TORONTO / SAN SEBASTIAN 2020

PASSION SIMPLEBased on the best-selling novel by ANNIE ERNAUX, which sold 370,000 copies in France and has been translated into 20 other languages.

By Danielle Arbid ("PARISIENNE", "A LOST MAN")Cast : Laetitia Dosch ("MONTPARNASSE BIENVENÜE" by LÉONOR SERRAILLE, "OUR STRUGGLES" by GUILLAUME SENEZ), Sergei Polunin ("RED SPARROW" by FRANCIS LAWRENCE; "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" by KENNETH BRANAGH)

"Since last September I have done nothing but wait for a man : for him to call me and come to my place... Everything about him was so precious to me, his eyes, his mouth, his penis, his childhood memories, his voice…"

FRENCH/ENGLISH - DRAMA - 99 MNProduction : LES FILMS PELLÉAS (FRANCE), VERSUS PRODUCTION (BELGIUM) Territories sold : France, Benelux, Japan, South Korea, Russia and CIS, Taiwan

A GOOD MAN By Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar («HEAVEN WILL WAIT», «ONCE IN A LIFETIME»)

Cast : Noémie Merlant («PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE» by CÉLINE SCIAMMA), Soko («THE DANCER» by STÉPHANIE DI GIUSTO), Vincent Dedienne (« DELETE HISTORY» by BENOÎT DELÉPINE & GUSTAVE KERVERN), Alysson Paradis

Aude and Benjamin have been in love for six years. Because Aude suffers deeply from not being able to have a child, Benjamin decides he will carry the pregnancy.

FRENCH - DRAMA - 108 MNProduction : WILLOW FILMS (FRANCE), SCOPE PICTURES (BELGIUM)Territories sold : France, Benelux, Switzerland

PERFUMES les parfums

By Grégory Magne ("L’AIR DE RIEN" 2012)Cast : Emmanuelle Devos ("NUMBER ONE", by TONIE MARSHALL, "MOKA", by FRÉDÉRIC MERMOUD), Grégory Montel ("CALL MY AGENT !", "SCHOOL’S OUT", by SÉBASTIEN MARNIER), Gustave Kervern ("MACADAM STORIES" by SAMUEL BENCHETRIT, "SAINT AMOUR", by BENOÎT DELÉPINE & GUSTAVE KERVERN, "150

MILLIGRAMS" by EMMANUELLE BERCOT), Sergi Lopez ("PAN’S LABYRINTH" by GUILLERMO DEL TORO, "HAPPY AS LAZZARO" by ALICE ROHRWACHER)

Anne Walberg is a master in perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamental. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who dares facing her. This is probably why she does not fire him.

FRENCH - COMEDY - 100 MNProduction : LES FILMS VELVET (FRANCE)Territories sold : France, Benelux, Baltic Countries, Central America & Colombia, Eastern Europe (HBO), French-speaking Canada, Germany, Japan, Latin America (PayTV/SVOD), Russia & CIS Countries, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK

YALDAa night for forgiveness

By Massoud Bakhshi ("A RESPECTABLE FAMILY", DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT 2012)

Cast: Sadaf Asgari ("DISAPPEARANCE" by ALI ASGARI), Behnaz Jafari ("THREE FACES" by JAFAR PANAHI), Babak Karimi ("THE SALESMAN", "THE PAST", "A SEPARATION" by ASGHAR FARHADI)

In Iran today: Maryam (22) accidentally kills her husband Nasser (65) and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona (37), Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular live TV show and forgive Maryam. This TV show does exist in Iran, it has inspired this fiction.

FARSI - DRAMA - 89 MNProduction : JBA PRODUCTION (FRANCE), NIKO FILM (GERMANY), CLOSE UP FILMS (SWITZERLAND), AMOUR FOU (LUXEMBOURG), TITA B (FRANCE), ALI MOSAFFA (IRAN), SHORTCUT FILMS (LEBANON)

Territories sold: France, Austria, Benelux, Brazil, Former-Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Iran, Italy, MENA, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, USA

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATICGRAND JURY PRIZE

sundancefilm festival 2020

SAVAGE STATEL'état sauvage

By David Perrault ("NOS HÉROS SONT MORTS CE SOIR", CANNES CRITICS’ WEEK 2013)

Cast : Alice Isaaz ("ELLE" by PAUL VERHOEVEN, "MADEMOISELLE DE JONCQUIERES" by EMMANUEL MOURET), Déborah François ("POPULAIRE" by RÉGIS ROINSARD), Kate Moran ("KNIFE+HEART" by YANN GONZALEZ), Kevin Janssens ("REVENGE" by CORALIE FARGEAT), Bruno Todeschini ("ISMAEL’S GHOSTS" by ARNAUD DESPLECHIN)

The American Civil War breaks out... A family of French colonists, settled in Missouri, decides to go back to France. Edmond, Madeleine, and their three daughters have to cross the whole country to reach New-York. They are led by the mysterious and dangerous mercenary, Victor.

FRENCH/ENGLISH – DRAMA/WESTERN – 118 MNProduction : MILLE ET UNE PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE), METAFILMS INC (CANADA), Territories sold : France, Australia & New Zealand, Belgium (TV&VOD), Canada, Italy, Latin America, Spain (VOD), South Korea, US

INTO THE WORLD voir le jour

By Marion Laine ("A MONKEY ON MY SHOULDER" 2012)Cast : Sandrine Bonnaire ("A SEASON IN FRANCE", by MAHAMAT-SALEH HAROUN, "HEAVEN WILL WAIT" by MARIE-CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR), Brigitte Roüan ("GUY" by ALEX LUTZ, "FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON" by NICOLE GARCIA), Sarah Stern, Kenza Fortas ("SHÉHÉRAZADE" by JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN)

Jeanne works as an auxiliary in a maternity in Marseilles. Day and night, Jeanne and her colleagues fight to help mothers and their babies against the lack of staff and constant management pressure. Jeanne lives with her 18 year-old daughter, Zoé. When a tragedy occurs at the maternity and Zoé leaves to study in Paris, Jeanne’s secret past suddenly resurfaces and forces her to assert her life choices.

FRENCH - DRAMA - 91 MN Production: APSARA FILMS (FRANCE)Territories sold : France, Belgium, Eastern Europe (HBO)

SOW THE WINDsemina il vento

By Danilo Caputo Cast: Yile Yara Vianello ("CORPO CELESTE" by ALICE ROHRWACHER), Feliciana Sibilano, Caterina Valente, Espedito Chionna

Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminated people’s minds, and she will have to face unexpected obstacles...

ITALIAN - DRAMA - 91 MNProduction : JBA PRODUCTION (FRANCE), OKTA FILM (ITALY), GRAAL FILMS (GREECE)Territories sold: France, Italy, Greece

GALLANT INDIESIndes galantes

By Philippe Béziat ("BECOMING TRAVIATA")

Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet that was directed by Clément Cogitore for the Opéra National de Paris.

This is a premiere for 30 dancers of hip-hop, krump, break, voguing… A first for the Director Clément Cogitore and for the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a first for the Paris’ Opera Bastille. By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes. From rehearsals to public performances, it is a human adventure and a meeting of political realities that we follow: can a new generation of artists storm the Bastille today?

FRENCH - DOCUMENTARY - 108 MN Production : LES FILMS PELLEAS (FRANCE), ARTE FRANCE CINEMA (FRANCE) Territories sold : France

IN POST-PRODUCTION

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUc’est toi que j’attendais

By Stéphanie Pillonca ("FLEUR DE TONNERRE")

"They are couples like no others: couples who cannot bear children in a biological way and decide to go through adoption. From this decision and the actual meeting with the child, we’ll experience with them the sufferings, doubts, hopes and finally the joys of this life-changing journey. With throughout the film, this underlying question: What makes a family? How does this unfailing bond between a child and his/her parent form?"Stéphanie Pillonca

FRENCH - DOCUMENTARY - 87 MNProduction: WONDER FILMS (FRANCE)Territories sold : France

IN POST-PRODUCTION

SELON LA POLICEBy Frédéric Videau ("COMING HOME", BERLINALE 2012)

Cast: Laetitia Casta ("A FAITHFUL MAN" by LOUIS GARREL, "THE IDEAL PALACE" by NILS TAVERNIER), Simon Abkarian ("SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE" by CÉDRIC KLAPISCH; "EDMOND" by ALEXIS MICHALIK),

Patrick d'Assumçao ("NAKED NORMANDY" by PHILIPPE LE GUAY, "STRANGER BY THE LAKE" by ALAIN GUIRAUDIE)

FRENCH - DRAMAProduction: BUS FILMS

LA PLACE D’UNE AUTREBy Aurélia Georges

Cast: Lyna Khoudri ("PAPICHA" by MOUNIA MEDDOUR), Sabine Azéma ("TANGUY" by ÉTIENNE CHATILIEZ; "NOT ON THE LIPS" by ALAIN RESNAIS),

Laetitia Dosch ("MONTPARNASSE BIENVENÜE" by LÉONOR SERRAILLE, "PASSION SIMPLE" by DANIELLE ARBID)

FRENCH - DRAMAProduction: 31 JUIN FILMS

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