Having kicked off yesterday with an Export Day (read our news) and the first of three days dedicated to their audiovisual market, the 24th UniFrance Film Meetings (due to wrap on Sunday) are set to get down to business tomorrow by way of the film market. Dynamic and plentiful as ever, from 13 to 16 January French sales agents will be negotiating with 250 foreign distributors who have made the journey to the capital so as to find what they’re looking for within a screening line-up consisting of 88 French films and 55 market premières. These professionals will make their way around the Champs-Élysées, in full respect of current Covid guidelines, navigating between the Balzac, Publicis, Club de l’Etoile and Lincoln cinemas and the Hôtel du Collectionneur, which will act as the market’s beating heart. The Film Meetings’ traditional press-junket, meanwhile, will unfold online, featuring over 150 French artists (leading thirty or so French films expected to be released worldwide this year) who will be interviewed by 141 journalists hailing from 33 countries.

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Five market premières stand out for Other Angle Pictures, chiefly Simone: The Journey of the Century by Olivier Dahan, which will be screened tomorrow evening during the opening gala ceremony (despite its French release being pushed back from 23 February to 12 October), Cœurs vaillants [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mona Achache, The Snow Must Go On [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Stéphane Cazès, Licence to Build by Éric Fraticelli and Love is Better than Life by Claude Lelouch.

Four premières are on the agenda for Charades in the form of The Kitchen Brigade [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud and Her Way [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Cécile Ducrocq.

Urban Distribution International are set to unveil Juan José Lozano and Zoltán Horváth’s animated feature Red Jungle [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], while France TV Distribution will be pinning their hopes on Little Man Tom [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Fabienne Berthaud, Elle Driver on The Companions by François Favrat, Pulsar Content on Wilderness Therapy [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Édouard Deluc, Memento International on Tropic of Violence [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Manuel Schapira and Be for Films on South Sentinel [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mathieu Gérault
scheda film] by Mathieu Gérault.

Three premières steal focus for Pyramide International, namely Cop Goes Missing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Michel Leclerc.

Playtime will be wagering on premières of About Joan [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laurent Larivière
scheda film] by Laurent Larivière, which will be presented within the next Berlinale’s Special Gala line-up, 15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour [+leggi anche:
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Three market premières are on the cards for Le Pacte, meanwhile, in the form of Thierry Demaizière and Albal Teurlai’s documentary Rookies [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thierry Demaizière et Alba…
scheda film], which will topline the upcoming Berlinale’s Generation line-up, Farewell Paris [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Édouard Baer and On the Edge [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Giordano Gederlini
scheda film] by Giordano Gederlini. Also worth a mention among the other screenings on offer is that of The Family [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Fabien Gorgeart, which is surfing on the buzz thus far generated ahead of its French release on 16 February.

Wild Bunch International are offering a colossal line-up, as per usual, screening The Road Ahead [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rebecca Zlotowski
scheda film] by Rebecca Zlotowski (in post-production, toplined by Virginie Efira and Roschdy Zem), Sticking Together by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern (news), The Innocent [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Louis Garrel, The Five Devils [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Léa Mysius, Saint Omer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alice Diop
intervista: Kayije Kagame
scheda film] by Alice Diop, Rascals [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jimmy Laporal-Trésor, The Young Imam [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Kim Chapiron and Blazing Neon by FGKO (article), without forgetting The Stars at Noon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Claire Denis, Brother and Sister [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Arnaud Desplechin, Incredible But True [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Quentin Dupieux
scheda film] by Quentin Dupieux, The New Toy [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by James Huth, the documentary Whale Nation by Jean-Albert Lièvre, Rebel [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Adil El Arbi e Bilall Fallah
scheda film] by Belgian duo Adil el Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and Tori and Lokita by fellow Belgians Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, to name just a few.

Five market premières are in the planning for The Party Film Sales, including those of Goodnight, Soldier by Hiner Saleem, Summer Frost [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Brieuc Carnaille, the documentary A guide To Love and Fighting Capitalism by Basile Carré-Agostini and the animated film My Neighbors’ Neighbors [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Anne-Laure Daffis et Léo Marchand.

Five premières will likewise come courtesy of the Gaumont sales team, who will be screening Kung Fu Zohra [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mabrouk El Mechri
scheda film] by Mabrouk El Mechri, which will soon take part in the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Big Screen competition, Rumba Therapy [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Franck Dubosc, Rosy – The Forbidden Journey by Marine Barnérias, The Wannabes by Jonathan Barré and the documentary Heart of Oak [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux.

Pathé International will be pinning their hopes on premières of Farewell Mr Haffmann [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Fred Cavayé (which is hitting French cinemas today), The Time of Secrets by Christophe Barratier, King by David Moreau and Christmas with the Tuche by Olivier Baroux, while StudioCanal will unveil Rise by Cédric Klapisch (article) and Plancha by Éric Lavaine.

Shining bright within Bac Films’ line-up, meanwhile, who have just announced their acquisitions will now be sold by Wild Bunch International, is the market premiere of Carlo Vogele’s Luxembourg-Belgian-French animated title Icarus and the Minotaur.

Worth a final mention are the two market premières on the agenda for Wide - Black Substance by Carl Carniato and Entre nous by Jude Bauman – while Reservoir Docs are set to unveil Francesca & Love [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Alba Sotorra and Marie-Jo Will See You at 4 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Camille Ponsin.

SND will also be in attendance, with market premières of Maigret [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Patrice Leconte, The Bodins [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Frédéric Forestier and Employee of the Month [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jérôme Commandeur, while Orange Studio are set to unveil Say Cheese [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by François Uzan, TF1 Studio are wagering on Two Much for the Job [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Frédéric Quiring, and Salaud Morisset will be trying their hand with Emma Benestan’s Hard Shell, Soft Shell.

The many other French international sales agents will also be in action throughout the event, promoting their works either side of these various premières.