On the first day of the Film Market at the 70^th Cannes Film Festival, under the radiant sun and in a high-security environment, French international sales agents have already made a number of announcements.

Memento Films (see news line-up) started strong by kicking off the pre-sales of The Wild Pear Tree [+lee también:
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MK2 Films International (news) announced the arrival of Gomera on its line-up, the upcoming film by Romania's Corneliu Porumboiu (The Treasure [+lee también:
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Charades, the very young international sales agent founded by Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte and Pierre Mazars, began the pre-sales of Mirai, the new animated film by Japan's Mamoru Hosoda (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, The Boy and the Beast).

StudioCanal kick-started the pre-sales of Radioactive [+lee también:
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SND launched the pre-sales of the animated film Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion [+lee también:
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Wild Bunch has also announced the sale of My Son [+lee también:
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Finally, TF1 Studio announced the sale of Remi, Nobody's Boy [+lee también:
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