27/08/2013 - In competition in the Venice Mostra, Stephen Frears’s film will then make its way to the Canadian festival where eight of the line-up’s titles will be screened

A sensational start for the French sales company Pathé International, which will bet in competition at the 70^th Venice Mostra (which begins tomorrow) on Philomena [+see also:
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In total, eight titles of Pathé International’s line-up will be unveiled in Toronto, including notably Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom by British director Justin Chadwick in the Gala projection. Amongst the seven other features, which were all selected for the Special Presentation programme, Quai d’Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier (article) stands out, as well as Attila Marcel by Sylvain Chomet (article), the Canadian-Spanish psychological thriller Enemy by Denis Villeneuve (starring Jake Gillenhaal) and the Cannes competitor La grande bellezza [+see also:
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film profile] by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (already pre-purchased by more than 30 countries including the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Denmark, Brazil and Argentina).

The team managed by Muriel Sauzay will also begin the sales of two new titles which will premiere in Toronto: the drama The Finishers by Nils Tavernier (article) and the Franco-Moroccan coproduction Rock the Casbah [+see also:
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The line-up does not lack in titles for the future with, in pre-production, the comedy Pride by Matthew Warchus (with Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West in the cast) and, in post-production, Paradise Lost by Andrea di Stefano (news - with Benicio del Toro in the lead of Pablo Escobar), Beauty and the Beast by Christophe Gans (with Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux - news; pre-purchased by about twenty territories; to be released in France on February 12, 2014), the comedy Superchondriac by Dany Boon and Jacky in Women’s Kingdom by Riad Sattouf (article).

(Translated from French)