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Films Distribution on a Venetian cloud

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Excellent results at la Mostra for the French international sales company Films Distribution whose team left the Lido last week, jetting out to Toronto. The two films selected for Venice from the line-up of the company headed by Nicolas Brigaud-Robert caused a sensation on the Lagoon. The double prize picked up by Les Amants réguliers [+see also:
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(Silver Lion for direction to Philippe Garrel and best artistic contribution for the DoP William Lubtchansky) promises the film a great future with the sales which have already been made at Venice for Italy (Istituto Luce), Austria and Greece, while negotiations for Germany are at an advanced stage.

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Present at la Mostra, François Yon, commercial director of Films Distribution estimated that this edition of Venice was the company’s best ever, thanks notably to sales (Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland...) of the success of the festival: C.R.A.Z.Y by Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée (screened in Venice Days). Elsewhere, sales kicked off for L’amant de Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran (Maïa Films production, currently in post-prod) which has already found buyers in Hong Kong, Japan and in France (Ad Vitam). With a great start to 2005 marked by excellent results at Berlin with Va, vis et deviens [+see also:
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by Radu Mihaileanu and the start of sales for the next American Film Market of Saint-Jacques...La Mecque by Coline Serreau, Films Distribution can look forward to a rosy future, with the first images due at Berlin 2006 of Indigènes by Rachid Bouchareb, of La Raison du plus faible [+see also:
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by Lucas Belvaux and Flandres by Bruno Dumont.

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(Translated from French)

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