The international sales division of French group SND is setting its sights on the 78th Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film (running 13 to 21 May), where it’s set to showcase a line-up including The Girls We Want by Prïncia Car which will world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight.

Starring Houssam Mohamed, Leïa Haïchour and Lou Anna Hamon, the director’s first feature film takes us to Marseille at the height of summer. Twenty-year-old Omar and his gang of friends, who oversee the children’s summer camp and enjoy respect in the neighbourhood, divide girls into two categories: those you fuck and those you marry. When their childhood friend Carmen, who’s a former sex worker, returns, their equilibrium, their individual roles within the group and their outlook on sex and love are rocked and called into question… The Girls We Want was produced by After Hours Production in co-production with France 3 Cinéma and Zinc (with the latter distributing the film in French cinemas on 16 July).

The team spearheaded by Ramy Nahas will also be wagering on market screenings of Cécilia Rouaud’s dark comedy Good Bye My Friends (toplined by Hakim Jemili, who finds himself organising his worst enemy’s funeral) and Emmanuel Patron’s movie Family Prize (starring Miou Miou, André Dussollier, Arnaud Ducret, Thomas Solivérès and Pauline Clément as a family in which the parents win the lottery but don’t plan on giving a penny of it to their children).

Standing tall among the post-production titles in SND’s line-up are Whatever It Takes by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti (article – starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Pierre Lottin in lead roles) and the comedy Wanted Santa by James Huth, and, in production, animated movies Asterix – The Kingdom of Nubia by Alexandre Heboyan (scripted by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière) and Kittened by Albert Pereira-Lazaro.

Last but not least, SND plans to press on with presales on two films scheduled to be shot this summer and in the autumn: The Phantom of the Opera by Alexandre Castagnetti (a re-reading of Gaston Leroux’s classic, starring Deva Cassel, Julien De Saint-Jean and Romain Duris) and The Man with the Miraculous Hands by Israeli-American director Oren Moverman, which sees Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis stepping into an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s story, produced by French firm Jerico Films and revolving around a doctor of Finnish origins called Felix Kersten, who earned his stripes involuntarily behind the political scenes of the Third Reich as Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician.