Unspooling within the 76th Cannes Film Festival, an excellent Marché du Film (running 16 – 24 May) is undoubtedly on the cards for French sales agent Pyramide International (directed by Eric Lagesse and steered by Agathe Mauruc). In fact, their line-up consists of five films set to be showcased across different selections on the Croisette, but first and foremost two Palme d’Or pretenders: Last Summer [+lee también:
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This will be French director Catherine Breillat’s second showcase at a festival of this level after 2007’s The Last Mistress [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. A loose adaptation of May el-Toukhy’s Danish film Queen of Hearts [+lee también:
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The first instalment in a trilogy, Youth (Spring) by China’s Wang Bing takes us 150km from Shanghai to Zhili. Young people flood into this town dedicated to textile manufacturing from all rural regions along the Yangtze River. They’re all 20-years-old, they share dormitories and they eat in corridors. They work tirelessly with a view to one day raising a child, buying a house or setting up their own workshop. As the seasons go by, friendships and romances fold and unfold against a backdrop of bankruptcies and family pressures. It’s a documentary produced by French firm Gladys Glover alongside Luxembourg’s Films Fauves and Holland’s Volya Films, in co-production with House on Fire, Arte France Cinéma, Le Fresnoy, CS Production and Eastern-Lion Pictures and Culture Media Co., Ltd.

The Official Selection will also see Pyramide International wagering on Marguerite's Theorem [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]). Starring Ella Rumpf, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Clotilde Courau, and scripted by Anna Novion, Agnès Feuvre, Marie-Stéphane Imbert and Mathieu Robin, the film revolves around Marguerite, a brilliant maths student at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, whose future seems all mapped out. The only girl in her year, she’s finishing a thesis which she then needs to present to a room full of researchers. On D-Day, a mistake upsets all of her certainties and her world falls apart. Marguerite decides to drop everything in order to start over again… Production comes courtesy of French outfit TS Productions in co-production with Switzerland’s Beauvoir Films.

Last but not least are two aces within Pyramide International’s line-up which have been selected for Critics’ Week: Ama Gloria [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Jordan’s Amjad Al Rasheed. Produced by Jordan-based firm The Imaginarium Films, in co-production with their compatriots at Bayt Al Shawareb and France’s Georges Films, this debut feature film takes place in present-day Jordan. Following the sudden death of her husband, 30-year-old Nawal must fight for her share of his will in order to save her daughter and her house, in a society where having a son changes everything…

Four post-production titles also now feature in the line-up: My New Friends [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by André Téchiné (starring Isabelle Huppert, Hafsia Herzi and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), Auction by Pascal Bonitzer (starring Alex Lutz up front), On the Pulse [+lee también:
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And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s also the market premiere on the cards for Marie Garel-Weiss’ work A Wonderful Girl [+lee también:
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