28/08/2012 - Business should be good with Zaytoun as a Special Presentation and a flurry of titles from directors from Denis Villeneuve to Danièle Thompson

It’s off to the Toronto Film Festival (from September 6 to 16), a real magnet for distributors from around the world, for French international sales agency Pathé International! There, the agency will hedge its bets on two titles selected for the Canadian event, in particular Zaytoun (photo), a British-Israeli-French co-production by Eran Riklis to be screened at a Special Presentation. The film, in which an unexpected bond develops between a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot shot down in Beirut in 1982, stars American actor Stephen Dorff (Somewhere).

Muriel Sauzay’s team is also selling Ryuhei Kitamura’s No One Lives to be screened in the Midnight Madness section, and is to show a flurry of promo reels on Friday September 7, notably for the following films: Denis Villeneuve’s An Enemy (produced by Canada and Spain, with Jake Gillenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, and Isabella Rossellini in the cast), Philippe Le Guay’s Cycling with Moliere (read more - with Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, and Maya Sansa), Christian Duguay’s Jappeloup (read more - with Guillaume Canet, Daniel Auteuil, and Marina Hands), Danièle Thompson’s It Happened in Saint-Tropez (with Kad Merad, Monica Bellucci, and Eric Elmosnino), as well as British co-production Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom by Justin Chadwick.

Pre-sales are to continue for Christophe Gans’ project Beauty and the Beast (with Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux), after having been acquired for about 15 territories (including Spain, Japan, and China).

Also in the line-up are Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran’s Nous York (due out in France on November 21 with the director and Leïla Bekhti in the cast), Nicolas Bary’s The Scapegoat (read more - in post-production with Bérénice Béjo, Raphaël Personnaz, and Emir Kusturica), Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine [+see also:
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(Translated from French)