© Getty Images French Films at the 63th Cannes Film Festival www.unifrance.org uniFrance in CANNES Club Unifrance Village International Pantiero Esplanade Pantiero 06400 Cannes – France Tel: +33 4 92 98 72 43 French companies in Cannes 2010 4 Artédis 5 Bac Films International 6 Celluloid Dreams 7 Cinexport 8 Coach 14 9 Doc & Film International 12 Elle Driver 14 EuropaCorp 17 Films Distribution 18 Les Films du Losange 20 France Télévision Distribution 21 Funny Balloons 22 Futurikon 23 Gaumont 26 Kinology 28 La Fabrique 2 29 Le Pacte 31 Memento Films International 32 MK2 34 Other Angle Pictures 36 Pathé Distribution 38 PTZ International 39 Pyramide International 41 Rezo 42 Roissy Films 43 SND Groupe M6 45 StudioCanal 47 TF1 International 52 Umedia 53 Wide Management 54 Wild Bunch ARTEDIS Line-up Pierre-Richard Muller, Completed President, +33 6 60 90 25 41 OCCITANIENNE, THE LAST LOVE OF CHATEAUBRIAND Director: Jean Périssé Cast: Bernard Le Coq, Valentine Teisseire, Roger Souza ESCORT OF SHAME Director: Raphaël Delpard Documentary Cannes Address Cormoran 2 RABBI JACOB (MUSICAL) Director: Jean-Louis Machu Résidences du Grand Hôtel Cast: Eric Métayer, Marianne James 45, La Croisette Tel/Fax: +33 9 52 24 54 99 Occitanienne, the last love of Chateaubriand 12, rue Raynouard 75016 Paris Tel: +33 1 53 92 29 29 Fax: +33 1 53 92 29 20 www.artedisfilms.com 4/ Unifrance / Cannes 2010 BAC FILMS Line-up Camille Neel, Head of International Sales In production +33 6 84 37 37 03 Gilles Sousa, SLEEPLESS NIGHT Director: Frédéric Jardin International Sales Executive Cast: Tomer Sisley +33 6 77 24 85 26 Producer: Chic Films In post-production BORDERLINE Director: Alexandre Coffre Cast: François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot, Gilles Cohen Producer: Quad Productions Cannes Address 24 La Croisette, 5th Floor Completed THE SANDMAN, AND THE LOST SAND OF DREAMS Directors: Jesper Moller, Sinem Sakagolu Producer: Scopas Medien AG Animation LIVING ON LOVE ALONE Director: Isabelle Czajka Cast: Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier Living on Love Alone Producer: Agat Films & Cie 88, rue de la Folie Méricourt 75011 Paris Tel: +33 1 53 53 52 52 Fax: +33 1 53 53 06 70 www.bacfilms.com Cannes 2010 / Unifrance /5 CELLULOID DREAMS Line-up Hengameh Panahi, In post-production President, +33 6 11 96 57 20 CRAZY HORSE Violaine Pichon, Director: Frederick Wiseman International Sales Agent, Completed +33 6 77 27 98 97 Johan de Faria, BRENDAN & THE SECRET OF KELLS International Sales Agent, Library, Director: Tomm Moore Animation +33 6 69 05 66 83 LEBANON Director: Samuel Maoz Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen Cannes Address Grand Hôtel, Entrée Le Cormoran, 45 La Croisette, 7th Floor Tel/Fax: +33 4 93 68 32 98 Brendan & the Secret of Kells 2, rue Turgot 75009 Paris Tel: +33 1 49 70 03 70 Fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71 www.celluloid-dreams.com 6/ Unifrance / Cannes 2010 CINEXPORT Line-up Anne-Marie Rombourg-Caraco, NUMBER ONE President, Director: Zakia Tahiri +33 6 07 54 33 33 Cast: Aziz Saadallah, Nezha Rahil, Khadija Assad ONZEN THE SOUND OF THE UNIVERSE Documentary ONZEN AU THORONET Director: Regis Ghezelbash Cannes Address Documentary In HD 11 avenue Paul Guigou Number One 49 avenue Paul Doumer 75116 Paris Tel: +33 1 45 62 49 45 www.tvfrance-intl.com Cannes 2010 / Unifrance /7 COACH 14 Pape Boye, Managing Director & Sales Line-up [email protected] In post-production +33 619 961 707 Jaume Domenech, Managing CARRE BLANC Director: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti Director & Sales Cast: Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andréani [email protected] Producers: Solair Films, Tarantula, CSJC CTC Network +34 652 934 092 Completed Caroline Nataf, AMER Acquisitions Manager Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani [email protected] Cast: Marie Bos, Charlotte Eugène Guibbaud, Cassandra Foret Producers: Anonymes Films, Tobina Film +33 613 191 120 I’M HAPPY THAT MY MOTHER IS ALIVE Verónica Zerpa, Directors: Claude & Nathan Miller Cast: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti Marketing & Festivals Producers: Jean-Louis Livi, Jacques Audiard [email protected] +34 695 462 984 Amer Cannes Address 17, Square Mérimée, 2nd Floor (in front of the Palais) Tel: +33 4 97 06 94 09 Fax: +33 4 93 38 05 96 21 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011 Paris Tel: +33 1 40 21 72 79 Fax: +33 1 47 00 10 02 www.coach14.com 8/ Unifrance / Cannes 2010 DOC & FILM Acid Daniela Elstner, General Manager, +33 6 82 54 66 85 INTO OUR OWN HANDS Director: Mariana Otero Gorka Gallier, International Sales Producer: Archipel 33 Manager, +33 6 30 99 72 06 Documentary Hwa-Seon Choi, Festival When their lingerie factory goes bankrupt, the Coordinator, + 33 6 59 21 70 00 employees—mostly women—attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. As their project takes shape, they come up against their boss and the reality of the marketplace. Their little enterprise becomes a theater where, in an impish tone, fundamental economic and social issues are played out amidst the bras and panties. Out of their adventure and struggles together comes a new-found freedom. Market Screenings on invitation only The Threeway Wedding THE THREEWAY WEDDING Director: Jacques Doillon Cast: Pascal Greggory, Julie Depardieu, Louis Garrel, Agathe Bonitzer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Producer: Alfama Films Playwright Auguste is struggling to get over his wife’s departure. To work on his new play, he has invited Stephane, the director, along with the two main comedians. These are Auguste’s ex-wife Harriet and her lover Theo. This meeting sparks off a love manipulation game and an unstable sentimental dance, where affection, revenge, domination, attraction and resentment are mixed together with staggering veracity. 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris Tel: +33 1 42 77 56 87 Fax: +33 1 42 77 36 56 www.docandfilm.com Cannes 2010 / Unifrance /9 DOC & FILM Market Screenings on invitation only DRAW YOURSELF Director: Gilles Porte Producer: 3B Productions Documentary A windowglass tour of the world proposed to children too young yet to read or write; they simply take a place in the frame by drawing a picture of themselves... A right of passage that starts with the first self-portrait and ends with the written word... It’s the story of each and every one of us, Draw Yourself of what we once were and of the difficulty of remaining as we once were... Line-up In pre-production LA FOLIE ALMAYER Director: Chantal Akerman Cast: TBD Producer: Alfama Films In post-production L’O EIL DE L’ASTRONOME Director: Stan Neumann Cast: Denis Lavant, Elise Caron, Max Baissette de Malglaive Producer: Les Films d’Ici Completed ANIMAL HEART Director: Séverine Cornamusaz Cast: Olivier Rabourdin, Camille Japy, Antonio Bull, Alexandra Kamisaris Producers: ADR Production, PS. Productions LA DANSE, THE PARIS OPERA BALLET Director: Frederick Wiseman Producers: Idéale Audience, Zipporah Films Documentary 10 / Unifrance / Cannes 2010 DOC & FILM HARRAGAS Director: Merzak Allouache Cast: Nabil Asli, Samor El Hakim, Lamia Boussekine Producers: Libris Films, Baya Films ASHES AND BLOOD Director: Fanny Ardant Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Mark Ruchmann, Abraham Bellaga Producer: Alfama Films AFTER THE DOWNFALL Director: Hiner Saleem Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Yildiz Gültekin, Fehmi Mohammad Salmin Producers: Agat Films & Cie, Mitos Films CAN’T SAY NO Director: Iliana Lolic Cast: Sylvie Testud, Stefano Accorsi, Laurent Stocker Producer: ADR Productions LAND OF MADNESS Harragas Director: Luc Moullet Producer: Les Films d’Ici Documentary THE ARRIVALS Directors: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard Producer: Les Films d’Ici Documentary Cannes 2010 / Unifrance /11 ELLE DRIVER Critics’ week Special Screening WOMEN ARE HEROES Director: Jr Adeline Fontan Tessaur, Managing Producer: 27.11 Production Director, Head of International Sales, +33 6 99 47 98 10 The film transports you to Africa, Asia and South America. Working undercover, French artist JR transforms streets, Eva Diederix, Managing Director, buildings, shantytowns, favelas and entire villages into art Head of International galleries, forcing viewers to see art that they might not Sales,+33 6 10 45 29 37 otherwise encounter. Severine Garusso, International Special Screening Sales, +33 6 24 14 28 26 Julie Susset, Marketing & RUBBER Festivals, +33 6 69 57 26 48 Director: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick Producer: Realitism Films A group of spectators is watching a mock-projection in Cannes Address the middle of the desert. They make comments on the 24 La Croisette - 5th Floor scenes of the “film” as it is occurring before their eyes: Between Robert, a tire that has been abandoned in the desert, suddenly comes to life, for no reason. Gray d’Albion & Grand Hotel Line-up In pre-production Women Are Heroes PLAYOFF Director: Eran Riklis Cast: Max Riemelt, Hanns Zischler Producers: Egoli Tossell Film, Topia Communications (2003) Ltd, Fidélité Films In production L’A SSAUT Director: Julien Leclercq Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Dérangère, Marie Guillard, Mélanie Bernier Producer: Labyrinthe Films 12 / Unifrance / Cannes 2010 ELLEDRIVER In post-production IN YOUR HANDS Director: Lola Doillon Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Pio Marmaï Producer: Origami Films Completed LONDON RIVER Director: Rachid Bouchareb Cast: Sotigui Kouyaté, Brenda Blethyn Producer: 3B Production CHANGING SIDES Director: Pascale Pouzadoux Cast: Sophie Marceau, Dany Boon Producer: Fidélité Films ANYTHING FOR HER Director: Fred Cavayé Cast: Diane Kruger, Vincent Lindon Producer: Fidélité Films 35 SHOTS OF RUM Director: Claire Denis L’Assaut Cast: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin Producer: Soudaine Companie Cannes 2010 / Unifrance /13 EUROPA CORP Jean-Julien Baronnet - CEO Line-up Marie-Laure Montironi – VP Head Market Screening of International Pascal Degove – VP Head of PARIS EXPRESS International Director: Hervé Renoh Cécile Fouché – International Sales Cast: Michaël Youn, Géraldine Nakache, Jimmy Jean Louis, Catalina Denis, Didier Flamand Yohann Comte – International Sales Producers: EuropaCorp, Black Mask Productions, Eléonore De Prunelé – Head of M6 Films Acquisitions From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries..