It’s with an XXL line-up of 30 films that French international sales agent Charades will be disembarking up at the Marché du Film, which is set to unspool within the 77th Cannes Film Festival (running 14 – 25 May). And there’ll be no shortage of tantalising offerings on any level whatsoever, especially when it comes to the seven feature films set to shine in the festival’s various selections.

The team composed of Yohann Comte, Carole Baraton and Pierre Mazars will be selling three films set to world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section: Armand by Norway’s Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (read our article – distributed in France by Tandem), animated movie Flow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gints Zilbalodis
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scheda film] by Japan’s Hiroshi Okuyama. Jostling alongside them are two titles in Critics’ Week (Blue Sun Palace by American Constance Tsang in competition, and Queens of Drama [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by French director Alexis Langlois in a special screening), and a further two in the Directors’ Fortnight: the animated movie Ghost Cat Anzu [+leggi anche:
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A fistful of first-class trump cards are set to join the line-up, notably Alpha by French filmmaker Julia Ducournau (awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2021 via Titane [+leggi anche:
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Pre-sales will also kick off on Orphan by Hungary’s László Nemes (awarded Cannes’ Grand Prize in 2015 and 2016’s Best Foreign Film Oscar thanks to Son of Saul [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: László Nemes
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Other eye-catching additions to the line-up include three titles in post-production: Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
scheda film] by Italian Maura Delpero, The Rule of Jenny Pen by New Zealander James Ashcroft, and Override by Aleksey Chupov and Natasha Merkulova (the first English-language film by the Russian duo who were well-received in Venice’s competition in 2021 for Captain Volkonogov Escaped [+leggi anche:
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Another two new titles in the Charades line-up are set to enjoy world premiere market screenings in Cannes: the American documentary honoured at the Sundance Film Festival Gaucho Gaucho, by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, and Naoko Yamada’s animated movie The Color Within (selected in competition in Annecy). And another five world premiere market screenings are on the agenda, namely for animated film Memoir of a Snail by Australia’s Adam Elliot (likewise selected to compete in Annecy), Spermageddon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Norwegians Tommy Wirkola and Ramus A. Sivertsen, Heavier Trip by Finnish directors Jusso Laatio and Jukka Vidberg, animated Pakistani movie The Glassworker by Usman Riaz (which will feature in Annecy’s Contrechamp competition) and Smoke Signals by France’s Antoine Raimbault.

Last but not least, pre-sales will continue on David N. Weiss’ American-Japanese animation currently in production, Hypergalactic, as well as on three feature films in post-production: Meet The Barbarians [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by French director Julie Delpy, Enough is Enough! by her compatriot Gustave Kervern (starring Yolande Moreau, Laure Calamy, Raphaël Quenard and Anna Mouglalis) and the Canadia-Belgian-French animation Night of the Zoopocalypse, by Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro. And as if that weren’t enough, sales are set to be rounded off on seven finished feature films, including Borgo [+leggi anche:
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