French international sales agent Indie Sales is about to spring into action at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film Online (22-26 June) with a supersize line-up of 15 titles. Shining particularly bright in the showcase is Should the Wind Drop [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nora Martirosyan
scheda film] by Nora Martirosyan, which has been stamped with a double seal of quality in the guise of labels from both the Cannes 73 Official Selection and the ACID.

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Starring Grégoire Colin and Hayk Bakhryan, the feature debut by the French-Armenian filmmaker (who wrote the screenplay with novelist Emmanuelle Pagano) is set in the Caucasus in the present day. It revolves around Alain, an international auditor, who has arrived to appraise the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in order to greenlight its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a makeshift business in the airport, Alain will put everything at risk to help this isolated territory to open up. Produced by French outfit Sister Productions together with Armenia’s Aneva Production and Belgium’s Kwassa Films, the feature will be released in French theatres by Rouge Distribution in the first quarter of 2021.

The Indie Sales team managed by Nicolas Eschbach (supported by Florencia Gil and Simon Gabriele) will be pre-selling the French-Danish animated feature Calamity: A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Henri Magalon
scheda film] by Rémi Chayé (Long Way North [+leggi anche:
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Deals will also be negotiated for four mouth-watering titles currently in post-production. France [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bruno Dumont
scheda film] by Bruno Dumont, for which a promo-reel will be shown, has been announced for the second quarter of 2021, as has the documentary Bigger Than Us [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Flore Vasseur (which follows seven young activists from all over the world, and which is being produced by Marion Cotillard via the company All You Need, with Big Mother Productions and Elzévir Films), which will be sold based on a teaser. The French-German-Czech animated film The Crossing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Florence Miailhe will also be delivered in the second quarter of 2021. On the other hand, Dead & Beautiful [+leggi anche:
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intervista: David Verbeek
scheda film] by Dutch helmer David Verbeek (a vampire flick set in an Asian megacity – a Lemming Film production in conjunction with Taiwanese outfit House on Fire International) is billed to arrive in the first quarter of 2021.

Lastly of note are the market screenings being organised for Adventures of a Mathematician [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Thor Klein, Welcome to the Jungle by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli (toplined by Vincent Dedienne and Catherine Deneuve – see the article), the Berlin competitor All the Dead Ones [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Brazilian duo Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra, Enormous [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Sophie Letourneur (first unveiled at Rotterdam), and Fishlove [+leggi anche:
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And that’s not to mention a number of completed films, such as the documentary Days of Cannibalism [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Teboho Edkins
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scheda film] by Benjamin Parent.