It’s a double whammy for French international sales agent Pulsar Content, whose line-up for the Marché du Film (running 13 to 21 May) unspooling within the 78th Cannes Film Festival will include two first feature films which have been selected on the Croisette: The Wonderers by Joséphine Japy and Love Letters by French director Alice Douard.

The first directorial effort by French actress Joséphine Japy, The Wonderers will be presented in an Official Selection Special Screening. Starring Angelina Woreth (And Their Children After Them [+leggi anche:
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The Pulsar Content team led by Marie Garret and Gilles Sousa will also be pinning its hopes on Love Letters by French director Alice Douard (starring Ella Rumpf, Monia Chokri and Noémie Lvovsky), which is set to world premiere in a Special Screening in Critics’ Week. The story follows Céline who’s expecting her first child. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months’ time, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother and the legal apparatus, Céline looks for her place and for a sense of legitimacy… Produced by Apsara Films in co-production with Les Films de June, the film will be distributed in France by Tandem.

Equally noteworthy in Pulsar Content’s Cannes line-up, on the post-production side this time, are A Survivor’s Tale by Belgium’s Micha Wald (article – toplined by Salomé Dewaels), French director Valentin Paoli’s documentary The Musician and the Whale (revolving around musician Rone who realises that his music attracts cetaceans and who subsequently embarks upon an extraordinary journey in search of a whale for whom he’ll create a dedicated piece of music) and the French-German production Lady Nazca by Switzerland’s Damien Dorsaz (starring Devrim Lingnau, Guillaume Gallienne and Olivia Ross and focused on a young woman who discovers ancient remains in the depths of the Peruvian desert). Thats’s without forgetting the pre-production movie Howl by E. Elias Merhige (produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and ecological activist Jane Goodall and charting the meeting and subsequent misadventures of a dog and a wolf in the Canadian Rocky Mountains) and, among the finished films, Stéphane Sorlat’s documentary The Velazquez Mystery and Canadian director Chloé Robichaud’s documentary Two Women (awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Sundance Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic competition).