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SND will start sales on Julien Leclercq’s


Gibraltar-set thriller The Informant (L’Aviseur), about a French restaurant owner who falls prey to drug traffickers. A Prophet scriptwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri penned the screenplay, which is based on a true story. Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lindon and Roberto Scamarcio will star in the $26m production due to start shooting on April 2. SND will also hold a market premiere for Pas- cal Laugier’s English-language thriller The Tall Man starring Jessica Biel as a woman in pursuit of her child’s kidnapper. Kinology will show a first promo for romantic


comedy Fly Me To The Moon (Le Plan Parfait), the latest picture from Untouchable producers Quad which re-unites the team behind Heart- breaker — Quad producer/writer Laurent Zei- toun and director Pascal Chaumeil. Europacorp is set to unveil US screenwriter


David Marconi’s English-language, Morocco- set thriller Intersection. Featuring Frank Grillo, Roschdy Zem, Marie-Josée Croze, Charlie Bew- ley and Moussa Maaskri in the cast, the film is in production. The company will also reveal new elements of thriller Mobius, starring The Artist’s Jean Dujardin. Films Distribution will start sales on Canadian


director Kim Nguyen’s competition title War Witch about a child soldier who is believed to have magical powers. It also has Brillante Men- doza’s Captive in competition, and is selling Rot- terdam opener 38 Witnesses by Lucas Belvaux. Urban Distribution International’s newest titles


include The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears (in Panorama) and Argentinian drama Un Amor. French powerhouse Elle Driver has added the


Sundance Midnight title Black Rock to a busy slate that also includes Sundance hit comedy Bachelo- rette and Berlinale opener Farewell My Queen. Wide Management offers Japanese documen-


tary Nuclear Nation, Serbian box-office hit com- edy The Parade and French-Senegal production Aujourd’hui, all festival selections. Fortissimo will offer market screenings of Yon-


fan’s Singapore-set drama Bugis Street Redux and music documentary El Gusto. Quentin Lee’s US family drama White Frog is in post. The company is also selling Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Marley, which world-premieres at the festival. One title resurrected in time for the EFM is


Raul Ruiz’s Lines Of Wellington, which is in post- production and which Paulo Branco’s Alfama will be selling in Berlin. After Ruiz’s death in August, it appeared certain the project would stall. However, Ruiz’s editor and widow Valeria Sarmiento has taken over directing duties. The


Electrick Children


cast — including John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert — was kept on board. The film is now in post. Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk


Michael Sheen is set to star in 6Sales’ Mariah Mundi


has an especially strong slate, including Swed- ish political thriller Call Girl directed by Mikael Marcimain and starring Pernilla August, and Thomas Vinterberg’s latest The Hunt (in post, with a cast including Mads Mikkelsen). The company is beginning pre-sales on 14th-cen- tury action adventure Escape directed by Roar Uthaug (Cold Prey). Other titles include A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm’s follow-up to R), Icelandic thriller Black’s Game (fresh from its world premiere in Rotterdam); and IDFA prize-winning doc The Ambassador. Festival titles include A Royal Affair and Crown Jewels, and also among the slate is Jan Troell’s Truth & Con- sequence, currently in post. And the company now has a script to show buyers for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. The Yellow Affair has first market screenings for


thriller Rat King from Finland and Estonia; and US thriller The Mooring, about a houseboat full of teenage girls who must dock in a remote area. LevelK’s newest additions to its slate include


Norwegian family film Coming Home, about tough girls and horses; and Glasgow-set rom- com Not Another Happy Ending, shooting in May. Sola Media brings family titles Marco Macaco


— Let’s Go Bananas and Victor And The Secret Of The Crocodile Mansion. Its Lotte And The Moonstone Secret plays in Generation. Svensk is screening a promo of Danish artist


drama Marie Kroyer; has screenings of hot-selling thriller Agent Hamilton — In The Interest Of The Nation; and is planning a summer shoot for Swedish thriller The Paganini Contract (adapted from the Lars Kepler bestseller). Now shooting is another Kepler adaptation, Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hypnotist starring Mikael Persbrandt. NonStop Sales has the first market screening of


Gothenberg winner Company Orheim, a Norwe- gian drama about a teenage boy growing up with an alcoholic father and an abused mother. Among German sellers, The Match Factory has


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Bence Fliegauf ’s Just The Wind, Hans-Christian Schmid’s Home For The Weekend and Christian Petzold’s Barbara in competition; plus other fes- tival selections Edwin’s Postcards From The Zoo, Miguel Gomes’ Tabu and The Wall starring Mar- tina Gedeck. Beta is handling Doris Dörrie’s festival selec-


tion Bliss, a Constantin production about a war refugee who befriends a punk, Norwegian co- production Mercy about a family who starts a new life on the coast of the Arctic Sea. And there will also be the first market screening of San Fu Maltha-produced biopic Suskind. Global Screen, the new company combining


sales operations of Bavaria and Telepool, has titles including Italian family drama Cavalli; now-completed black comedy Eddie — The Sleep- walking Cannibal; and German family film Yoko. Films Boutique has Bohdan Slama’s Czech


drama 4 Suns fresh from Sundance and Rotter- dam; Belgian festival hit comedy Come As You Are in its first market screening; and Romania’s Everybody In Our Family, a Forum selection, among other titles. M-Appeal is handling sales of Generation title


Electrick Children, about a Morman girl who thinks her pregnancy is caused by rock music. Atlas has Los-Angeles-set Jonah & The Whale in pre-production with a cast including Ashley Tisdale and Jamie-Lynn Sigler. From Spain, Filmax has Antonio Chavarrias’


Childish Games in competition and the hot politi- cal thriller Invader, now shooting; DeAPlaneta is in post on drama Operation E, directed by Miguel Courtois. 6Sales is beginning pre-sales on children’s


fantasy Mariah Mundi directed by Jonathan New- man and starring Michael Sheen, Mark Strong and Lena Headey. It is also handling pre-sales on Young Ones, directed by Jake Paltrow and starring Casey Affleck, Jamie Bell and Elle Fan- ning. The company is also handling Alex de la Iglesia’s comedy As Luck Would Have It, a Berli- nale Special selection starring Salma Hayek; and Graystone, a supernatural horror film directed by Sean Stone, son of Oliver Stone. Imagina has first market screenings of dramas


6 Points About Emma and Evelyn. Latido has market debuts of serial killer


drama Frozen Silence and Chilean Sundance prize-winner Violeta Went To Heaven. Italy’s Intramovies has the first market screen-


ing of Rotterdam selection The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser starring Vincent Gallo. Finally, RAI Trade has Massimo Venier’s One


More Day, an Italian comedy about a man whose life is changed when he meets a girl on a tram. n


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Reporting by Melanie Goodfellow, Jeremy Kay, Geoffrey Macnab, Wendy Mitchell and Andreas Wiseman


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