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 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Maura Delpero
ficha de la película] 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 [+lee también:
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Charades also fully intends to strike some lucrative deals on the Lido with its other Venice competition entry: And Their Children After Them [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] 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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (ACID at Cannes in 2016), Teddy [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Cannes Official Selection in 2020) and Year of the Shark [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ludovic y Zoran Boukherma
ficha de la película] (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 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lawrence Valin
ficha de la película] 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 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Julie Delpy, on the Gala programme; Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride; and the Irish-UK-Belgian production Bring Them Down [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Christopher Andrews as a Special Presentation. There will also be two flicks in Centrepiece – namely, the animated feature Flow [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alfombra roja @ European F…
entrevista: Gints Zilbalodis
ficha de la película] by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis and My Sunshine [+lee también:
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entrevista: Hiroshi Okuyama
ficha de la película] 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.