02/05/2013 - 12 films for international sales, including The Last of the Unjust and Henri, and ten films selected for distribution

Le Pacte will arrive with very persuasive arguments at the Film Market at the 66th Cannes Film Festival (from May 15th to 26th, 2013) with a 12-title line-up for international sales and ten films (including five in competition) showcased on the Croisette, for which Jean Labadie’s company has already acquired French distribution rights.

As for sales, Camille Neel’s team will  be betting in particular on the documentary The Last of the Unjust (photo) by Claude Lanzmann, retained in the Official Selection out of competition and focusing on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council of the Theresienstadt ghetto, who fought for seven years to avoid the shutting down of this “model ghetto” invented by Adolf Eichmann to deceive the world.

Le Pacte is also selling the Franco-Belgian coproduction Henri [+see also:
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At the market, promo reels are scheduled for the 3D documentary Amazonia by Thierry Ragobert, Shade and Light by duo Wim Wenders - Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wrong Cops by Quentin Dupieux (article) and Hippocrates by Thomas Lilti (with Vincent Lacoste, Reda Kateb and Jacques Gamblin – article),

Le Pacte will also pre-sell post-production titles on screenplay, We Come as Friends by Hubert Sauper (news), Lulu femme nue by Solveig Anspach (with Karin Viard and Bouli Lanners – article) and La dune by Yossi Aviram (article). Three films will also be screened: Just a Sigh [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jérôme Bonnell (with Emmanuelle Devos and Gabriel Byrne - news), Bright Days Ahead by Marion Vernoux (with Fanny Ardant - article), and the contender from Berlin The Nun [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Nicloux
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In the area of French distribution, Le Pacte has already accomplished quite a feat with five titles in the Cannes 2013 competition: Jimmy P. [+see also:
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interview: Arnaud Desplechin
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making of
interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
film profile] by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn and Tel père tel fils by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda (the last two films distributed in partnership with Wild Side). Le Pacte, which will also release Lanzmann's and Yolande Moreau’s films in France, will distribute with Wild Side three other titles selected for the Directors’ Fortnight: Magic Magic by Chilean director Sebastian Silva, We Are What We Are by American director Jim Mickle and On The Job by Filipino director Erik Matti.

(Translated from French)