09/05/2008

With a line-up headed by The Silence of Lorna [+see also:
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film profile] by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – in competition at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) – French international sales company Celluloid Dreams will present some very diverse films at the Film Market.

The company headed by Hengameh Panahi are also hoping for success with Le Voyage aux Pyrénées (“Journey to the Pyrenees”) by French directors Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu in the Directors’ Fortnight and Duane Hopkins’ UK feature Better Things [+see also:
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Celluloid Dreams will also announce that production has started on Jacques Audiard’s Le prophète. Produced by Why Not, this eagerly-awaited film retraces the rise of a young Frenchman of Arab origin who is taken under the wing of a Corsican gang in prison. On his release, he regains his independence and becomes a drugs baron and hero in the Muslim community.

Titles in production also include Italian director Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere (“To Win”), starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

In pre-production is Black Heaven by Gilles Marchand (Who Killed Bambi?), produced by French company Haut et Court and Belgian-based Versus. The film – co-written by Dominik Moll – recounts the dangerous misadventures of an adolescent who is fascinated by an online role game.

There will also be some enticing market premieres. These include Safy Nebbou’s psychological thriller L’empreinte de l’ange (“The Angel’s Footprint”), starring Catherine Frot and Sandrine Bonnaire; Possibility of an Island by novelist Michel Houellebecq, starring Benoît Magimel (see news); Jacques-Rémy Girerd’s animated film Mia et le Migou; UK documentary Bob Marley Exodus 77; and When A Man Comes Home by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (see news).

Finally, sales will get in full swing for films in post-production. Titles include French/German co-production The Countess, directed by and starring Julie Delpy alongside Daniel Brühl, Anamaria Marinca and William Hurt (see news); Andreas Prochaska’s Austrian horror film Dead in 3 Days 2; and animated European co-production Brendan and the Secret of Kells by Irish director Tomm Moore.

(Translated from French)