08/05/2018 - CANNES 2018: The Cannes Film Festival’s Film Market has got off to a flying start for Playtime, Luxbox, Celluloid Dreams, Memento and Pathé

Director Bruno Dumont, who is currently preparing Jeanne

The French international sales agents have made a slew of announcements on the first day of the Film Market at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.

Playtime has added Nothing to Hide [+see also:
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Luxbox, which is pinning its hopes on Dear Son [+see also:
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Celluloid Dreams, which has high hopes for the Palme d’Or contender Three Faces by Iran’s Jafar Panahi at Cannes, has added The Love Trilogy by Israel’s Yaron Shani (Ajami) to its line-up. The first instalment, Stripped [+see also:
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Memento Films International (see the line-up news) has announced the start of pre-sales for Wild Goose Lake by China’s Diao Yi’nan (Golden Bear at Berlin in 2014 for Black Coal), which is being co-produced by Memento Films Production and Arte France Cinéma. Starring Hu Ge, Tang Wei, Liao Fan (who snagged the Best Actor Award at Berlin for Black Coal) and Kwei Lun-Mei, the film will tell the story of a thief at the centre of a manhunt and his desperate struggle for redemption.

Sales are also getting under way, via Pathé International, for The Wolf’s Call [+see also:
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(Translated from French)