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CANNES 2014 Market / France

A five-star line-up for Le Pacte on the Croisette

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- Business is looking promising in Cannes with Timbuktu in competition, Wenders at the Certain Regard, Boorman at Directors’ Fortnight, Lapid and Lilti at Critics’ Week

A five-star line-up for Le Pacte on the Croisette
Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako

Always well placed when it comes to major events and their programmes, the French international sales company Le Pacte, directed by Jean Labadie, will be arriving at the Marché du Film of the 67th Cannes Film Festival with a rich line-up. The line-up features a total of five films selected in the festival’s various sections, including one candidate for the Palme d’Or: Timbuktu [+see also:
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by Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako. Produced by Sylvie Pialat for Les Films du Worso, the film (which will be screened on Thursday 15 May) is about a man who lives with his family close to Timbuktu, ruled by religious fundamentalists, up until the day he will find himself personally up against the Jihadist regime.

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Le Pacte will be selling another film in the official section: documentary Salt of The Earth [+see also:
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by duo Wim Wenders - Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, which will be unveiled in the Certain Regard section on Tuesday, May 20.

The sales team, guided by Camille Neel will also be behind Queen & Country [+see also:
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 by British filmmaker John Boorman (world premiere on May 20) and two feature length films, which will be presented as a special screening during Critics’ Week: Israeli French co-production The Kindergarten Teacher [+see also:
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by Nadav Lapid (premiere on May 19) and Hippocrates [+see also:
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by Thomas Lilti (article), which will close the parallel section on May 22.

Le Pacte will be pre-selling two more French films currently going through post-production: Wild Live by Cédric Kahn (article) and Vincent by Thomas Salvador (article). Market provisions are in the programme for three films discovered in Berlin: Aimer, boire et chanter [+see also:
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 by Alain ResnaisL'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq [+see also:
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by Guillaume Nicloux (winner of two awards at Tribeca) and Austrian French documentary We Come as Friends [+see also:
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 by Hubert Sauper (special jury award at Sundance).

Worth noting is that Le Pacte will be distributing films by Sissako and duo Wenders-Salgado in France, as well as two more Cannes competitors (Maps To The Stars [+see also:
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 by Canadian David Cronenberg and Jimmy's Hall [+see also:
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 by British Ken Loach) and three feature length films presented at Certain Regard (Jauja [+see also:
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 by Argentinian Lisandro Alonso, Lost River by American Ryan Gosling and Snow in Paradise [+see also:
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 by British Andrew Hulme).

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(Translated from French)

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