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French Sales Companies at The European Film Market

Berlin, February 11-20, 2010

4 Alfama Films 5 Bac Films International 6 Celluloid Dreams 6 Coach 14 7 Coproduction Office 8 Doc & Film International 9 Elle Driver 10 EuropaCorp 12 Films Distribution 13 Les Films du Losange 14 Télévisions Distribution 14 Funny Balloons 15 Gaumont 16 Kinology 17 Le Pacte 18 Memento Films International 19 MK2 20 Other Angle Pictures 21 Pathé International 22 Pyramide International 23 Rendez-vous Pictures 24 Rezo 24 Roissy Films 25 SND Groupe M6 26 StudioCanal 27 TF1 International 29 Umedia 30 Wide Management 32 Wild Bunch 34 Contacts 38 Partners BERLIN 2010 27/01/10 12:50 Page 4

Alfama Films

Line-up

In pre-production In post-production

ALMAYER’S FOLLY LE MARIAGE À TROIS Director: Director: Cast: Cast: Pascal Greggory, , Producer: Alfama Films Producer: Alfama Films

COSMOPOLIS Completed Director: David Cronenberg Producer: Alfama Films ASHES AND BLOOD Director: In production Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Abraham Belaga, Marc Ruchmann EYES FIND EYES Producer: Alfama Films Directors: Jean-Manuel Fernandez, Sean Williams Cast: Alexandre Marouani, Alma Jodorowsky Producer: Alfama Films

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Bac Films International

Line-up

In production

BORDERLINE (WORKING TITLE) HIDDEN DIARY Director: Alexandre Coffre Director: Julie Lopes-Curval Cast: François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot, Cast: , , Gilles Cohen Marie-Josée Croze Producer: Quad Productions Producer: Sombrero Productions

In post-production HE’S MY GIRL Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann LIVING ON LOVE ALONE Cast: , , Director: Isabelle Czajka Mehdi Dehbi Cast: Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier, Producer: Agat Films & Cie Producer: Agat Films & Cie BLACKOUT THE SANDMAN, Director: Jean-Christophe Klotz AND THE LOST SAND OF DREAMS Cast: , Cyril Gueï, Peter Hudson Directors: Jesper Moller, Sinem Sakagolu Producer: Les Films du Poisson Producer: Scopas Medien Ag Animation JASPER Director: Eckart Fingberg Completed Producer: Amuse Films Animation ROUND DA WAY Directors: Albert P. Lazaro, Emmanuel Klotz DEVIL’S RAIN Voices: Vincent Cassel, , Gilles Director: Philippe Cosson Lellouche Producer: Zagarianka Productions Producer: Millimages Documentary Animation

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Celluloid Dreams

Line-up

In pre-production Completed

WAITING FOR AZRAEL A PROPHET Directors: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud Director: Jacques Audiard Producer: Celluloid Dreams Cast: , Producers: , Chic Films, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHY Celluloid Dreams Director: Jean-Pierre Limosin Producer: Celluloid Dreams THE SECRET OF KELLS Director: Tomm Moore In production Producer: Les Armateurs Animation CRAZY HORSE Director: Frederick Wiseman Producer: Idéale Audience Coach 14

Screening Completed AMER Directors: Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet WILD GRASS Cast: Bianca Maria d’Amato, Marie Bos, Director: Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud Cast: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Producers: Anonymes Films, Tobina Films Anne Consigny Producers: F Comme Film, Studio Canal, France 2 Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Cinéma, BIM Distribuzione Ana’s life. Her carnal search sways between reality and colored fantasies…becoming more I’M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE and more oppressive. A black laced hand Directors: Claude & Nathan Miller prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her Cast: Sophie Cattani, Vincent Rottiers, Christine Citti dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade Producers: F Comme Film, Orly Films, Page 114 brushes her skin: where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her? UN HOMME ET SON CHIEN Director: Line-up Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, , Julika Jenkins In post-production Producers: F Comme Film, France 2 Cinéma

CARRÉ BLANC Director: Jean-Baptiste Leonetti See contact Cast: , Julie Gayet, page 34 Jean-Pierre Andréani Producers: Tarantula, Solair Films, CJSC CTC

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Coproduction Office

Screening Line-up

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN Completed Director: Shirin Neshat Cast: Pegah Ferydoni, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Tóth, LOURDES Arita Shahrzad Director: Jessica Hausner Producers: Susanne Marian, Martin Gschlacht, Cast: , Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini Philippe Bober Producers: Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober, Susanne Marian Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of A TOWN CALLED PANIC four women converge in a beautiful orchard, Directors: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier where they find independence, solace and Cast: Stéphane Aubier, , companionship. Benoît Poelvoorde Acclaimed photographer Shirin Neshat makes Producers: Philippe Kauffmann, Vincent Tavier her directorial debut with this incisive and sumptuously filmed reflection on the pivotal moment in history that directly led to the Islamic revolution and the Iran we know today.

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Doc & Film International

Line-up Completed

ANIMAL HEART ASHES AND BLOOD Director: Séverine Cornamusaz Director: Fanny Ardant Cast: Olivier Rabourdin, Camille Japy, Antonio Bull, Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Mark Ruchmann, Alexandra Kamisaris Abraham Belaga Producer: ADR Production, PS. Productions Producer: Alfama Films

LA DANSE, THE OPERA BALLET AFTER THE DOWNFALL Director: Frederick Wiseman Director: Hiner Saleem Producers: Idéale Audience, Zipporah Films Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Yildiz Gültekin, Documentary Fehmi Mohammad Salmin Producer: Agat Films & Cie, Mitos Films HARRAGAS Director: Merzak Allouache CAN’T SAY NO Cast: Nabil Asli, Samor El Hakim, Lamia Boussekine Director: Iliana Lolic Producer: Libris Films, Baya Films Cast: Sylvie Testud, , In pre-production Producer: ADR Productions

ALMAYER’S FOLLY LAND OF MADNESS Director: Chantal Akerman Director: Producer: Alfama Films Producer: Les Films d’Ici Documentary In post-production THE ARRIVALS LE MARIAGE À TROIS Directors: Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard Director: Jacques Doillon Producer: Les Films d’Ici Cast: Pascal Greggory, Julie Depardieu, Louis Garrel Documentary Producer: Alfama Films

L’O EIL DE L’ASTRONOME Director: Stan Neumann Cast: Denis Lavant, Elise Caron, Max Baissette de Malglaive Producer: Les Films d’Ici

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Elle Driver

Line-up

In production Completed WOMEN ARE HEROES “28 MILLIMETERS” (WORKING TITLE) RIVER Director: Jr Director: Rachid Bouchareb Producer: 27.11 Production Cast: Sotigui Kouyaté, Brenda Blethyn Producer: 3b Production In post-production CHANGING SIDES IN YOUR HANDS Director: Pascale Pouzadoux Director: Lola Doillon Cast: , Cast: , Pio Marmaï Producer: Fidélité Films Producer: Origami Films ANYTHING FOR HER RUBBER Director: Fred Cavayé Director: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Diane Kruger, Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Producer: Fidélité Films Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick Producer: Realitism Films 35 SHOTS OF RUM Director: Claire Denis Cast: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin Producer: Soudaine Companie

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EuropaCorp

Screenings Cannes, French Riviera, Armand Teillard is happy with life- a busy store downtown, a IN THE BEGINNING delightful girlfriend and lunch every day at Director: Xavier Giannoli Sofia and Martial’s family restaurant with a Cast: François Cluzet, perfect sea view. So when Sofia tells Armand Producers: EuropaCorp, Rectangle Productions, that Zapetti, a property developer with mafia Studio 37, Cinéma connections, is putting the squeeze on her to sell up, he is horrified. Armand is an easy- France, present day. A smalltime conman going guy who never gets mad. He leaves that passes himself as the boss as a construction to his twin brother, Maurice The Whistler. site building a highway extension. In the When Maurice rides into town, Zapetti, his beginning, he just hopes to make a little cash, mob and the corrupt local politicians are in but his scam escapes his control. He cons the trouble. But what if, behind the dyed hair and whole region, hires dozens of workers and tinted contact lenses, Maurice and Armand cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he are one and the same guy? meets the female mayor of a small village that his road will go through. She intrigues and ARTHUR AND THE REVENGE OF unsettles him, before revealing to him a world MALTAZARD he never knew: feelings. How far will he go to Director: save his victims and himself from his own lies? Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow Voice: Selena Gomez FASHION VICTIM Producers: EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Production, Director: Gérard Jugnot Apipoulaï Prod, Avalanche Production Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Producers: Les Films Manuel Munz, Novo Arturo Arhur is reunited with his beloved Princess Films, PC Flamenco Films, France 2 Cinéma, France Selenia in the latest adventure adapted from 3 Cinéma, Europacorp Luc Besson’s bestselling children’s books, but danger lurks on the horizon… Paris 1577. A Royal wedding, the Inquisition, outcasts, heretics and plotters make for an PARIS EXPRESS explosive mix in this irreverent comedy written Director: Hervé Renoh and directed by Gérard Jugnot. Cast: Michaël Youn, Géraldine Nakache, Jimmy Jean Louis THE WHISTLER Producers: EuropaCorp, Black Mask Productions, Director: Philippe Lefebvre M6 Films Cast: François Berléand, Thierry Lhermitte, Virginie Efira From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Producers: Les Productions du Trésors, EuropaCorp, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy M6 Films sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission!

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EuropaCorp

22 BULLETS LITTLE WHITE LIES Director: Richard Berry Director: Cast: Jean Reno, , Marina Foïs Cast: François Cluzet, , Producers: Europacorp, TF1 Films Production, SMTS, Benoît Magimel Marie Coline Films Producers: Les productions du Trésor, EuropaCorp, Caneo Films, M6 Films After a long, brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia, Charly Matteï has gone straight. A MONSTER IN PARIS For three years, he has lived a quiet life devoted Director: Bibo Bergeron to his wife and two young children. Then, one Cast: , Mathieu Chedid winter morning, he is left for dead on the docks Producers: Bibo Films, EuropaCorp, France 3 Cinéma of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for FROM PARIS WITH LOVE Tony Zacchia, the only man who would dare to Director: Pierre Morel try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he Cast: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, failed. Producers: EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions, Line-up Apipoulaï Prod

In production Completed

THE BIG PICTURE VILLA AMALIA Director: Eric Lartigau Director: Benoît Jacquot Cast: , Marina Foïs, Catherine Deneuve Cast: , Jean-Hugues Anglade, Producers: EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Producers: Rectangle Productions, EuropaCorp, Point A VIEW OF LOVE Prod, France 2 Cinéma, La Télévision Suisse Director: Romande Cast: , Marie-Josée Croze, ARTHUR AND THE WAR OF THE TWO Producers: EuropaCorp, Les productions du Trésor, WORLDS Pauline’s angel, France 3 Cinéma Director: Luc Besson Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES Producers: EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Production, OF ADÈLE BLANC-SEC Apipoulaï Prod, Avalanche Productions Director: Luc Besson Cast: , , Jean-Paul Rouve Producers: EuropaCorp, Apipoulaï Prod, TF1 Films Production

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Films Distribution

Panorama/Screening

FAMILY TREE Bérangère and Vincent are getting married, Directors: , respecting all the traditions of bourgeois Cast: , Françoise Fabian, weddings and society events. The distorting Sabrina Seyvecou, Yannick Renier prism of the guests' points of view -cynical or Producers: Les Films Du Lendemain, Maia Cinema funny, strained or moving - will reveal throughout the day everyone's shortcomings Frederick is a tree grower, and for nearly sixty and the hypocrisy of the event: masks will fall years he has been cultivating . His wife and family secrets will errupt. and eldest son are the only ones around him who know the truth. Pushed by the death of his STUDENT SERVICES younger son, with whom he had a conflictual Director: relationship, he finally reveals what he just Cast: Déborah François couldn't say to those near and dear to him: his Producer: Les Films du Kiosque homosexuality. Laura, 19, a first-year university student, Generation Kplus desperately wants to do well in school. Despite a part-time job, she is unable to make ends YUKI & NINA meet and becomes so short of funds that one Directors: Nobuhiro Suwa, Hippolyte Girardot desperate evening, having run out of options, Cast: Noë Sampy, Arielle Moutel she goes so far as to answer an ad on the Producer: Comme des Cinémas Internet. 'Joe, 57, seeks female student for tender moments. One hundred euros an hour.' Screenings Just this once, she promises herself. Three days later, Laura is in a hotel room with Joe. ELEANOR’S SECRET And the spiral begins. The excitement of "easy" Director: Dominique Monféry money. She tries to blot out the foul sensations Producers: Alphanim, La Fabrique, Lanterna Magica and think only of the bills in the envelope. With Animation her second customer, Laura, a young student wounded in her flesh but already a prostitute, Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to wants to stop. Will she be able to? read. His eccentric old aunty bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to RAPT the young boy... Nat discovers that the books Director: serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in Cast: , Anne Consigny children's literature. They are the original Producers: Agat Films & Cie, Entre Chien & Loup characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they Will Stanislas Graff is a man of power. He is in full disappear along with their stories forever! control of his multinational company and his When his parents start selling off the books, family life. His public fame and wealth make Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch him a perfect target for a kidnapping. A very Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny high ransom is requested for his liberation, but friends... the police and the family play against each other. Graff, whose secret life gets exposed to WEDDING CAKE the media, is not the man he pretended to be. Director: Denys Granier-Deferre Upon his return from 60 gruelling days in See contact Cast: Jean-Pierre Marielle, , captivity, he has to face the resentment of his page 35 Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier loved ones who have discovered his true Producer: 247 Films nature through the media.

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Films Distribution

Line-up

In post-production

L’A MOUR FOU WITH LOVE… FROM THE AGE OF Director: Pierre Thoretton REASON Cast: Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé Director: Yann Samuell Cast: Sophie Marceau, Marton Csokas, RED NIGHTS Jonathan Zaccaï Directors: Laurent Courtiaud, Julien Carbon Cast: Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng Ka Lai, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung Les Films du Losange

Forum/Screening

NENETTE CHANTRAPAS Director: Nicolas Philibert Director: Otar Iosseliani Producers: Les Films d’Ici, Forum des Images Cast: Dato Tarielashvili, Fanny Gonin Producer: Pierre Grise Production Born in 1969 in the forests of Borneo, Nénette has just turned 40. That’s quite something… It Completed is rare for an orang-utan to reach such a venerable age! A resident of the menagerie at FATHER OF MY CHILDREN the Jardin des Plantes in Paris since 1972, she Director: Mia Hansen-Løve sees hundreds of visitors file past her cage Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, , each day. And, of course, each one of them Alice de Lencquesaing has comments to make… Producer: Les Films Pelléas

Line-up AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN Director: In post-production Cast: , Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon Producers: Pierre Grise Productions, Cinemaundici LES MAINS EN L’AIR Director: Romain Goupil THE KING OF ESCAPE Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Romain Goupil, Linda Director: Alain Guiraudie Doudaeva Cast : Ludovic Berthillot, Hafsia Herzi, Pierre Laur Producers: Les Films du Losange, France 3 Cinéma Producer: Les Films du Worso

DES FILLES EN NOIR MARCHING BAND Director: Jean-Paul Civeyrac Director: Cast: Elise Lhomeau, Léa Tussier Producer: Les Films de la Boissière Producer: Les Films Pelléas See contact page 35

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France Télévisions Distribution

Screening

MADEMOISELLE MUMU (AKA MUMU) Director: Joël Seria Cast: Sylvie Testud, Jean-François Balmer, Antoine de Caunes Producer: BERFILMS France

In 1947, Roger, an unloved kid and expert troublemaker, is sent to a boarding school where rules Mumu-Short-Legs, the region’s meanest teacher. Doomed to fail, this village school is his last chance. Mumu’s watchfulness will definitely play its part. Indeed, as behind her stern airs, the teacher does happen to be big-hearted.

Funny Balloons

Official Competition/Screening Line-up

MAMMUTH Completed Directors: Benoît Delépine, Cast: Gérard Depardieu, , LOUISE-MICHEL Directors: Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern Producers: Gmt Productions, Cast: Yolande Moreau, No Money Productions Producers: Mnp Entreprise, No Money Productions

Gérard Depardieu stars in this funny and touching road movie as a retired working-class man on a journey that brings him back into company with former employers, friends, and long-lost family members.

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Gaumont

Screenings Line-up

THE ROUNDUP In production Director: Roselyne Bosch Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, ABOUT PORTANT Raphaëlle Agogué, Director: Fred Cavayé Producers: Gaumont, Légende Films Cast: , Gilles Lellouche, Gérard Lanvin Producers: Gaumont, LGM Paris, July 16th 1942, 4 am… In post-production THE LAST FLIGHT Director: Karim Dridi IN GOLD WE TRUST Cast: Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet Director: Eric Besnard Producer: Gaumont Cast: , , Claudio Santamaria, , Bruno Solo Out in the vast Sahara, where nothing can Producers: Gaumont, Mandarin Cinéma survive, Love alone rises from its ashes. SANTAPPRENTICE SPHINX Director: Luc Vinciguerra Director: Nicolas Boukhrief Producers: Gaumont, Alphanim, Avrill Stark Ent., Cast: Cécile de France, Fred Testot, The Cartoon Saloon Producers: Gaumont, Les Films du Worso

Officers by day and dealers by night, Simon and Julie work their way up the drug cartel’s chain of command to a new and dangerous line of designer amphetamines known on the street as sphinx.

LAST NIGHT Director: Massy Tadjedin Cast: , Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet Producers: Gaumont, Nick Wechsler Productions

A married couple are apart for a night when the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's away, his wife encounters her past love.

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Kinology

Screenings

HEARTBREAKER MY OWN LOVE SONG Director: Director: Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, Cast: Renée Zellweger, , François Damiens Madeline Zima Producers: Quad Films, Focus Features International, Producers: Légende Films, Studio 37 Script Associes, Chaocorp ONE (LE SYNDROME DU TITANIC) A French twist on Blake Edward’s Breakfast at Directors: Jean-Albert Lièvre & Nicolas Hulot Tiffany’s starring Cesar-nominated Romain Producers: Mandarin Cinéma, WLP, Studio 37, Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Mars Films, TF1 Films Production Russian Dolls) and Cesar-winner cult French star Vanessa Paradis (The Girl on the Bridge, STATE AFFAIRS Elisa), this glamorous high-concept romantic Director: Eric Valette comedy is as irresistible as the heartbreaker Cast: , André Dussollier, himself. From laughs to tears, to tears of Thierry Frémont laughter, HEARTBREAKER is a must-see of the Producers: Les Chauves-Souris, Studio 37 new year! MENSCH JOANN SFAR’S GAINSBOURG Director: Steve Suissa Director: Joann Sfar Cast: Nicolas Cazalé, , Anthony Delon Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Producer: ARP Producers: One World Films, Studio 37, Focus Features International, France 2 Cinema, Lilou Films, THE LIFE COACH Xilam Films Director: Olivier Doran Cast: Jean-Paul Rouve, Richard Berry, Anne Marivin Taking the best from La Vie en Rose and Producers: Alter Films, Outsider Productions, Amélie, Joann Sfar’s GAINSBOURG is a Studio 37, M6 Films completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous COPACABANA Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino). One of Director: Marc Fitoussi 2010’s highly awaited films brought to us by Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Lolita Chammah, Aure Atika one of the most beloved graphic artists of our Producers: Avenue B, France Cinema, time and the team behind the magical Mars Films creatures of Pan’s Labyrinth. THE PIMP Director: Pascal Bourdiaux Line-up Cast: José Garcia, Gilbert Melki, Producers: La Petite Reine, ARP, M6 Films SARAH’S KEY Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner UPSIDE DOWN Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Director: Juan Solanas Niels Arestrup Cast: Jim Sturgess, Producers: Hugo Productions, Studio 37, TF1Droits Producer: Onyx Films, Studio 37 See contact Audiovisuels & France 2 Cinéma page 35

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Kinology

THE CROSS THE CHAMELEON Director: Andrew Niccol Director: Jean-Paul Salomé Cast: Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel, Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Famke Janssen, Olga Kurylenko Ellen Barkin Producers: Bill Perkins, Cooper Richey, LULLABY FOR PI Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Ram Bergman, Director: Benoît Philippon Pierre Kubel Cast: Rupert Friend, Clémence Poésy, Sarah Wayne Callies REBELLION Producers: Forecast Pictures, Minds Eye Director: Entertainment, Killer Films, Studio 37 Producers: Nord-Ouest, MNP, Studio 37

THE PRODIGIES Director: Antoine Charreyron Producers: Onyx Films, Fidélité Films, Studio 37 Le Pacte

Screening Promo-reel screening

THE REFUGE ON TOUR Director: François Ozon Director: Mathieu Amalric Cast: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Mimi Le Meaux, Damien Odoul Producers: Claudie Ossard, Chris Bolzli Producer: Les Films du Poisson

When Mousse learns she’s pregnant and her Completed lover has died of an overdose, she runs away from Paris to her refuge: a house by the sea. MAKING PLANS FOR LENA Director: Christophe Honoré Line-up Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Marc Barr, Marina Foïs, In production Producer: Why Not Productions

THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS THE QUEEN OF CLUBS Director: Saverio Costanzo Director: Jérôme Bonnell Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alba Rohwacher, Cast: , Florence Loiret-Caille, Isabella Rossellini Jean-Pierre Daroussin Producers: Offside, Les Films des Tournelles Producer: Gloria Films

CAFÉ DU PONT THE HIGH LIFE Director: Manuel Poirier Director: Emmanuel Salinger See contact Cast: Bernard Campan, Cécile Rebboah, Cast: Laurent Capelluto, , page 35 Thomas Durastel Hélène Fillières Producers: Recifilms, Axel Films Producer: Les Films du Poisson

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Memento Films

Screenings Line-up

PUZZLE In post-production Director: Natalia Smirnoff Cast: Gabriel Goity, Maria Onetto, Arturo Goetz THE TREE Producers: Carrousel Films, Las Ninas Pictures Director: Julie Bertucelli Cast: , Marton Csokas TEHROUN Producer: Les Films du Poisson, Taylor Media, Director: Nader T. Homayoun Screen Australia, Tatfilm Produktion Cast: Ali Ebdali, Sara Bahrami, Farzin Modades Producers: Alias Films, Avenue B Productions BLACK HEAVEN Director: Gilles Marchand Ibrahim has left his home and his family to try Cast: Louise Bourgoin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, his luck in Tehran. But when he is implicated in Melvil Poupaud newborn trafficking, he is forced to descend Producers: Haut et Court, Versus, Coficup into the slums of the city, inhabited by prostitutes, beggars and gangsters. THINK GLOBAL, ACT RURAL Director: Coline Serreau Producer: Cinemao See contact page 35 MK2

Panorama/Screening The latest creation of the ballet Preljocaj, SNOW WHITE is a great romantic GOING SOUTH contemporary ballet, based on the Grimm Director: Sébastien Lifshitz brothers’ version of the fairytale with costumes Cast: Yannick Renier designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier and music by Producer: Ad Vitam Gustav Mahler.

It is summer and 27 year-old Sam is heading WHITE AS SNOW due south. Sitting in the backseat are Mathieu Director: Christophe Blanc and Léa, a brother and sister he met by Cast: François Cluzet, Louise Bourgoin, chance on the road. Léa loves men and so does Mathieu. On their long journey, they will Producer: Blue Monday learn to know, confront, and love one another. But Sam has a secret that he keeps to himself. Maxime’s car dealership is booming and his young wife is drop dead gorgeous. His Screenings glamorous life changes when his partner is found murdered and he is threatened with the SNOW WHITE worst unless he pays the victim's debts. With Director: Angelin Preljocaj no one else to turn to, he calls upon his Cast: Nagisa Shirai, Sergio Diaz, Céline Galli scheming band of brothers for help. See contact Producer: MK2 page 36

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MK2

Completed Line-up THE DAY GOD WALKED AWAY In pre-production Director: Philippe Van Leeuw Cast: Ruth Nirere THE FAIRY Producers: Artémis, Les Films du Mogho Directors: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel Directors: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea Producers: Courage Mon Amour, MK2 Cast: , Serge Reggiani Producer: Lobster Films In post-production NOTHING PERSONAL CERTIFIED COPY Director: Mathias Gokalp Director: Abbas Kiarostami Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Zabou Breitman, Cast: , William Shimell Denis Podalydès Producer: MK2 Producer: Karé Productions

BLACK VENUS PERSECUTION Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Director: Patrice Chéreau Producer: MK2 Cast: Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean Hugues Anglade STRETCH Producer: Move Movie Director: Charles de Meaux Cast: Nicolas Cazalé, Nicolas Duvauchelle, THE THORN IN THE HEART David Carradine Director: Michel Gondry Producer: MK2 Cast: Suzette Gondry Producer: Partizan Films

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Other Angle Pictures

Screenings Line-up

BUS PALLADIUM In pre-production Director: Christopher Thompson Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Arthur Dupont, A GREEK SUMMER Géraldine Pailhas (NICOSTRATOS THE PELICAN) Producer: LGM Cinéma Director: Olivier Horlait Cast: Emir Kusturica A French rock band, regular performer on Producer: Alain Grand Gérard famous Parisian stages like the Bus Palladium, is torn apart between its two charismatic In production leaders and their common loved interest. One is asking himself questions about his future and HIS MOTHER’S EYES tries to pursue his studies in spite of a dawning Director: Thierry Klifa success. The other wants to immerse himself Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Géraldine Pailhas, totally into music, risking to face his own Nicolas Duvauchelle demons. Producer: LGM Cinéma

TURK’S HEAD TWO THE PRICE OF ONE Director: Pascal Elbé Director: Serge Gisquière Cast: Roschdy Zem, Pascal Elbé, Ronit Elkabetz Cast: , Julie Depardieu Producer: Aliceleo Producer: Chapter 2

A young boy puts himself in an inextricable In post-production situation when he severely hurts a doctor visiting a patient in a parisian suburb but then FIVE BROTHERS saves his life. Director: Cast: Patrick Bruel, Vincent Elbaz, Pascal Elbé THELMA LOUISE AND CHANTAL Producer: Alexandre Films Director: Benoit Pétré Cast: Jane Birkin, Catherine Jacob, MEETING WITH AN ANGEL Producer: La Fabrique de Films Directors: Yves Thomas, Sophie de Daruvar Cast: Sergi López, Isabelle Carré, 3 women join forces to attend the wedding of Producer: Mon Voisin Productions their common ex. In the vein of «», «Thelma and Louise», is all about having Completed fun, no suicide at the end! THE FRENCH KISSERS FIX ME Director: Riad Sattouf Director: Raed Andoni Cast: Anthony Sonigo, Vincent Lacoste Cast: Raed Andoni Producer: Les Films des Tournelles Producer: Rouge International EXCUSE MY FRENCH With a lot off humor and humanity, Palestinian Director: Gabriel Julien-Lafferière filmmaker Raed Andoni films his own Cast: Rachida Brakni, Denis Podalydès, Samy Seguir See contact psychotherapy in Ramallah. Producer: Miroir Magique page 36

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Pathé International

Out of Competitions/Screening Line-up

THE ILLUSIONIST In post-production Director: Sylvain Chomet Producer: Bob Last MIRAL Director: Based on an original script by Jacques Tati, a Cast: Hiam Abbas, Freida Pinto, Yasmine Al Massri, travelling magician’s life is changed forever Alexander Siddig, when he encounters Alice, a young girl who Producer: Jon Kilik believes his magic is real. Completed Screenings OCEANS ALL THAT GLITTERS Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud Directors: Géraldine Nakache, Hervé Mimran Producers: Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Mauvernay Cast: Leïla Bekhti, Géraldine Nakache, WOLF Producers: Farid Lahouassa, Aïssa Djabri Director: Nicolas Vanier Cast: Nicholas Brioudes, Pom Klementieff, Lila and Ely live just the other side of the bridge Min Man Ma from Paris. Like sisters, they share dreams of a Producer: Jean-Pierre Bailly new life across the river… Through lies big and small, they attempt to pass seemlessly into CINEMAN a world that is not their own, a world of luxury Director: Yann Moix where anything is possible. Cast: Franck Dubosc, Pierre-François Martin Laval, But all that glitters… Lucy Gordon, Pierre Richard Producer: Abel Nahmias TO PROTECT AND SERVE Director: Eric Lavaine FAREWELL Cast: Kad Mérad, Clovis Cornillac, Carole Bouquet Director: Christian Carion Producers: François Cornuau, Vincent Roget Cast: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara Kim Houang and Michel Boudriau are two Producers: Christophe Rossignon, Bertrand Faivre, cops, bound together for life since their paths Philip Boëffard first crossed at the orphanage. They are not the best cops in France, nor the Paris area, nor THE HEDGEHOG even the precinct for that matter... And yet, Director: Mona Achache under strict orders from Aude Lettelier, national Cast: , Togo Igawa, police commissioner, it is now up to them to foil Garance Le Guillermic a recent wave of terrorist plots plaguing their Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint fair country.

TRÉSOR Directors: , François Dupeyron Cast: , , Fanny Ardant Producer: Claude Berri

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Pyramide International

Screenings

THE TIME OF THE CHARITY FÊTE IS PARTNERS OVER Director: Frédéric Mermoud Director: Frédéric Chignac Cast: Gilbert Melki, Emmanuelle Devos, Cast: Stéphane Guillon, Aïssa Maïga, Ali Monzanza , Producer: Flach Films Producers: Tabo Tabo Films, Saga Productions

Alex should have spent only a few minutes in Vincent and Rebecca fall in love at first sight in Koupala, just long enough to fill his tank. But, a cybercafé. They are young, barely 18 years when his car breaks down, his stay lasts longer old, and have a carefree attitude to life. And than planned… In this tiny village lost in the yet, two months later, Vincent’s body is found middle of the African desert, no one comes floating in the River Rhône, and Rebecca is along to help him. Little by little, Alex loses his missing. Lt Hervé Cagan and his partner Karine bearings and certainties as a white man in Mangin are in charge of the investigation. As Africa. Without knowing it, he becomes a they retrace Vincent and Rebecca’s doomed wager for the village… love affair, Hervé and Karine find themselves confronted with the flaws in their own lives. THE STRING Director: Mehdi Ben Attia Line-up Cast: , Antonin Stahly, Salim Kechiouche In production Producer: Mille Et Une Productions A SCREAMING MAN IS NOT A When Malik, 30, returns to Tunisia after his DANCING BEAR WORKING TITLE father's death, he has to live with his mother Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun again. He'd like to tell her he's into guys, but he Producers: Pili Films, Entre Chien et Loup can't and he gets bogged down in his lies. When he meets Bilal, everything becomes In post-production possible. The young architect, his lover and his mother free themselves of taboos to fully JIMMY RIVIÈRE embrace life. In the heat of the Tunisian Director: Teddy Lussi-Modeste summer, they touch the happiness they have Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Guillaume Gouix, Hafsia Herzi long aspired to. Producer: Kazak Productions

THE BOAT RACE BELLE EPINE Director: Bernard Bellefroid Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Joffrey Verbruggen, Thierry Hancisse, Cast: Léa Seydoux, Anaïs Demoustier Sergi López Producer: Les Films Velvet Producers: Artemis, Samsa Films ANGÈLE ET TONY Alex, 15, lives alone with his dad, enduring Director: Alix Delaporte relentless physical violence, rebelling against Cast: , Grégory Gadebois everyone. To escape from this daily life, Alex Producer: Les Films du Lionceau rows on the Meuse river, and has only one obsession: to win the Belgian Singles THE MISSION OFTHEHUMAN See contact Championships at any cost. Sergi, his coach, RESOURCE MANAGER and Muriel, the young girl he’s in love with, will page 36 Director: Eran Riklis enable Alex to rediscover the human values he Cast: Mark Ivanir has lost. A long and tough learning curve… Producers: 2 Team Productions, Ez Films

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Pyramide International

NOSTALGIA FOR LIGHT PLEASE, PLEASE ME ! Director: Patricio Guzmán Director: Emmanuel Mouret Producers: Atacama Productions, Blinker Cast: Judith Godrèche, Déborah François, Filmproduktion, Lupe Films, Ictj Productions Frédérique Bel, Emmanuel Mouret Documentary Producer: Moby Dick Films

SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM THE WOLBERG FAMILY Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron Director: Axelle Ropert Producer: Les Films Pelléas Cast: François Damiens, Valérie Benguigui, Documentary Léopoldine Serre Producer: Les Films Pelléas Completed IRÈNE LEAVING Director: Alain Cavalier Director: Catherine Corsini Producers: Camera One, Pyramide Production Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal Producer: Pyramide Productions

HADEWIJCH Director: Bruno Dumont Cast: Julie Sokolowski, Yassine Salim, David Dewaele Producer: 3B Productions

Rendez-Vous Pictures

Line-up

In post-production Completed

LIDO BOYS CROSSDRESSER Director: Louis Dupont Producer: Acis Production Director: Chantal Poupaud Documentary Producers: Les Films du Requin & Chantal Poupaud Documentary

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Rezo Screenings A VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY Director: MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON Cast: Julien Doré, Marina Hands Director: Stéphane Brizé Producer: Les Films Français Cast: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain Producer: TS Productions Dorothée and Nicolas fall in love at first sight. Together, they’re going to live a very beautiful Jean spends his days happily between his love story... they know it. construction sites and his house, with his wife But life always finds a way to compromise the and son. One day he meets Mademoiselle best resolutions, the best script and nothing Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, will happen as expected. elegant, unlike any woman he ever met before. From misunderstandings to real fights, from Will this chance encounter be an opportunity to preaching to betrayal, from real beginning to change or a folly to regret? fake «retrouvailles», Nicolas and Dorothée will be carried into a stormy comedy as crazy as SILENT VOICES their passion for each other…. Director: Léa Fehner Cast: , Farida Rahouadj, Pauline Etienne Producer: Rezo Productions Line-up

An elderly woman is looking for her son’s In post-production murderer. A teenage girl in love with a young hoodlum, needs an adult to accompany her to PREY the prison visiting room. A young man, is Director: Antoine Blossier offered a deal to replace an inmate inside. The Cast: Grégoire Colin, Bérénice Béjo, three destinies will cross paths in the visiting François Levantal room of a prison… Producers : Quasar Pictures, Polaris Film Productions Roissy Films

Line-up THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS Completed Director: Agnès Varda Producer: Ciné-Tamaris SISTER’S SMILE Documentary Director: Stijn Coninx Cast: Cécile de France, Sandrine Blancke, SÉRAPHINE Chris Lomme Director: Martin Provost Producers: Eric Heumann, Marc Sillam Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent Producer: TS Production

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SND Groupe M6

Screenings

STRANDED (DJINNS) JUST THE THREE OF US Directors: Sandra & Hugues Martin Director: Renaud Bertrand Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Thierry Frémont, Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Jacques Gamblin, Saïd Taghmaoui Audrey Dana, Stefano Accorsi Producers: Karé Production, Delante Films Producer: Babe Films

The North African desert of The Sahara - 1960 Sébastien, 10 years old, worships his mother Soldiers are sent on a rescue mission in the he sees as a queen. And pays little attention to desert. Trapped in a sand storm, isolated from his father, a failed inventor who’s never there. their commander, they run into Algerian rebels. When a new neighbour, Philippe, moves in As they seek shelter in an uncharted village next house, he is sure he found his mother’s another, invisible, threat comes out from the prince charming. He now has a mission: bring desert - - the Djinns. As their ranks are together his mother and her prince. decimated, they’ll face the longest night of Soon he befriends Philippe and so does his their lives. mother. After all, his dream may not be out of reach… THE COUNSEL Director: Cédric Anger Line-up Cast: Benoît Magimel, Gilbert Melki, Eric Caravaca Producer: Sunrise Film In post-production

Leo, a young, ambitious attorney, is LILY SOMETIMES approached by Paul Vanoni, a businessman Director: Fabienne Berthaud involved in the mob, for a job. First reluctant Cast: Diane Kruger, and troubled by Vanoni’s past, Leo eventually Producer: Le Bureau accepts. Passionate and gifted in his work, he achieves success in working for Vanoni. Soon, TERRITORIES Leo must face the facts of his client’s affairs: Director: Olivier Abbou illegal dumping of toxic waste, murder, missing Producer: Capture [The Flag] Films witnesses. It becomes obvious that the police have their eye on Leo and all he knows can be Completed dangerous. Tangled in a deadly scheme, he’ll have to find BITTER VICTORY a way to protect his family, his job…his life. Director: François Favrat Cast: Clovis Cornillac, , Sami Bouajila Producer: Les Films du Kiosque

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StudioCanal Screenings Line-up

AN ORDINARY EXECUTION In post-production Director: Marc Dugain Cast: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer Producer: Jean-Louis Livi Director: Cast: Edgar Ramirez A beautiful doctor with special healing powers Producer: Film en Stock is secretly taken to treat Joseph Stalin, a tyrant with the power of life or death in his hands. THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER Director: THE PERFECT DATE Cast: Mélanie Thierry, , Directors: Dominique Farrugia, Arnaud Lemort Producer: Paradis Films Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Virginie Efira, Manu Payet Producer: Dominique Farrugia HORS LA LOI Director: Rachid Bouchareb A hopeless romantic and an incurable ladies- Cast: , Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem man decide to pool their resources when they Producer: Jean Bréhat each meet their ideal woman. MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITE TOGETHER’S A CROWD Director: Director: Léa Fazer Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus Cast: , Producer: ICE 3 Producer: Chez Wam Completed A happy young couple with twins find themselves taking on extra parental THE VILLAIN responsibilities for increasingly irresponsible Director: Albert Dupontel grandparents. Cast: , Albert Dupontel Producer: Catherine Bozorgan

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TF1 International Out of Competition/Screening

DUMAS MY FATHER'S GUESTS Director: Director: Anne Le Ny Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Cast: , , Michel Aumont Producer: Move Movie Producer: Film Oblige 80-year-old retired doctor Lucien has always When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, been a man of action. Nowadays, Lucien his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their stands up for the rights of illegal immigrants. collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself And his commitment is such that he has just off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, married young and flashy Tatiana to protect a fervent admirer of the great man. her from deportation. The family dynamics suddenly dive into a chaos. Screenings A SPOT OF BOTHER SISTERS Director: Alfred Lot Director: Eléonore Faucher Cast: , Miou-Miou, Mélanie Doutey Cast: Amira Casar, Sylvie Testud, Producer: UGC YM Jean-Pierre Martins Producer: Ex Nihilo Jean-Paul, recently retired, is a hypochondriac. Anne, his wife, is cheating on 1970. Three sisters, Sybille, Corinne and him with a former office colleague… His Georgette live with their mother who is raising daughter Cathie, divorced and mother of a them on her own. The bond between the five-year-old son, lives with Philippe, a "fine" sisters is strong. However, Sybille feels like an young. After Jean-Paul discovers a small spot outsider in the family as she is the only one on his hip, the family balance literally implodes. with blond hair and resembles their father. And together cross through a small zone of Sybille builds a myth around her father and turbulence. starts to fantasize about meeting him. IN THEIR SLEEP CHICAS Directors: Caroline And Eric Du Potet Director: Cast: , Arthur Dupont, Cast: André Dussollier, , Thierry Frémont Carmen Maura Producer: Delante Films Producer: SBS Films A vulnerable woman protects a young man the One Sunday, in her apartment in Paris, Pilar same age as her dead son, who is being introduces the new man in her life to her chased by a homicidal maniac. At least that’s daughters and son-in-law. An unlikely how it seems… encounter, with everyone on their best behavior. LUCKY LUKE Director: James Huth Cast: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Daniel Prévost Producers: UGC SBS, UGC YM

During his mission in Daisy Town, the city See contact where he grew up, he is going to come across page 37 Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Pat Poker, Jesse James and Belle.

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TF1 International

Line-up

In pre-production

LE NOM DES GENS CAGED Director: Michel Leclerc Director: Yann Gozlan Cast: , Jacques Gamblin Cast: Zoé Felix, Arié Elmaleh, Éric Savin Producers: Karé Productions, Delante Films Producer: Sombrero Films

In production TRADER GAMES Director: Fabrice Genestal LIGHTS OUT Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Vahina Giocante, Director: Fabrice Gobert Michael Madsen Cast: Jules Pelissier, Ana Girardot, Serge Riaboukine Producers: Cine Nomine, Versus Production Producer: 2.4.7. Films Completed In post-production MICMACS LOVE CRIME Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Director: Cast: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Yolande Moreau Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas Producers: Epithète Films, Tapioca Films Producer: SBS FILMS (FREEDOM) IMOGENE Director: Tony Gatlif Directors: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier Cast: , Marie Josée Croze, Cast: Catherine Frot, Lambert Wilson, James Thiérrée Michel Aumont Producer: Princes Productions Producer: UGC YM VICTOR OR HOW TO ADOPT A AO THE LAST NEANDERTHAL GRANDPA Director: Jacques Malaterre Director: Thomas Gilou Cast: Simon Paul Sutton, Aruna Shields Cast: Pierre Richard, Lambert Wilson, Producer: UGC YM Clémentine Célarié Producer: Vertigo Productions THE RABBI’S CAT Directors: Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux MALE DOMINATION Producers: Autochenille Production, Director: Patric Jean TF1 International Producer: Elzevir Films

REDHEADS Director: Romain Gavras Cast: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy Producers: 120 Films, Les Chauves-Souris

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Umedia

Berlinale Forum

CHICKS (LIFE AT THE RANCH) SWEET EVIL Director: Sophie Letourneur Director: Olivier Coussemacq Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Eulalie Juster, Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Pascal Greggory, Mahaut Mollaret Ludmila Mikaël Producer: Ecce Films Producer: Local Films

Pam is twenty years old. Her group of Céline, a fifteen year-old girl, is constantly on girlfriends always finds itself on the couch of the move since her mother’s imprisonment. the «Ranch», the flat she’s sharing with Manon. After escaping her tutors, a well-known couple Occupations their age: talking, drinking, Mr. and Mrs. Van Eyck take her in. Céline smoking, dancing, but it’s probably alone that becomes determined to stay with the couple Pam will grow up. and tries quite successfully to please them. She cleverly wins their trust with her deceptive Screenings charm. Until one day a series of discoveries about Céline’s intentions test the Van Eycks’s EASTERN DRIFT faith in her... Director: Sharunas Bartas Cast: Sharunas Bartas, Klavdia Korshunova, BASSIDJI Elisa Sednaoui Director: Mehran Tamadon Producer: Lazennec Producers: CDP, Box Productions

Genia does business with the Russian mafia. Line-up When he decides to leave Lithuania and go West with his girlfriend, he takes a last trip to In post-production Moscow to collect his money back. While in Moscow, he ties up strongly with DEATH FOR SALE Sasha, a long-time mistress and a beautiful Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi high class prostitute. Producers: Entre Chien et Loup, Together, they embark upon a manhunt after Liaison Cinématographique Genia shoots dead a Russian godfather and a cop... Completed

EVERYDAY IS A HOLIDAY Director: Dima El-Horr Cast: Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Producer: Ciné-Sud promotion

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Wide Management Screenings TWO IN THE WAVE Director: Emmanuel Laurent GIGOLA Cast: Director: Laure Charpentier Narrator: Antoine de Baecque Cast: , Edouardo Noriega, Producer: Films à Trois Rossy de Palma, Thierry Lhermitte, Marisa Paredes, Documentary , Marisa Berenson Producer: Marie Amélie Production Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Feature Film (60 minutes rought cut, not colour- Jean-Luc Godard is born in 1930, François corrected, not mixed) Truffaut two years later, and they meet through their love of cinema. They write in the same “GIGOLA” is the story of George, a charismatic magazines, Les Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. and adventurous young woman, born from an When the younger becomes a filmmaker, with old, catholic family, who, in her teens, falls in The Four Hundred Blows, which triumphs in love with a female teacher named Sybil. Cannes in 1959, he helps his elder to switch to Devastated by her lover’s eventual suicide, film directing, giving him his own script, already some years later, George embarks on an called Breathless. exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle’s nightlife, circa 1960. After an OPEN SKY encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, Directors: Iñès Compan but older woman, Odette, who offers her Producers: Mosaïque Films, money and gifts in return for sexual favours, Le Hamac Rouge Production George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for Documentary women only. Puna, Argentina. Kollas natives suddenly find MINE, MY LIFE BEHIND THE SCENES themselves in the center of national and Director: Valérie Minetto international stakes because of their Cast: Mine Barral Vergez, Juliette Greco, underground natural resources. Indeed, Nana Mouskouri, Nicole Croisille Standard Silver, a Canadian company, Producers : TS Productions, TV Rennes 35, launches an ambitious project of an open-sky Paris Brest Productions, Forum des images silver mine on the abandoned site of Mina Documentary Pirquitas, 4,500 m high. This mine is to become one of the most productive one in A portrait of Mine Barral Vergez who has been Latin America, Standard Silver getting the making for 40 years costumes for the most monopole over the underground natural famous Parisian cabarets and show stages like resources disturbing also the fragile balance of Moulin-Rouge, Lido, Comédie-française and the Kollas natives living on poverty. Kollas thus Olympia. She has dressed up the most become victims of the globalization with this celebrated artistes of our time starting with new mining boom associated to the Juliette Greco and Barbara. decreasing metal exchange rate, the latter A star in the shadow at this particular time of being essential to the technological transition since she is passing the business development of our modern societies. baton on to her successor...

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Wide Management DOMAINE Completed Director: Patric Chiha Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Isaie Sultan, Alain Libolt LA VIDA LOCA Producer: Aurora Films Director: Christian Poveda Producers: La Femme Endormie, Aquelarre, Pierre, a teen of 17, spends all his time with El Caiman Nadia, a flamboyant mathematician in her Documentary forties. Their rapport is friendly, ambiguous, bordering on amorous. The anarchy that reigns LOLA MONTÈS in Nadia's life fascinates this young man on the Director: Max Ophuls threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a Cast: Martine Carol, , Anton Walbrook wounded soul, dependent on alcohol. Little by Producer: Les Films du Jeudi little, she slips away. Pierre thinks he can help her, bring her back from the brink... In post-production

GARIMPEIRO, THE GOLD FOREST SEVERN’S CHILDREN Director: Marc Barrat Director: Jean-Paul Jaud Cast: Tony Mpoudja, Julien Courbey, Sara Martins, Producer: J+B SEQUENCES Jimmy Jean-Louis Feature Length documentary Producer: Mat Film

Rod decides to return to Guiana, his native country, accompanied by Gonz, his childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an investigation into Rod’s past. A quest that will lead them right into the heart of the virgin forest, into the camps of the illegal gold prospectors…

Line-up

In production

APPROVED FOR ADOPTION Directors: Jung and Laurent Boileau Producers: Mosaïque Films, Artemis Productions Animation

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Wild Bunch Screenings Etienne is on the verge of taking over as head of a large industrial group specializing in THE BLONDE WITH BARE BREAST household cleaning products. Married to the Director: Manuel Pradal beautiful Clemence, he’s a man with Cast: Vahina Giocante, Nicolas Duvauchelle, everything. If only Clemence could conceive… Steve Le Roi Producer: Légende YONA YONA PENGUIN Director: Rintaro The story of two brothers, Julien and Louis, 25 Cast: Rica Matsumoto, Ei Morisako, Yuji Tanaka and 14 years old - a couple of cocky blaggers. Producer: Jungo Maruta Small time crooks who grew up on their own, practically attached at the hip, on their river A funny, captivating evocation of a magical barge. Now they make a living transporting world and the power of self-belief, depicted in gravel across Paris, from east to west. a seamless marriage of 2D and 3D animation. The long-awaited family movie debut of anime DOG POUND legend Rintaro.

Director: Kim Chapiron Line-Up Cast: Adam Butcher, Max Turnbull, Shane Kippel Producer: Partizan Films In Pre-Production

Enola Vale, a battered, run-down juvenile POTICHE institution, is the crude setting for a searing Director: François Ozon look at the broken lives of vengeful kids, Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, fighting for their lives, not yet ready to give up Fabrice Luchini on their hopes Producer: Mandarin Cinéma

ENTER THE VOID In Production

Director Gaspar Noé THE CLINK OF ICE Cast: Nathalie Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy Director: Producers: Marc Missonier, Oliver Delbosc, Cast: Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Vincent Maraval Producers: Thelma Films, Manchester Films

Drug dealer Oscar lives with his stripper sister BURMA CONSPIRACY Linda in Tokyo. Mortally wounded in a police Director: Jérôme Salle bust, having sworn never to abandon her, Cast: Tomer Sisley Oscar’s spirit wanders the city in Noe’s Producer: Pan-Européenne visionary psychedelic melodrama. OF GODS AND MEN IMMACULATE Director: Xavier Beauvois Cast: Lambert Wilson, , Director: Grégoire Vigneron Roschdy Zem Cast: Benoît Magimel, François-Xavier Demaison, Producers: Armada Films, Why Not Productions, Julie Gayet France 3 Cinéma Producer: Fidélité Films See contact page 38

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Wild Bunch HAPPY FEW REVELATION OF THE PYRAMIDS Director: Anthony Cordier Director: Patrice Pooyard Cast: Elodie Bouchez, Marina Foïs, Producers: Kerguelen, Hot Dog Films, Felix Altmann, Nicolas Duvauchelle Gulf Investment Producers: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma Completed LEILA Director: Audrey Estrougo LE PETIT NICOLAS Cast: Leila Bekhti, Benjamin Siksou, Cécile Cassel Director: Laurent Tirard Producer: Fidélité Films Cast: Maxime Godart, Valérie Lemercier, Kad Merad Producer: Fidélité Films SECOND CHANCE Director: Nicolas Cuche WHITE MATERIAL Cast: François-Xavier Demaison, Virginie Efira Director: Claire Denis Producer: Fidélité Films Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach de Bankolé DISTANT NEIGHBOURHOOD Producer: Why Not Productions Director: Sam Garbarski Cast: Pascal Greggory, Léo Legrand, MR NOBODY Jonathan Zaccaï Director: Producers: Entre Chien Et Loup, Samsa Film, Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger Archipel 35 Producer: Somebody Production

FILM SOCIALISM Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Nadège Beausson-Diagne Producer: Vega Films

In Post-Production

FULL TREATMENT Director: Pierre Salvadori Cast: , Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila Producer: Les Films Pélléas

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Contacts in Berlin

Alfama Films- Martin-Gropius Bau #33 , Producer - Cell:+33 6 72 97 31 90

Bac Films International - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Camille Neel, Head of Sales - Cell: +33 6 84 37 37 03 - [email protected] Gilles Sousa, Sales Executive - Cell: +33 6 77 24 85 26 - [email protected]

Celluloid Dreams - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Hengameh Panahi, President, Cell: +33 6 11 96 57 20 Violaine Pichon, International Sales, Cell: +33 6 77 27 98 97 Bérénice Vincent, International Sales, Cell: +33 6 63 55 74 52

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Coproduction Office - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Philippe Bober, Managing Director - [email protected] Sarah Calderon, Head of sales - Cell: +336 7288 0699 [email protected] Olimpia Pont Cháfer, Head of sales - Cell: +336 7165 7669, [email protected] Fionnuala Jamison, International sales - Cell: +336 3260 1775, [email protected] Céline Lin, International sales - Cell: +336 2396 2401, [email protected]

Doc & Film Int. - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Daniela Elstner, General Manager, Cell: +33 6 82 54 66 85 Gorka Gallier, International Sales Manager, Cell: +33 6 30 99 72 06

Elle Driver- Martin-Gropius-Bau (Outside) Adeline Fontan Tessaur, Managing Director, Head Of International Sales Cell: +33 6 99 47 98 10 [email protected] Eva Diederix, Managing Director, Head Of International Sales - Cell: +33 6 10 45 29 37, [email protected] Séverine Garusso, Sales Manager - Cell: +33 6 24 14 28 26 - [email protected]

EuropaCorp - Marriott Hotel # 274 Pascal Degove, VP-Head of International Marie Laure Montironi, VP-Head of International Cécile Fouché, International Sales Yohann Comte, International Sales Eléonore De Prunelé, Head of Acquisitions Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO

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Contacts in Berlin

Films Distribution – Martin-Gropius-Bau #34 Sébastien Beffa, Partner, Cell: +33 6 13 40 02 75 François Yon, Partner, Cell: +33 6 03 49 65 00 Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Partner, Cell: +33 6 15 39 13 07 Sanam Madjedi, Head of Festival et Marketing

Les Films du Losange - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Agathe Valentin, Head of International Sales, Cell: +33 6 89 85 96 95 Lise Zipci, International Sales, Cell: +33 6 75 13 05 75

France Télévision Distribution - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Philippe Deloeuvre, CEO Nathalie Bobineau, Head of International distribution Christophe Pecot, International Sales Manager - Cell: +33 6 14 42 26 36

Funny Balloons - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Peter Danner, Manager, Sales & acquisitions - Cell: +33 6 74 49 33 40 Mathieu Robinet, Sales & acquisitions - Cell: +33 6 50 72 78 03 Emmanuelle Zinggeler, Press - Cell: +33 6 07 84 66 06

Gaumont – Martin-Gropius-Bau #14 Loïc Trocmé, Head Of Sales And Acquisitions Yves Chevalier, Acquisitions Consultant Cécile Gaget, Sales & Acquisitions Dorothée Grosjean, Sales

Kinology - Martin-Gropius Bau # 126 Grégoire Melin, Managing director, Cell: +33 6 87 51 03 96, [email protected] Gaia Bidat, International Sales Executive, Cell: +33 6 60 32 37 15, [email protected] Vanessa Saal, International Sales Executive, Cell: +33 08 31 47 94, [email protected]

Le Pacte - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Elisabeth Perlié, Head of the International Sales, Cell: +33 6 63 86 77 02 Nathalie Jeung, International Sales Agent, Cell: +33 6 60 58 85 33 Naomi Denamur, International Library Sales, Cell: +33 6 86 83 03 85

Memento Films Int. – Martin-Gropius Bau #141 Emilie Georges, Managing Director - Cell: +33 6 62 08 83 43, [email protected] Tanja Meissner, Head Of International Sales - Cell: +33 6 22 92 48 31, [email protected] Nicholas Kaiser, TV & Video Sales - Cell: +33 6 62 55 84 16, [email protected] Marion Klotz, Festivals - Cell: +33 6 88 82 68 92, [email protected] Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Managing Director - French Distribution Cell: +33 6 13 54 31 17, [email protected] Franck Salaun, Head of Programming and Acquistions France Cell: +33 6 08 90 38 34, [email protected]

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Contacts in Berlin

MK2 – Martin-Gropius-Bau #142 Mathilde Henrot, Head of Sales/Acquisitions - Cell: +33-6-08 94 88 73 Matthieu Giblin, Sales Executive - Cell: +33-6-14 09 93 18 Dorothée Pfistner, Sales Executive - Cell: +33-6-32 65 76 19 Juliette Schrameck, Sales Executive/Acquisitions - Cell: +33-6-86 43 07 52 Manlin Sterner, Marketing and Festivals Manager - Cell: +33-6-63 76 31 13

Other Angle Pictures - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Olivier Albou, President, Cell: +3667585461 Laurence Schonberg, President, Cell: +33667512829

Pathé Distribution - Martin-Gropius Bau #109 Muriel Sauzay - EVP Pathé International, Cell : +33 6 16 59 83 13 Mike Runagall - SVP Pathé International, Cell: +44 779 5847 594 Saya Huddleston - VP Pathé International, Cell: +33 6 21 71 09 98 Mayalen de Croisoeuil - Senior Sales Executive, Cell: +33 6 60 53 10 09 Agathe Theodore - Sales Executive, Cell: +33 6 70 72 37 32

Pyramide International - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Eric Lagesse, Ceo - Cell: + 33 6 80 57 72 87 Yoann Ubermulhin, Head of Sales - Cell: + 33 6 62 36 98 25 Lucero Garzon, Sales Executive - Cell: +33 6 30 99 81 58

Rendez-vous Pictures Philippe Tasca, President - Cell +33 6 73 04 50 72

Rezo - Martin-Gropius Bau #141 Sébastien Chesneau, Head of International Sales - Cell +33 6 21 71 39 11 Laurent Danielou, Head of Co-productions and Acquisitions - Cell +33 6 64 20 91 60 Delphyne Besse, International Sales - Cell: +33 6 72 72 91 93

Roissy Films – Marriott Hotel #274 Yohann Comte, International sales - New feature films - Cell: +33 6 11 09 02 34

SND Groupe M6 - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Lionel Uzan, Director Of Acquisitions And International Sales - Cell: +33 6 30 09 60 83 Caroline Mougey, Head Of International Sales - Cell: +33 6 30 09 89 88 Charlotte Boucon, International Marketing and Sales Executive - Cell: +33 6 76 18 52 82

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Contacts in Berlin

StudioCanal - Martin-Gropius-Bau #27 International Sales Harold van Lier, Cell: +33 6 09 95 37 78 Marie Boudier, Cell: +33 6 03 95 98 67 Tahereh Khazrai, Cell: +33 6 18 39 06 64 Anna Marsh, Cell: +33 6 21 85 74 93 International Marketing Emilie Martel, Cell: + 33 6 09 84 13 40

TF1 International - Martin-Gropius Bau #128 Nicolas Eschbach, EVP International Distribution - Cell: +33 6 62 93 51 62, [email protected] Cristina Batlle, International Sales Manager - Cell: +33 6 61 85 78 56, [email protected] Gregory Chambet, International Sales Manager - Cell: +33 6 50 76 27 17, [email protected] Adeline Falampin, International Sales - Cell: +33 6 23 37 07 81, [email protected] Dimitri Stéphanides, VP International Sales & Acquisitions - Cell: +33 6 63 64 91 81, [email protected]

UMedia - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Frédéric Corvez, Managing Director - Cell: +33 6 30 80 31 49 Virginie Devesa, Head of Sales - Cell: +33 6 20 41 11 37 Clément Duboin, Festivals & Production Coordinator - Cell: +33 6 75 49 88 72 Keiko Funato, Legal & Sales - Cell: +33 6 29 83 51 08 Eric Schnedecker, Business Development - Cell: +33 6 30 72 72 27

Wide Management - Martin-Gropius Bau #33 Loïc Magneron, CEO & Managing Director - Cell: +33 6 60 43 96 86 Anaïs Clanet, Sales Manager & Acquisitions - Cell: +33 6 83 22 18 06 Camille Rousselet, Festivals Manager & Acquisitions - Cell: +33 6 85 43 64 63 Matteo Lovadina, Senior Sales & Acquisitions Executive - Cell: +33 6 14 45 62 78 Clémentine Hugot, International Sales Assistant - Cell: +33 6 20 48 27 54

Wild Bunch The office is facing the south entrance of the Martin-Gropius-Bau Carole Baraton - Sales - Cell: +33 6 20 36 77 72, [email protected] US, UK, OZ, Scandinavia, Benelux Laurent Baudens - Sales - Cell: +33 6 70 79 05 17, [email protected] France, , Switzerland, CIS, , Korea Vincent Maraval - Sales - Cell +33 6 11 91 23 93, [email protected] Japan Gaël Nouaille - Sales - Cell: +33 6 21 23 04 72, [email protected] Canada, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile Silvia Simonutti - Sales - Cell: + 33 6 20 74 95 08, [email protected] Greece, Portugal, Eastern Europe (excluding Poland & CIS), Israel, Turkey, Middle East, Africa, Asia (excluding Japan & Korea), Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Central America BERLIN 2010 27/01/10 12:50 Page 38

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