Contemporary World Cinema

YOU WILL DIE AT 20

By Amjad Abu Alala Cast : Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Elsaraj, Bunna Khalid Sudan, province of Aljazira, nowadays - When Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the holy man of the village predicts that he will die when he is 20 years old. Muzamil’s father cannot stand the doom and travels away from home. Sakina, as a single mother, raises her son with over protection. One day, Muzamil turns 19… ARABIC - DRAMA - 105 MN

Production : ANDOLFI (FRANCE), TRANSIT FILMS (EGYPT), DUO FILM AS (NORWAY), DIE GESELLSCHAFT DGS (GERMANY) Territories sold : France, MENA, South Africa Private Screening

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BACK HOME revenir

By Jessica Palud (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON "THE BIG PICTURE" by ÉRIC LARTIGAU) Cast : Niels Schneider ("HEARTBEATS" by XAVIER DOLAN), Adèle Exarchopoulos ("BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR" by ABDELLATIF KECHICHE- PALME D’OR CANNES 2013)

This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago. Only today, there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, the boy’s radiant mother. FRENCH - DRAMA - 77 MN

Production : FIN AOUT (FRANCE) ("A KID") Territories sold : France Contemporary World Cinema

MADE IN BANGLADESH

By Rubaiyat Hossain ("UNDER CONSTRUCTION", ARTE AWARD LOCARNO - OPEN DOORS 2015) Cast : Rikita Shimu, Novera Rahman, Parvin Paru, Deepanita Martin

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way. BENGALI - DRAMA - 90 MN

Production : LES FILMS DE L’APRES-MIDI (FRANCE) ("CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO", UN CERTAIN REGARD CANNES 2012), KHONA TALKIES (BANGLADESH), BEO FILM (DENMARK), MIDAS FILMES (PORTUGAL), CINEMA COCOON (BANGLADESH) Territories sold : France, Angola, Bangladesh, Cap Verde, Denmark, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tomé and Principe Wavelengths

FIRE WILL COME O QUE ARDE

By Oliver Laxe ("MIMOSAS", CANNES CRITICS' WEEK GRAND PRIZE 2016) Cast : Amador Arias, Benedicta Sanchez, Inazio Abrao, Elena Fernandez, David de Poso, Alvaro de Bazal

Amador Coro has been condemned for having provoked a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the rhythm of nature. Until one night when a fire starts to devastate the region. " A powerful movie." PREMIERE SPANISH - DRAMA - 85 MN

" The initial sequence - one which Laxe has Production : 4A4 PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) MIRAMEMIRA (SPAIN), KOWALSKI FILMS (SPAIN), been wanting to shoot for years TARANTULA (LUXEMBOURG) - is memorable." VARIETY Territories sold : France, Australia, Eastern Europe (HBO), Luxembourg, MENA, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Spain, UK " The narratively stripped-down style of lucid observation makes this a film whose pathos creeps up on you by infinitesimal degrees." THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER TIFF Docs

AFTER « NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT » (CANNES 2010) THE CORDILLERA AND OF DREAMS La cordillera de los sueños « THE PEARL BUTTON » (SILVER BEAR FOR BEST SCRIPT 2015) By Patricio Guzmán ("NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT", "THE PEARL BUTTON") “In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before THE THIRD PART OF THE TRILOGY reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera is everywhere. But for the Chilean citizens, it is an unknown territory. by THE ACCLAIMED AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR PATRICIO GUZMÁN After going North for Nostalgia for the Light and South for The Pearl Button, I now feel ready to shoot this immense spine to explore its " Patricio Guzmán completes a superb trilogy tracking a personal, political mysteries, powerful revelations of Chile’s past and present history.” Patricio Guzmán and philosophical journey through Chile's history and landscape." VARIETY SPANISH - DOCUMENTARY - 85 MN

Production : ATACAMA PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) Territories sold : France, Benelux, Chile, Former-Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA Private Screening

THE DAZZLED les éblouis

By Sarah Suco (ACTRESS "SUMMERTIME"; "JOSEPHINE FABULOUS & PREGNANT") Cast : Camille Cottin ("CALL MY AGENT !"), Eric Caravaca ("PLOT 35", "LOVER FOR A DAY" by PHILIPPE GARREL), Jean-Pierre Darroussin ("THE HOUSE BY THE SEA" by ROBERT GUÉDIGUIAN, "A WOMAN’S LIFE" by STÉPHANE BRIZÉ)

Camille, 12, passionate about circus, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents join a Catholic community, based on sharing and solidarity, in which they fully invest. Gradually, Camille must accept a way of life which questions her desires, social life and own torments. She then begins a fight to get rid of this hold, assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters. FRENCH - DRAMA - 89 MN

Production : MON VOISIN PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) ("CALL MY AGENT !", "PERFECT MOTHERS "), EPITHÈTE FILMS (FRANCE) Territories sold : France, Belgium and Luxembourg, Quebec, Switzerland Locarno Film Festival Official Selection Piazza Grande PUBLIC AWARD

CAMILLE

By Boris Lojkine ("HOPE", CANNES 2014 CRITICS' WEEK – SACD AWARD) Cast : Nina Meurisse ("VINCENT" by THOMAS SALVADOR, "A WOMAN'S LIFE" by STÉPHANE BRIZÉ), Fiacre Bindala, Bruno Todeschini ("JEALOUS" by DAVID & STÉPHANE FOENKINOS, "THE CONNECTION" by CÉDRIC JIMENEZ), Grégoire Colin ("BARBARA" by MATHIEU AMALRIC), Augustin Legrand, Geoffrey Bateman(" HEARTBREAKER" by PASCAL CHAUMEIL, "VERSAILLES" (TV))

Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever. FRENCH/SANGO/ENGLISH - DRAMA - 90 MN

Production : UNITÉ DE PRODUCTION (FRANCE) Territories sold : France, Switzerland Locarno Film Festival Official Selection Out of competition

THE HOLY FAMILY la sainte famille

By Louis-Do de Lencquesaing ("IN A RUSH", CANNES CRITICS' WEEK 2012) Cast : Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Laura Smet ("YVES SAINT-LAURENT" by JALIL LESPERT, "THE GUARDIANS" by XAVIER BEAUVOIS), Marthe Keller ("MARATHON MAN" by JOHN SCHLESINGER, "BREATH OF LIFE" by DAVID ROUX ), Léa Drucker ("CUSTODY" by XAVIER LEGRAND, "THE BUREAU" by ÉRIC ROCHANT)

Jean, a renowned academic, finds himself Minister of the Family, even though he is lost in the events that shake his. FRENCH - DRAMA - 90 MN

Production : EVERYBODY ON DECK (FRANCE) Territories sold : France SACD AWARD

OUR MOTHERS nuestras madres

By César Díaz (EDITOR OF "IXCANUL", ALFRED BAUER PRIZE BERLINALE 2015) Cast : Armando Espitia ("HELI"), Emma Dib, Aurelia Caal, Julio Serrano Echeverría, Victor Moreira

Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victim statements come one after another. Ernesto is a young anthropologist working for the Forensic Foundation; his job is to identify the missing. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a guerrillero who went missing during the war. Against his mother’s wishes, he flings himself body and soul into the case, looking for truth and resilience. SPANISH - DRAMA - 77 MN

Production : NEED PRODUCTIONS (BELGIUM), PERSPECTIVE FILMS (FRANCE) ("MEMOIR OF WAR" ; "APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD") Territories sold : France, Benelux, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe (HBO), Former-Yugoslavia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Quebec, Republic Dominican, Salvador, « Throughout his film, Diaz eschews dramatic highs in favour of Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK solidly nuanced observations. » SCREEN DAILY " Fascinating " THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER KONGO " From 2013 to 2018, the Directors have By Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav captured in the suburbs of Brazzaville a rare thing in cinema: the invisible and all the signs In Brazzaville, an invisible world governs the visible world. The apostle Medard struggles to heal the sick victims of bad spells. But his around the visible world." LE MONDE life changes when he is publicly accused of practicing black magic. LARI/FRENCH - DOCUMENTARY - 70 MN " A joyful surprise. Production : KIDAM (FRANCE), EXPÉDITION INVISIBLE (FRANCE) LIBÉRATION Exciting and captivating" Territories sold : France " The most literally fantastic documentary of this year in Cannes." SO FILM

" An unusual journey into the spiritual world. " ECRAN TOTAL NEW ANNOUNCEMENT

LET'S TALK parle-moi d'elles

By Marianne Khoury

A mother and her daughter explore together the trajectory of four generations of women from their family, an Egyptian family from the Levant where life and cinema have been intimately linked and still are. A cross look between family archives where the real and the fiction and the autobiographical films of Youssef Chahine mingle. From Alexandria to Cairo, passing through Paris and Havana, an intimate and visceral narrative where mother and daughter cross space and time to trace destinies and question their emotions. ARABIC/FRENCH - DOCUMENTARY - 95 MN

Production : MISR INTERNATIONAL FILMS (EGYPT) IN POST-PRODUCTION

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 ("SAINT AMOUR" by BENOÎT DELÉPINE and GUSTAVE KERVERN, "150 MILLIGRAMS" by EMMANUELLE BERCOT)

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

Production : LES FILMS VELVET (FRANCE), FRANCE 3 CINÉMA Territories sold : France, Taiwan IN POST-PRODUCTION

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SIMPLE PASSION passion simple

Based 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; "GASPARD AT THE WEDDING" by ANTONY CORDIER; "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 was missing endlessly, except when we were having sex. Yet still, I was haunted by the moment that would follow, when he would have left. I lived pleasure as a future pain." Annie Ernaux - Passion Simple

Production : LES FILMS PELLÉAS (FRANCE), VERSUS PRODUCTIONS (BELGIUM) Territories sold : France, Benelux, Japan, South Korea, Russia and CIS IN POST-PRODUCTION

UNE AUTRE QUE MOI

By Marion Laine ("A MONKEY ON MY SHOULDER") 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 ("LES TUCHE" by OLIVIER BAROUX)

When her daughter Zoé leaves her to study in Paris, Jeanne, 50, a childcare auxiliary in a hospital in Marseille, sees suddenly her secret past resurface with Abel’s return. FRENCH - DRAMA

Production: APSARA FILMS (FRANCE) Territories sold : France IN POST-PRODUCTION

YALDA A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS By Massoud Bakhshi ("A RESPECTABLE FAMILY", DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT 2012) Cast : Sadaf Asgari, Babak Karimi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy

Maryam (22) is sentenced to death after killing her husband Nasser (65). In Iran, where the law of retaliation prevails, a victim’s family can forgive the killer. For Maryam, this pardon plays out on the country’s most popular reality show on the day of Yalda, the longest night of the year, and can save her life. FARSI - DRAMA

Production : JBA PRODUCTION (FRANCE) Territories sold : France, Austria, Benelux, Germany, Israel, Iran, Italy, MENA, Luxembourg, Switzerland IN POST-PRODUCTION

L’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)

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

Production : 1001 PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) ("MERCI PATRON !" CÉSAR AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM 2017) Territories sold : France, Canada IN POST-PRODUCTION

C’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

Production: WONDER FILMS (FRANCE) Territories sold : France CONTACTS

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