière (see news); and Alix Delaporte’s Angèle & Tony (see news).
Finally, there will be a market screening of What More Do I Want [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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