Charades selling ten titles selected in Cannes
- The French sales agent will notably be in the running for the Palme d’Or with A Man of His Time by Emmanuel Marre and Parallel Tales by Asghar Farhadi
As in 2022 and 2025, French international sales outfit Charades has two titles from its line-up set to shine in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Competition. Added to these are four more features in the Official Selection (two in the Un Certain Regard section, one in Cannes Première and one in a Special Screening), two in the Directors’ Fortnight and two in Critics’ Week, totalling an impressive ten films to negotiate over at the Marché du Film (12-20 May).
In the race for the Palme d’Or, Charades will be banking on the Belgian-French film A Man of His Time by Emmanuel Marre (revealed in Critics’ Week 2021 via Zero Fucks Given) and on the French production Parallel Tales by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (already feted on the Croisette by way of the Best Screenplay Award in 2016 and the Grand Prize in 2021).
Titles shining bright in the Un Certain Regard section are the German production Everytime by Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner (awarded the Encounters’ Special Jury Prize in the 2020 Berlinale thanks to The Trouble with Being Born) and Club Kid, which is US director Jordan Firstman’s feature film debut, while The Samurai and The Prisoner by Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa will bow in Cannes Première and the animated work Tangles by US filmmaker Leah Nelson will be treated to a Special Screening in the Official Selection.
The Charades team composed of Yohann Comte, Carole Baraton and Pierre Mazars is confirming its penchant for animation, with a line-up also including In Waves by Franco-Vietnamese filmmaker Phuong Mai Nguyen, which will open Critics’ Week, and the French-Japanese production We Are Aliens by Kohei Kadowaki, which is set to world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight.
These assets are complemented by I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by British filmmaker Clio Barnard (Ali & Ava, Dark River, The Selfish Giant) in the Directors’ Fortnight and by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s The Blow, which has been allocated a Special Screening in Critics’ Week. Produced by Easy Tiger and starring Didier Murgia, Bastien Bouillon, Romane Fringeli and Héloïse Volle, this debut feature (co-written by the director in league with Claudia Bottino) centres on 19-year-old Enzo and his 20-year-old sister Carla who have been fending for themselves for several years. When their father, Anthony, is released from prison, Enzo glimpses the fragile promise of a family to be rebuilt, unlike Carla, for whom the idea remains unthinkable. Haunted by his past, Enzo must face a truth he has kept to himself for far too long…
Charades’ XXL line-up also includes the Swedish thriller Bloodsuckers by Elin Grönblom, and the French films A Place to Heal by Cédric Kahn, Between Now and Then by Mikhael Hers (read our news) and La Chaleur by Stéphane Demoustier, all in post-production.
(Translated from French)
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