French international sales agent Pyramide International (headed up by Eric Lagesse) is packing its bags in readiness for its trip to the Marché du Film at the 72^nd Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May), where it will be showing off its jam-packed slate, which includes two features in the Official Selection, one title in competition in the Critics’ Week, one on the line-up of the ACID programme and a slew of films currently in post-production. 

(L'articolo continua qui sotto - Inf. pubblicitaria)

In particular, Pyramide will be pinning its hopes on Fire Will Come [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Oliver Laxe
scheda film] by French-Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, which will be unveiled in Un Certain Regard. The third feature by the filmmaker, following the documentary You All Are Captains [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] (FIPRESCI Award in the parallel sections in 2010 after its screening in the Directors’ Fortnight) and Mimosas [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Oliver Laxe
scheda film] (Grand Prize in the 2016 Cannes Critics’ Week), revolves around Amador Coro, a man who has been sent to jail for having started a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his hometown, a small village nestled in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the pace set by nature – until one night when a fire starts to lay waste to the region… The feature, which was produced by Spain (Miramemira, Kowalski Films) with France (4 A 4 Productions) and Luxembourg (Tarantula), will be distributed in France by Pyramide from 4 September onwards. 

Pyramide’s sales team, managed by Agathe Mauruc, also has high hopes for the Official Selection documentary The Cordillera of Dreams [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] by Patricio Guzmán, which will be shown as a special screening. Produced by Paris-based outfit Atacama Productions (with France’s Arte France Cinéma and Sampek Productions, as well as Chilean firm Market Chile), the movie is the third instalment in a trilogy that kicked off with Nostalgia for the Light [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] (special screening at Cannes in 2010), which was then followed up by The Pearl Button [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] (Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at Berlin in 2015). Pyramide will oversee the French theatrical release on 30 October.

Also standing out on the line-up is Our Mothers [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Cesar Diaz
scheda film] by Belgian-Guatemalan director César Diaz, which will be in competition in the Critics’ Week. A production involving Belgium (Need Productions), France (Perspective Films) and Guatemala (Cine Concepcion), this feature debut whisks us away to Guatemala in 2018, as the whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while listening to the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a guerrilla fighter who went missing during the war… Pyramide will also be directly responsible for the French distribution.

Interestingly, Pyramide is also selling the documentary Kongo [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] by Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav, which is on the ACID programme.

At the Marché du Film, Pyramide International will be pre-selling 11 films that are presently in post-production, eight of which are directed by French filmmakers: Scents and Senses [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Grégory Magne
scheda film] by France’s Grégory Magne, Passion simple [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Danielle Arbid
scheda film] by Danielle Arbid, Into the World [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] by Marion Lainé, Savage State [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] by David Perrault, The Dazzled by Sarah Succo (see the article), Camille [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Boris Lojkine
scheda film] by Boris Lojkine, The Holly Family [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing and Revenir by Jessica Pallud (see the article – starring Niels Schneider and Adèle Exarchopoulos).

Also standing out among the movies in post-production are You Will Die at 20 [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Amjad Abu Alala
scheda film] by Sudanese director Amjad Abu Alala (a co-production involving France, Austria, Germany and South Africa), the French production Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Massoud Bakhshi
scheda film] by Iran’s Massoud Bakhshi and Made in Bangladesh by Rubayat Hossain.

Lastly, it’s also worth mentioning the documentary I Have Been Waiting for You [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] by France’s Stéphanie Pillonca, which focuses on adoption and is currently being shot.