Focus on Japan
Kick-off today for the 13th Yokohama French Festival organised by Unifrance a traditional catwalk for the export of French films to japan, a country that is in third for French films sold abroad with 49 films released last year. Presided over by filmmaker b>Costa Gavras, the event will present, until Sunday, 18 features in the company of many actors, directors and producers with the support of international sales people from Adef.
In the programme are, notably, four films selected for Cannes this year: Lemming [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Dominik Moll (sold by Celluloïd Dreams), La Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère (Pathé Distribution) and two
productions from the slate of Pyramide Internationalwith Peindre ou
faire l'amour by Jean-Marie et Arnaud Larrieu and La Petite Jérusalem by Karin Albou. The Festival also offers six feature films which have already seduced the Japanese distributors: De battre mon
coeur s'est arrêté by Jacques Audiard, Arsène Lupin by
Jean-Paul Salomé, Banlieue 13 by Pierre Morel, Clara et
moi by Arnaud Viard, Genesis from the duo Marie Perennou-Claude
Nuridsany and Les Poupées russes by Cédric Klapisch.
200 Japanese buyers will attend Yokohama, and add to that 30 more buyers from other Asiatic countries, all keen to do business on: Le Couperet [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Costa Gavras (sold by
Studio Canal), Va, vis et deviens [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Denis Carot
interview: Didar Domehri
interview: Radu Mihaileanu
film profile] by Radu Mihaileanu (Films Distribution), Crustacés et coquillages by Olivier Ducastel and
Jacques Martineau (Bac Films), Tout pour plaire [+see also:
trailer
interview: Cécile Telerman
film profile] by Cécile
Telerman (TF1 International), Mon Ange by Serge Frydman (MK2),
Les Mots bleus by Alain Corneau (ARP), Les Yeux
Clairs by Jérôme Bonnell (Europa Corp.) and Quand la mer
monte... by Yolande Moreau and Gilles Porte (Les Films du Losange).
Overall a complete panorama of the best of French production in 2004-2005.
(Translated from French)
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