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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lawrence Valin
scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Julie Delpy, on the Gala programme; Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride; and the Irish-UK-Belgian production Bring Them Down [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gints Zilbalodis
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scheda film] by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis and My Sunshine [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hiroshi Okuyama
scheda film] 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.