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2021 Summary

New titles The Big Hit My Donkey, My Lover and I Three Times Nothing

TV series highlights Inhuman Resources A French Village Beautiful Loser Stalk

Film highlights Mama Weed The African Doctor Rebels Like a Cat on A Highway Blind Date Men on the Verge of a nervous Breakdown New titles

PRODUCER Agat Films et cie

Comedy

original title: Un triomphe

The Big Hit

French release date: 24 March 2021

Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a Created by Emmanuel Courcol theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together Written by Emmanuel Courcol an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s and Thierry de Carbonnières famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take Cast: Kad Merad, , the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Laurent Stocker Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

Each date is a new success and a unique relationship grows between this ad hoc group of actors and their director. But soon comes the final performance in . Will their last night together be the biggest hit of them all?

Inspired by true events

Trailer https://vimeo.com/466653375 New titles

PRODUCER Chapka films, La Filmerie

Comedy Julien Panié © CHAPKA FILMS – LA Panié 3 CINEMA FILMERIE – FRANCE Julien original title: Antoinette dans les Cévennes

My Donkey, My Lover, and I

Nominated for 8 Césars French Release September 16th 2020 French box office 4,2 mio euros

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long Directed and written planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, by Caroline Vignal the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir Cast: , cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking Benjamin Lavernhe holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHwfiYra_M New titles

PRODUCERS Srab Films, Possibles Media, France 2 Cinema

Comedy

original title: Trois fois rien

Three Times Nothing

French release date: TBD

Twiggy, Captain and Arrow live however they can in the Bois Directed by Nadège Loiseau de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winners - though Cast: Antoine Bertrand, Philippe Rebbot, Côme Levin it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and share it in equal parts. The hardest part of all will be to resume a “normal” life, filled with surprises and contradictions.

Trailer https://vimeo.com/513871991/73e864b611 TV series highlights

PRODUCER Mandarin Television

Thriller

original title: Dérapages

Inhuman Resources

Original broadcast date and channel: April 2020, Arte (Netflix worldwide)

Alain Delambre is a middle manager worn out and humiliated Created by Ziad Doueiri by six years of unemployment. So when a prestigious written by Pierre Lemaitre company shows an interest in hiring him, he is prepared to and Perrine Margaine do whatever it takes: betray his wife, steal from his daughters, Cast: Eric Cantona, beat his son-in-law and even get into a hostage-taking role- Suzanne Clément, play. He is certain that if he is hired, all will be forgiven. But nothing goes as planned.. TV series highlights

PRODUCER Tetra Media Fiction

Period drama

ONE OF THE TOP AUDIENCES OF FRANCE TELEVISION

original title: Un village français

A French Village

Format: 72*52’ TV Channel: France 3 Seasons: 7 French broadcast date: June 4th 2009 - November 30th 2017

During WWII, half of France was under Nazi occupation, this Created by Frédéric Krivine, is where this period drama starts: in June 1940 in Villeneuve, Philippe Triboit and Emmanuel Daucé a small village in the French Mountains, with the arrival of Cast: Robin Renucci, Audrey Fleurot, the German soldiers. Hortense, Jean, Raymond, Marie, had Richard Sammel, Thierry Godard, been living an ordinary life, but from then on everything Emmanuelle Bach changes: some will become patriots, others traitors, others collaborators, and others will join the resistance. Easily adaptable for different countries in Awards and nominations: different wars Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma: Best French series 2012 Series Mania festival: Best French series 2013 Globes de Cristal 2014: Nominated in the category best TV movie/TV series Prix Historia: Special jury prize 2018

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z_uAbzp0bM TV series highlights

PRODUCER Tetra Media Fiction

Comedy

original title: Irresponsable

Beautiful Loser

Format: 30*26’ TV Channel: OCS Seasons: 3 French Release: June 22nd 2016 - December 5th 2019

The story centers on Julien, a wisecracking professional Created by Frédéric Rosset slacker who, at 31, moves back in with his mother. The only Cast: Sébastien Chassagne, time Julien shows any gumption at all is when he’s running Marie Kauffmann, Théo Fernandez, from responsibility, so when his high school sweetheart Nathalie Cerda Marie informs him that he is the father of her 14 year- old son Jacques, his first inclination is to split. But Julien, himself a perpetual teenager, soon finds that he has plenty in common with his offspring, from a love for videogames to a preoccupation with internet porn. The same can’t be said about Marie, who in Julien’s absence has become his opposite: serious, responsible, and deeply repressed.

Trailer https://vimeo.com/363310334 TV series highlights

PRODUCER Silex Films

Drama

original title: Stalk

Stalk

Format: 10*23’ Season: 1 TV Channel: France TV Slash

Lucas aka LUX, an exceptionally gifted nerd who studies Created by Simon Buisson engineering, stalks the students who made fun of him during and Victor Rodenbach Freshers’ Weekend, and manages to befriend them, with the Cast: Theo Fernandez, idea to take revenge. Carmen Kassovitz He quickly gets what he has always dreamt of... but then falls into his own trap.

Winner of Best Director and Best Promising Actor at La Rochelle

Trailer https://vimeo.com/360259050 password: stalkpr0919 Film highlights

PUBLISHER Les Films du lendemain

Crime, Comedy

original title: La Daronne

Mama Weed

French Release March 2020

Patience Portefaix is a French-Arabic police translator, Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The Written by Jean-Paul Salomé, job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... Hannelore Cayre (novel) One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one of them is the son of the fantastic woman who takes care Cast: , of her mother. She decides to protect him and is brought Hippolyte Girardot in the middle of a drug network. When she gets her hands on a huge load of hash, with the help of her new partner, the former police dog DNA, she seizes the opportunity and becomes Mama Weed, drug wholesaler, thanks to her field experience.. and all the information she gets in her job!

Promoreel https://vimeo.com/335402056 Password: MaaMaaAWeeEDDd14? Film highlights

PRODUCER E.D.I. films / Curiosa / Moana films

Comedy drama

original title: Bienvenue à Marly Gomont

The African Doctor

French release date: 8 June 2016 French box office: €3.35mio

The story of Seyolo Zantoko, who as a freshly graduated Created by Julien Rambaldi doctor of Congolese descent in France, struggled with his written by Benoit Graffin family to integrate in a small rural village, and ended up being considered as one of the most respected doctors in Cast: Marc Zinga, Aïssa Maïga the region.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2UZe8FNsck Film highlights

PRODUCER Albertine Productions

Thriller / Black comedy

original title: Rebelles

Rebels

French Box-Office €5.2M BO French Release March 13rd 2019

With no degree and no job, Sandra, former local beauty Directed by Allan Mauduit queen, returns to her childhood town to live with her mother. Written by Allan Mauduit There she finds the world she left behind almost 15 years ago. and Jeremy Guez In need of cash, she takes a job at the local fish-canning plant. Sandra is brought together with her co-workers Marilyn and Cast: Cecile de France, Audrey Lamy, Nadine when their lecherous boss is accidentally killed, and they discover a bag full of stolen cash on the dead man’s body. All desperately in need, the three decide to steal the money and dispose of his corpse – by canning it. What could have been a perfect plan quickly heads south.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZ82CyqCgA Film highlights

PRODUCER Wildside

Comedy

original title: Come un Gatto in Tenganziale

Like a Cat on a Highway

Italian Box-Office €11.05M BO Italian Release December 28th 2017

Giovanni and Monica are the most diverse people on the Directed by Riccardo Milani face of the earth. He is an intellectual and a prophet of Written by Furio Andretti, social integration living in the center of Rome, while she is a Giulia Calenda, Paola Cortellesi, former cashier of a supermarket, dealing every day with the Riccardo Milani real problematic multicultural environment of her suburban neighborhood. They would never have met if their children Cast: Paola Cortellesi, did not get together. The two have a common goal: the story Antonio Albanese between their children, which has the life expectations of a cat on a highway, must end!

Trailer https://vimeo.com/264244811 Film highlights

PRODUCER Orange Studio

Comedy

original title: Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglement

Blind Date

French Box-Office €3M BO th Perfect COVID French Release May 6 2015 Confinement Remake

He is a dedicated workaholic who lives and breathes his work. Directed by Clovis Cornillac He prefers nothing more than silence. She is an accomplished Written by Clovis Cornillac pianist working on her big-break concert. To her, music and and Lilou Fogli sound is everything. Separated only by a wall, things get interesting. Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Mélanie Bernier, Lilou Fogli

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZK8cOTQcnM Film highlights

PRODUCER Curiosa

Comedy

original title: Hommes au bord de la crise de nerfs

Men On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown

French Release date: TBC

Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with Directed by nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the Written by Audrey Dana verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely station for and Claire Barré an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by Cast: Marina Hands, an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to Thierry L’Hermitte, Ramzy Bedia themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.

Trailer https://vimeo.com/429638428 Mdp: HBCN.promo_140220