This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
FEATURE


Other European sellers By Geoffrey Macnab


German outfit The Match Factory has several new titles in official selection. Its slate includes Compe- tition entry In The Fog by Sergei Loznitsa; and Fatih Akin’s new documentary Polluting Paradise, about a small community in Turkey fighting back when a substandard waste facility begins polluting their environment. The Match Factory is also sell- ing Mekong Hotel, the latest project from former Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Jaime Rosales’ Quinzaine entry The Dream And The Silence. Munich-based outfit Beta Cinema, which had


Augustine


Alone, starring Sophie Marceau and Gad Elmaleh as an unlikely couple. It will also reveal first images of Nicolas Bary’s adaptation of Daniel Pennac’s book The Scapegoat, starring Bérénice Bejo. Rezo is handling Bernard-Henri Lévy’s out of


competition documentary The Oath Of Tobruk, about the Libyan uprising, as well as Directors’ Fortnight screener Aliyah and Critics’ Week title God Neighbors. It will also world premiere Russian director Andrei Proshkin’s 14th century epic The Horde. It also sells SXSW hit Starlet. Pyramide International will consolidate sales on


Un Certain Regard titles Three Worlds and Children Of Sarajevo (Djeca) as well as Directors’ Fortnight titles A Respectable Family and Clandestine Child- hood. Upcoming titles including Manoel de Olivei- ra’s Gebo And The Shadow, which will be released this autumn, and Samuel Collardey’s Little Lion. Other Angle will unleash a slew of feelgood


films, including On The Other Side Of The Tracks, starring Intouchables co-lead Omar Sy. It will also unveil The Big Bad Wolf, a remake of the Canadian hit Les Trois Petits Cochons. Other projects include Cyril Cohen’s Weeping Susannah, which is set to star Gael Garcia Bernal opposite Marina Fois. It is also launching a recut version of documentary Would You Have Sex With An Arab?. Kinology is selling Michel Gondry’s Bronx-set


Directors’ Fortnight opener The We And The I and Alice Winocour’s Critics’ Week screener Augustine, starring Vincent Lindon as an 18th century doctor treating a female hysteria patient. It is also launch- ing 30° Color, a comedy set in French Martinique


Starlet


from Quad, the production house behind Intouch- ables. Les Films du Losange picked up Norwegian


Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams, about a scientist who falls in love at a seminar in Paris. Other titles include Arnaud des Pallieres’ Michael Kohlhaas. MPM Films, in association with Pierre Mena-


hem, is handling sales on Colombian director Wil- liam Vega’s Directors’ Fortnight debut La Sirga. Alpha Violet is selling Mexican Antonio Mendez


Esparza’s Critics’ Week screener Aqui Y Alla about a man who returns to his mountain village. Bac Films has picked up world sales for Mexi-


can Michel Franco’s Un Certain Regard title After Lucia, revolving around the theme of teenage bul- lying. Futurikon will premiere a promo for Thomas


Szabo’s Minuscule — Valley Of The Lost Ants, a fea- ture version of the highly successful children’s series mixing live-action nature footage with ani- mation.


huge success with Stasi thriller The Lives Of Others, has a new East German-themed spy thriller, Two Lives by Georg Maas. Currently in post-production and starring Juliane Köhler, it is about a former East German spy in Norway who built a new life using a fake identity. The German outfit is also handling sales on much acclaimed Hungarian director Janos Szasz’s new drama The Notebook, about two brothers struggling to survive with their grandmother toward the end of the Second World War. Beta is also handling Imanol Uribe’s Orange Honey, a thriller set in Andalusia in the early 1950s as General Franco continues to impose a medieval religious state. Global Screen, the company formed from the


merger of sales divisions at Telepool and Bavaria, is screening the first footage from Sandra Nettel- beck’s Mr Morgan’s Last Love (in post) starring Michael Caine. The film has already been pre-sold to Australia (Hopscotch/eOne) and is being co- produced with Sidney Kimmel, who has rights in the US. Other upcoming projects include The Cave by Janet Tobias, about five Jewish families who hid in a cave to escape the Nazis. The company is also presenting Niko 2 — Little Brother, Big Trouble, the sequel to its hot-selling the 3D kids’ movie. It also has a market premiere of Camp 14 — Total Control Zone, a feature doc about Shin Dong-hyuk, who was born and raised in a working camp in North Korea and managed to escape aged 23. Scandinavian outfit The Yellow Affair has two


new projects with big-name US actors: Francesco Lucente’s Dry Lightning, a drama about the US welfare system starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek, and Killing In The Woods, starring Chris- tian Slater. Both are due to go into production in the autumn. The Yellow Affair is also holding a closed market screening of Gabriele Pichler’s


Today @ 11:30 am SCREENING


STAR 3


Private screening By invitation only Contact: mar@6sales.es Phone in Cannes: 04 93 68 56 93


ROCHEFORT JEAN CARDINALE FOLCH CLAUDIA T H E AR T I S T AND n 26 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2012 6Sales_Screen_16th_218x75.indd 1 AIDA T H E MOD E L A fi lm by FERNANDO TRUEBA


Offi ce: Residence du Grand Hotel. ALBATROS. 45, La Croisette. 2nd Floor. Offi ce number: +33 493 685 693


» 10/05/12 21:08


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76