Charades gears up for Venice with two candidates for the Golden Lion on its slate
- With Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride and And Their Children After Them by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, the French sales agent boasts a sparkling line-up
French international sales agent Charades will be rocking up to the 81st Venice Film Festival (28 August-7 September) with a swagger in its step, as it can boast two hopefuls for the Golden Lion on its line-up. The first is Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride [+see also:
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interview: Maura Delpero
film profile] by Italy’s Maura Delpero. Singled out with the Coprocity Development Award in 2022 (see the news), the second feature-length fiction film by the director, who won multiple awards at Locarno in 2019 with Maternal [+see also:
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interview: Maura Delpero
film profile], also saw the involvement of Charades on production duties, alongside Roman outfit Cinedora and Belgium’s Versus Production.
Charades also fully intends to strike some lucrative deals on the Lido with its other Venice competition entry: And Their Children After Them [+see also:
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film profile] by France’s Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, which will be world-premiered on 31 August. At just 32 years old, the twins already have four features under their belt, as they previously helmed Willy 1er [+see also:
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film profile] (ACID at Cannes in 2016), Teddy [+see also:
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film profile] (Cannes Official Selection in 2020) and Year of the Shark [+see also:
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interview: Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma
film profile] (2022). Staged by Chi Fou Mi Productions and Trésor Films, and starring Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier and Louis Memmi, And Their Children After Them (see the article) is an adaptation of Nicolas Mathieu’s highly successful novel of the same name. The French release is slated for 4 December, courtesy of Warner Bros.
Charades’ Venice line-up also includes Little Jaffna [+see also:
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interview: Lawrence Valin
film profile] by France’s Lawrence Valin, an Ex Nihilo and Mean Streets production, which will bring the International Film Critics’ Week to a close before jetting off to the Toronto International Film Festival (5-15 September), where it will be screened in the Centrepiece section.
In total, six further Charades titles have been selected for Toronto, including Meet the Barbarians [+see also:
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film profile] by Julie Delpy, on the Gala programme; Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride; and the Irish-UK-Belgian production Bring Them Down [+see also:
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film profile] by Christopher Andrews as a Special Presentation. There will also be two flicks in Centrepiece – namely, the animated feature Flow [+see also:
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interview: Gints Zilbalodis
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film profile] by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis and My Sunshine [+see also:
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interview: Hiroshi Okuyama
film profile] by Japan’s Hiroshi Okuyama (both of which were popular at Cannes, in Un Certain Regard). This solid line-up will no doubt turbo-charge the engine of this international sales agent, which is always highly dynamic and which will have more than one ace up its sleeve in the near future as well, in particular the upcoming movies by Julia Ducournau and László Nemes.
(Translated from French)
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