EUROPEAN FILM MARKET 2018
SCREENING VIRGINS Ein betulot bakrayot By Keren Ben Rafael Cast: Joy Rieger, Zohar Strauss, Evgenia Dodina HEBREW 90 min DRAMA Production : AVENUE B PRODUCTIONS (France), ARTZA PRODUCTIONS (Israel), UNITED KING (Israel) Territories sold : France, Israel In Kiryat Ham, small town on the north coast of Israel, everything seems to have stopped. Lana, a rebellious teenager, vowed to fight against resignation and immobilism. She couldn t imagine that the rumor of a mermaid off the coast would wake up her town from its torpidity. PRIVATE SCREENINGS BY INVITATION ONLY Friday February 16th 12:30 Monday February 19th 11:20 Cinemaxx 14 Cinemaxx 17
SCREENING GASPARD AT THE WEDDING Gaspard va au mariage By Antony Cordier ("DOUCHES FROIDES", DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT 2005, "HAPPY FEW", VENICE COMPETITION, 2010) Cast: Félix Moati, Laetitia Dosch, Christa Théret, Marina Fois, Guillaume Gouix FRENCH - 105 min - COMEDY Production: AGAT FILMS (France) Territories sold : France, Switzerland After many years of keeping a careful distance, Gaspard, 25 years old, has to renew contact with his family when his father announces he is getting remarried. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric girl, who agrees to play the role of his girlfriend for the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot again in his parents zoo where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with...but between a father who s too much of a womanizer, a brother who s too square and a sister who s far too beautiful, he s not aware that he is preparing to live the last days of his childhood. SCREENINGS Saturday February 17th 10:35 Cinemaxx 18 Tuesday February 20th 10:30 Cinemaxx 18
SCREENING THE PARTY S OVER la fête est finie By Marie Garel-Weiss Cast: Clémence Boisnard, Zita Hanrot (BEST PROMISING ACTRESS, CÉSAR 2016) FRENCH - 90 mn - DRAMA Production: ELZEVIR FILMS (France) Territories sold: France THE PARTY S OVER is the story of a revival, that of Céleste and Sihem. Arrived on the same day in a rehab facility, they re going to seal an indestructible friendship. It will be as much a force as an obstacle when, expelled from their shelter, they are left on their own, facing the true world and its temptations. The real fight will then begin; fight for sobriety and freedom, fight towards life. SCREENINGS Friday February 16th 16:50 Monday February 19th 18:30 Cinemaxx 12 Cinemaxx 18
SCREENING LUNA By Elsa Diringer Cast : Laetitia Clément, Rod Paradot (BEST PROMISING ACTOR, CÉSAR 2016) FRENCH - 85 MIN - DRAMA Production: AGAT FILMS (France) Territories sold : France Luna lives in the South of France, near Montpellier, and works in a farming exploitation. Luna is beautiful, funny and devours life. She would do anything to keep Ruben s love. During one evening of party drinking with her friends, they assault a young unknown. A few weeks later, he re-appears in Luna s life. She will have to make choices. SCREENINGS Saturday February 17th 13:00 Monday February 19th 12:55 Cinemaxx 14 Cinemaxx 17
SCREENING RETURN TO BOLLENE retour à bollène By Saïd Hamich Cast : Anas El Baz, Kate Colebrook, Saïd Benchnafa, Benedicte Lala Ernoult FRENCH, ENGLISH, ARABIC 67min DRAMA Production: BARNEY PRODUCTION (France) Territories sold : France Nassim, in his early thirties, lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancée, Elisabeth. After several years of absence, he returns with her to Bollene, a town in the South of France where he grew up. But Nassim must face his past: a dead city now governed by the far right party, a complex relationship with his family, and a father, he no longer speaks to. MARKET SCREENINGS Sunday February 18th 17:00 Monday February 19th 14:30 Cinemaxx 12 Cinemaxx 17
IN POST-PRODUCTION Amin By Philippe Faucon ("FATIMA" DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT 2015, 3 CESAR 2016) Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Moustapha Mbengue FRENCH - DRAMA Production : ISTIQLAL (France) Territories sold : France IN POST-PRODUCTION L ORDRE DES MEDECINS By David Roux Cast: Jérémie Renier, Zita Hanrot (BEST PROMISING ACTRESS, CÉSAR 2016) FRENCH - DRAMA Production : ELIANE ANTOINETTE (France) Territories sold : France IN POST-PRODUCTION
IN POST-PRODUCTION IN POST-PRODUCTION The HARVESTERS Le grand BAL By Etienne Kallos Cast: Brent Vermeulen, Juliana Venter, Alex van Dyk, Morne Visser AFRIKAANS - ENGLISH Production : CINE DE FACTO (France), SPIER FILMS (South Africa), LAVA FILMS (Poland), HERETIC (Greece) Territories sold : France, Greece, Poland, Portugal, South Africa By Laetitia Carton DOCUMENTARY - FRENCH Production : SaNoSi PRODUCTIONS Territories sold : France
Une HISTOIRE DE L ART By Lucas Bernard Cast: Swann Arlaud, Charles Berling FRENCH - DRAMA Production : LES GRANDS ESPACES (France) Territories sold : France IN POST-PRODUCTION SIBEL By Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti Cast: Damla Sönez, Erkan Koçak Köstendil, Emin Gürsoy TURKISH - DRAMA Production : LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR (France) Territories sold : France, Austria, Germany, Turkey IN POST-PRODUCTION
DonbAss IN POST-PRODUCTION By Sergei Loznitsa ("MY JOY", OFFICIAL COMPETITION, CANNES 2010, "IN THE FOG", OFFICIAL COMPETITION CANNES 2012, "A GENTLE CREATURE", OFFICIAL COMPETITION, CANNES 2017) Cast: August Diehl, Valeriu Andriuta RUSSIAN - DRAMA Production : MaJaDe (Germany), JBA PRODUCTIONS (France) Territories sold: France, Germany, Benelux, Austria, Poland, Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia), Moldavia, Romania, Ukraina
COMPLETED COMPLETED RAINBOW - A PRIVATE AFFAIR Una questione privata By Paolo & Vittorio Taviani ("CAESAR MUST DIE" GOLDEN BEAR, BERLINALE 2012) Cast: Luca Marinelli, Valentina Bellè, Lorenzo Richelmy ITALIAN - DRAMA Production: LES FILMS D ICI (France), STEMAL ENTERTAINMENT (Italy), SAMPEK PRODUCTIONS (France) Territories sold : France, Brazil, China (VOD), Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, South East Asia, Switzerland & Austria, Turkey, USA/Canada/India/UK (SVOD), Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombie Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region and its misty hills But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists. NUMbER ONE NUMÉRO UNE By Tonie Marshall ("VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE" 4 CESAR AWARDS 2000) Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clément, Richard Berry, Benjamin Biolay, Sami Frey FRENCH - 110 min - DRAMA Production: TABO TABO FILMS (France), VERSUS PRODUCTION (Belgium) Territories sold : France, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Poland (TV), South East Asia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK & Ireland, USA/India (SVOD) Through hard work, Emmanuelle Blanchey, a brillant and voluntary engineer, has earned top position at the executive committee of Trident, the French leading energy company. Married for 20 years to a caring man, mother of 2 children, Emmanuelle s success seems almost perfect. One day, a powerful and influence women network offers to help her become president of a CAC 40 company. But to be at the top, you must risk it all! In a men s world, obstacles pile up in Emmanuelle s professional and personal life.
COMPLETED COMPLETED ALREADY MORE THAN 15 FESTIVALS AWARDS WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING BEST FILM AND BEST ACTOR AT DUBAI INTL FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL DU FILM DE LOCARNO COMPETITION WAJIB GIANTS DON T EXIST By Annemarie Jacir ( SALT OF THIS SEA Cannes 2008 - Un Certain Regard) Cast: Saleh Bakhri, Mohammed Bakhri ARABIC - 96 mn - DRAMA Production : PHILISTINE PRODUCTION (Jordan) Territories sold : France, China (VOD), Colombia, Germany (TV), Italy, MENA, Norway, Paraguay, South East Asia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, USA/Canada (SVOD), Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Australia Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter s wedding in one month he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand delivering the wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives. By Chema Rodriguez Cast: José Javier Martínez, Patricia Orantes, Rafael Rojas, Andrés Toz SPANISH - 82 mn - DRAMA Production: ICONICA (SPAIN), NOODLES PRODUCTIONS (France) Territories sold: France, Argentina, Mexico, Spain Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he s scared. Pedro s wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as «her new son»... even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family until his sister appears.
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