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Sad Trumpet Ballad heads Films Distribution line-up at Venice, Toronto

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With one title selected in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival, which kicks off on Wednesday, and four films in the line-up for the Toronto Film Festival (September 9-19, 2010), French international seller Films Distribution has a diverse range of assets that confirm its preference for quality European productions.

At Venice, the team headed by Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and François Yon will sell Alex de la Iglesia’s French/Spanish co-production A Sad Trumpet Ballad [+see also:
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. The feature, co-produced by Paris-based La Fabrique 2, has achieved a double coup for it will have its world premiere on the Lido on September 7 before travelling to Toronto for a screening in the Vanguard section.

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The Toronto line-up includes three world premieres from Films Distribution’s slate. On September 11, the Galas section will unveil Pierre Thoretton’s documentary Yves Saint Laurent, L’amour Fou (“Yves Saint Laurent, Mad Love”, produced by Les Films du Lendemain and Les Films de Pierre).

Meanwhile, the Visions section will show Dutch director Nanouk Leopold’s Brownian Movement, co-produced by Belgium and Germany. Finally, in the Midnight Madness sidebar is Laurent Courtiaud and Julien Carbon’s French/Chinese co-production Red Nights (co-produced by Alexis Dantec for French Connection).

The Special Presentations section includes Benoît Jacquot’s French/German co-production Deep in the Woods [+see also:
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(see news), which won acclaim at Locarno and will be released in France on October 13 by Les Films du Losange.

Films Distribution will also continue sales for its films selected on the Croisette (including Illegal [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Masset-Depasse
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by Belgium’s Olivier Masset – Depasse (European Parliament LUX Prize 2010 competition), Cleveland Versus Wall Street [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Stéphane Bron
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by Switzerland’s Jean-Stéphane Bron and Love Like Poison [+see also:
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by France’s Katell Quillevéré) and at Locarno (Mikhaël Hers’s Memory Lane – see news).

Finally, among the company’s forthcoming titles are Jamshed Usmonov’s Le Roman de Ma Femme (My Wife’s Romance, see news); French/Belgian animated feature A Cat in Paris by Jean-Loup Feliciolli and Alain Gagnol; and Fouad Benhammou’s horror film The Village of Shadows.

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(Translated from French)

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