22/06/2020 - Wild Bunch, Playtime, mk2 Films, WTFilms, StudioCanal, Celluloid Dreams and other French international sales agents reveal their ambitions online

Today is the first of five days of business in a brand new virtual environment at the Marché du Film (22 - 26 June) of the Cannes Film Festival, and the very dynamic French international sales agents are of course present, with line-ups including feature films from all over the world, many of them recipients of a label (Cannes 73 Official Selection, Critics' Week or ACID). We complete our overview of those line-ups.

Shining bright as ever in Cannes, Wild Bunch is selling seven label recipients: Maïwenn’s DNA [+see also:
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film profile] (starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Denis Podalydès as well as the director), Samir Guesmi’s Ibrahim [+see also:
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film profile] (the actor’s first feature film as a director), Just Philippot’s The Swarm [+see also:
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interview: Just Philippot
film profile] (recipient of a Critics’ Week label - released in France on 4 November via The Jokers), Home Front [+see also:
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interview: Lucas Belvaux
film profile] from Belgian director Lucas Belvaux (sales shared with The Party Film Sales), Beginning [+see also:
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interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili
film profile] from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili and the animated film Earwig and the Witch from Japanese director Gorô Miyazaki.

The Wild Bunch team (which has just obtained a line of credit worth €35 Million from Commerbank for its future acquisitions) is also negotiating on a series of upcoming titles. Standing out in post-production are the animated films The Summit Of The Gods [+see also:
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film profile] from Patrick Imbert and Where Is Anne Frank [+see also:
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interview: Ari Folman
film profile] from Israeli director Ari Folman, For Better and For Worse by Stéphane Brizé, Thierry de Peretti’s Undercover [+see also:
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interview: Thierry de Peretti
film profile], Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude [+see also:
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interview: Florence Gastaud
film profile],  Yassine Qnia’s A Brighter Tomorrow [+see also:
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interview: Souheila Yacoub
film profile], the documentary Lumière! The Adventure Continues by Thierry Frémaux, The Third War [+see also:
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interview: Giovanni Aloi
film profile] from Italian director Giovanni Aloï, Unclenching The Fists [+see also:
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film profile] from Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko, Animals [+see also:
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interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
film profile] from Belgian director Nabil Ben Yadir, Hatching [+see also:
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interview: Hanna Bergholm
film profile] from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, Taste from Vietnamese filmmaker Le Bao, Harami from Indian director Shyam Madiraju, Shake Your Cares Away from Israeli director Tom Shoval, Flag Day from American filmmaker Sean Penn and Mainstream from Gia Coppola. Worth noting and nearing the end of production is The Crusade by and starring Louis Garrel, and, in pre-production Julia Ducournau’s Titane [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Li…
film profile] and Caravaggio’s Shadow from Italian director Michele Placido.

Also at the forefront at Cannes’ market, Playtime is selling three feature-length recipients of the Cannes 73 Official Selection label: François Ozon’s Summer of 85 [+see also:
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film profile] (both will be distributed in France by Diaphana, on 14 July and 16 September, respectively), as well as True Mothers from Japanese director Naomi Kawase. Standing out from the post-production line-up are Laurent Cantet’s Arthur Rambo [+see also:
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interview: Laurent Cantet
film profile], 15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour [+see also:
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film profile] from Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre, Memory Box [+see also:
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interview: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil J…
film profile] from Lebanese directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, the English language feature film Nobody Has to Know [+see also:
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interview: Bouli Lanners
film profile] from Belgian filmmaker Bouli Lanners and Tim Mielants, Libertad [+see also:
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interview: Clara Roquet
film profile] from Spanish director Clara Roquet, Sans Soleil from Belgian filmmaker Banu Akseki and Nine Antico’s Playlist [+see also:
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interview: Nine Antico
film profile].

The sales team of mk2 Films will be screening at the market two films given the official Selection label: The Big Hit [+see also:
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film profile] from French filmmaker Emmanuel Courcol (released in France on 28 October via Memento) and the Israelo-Italian co-production Here We Are [+see also:
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film profile] by Nir Bergman. Pre-sales are continuing on The Worst Person In The World [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Trier
film profile] from Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (which will begin filming in August) and on two films currently in production, Axelle Roppert’s Petite Solange [+see also:
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interview: Axelle Ropert
film profile] and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey. Joining the line-up are Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers [+see also:
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film profile] (filming at the end of the summer and starring Fanny Ardant and Melvil Poupaud) and the animation project The Inventor (about the life of Leonard de Vinci) by Jim Capobianco.

Continuing its exponential growth, WTFilms is betting on three French recipients of the label: Farid Bentoumi’s Red Soil [+see also:
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film profile], Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s Teddy [+see also:
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film profile] and Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Gold for Dogs [+see also:
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film profile] (Critics’ Week label). The line-up also includes British thriller Knuckledust by James Kermack and, in post-production, Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibles [+see also:
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interview: Quentin Dupieux
film profile], Baptiste Drapeau’s The Lodger [+see also:
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film profile], Patrick Ridremont’s The Advent Calendar and  Mathieu Turi’s Meander [+see also:
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interview: Mathieu Turi
film profile].

Five other French international sales agents are each handling one film given a Cannes label: Elle Driver with Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Affair(s) [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
film profile] (released in France on 16 September via Pyramide), StudioCanal with Laurent Lafitte’s The Origin of the World [+see also:
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interview: Laurent Lafitte
film profile] (in French cinemas from 4 November), Versatile with Pleasure [+see also:
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interview: Ninja Thyberg
film profile] from Swedish director Ninja Thyberg, Celluloid Dreams with the Brazil-France co-production Memory House [+see also:
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film profile] by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (also worth noting in their lineup is Miss Marx [+see also:
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interview: Susanna Nicchiarelli
film profile] from Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli, currently in post-production, and the Canada-France-Hungary co-production Infinity Pool by Brandon Cronenberg, currently in pre-production) and The Bureau Sales with the British feature debut After Love [+see also:
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interview: Aleem Khan
film profile] by Aleem Khan (recipient of the Critics’ Week label).

Also worth noting is the creation of Reservoir Docs (former Wide House, still headed by Anaïs Clanet who is now associated with Frédéric Corvez’s group Urban).

(Translated from French)