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CANNES 2011 Market / France

Le Pacte on Croisette with Bulgarian titles The Island and Ave

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With three films selected in the parallel sections at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22, 2011), French international seller Le Pacte will arrive at the Film Market with a strong line-up.

Camille Neel’s team is selling The Island [+see also:
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by Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev (see news), who has been selected in the Directors’ Fortnight for the second time after Eastern Plays [+see also:
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(European Parliament LUX Prize 2009 competition). Co-produced by Sweden, the film stars French actress Laetitia Casta and Danish actor Thure Lindhardt. An inseparable couple who live in Paris take a trip to a remote island in the middle of the Black Sea, putting their love to the test.

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Le Pacte’s line-up also includes two titles in the 50th edition of Critics’ Week. In competition is another Bulgarian film: Ave [+see also:
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by Konstantin Bojanov. This debut feature, produced by Camera and KB Films and co-produced by France’s Geoffroy Grison, centres on the encounter between Kamen, who hitchhikes from Sofia to Ruse, and 17-year-old runaway and liar Ave.

Le Pacte is also selling Katia Lewkowicz’s French comedy Bachelor Days Are Over (see news), which will close Critics’ Week.

Highlights among the market screenings include the premiere of Patricia Mazuy’s French/German co-production Of Women and Horses (see news); and Mathieu Amalric’s The Screen Illusion, which was unveiled at the EFM.

Among the new titles in the line-up are Thierry Ragobert’s French/Brazilian 3D co-production Amazonia (in pre-production), which plunges viewers into the Amazonian forest and centres on a monkey raised in captivity and released into the wild by a plane accident. Le Pacte will also start pre-sales for Jean-Christophe Dessaint’s French animated feature Days of the Crows (in production).

Finally, Le Pacte will continue sales for two films in post-production: Michale Boganim’s Land of Oblivion (see news); and John Shank’s Belgian/French/Swiss co-production Last Winter (see news).

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(Translated from French)

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