I venditori francesi entrano in azione a Cannes Online
- Sulla scia di Wild Bunch, Playtime, mk2 Films, WTFilms, StudioCanal e Celluloid Dreams, le società francesi di vendite internazionali si giocano la loro partita in virtuale
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Today is the first of five days of business in a brand new virtual environment at the Marché du Film (22 - 26 June) of the Cannes Film Festival, and the very dynamic French international sales agents are of course present, with line-ups including feature films from all over the world, many of them recipients of a label (Cannes 73 Official Selection, Critics' Week or ACID). We complete our overview of those line-ups.
Shining bright as ever in Cannes, Wild Bunch is selling seven label recipients: Maïwenn’s DNA [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Just Philippot
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intervista: Lucas Belvaux
scheda film] from Belgian director Lucas Belvaux (sales shared with The Party Film Sales), Beginning [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dea Kulumbegashvili
scheda film] from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili and the animated film Earwig and the Witch from Japanese director Gorô Miyazaki.
The Wild Bunch team (which has just obtained a line of credit worth €35 Million from Commerbank for its future acquisitions) is also negotiating on a series of upcoming titles. Standing out in post-production are the animated films The Summit Of The Gods [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] from Patrick Imbert and Where Is Anne Frank [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ari Folman
scheda film] from Israeli director Ari Folman, For Better and For Worse by Stéphane Brizé, Thierry de Peretti’s Undercover [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thierry de Peretti
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intervista: Florence Gastaud
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intervista: Souheila Yacoub
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intervista: Giovanni Aloi
scheda film] from Italian director Giovanni Aloï, Unclenching The Fists [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] from Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko, Animals [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nabil Ben Yadir
scheda film] from Belgian director Nabil Ben Yadir, Hatching [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hanna Bergholm
scheda film] from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, Taste from Vietnamese filmmaker Le Bao, Harami from Indian director Shyam Madiraju, Shake Your Cares Away from Israeli director Tom Shoval, Flag Day from American filmmaker Sean Penn and Mainstream from Gia Coppola. Worth noting and nearing the end of production is The Crusade by and starring Louis Garrel, and, in pre-production Julia Ducournau’s Titane [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Julia Ducournau, Vincent L…
scheda film] and Caravaggio’s Shadow from Italian director Michele Placido.
Also at the forefront at Cannes’ market, Playtime is selling three feature-length recipients of the Cannes 73 Official Selection label: François Ozon’s Summer of 85 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (both will be distributed in France by Diaphana, on 14 July and 16 September, respectively), as well as True Mothers from Japanese director Naomi Kawase. Standing out from the post-production line-up are Laurent Cantet’s Arthur Rambo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laurent Cantet
scheda film], 15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] from Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre, Memory Box [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil …
scheda film] from Lebanese directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, the English language feature film Nobody Has to Know [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bouli Lanners
scheda film] from Belgian filmmaker Bouli Lanners and Tim Mielants, Libertad [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Clara Roquet
scheda film] from Spanish director Clara Roquet, Sans Soleil from Belgian filmmaker Banu Akseki and Nine Antico’s Playlist [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nine Antico
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The sales team of mk2 Films will be screening at the market two films given the official Selection label: The Big Hit [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] from French filmmaker Emmanuel Courcol (released in France on 28 October via Memento) and the Israelo-Italian co-production Here We Are [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nir Bergman. Pre-sales are continuing on The Worst Person In The World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Trier
scheda film] from Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (which will begin filming in August) and on two films currently in production, Axelle Roppert’s Petite Solange [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Axelle Ropert
scheda film] and Alex Helfrecht’s A Winter’s Journey. Joining the line-up are Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (filming at the end of the summer and starring Fanny Ardant and Melvil Poupaud) and the animation project The Inventor (about the life of Leonard de Vinci) by Jim Capobianco.
Continuing its exponential growth, WTFilms is betting on three French recipients of the label: Farid Bentoumi’s Red Soil [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Quentin Dupieux
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intervista: Mathieu Turi
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Five other French international sales agents are each handling one film given a Cannes label: Elle Driver with Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Affair(s) [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuel Mouret
scheda film] (released in France on 16 September via Pyramide), StudioCanal with Laurent Lafitte’s The Origin of the World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laurent Lafitte
scheda film] (in French cinemas from 4 November), Versatile with Pleasure [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ninja Thyberg
scheda film] from Swedish director Ninja Thyberg, Celluloid Dreams with the Brazil-France co-production Memory House [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (also worth noting in their lineup is Miss Marx [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Susanna Nicchiarelli
scheda film] from Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli, currently in post-production, and the Canada-France-Hungary co-production Infinity Pool by Brandon Cronenberg, currently in pre-production) and The Bureau Sales with the British feature debut After Love [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Aleem Khan
scheda film] by Aleem Khan (recipient of the Critics’ Week label).
Also worth noting is the creation of Reservoir Docs (former Wide House, still headed by Anaïs Clanet who is now associated with Frédéric Corvez’s group Urban).
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