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CANNES 2011 Market / France

Wide Management flaunts Fear of Falling

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Polish films continue to captivate French international seller Wide Management who will unveil Bartosz Konopka’s Fear of Falling (see news) at the Film Market at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22, 2011). The debut feature by the young director (nominated for the Best Short Film Oscar 2010 for Rabbit à la Berlin – see news) centres on a TV reporter forced to return to his hometown to look after his father who has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The film will have its market premiere on the Croisette.

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At Cannes, Loïc Magneron’s team will also continue sales for another feature by a Polish director: Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Lech Majewski
film profile
]
(already bought for about 20 countries).

They will also launch pre-sales for Anca Damian’s Romanian/Polish co-production Crulic (The Path to Beyond). This animated documentary in the same vein as Waltz with Bashir [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and Persepolis [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Marc-Antoine Robert
interview: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Pa…
film profile
]
retraces the life of Crulic, a Romanian man who died in prison at the age of 33 after a hunger strike. Currently in post-production, the film is narrated by famous Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov.

Another animated title has joined Wide Management’s line-up: French/Belgian co-production Approved for Adoption by Jung and Laurent Boileau (see news). Still in production, the film will be distributed in France by Gebeka Films and in Belgium by Cinéart.

Sales will also be launched on the Croisette for Arnaud Gaillard and Florent Vassault’s French documentary Honk, about the death penalty.

Wide’s Cannes line-up will also include the market premiere of Hélène Lee and Christophe Farnarier’s documentary The First Rasta, which explores the life of Leonard Percival Howell who founded the first Rasta community in 1939. The company’s many other market screenings include Ryan Redford’s Olivier Sherman and American Translation by directorial duo Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold.

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(Translated from French)

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