There Will Come a Day (2012)
Young and Beautiful (2013)
Miele (2013)
The Last Days (2013)
Northwest (2013)
Lasting (2013)
It's All So Quiet (2013)
Grand Central : a dose of love and a dose of nuclear power

Grand Central : a dose of love and a dose of nuclear power

For Those In Peril: Immersion in a state of limbo

For Those In Peril: Immersion in a state of limbo

Jimmy P.: 'Spirit, where are you wandering?'

Jimmy P.: 'Spirit, where are you wandering?'

Interview: Arnaud Desplechin • Director

Interview: Arnaud Desplechin • Director

Borgman : Gradual takeover of total control

Borgman : Gradual takeover of total control

Alex van Varmerdam signs his name to a Kafkaesque film brimming with black humour, about a team of exterminators of middle-class life  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Competition | Netherlands

European cast aboard Julian Barnes’ adaptation of The Porcupine

European cast aboard Julian Barnes’ adaptation of The Porcupine

Julian Barnes’ screen adaptation of his novel The Porcupine to be directed by Srdjan Dragojevic for UK’s F&ME and Serbia’s Delirium has actors Karl Markovics and Rade Serbedzija in lead roles  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | UK

Birro focuses on gang-related crime for Meta Stockholm

Birro focuses on gang-related crime for Meta Stockholm

Danish former von Trier producer Meta Louise Foldager's production company sets up Swedish branch to commence with television series by Swedish writer Peter Birro  

19/05 | Production | Denmark

Spanish 6 Sales inks Magnolia deal on Big Bad Wolves

Spanish 6 Sales inks Magnolia deal on Big Bad Wolves

Spain’s sales and financing outfit 6 Sales has closed a major US deal with Magnolia Pictures on the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Spain

Grand Central : a dose of love and a dose of nuclear power

Grand Central : a dose of love and a dose of nuclear power

A complicated romance between Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim against a backcloth of the nuclear threat. After Belle épine, Rebecca Zlotowsky presents a second successful film in Un Certain Regard  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Un Certain Regard | France

M-Appeal’s Mothers and Major catch attention

M-Appeal’s Mothers and Major catch attention

M-Appeal's Russian drama The Major, is screening on May 19 in Critics’ Week, and the company has announced a few sales on its other market screening Two Mothers by German director Anne Zohra Berrached  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Germany

Palme d’or contender Michael Kohlhaas sold to US

Palme d’or contender Michael Kohlhaas sold to US

Cannes competition entry Michael Kohlhaas has been sold to Music Box for North America by French agent Les Films du Losange. The French/German co-production will have its world premiere on May 24  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | France

From the next Cantet to the ambitious Saint-Exupéry

From the next Cantet to the ambitious Saint-Exupéry

The winner of the La Palme d’Or 2008 is to film in Cuba, Chapter 2 is placing its bets on a biopic in English, Mia Hansen Løve prepares Eden and Bac sells the next Dagur Kari  

19/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | France

Jimmy P.: 'Spirit, where are you wandering?'

Jimmy P.: 'Spirit, where are you wandering?'

Arnaud Desplechin opens up new horizons with an elegant and soothing film starring top-league players Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric  

18/05 | Competition | Cannes 2013

Sweden's Sonet sets up TV entity to produce Swedish drama and crime

Sweden's Sonet sets up TV entity to produce Swedish drama and crime

Launched at Cannes, Sonet Television is developing series from Swedish authors Kerstin Ekman, Lars Kepler, Henning Mankell, Håkon Nesser, Leif GW Persson and Norway's Anne Holt  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Television | Sweden

LevelK signs for The Rocket

LevelK signs for The Rocket

LevelK has signed North American distribution rights with Kino Lorber on the Australian/Laos co-production The Rocket, which won the Best First Feature award in Berlin 2003  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Scandinavia

UK Kaleidoscope picks up Venus & Serena film from K5

UK Kaleidoscope picks up Venus & Serena film from K5

K5 International and UK distributor Kaleidoscope have signed a deal in Cannes on Maiken Baird and Michelle Major’s documentary on the Williams sisters  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Germany

Beta Cinema closes raft of deals on Child's Pose and Oh Boy!

Beta Cinema closes raft of deals on Child's Pose and Oh Boy!

German sales outfit Beta Cinema has closed several deals on the Golden Bear winner Child’s Pose from Romania and multiple-award winning German film Oh Boy!  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | Germany

World of Shorts magazine launches Cannes issue

World of Shorts magazine launches Cannes issue

Initially a blog developed by Budapest-based short film platform Daazo.com, the magazine can be found at the Short Film Corner of the Film Market  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Short-films

L’inconnu du Lac: Naked and dangerous

L’inconnu du Lac: Naked and dangerous

French director Alain Guiraudie arrived with a substantial part of his team to present L’Inconnu du Lac in Un Certain Regard at the 66th Cannes Film Festival  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Un Certain Regard | France

For Those In Peril: Immersion in a state of limbo

For Those In Peril: Immersion in a state of limbo

Paul Wright signs a first feature film, formally very inventive, about a descent into the bleakest depths of psychological distress  

18/05 | Cannes 2013 | Critics' Week | United Kingdom

Rezo, Gaumont and Memento back in the fray

Rezo, Gaumont and Memento back in the fray

A Russian film with Ralph Fiennes for Rezo, Gemma Bovery for Gaumont, and very promising sales for Memento with The Past  

17/05 | Cannes 2013 | Market | France

The magnificent seven from the MEDIA programme

The magnificent seven from the MEDIA programme

Films supported by the MEDIA programme selected for the festival total 13, of which 7 are in competition. The traditional "European Rendezvous" will take place on May 19 and 20  

17/05 | Cannes 2013

The Selfish Giant: two teenagers and a giant

The Selfish Giant: two teenagers and a giant

British Clio Barnard’s second film, presented during the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, poses questions on the border between help and opportunism  

17/05 | Cannes 2013 | Directors’ Fortnight

Salvo, a miracle thriller

Salvo, a miracle thriller

Opening La Semaine de la Critique, Newcomers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s film noir is a fascinating, excellent debut  

17/05 | Cannes 2013 | Critics' Week

Suzanne : The sacrifices of passion

Suzanne : The sacrifices of passion

Katell Quillevéré proposes a very successful romanesque film on the chaotic destiny of a young woman who abandons everything for a risky love affair  

17/05 | Cannes 2013 | Critics' Week

The Past: A maze of feelings

The Past: A maze of feelings

A successful transfer to France for Iranian director Asghar Farhadi with a film whose challenging screenplay dissects love and family feelings  

17/05 | Cannes 2013 | Competition | France-Iran

Nyqvist returns to Swedish cinema for Malmros' My So-Called Father

Nyqvist returns to Swedish cinema for Malmros' My So-Called Father

The Swedish Millennium actor will be in Cannes for the Swedish Bob Film launch of his new film about of a young woman who gets the chance of meeting the father hoped she had  

17/05 | Cannes | Market | Sweden

Kon-Tiki directors sail away after international success and leave Beatles with Flinth

Kon-Tiki directors sail away after international success and leave Beatles with Flinth

Danish director Peter Flinth takes over Storm Rosenberg's adaptation of Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen's 1984 breakthrough novel about growing up in the 1960s  

17/05 | Production | Norway

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