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VENICE / TORONTO 2021
OFFICIAL SELECTION
AMIRA
By Mohamed Diab
("CLASH" OFFICIAL SELECTION CANNES FESTIVAL - UN CERTAIN REGARD 2016,
"CAIRO 678")
Cast : Saba Mubarak, Tara Abboud, Ali Suliman,
Ziad Bakri
Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled
sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship
since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His
absence in her life is overcompensated with love and affection from
those surrounding her. But when a failed attempt to conceive another
child reveals Nawar’s infertility, Amira’s world turns upside down.
ARABIC/HEBREW – DRAMA - 98MN
Production : FILM CLINIC (EGYPT), AGORA AUDIOVISUALS (EGYPT), ACAMEDIA PICTURES (EGYPT), AL
TAHER MEDIA PRODUCTION (UAE), THE IMAGINARIUM FILMS (JORDAN)
Territories sold : France, Israel, MENA
OFFICIAL SELECTION
A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE
une histoire d'amour et de désir
By Leyla Bouzid
("AS I OPEN MY EYES")
Cast : Sami Outalbali ("SEX EDUCATION"), Zbeida Belhajamor
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris.
At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy,
who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of sensual
and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls
deep in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with
desire, he will try to resist it.
FRENCH/ARABIC - DRAMA - 102 MN
Production : BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE), ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA (FRANCE)
Territories sold : France, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, MENA,
New Zealand, Norway, Quebec, Tunisia,
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT MORE THAN I DESERVE By Pini Tavger Cast: Micha Prudovsky, Anna Dubrovitzky, Jacob Zada Daniel Pinhas asks his single mother, Tamara, to join his classmates in preparing for their Bar Mitzvahs. Tamara, an immigrant from Ukraine, who resists religion, refuses. When the religious neighbor volunteers to help, the two form a strong bond. Gradually Tamara falls for him too. Will the idyll hold up? HEBREW/RUSSIAN – DRAMA - 82 MINUTES Production: 2-TEAM PRODUCTIONS (ISRAEL), RIVA FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) Territories sold : France, Israel
LINE-UP
Locarno Film Festival
Official Selection
SECRET NAME
la place d’une autre
By Aurélia Georges
Cast: Lyna Khoudri ("PAPICHA" by MOUNIA MEDDOUR, "GAGARINE" by
FANNY LIATARD & JÉRÉMY TROUILH), Sabine Azéma ("TANGUY" by ÉTIENNE
CHATILIEZ; "NOT ON THE LIPS" by ALAIN RESNAIS), Maud Wyler ("THE BARE
NECESSITY" by ERWAN LE DUC, "ALICE AND THE MAYOR" by NICOLAS PARISER)
Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in
1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a
good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place
at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy
woman. The lie works beyond her expectations.
FRENCH - DRAMA - 116MN
Production: 31 JUIN FILMS (FRANCE)
Territories sold : France
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MIDNIGHT SCREENING
TRALALA
By Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
("LOVE IS THE PERFECT CRIME", "TO PAINT OR MAKE LOVE")
Cast : Mathieu Amalric ("SINK OR SWIM" by GILLES LELLOUCHE),
Josiane Balasko ("BY THE GRACE OF GOD" by FRANÇOIS OZON),
Mélanie Thierry ("SEE YOU UP THERE" by ALBERT DUPONTEL), Maïwenn
("DNA", "POLISS" by MAÏWENN), Bertrand Belin, Denis Lavant ("HOLY
MOTORS" by LEOS CARAX), Galatéa Bellugi ("THE APPARITION" by XAVIER
GIANNOLI), Jalil Lespert ("THE LITTLE LIEUTENANT" by XAVIER BEAUVOIS)
Tralala, in his forties, a singer in the streets of Paris, meets one night a
very beautiful young woman who sends him a single message before
disappearing: «Above all, don’t be yourself». Did Tralala dream?
He leaves the capital and ends up finding in Lourdes the woman
he’s already in love with. She doesn’t remember him. But a moving
sexagenarian believes that Tralala is actually her own son, Pat, who
disappeared twenty years ago in the United States. Tralala decides to
take on the «role». He will find for himself a new family and discover
the genius he never had.
FRENCH - COMEDY/MUSICAL - 120 MN
Production: SBS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE), ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA (FRANCE)
Territories sold: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal
LINE-UP
THE HEROICS
Les héroïques
By Maxime Roy
("BEAUTIFUL LOSER", NOMINATED FOR BEST SHORT FILM AT CÉSAR 2020)
Cast : François Créton, Roméo Créton, Richard Bohringer
("IN THE MOVE FOR LOVE" by ROMANE BOHRINGER & PHILIPPE REBBOT),
Ariane Ascaride ("GLORIA MUNDI" by ROBERT GUÉDIGUIAN), Patrick
D’Assumçao ("STRANGER BY THE LAKE" by ALAIN GUIRAUDIE), Clotilde
Courau ("AN EASY GIRL" by REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI, "HEAVEN WILL WAIT" by MARIE-
CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR)
Michel, a former junkie, is an eternal kid who only dreams of
motorcycles and hangs out with his eldest son, Leo, and his buddies. At
50, he has to deal with the baby he just had with his ex, and struggles
not to repeat the same mistakes, while trying to be a good guy.
FRENCH - DRAMA - 99 MN
Production : TS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE), MARIANNE PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE)
Territories sold : France, Quebec
IN POST-PRODUCTION
COP GOES MISSING
selon la police
By Frédéric Videau ("COMING HOME", BERLINALE 2012)
Cast: Laetitia Casta ("A FAITHFUL MAN" by LOUIS GARREL, "THE IDEAL
PALACE" by NILS TAVERNIER), Simon Abkarian ("SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE"
by CÉDRIC KLAPISCH; "EDMOND" by ALEXIS MICHALIK), Patrick d'Assumçao
("NAKED NORMANDY" by PHILIPPE LE GUAY, "STRANGER BY THE LAKE" by
ALAIN GUIRAUDIE)
On a whim, Pingpong, Chief Warrant Officer of a brigade which
he inherited his nickname from, burns his police ID and disappears.
During one night and one day, his colleagues, men and women, all
police officers on the field, look for him, meet him and lose him in
Toulouse and its suburbs. But every hour that passes brings Pingpong a
little bit closer to his own destiny.
FRENCH - DRAMA
Production: BUS FILMS (FRANCE)
Territories sold : France
IN POST-PRODUCTION
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY
le monde d'hier
By Diastème ("THE SUMMER OF ALL MY PARENTS", "FRENCH BLOOD")
Cast : Léa Drucker ("TWO OF US" by FILIPPO MENEGHETTI, "CUSTODY"
by XAVIER LEGRAND), Alban Lenoir ("THE SHINY SHRIMPS" by CÉDRIC LE
GALLO AND MAXIME GOVARE), Denis Podalydès ("DELETE HISTORY" by
BENOÎT DELÉPINE and GUSTAVE KERVERN, "SORRY ANGEL" by CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ),
Benjamin Biolay, ("ON A MAGICAL NIGHT" by CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ,
"MEMOIR OF WAR" by EMMANUEL FINKIEL), Jeanne Rosa ("AN OFFICER AND A
SPY" by ROMAN POLANSKI, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD" by FRANÇOIS OZON).
A moral tale and a political thriller : a few days before the term of her
mandate, the President must make a major decision concerning the
destiny of France.
FRENCH - ANTICIPATION
Production : FIN AOÛT PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE)
Territories sold : France
SHOOTING NOW SHOOTING NOW
temps mort the happiest man in the world
By Eve Duchemin By Teona Strugar Mitevska
Cast : Karim Leklou ("BAC NORD" by CÉDRIC JIMENEZ), ("GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA")
Issaka Sawadogo ("SAMBA" by ERIC TOLEDANO AND OLIVIER NAKACHE),
Jarod Cousyns BOSNIAN
Production : SISTERS AND BROTHER MITEVSKI
FRENCH
Production : KWASSA FILMS, LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE COUGAR
maintenant dodo
By Philippe Petit By Panos H. Koutras
Cast : Swann Arlaud ("BLOODY MILK" by HUBERT CHARUEL, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD" by FRANÇOIS OZON), ("XENIA")
SARAH ADLER ("THE CAKEMAKER" by OFIR RAUL GRAZIER),
Djibril Cissé GREEK
Production : 100% SYNTHETIC FILMS, MPM FILM, TARANTULA
FRENCH
Production : ENVIE DE TEMPÊTE PRODUCTIONSCONTACTS
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