25/08/2017 - Featuring on the firm’s Venice line-up are the Italian titles The Leisure Seeker and Una famiglia, in addition to Les Bienheureux in Orizzonti

Italy is truly giving the international sales team at Paris-based company Bac Films wings, as its slate includes two Italian films selected in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival (30 August-9 September): the English-language title The Leisure Seeker [+see also:
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interview: Matilda De Angelis
interview: Sebastiano Riso
film profile] by his fellow countryman Sebastiano Riso (who rose to fame in the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2014 with Darker Than Midnight [+see also:
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film profile], and who has this time assembled a cast including Patrick Bruel and Micaela Ramazzotti). This Italian bent has so far proven exceedingly fruitful for Bac Films International, which successfully sold Virzi’s two previous films (Human Capital [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Virzì
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Q&A: Paolo Virzì
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Mathieu Robinet and Gilles Sousa’s team will be negotiating deals for a third film being showcased on the Lido: the French-Belgian co-production Les Bienheureux [+see also:
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In addition, Bac Films will certainly have no shortage of aces up its sleeve at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival (7-17 September), which will host the unveiling of the Irish-British zombie flick The Cured [+see also:
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film profile] (formerly The Third Wave) by David Freyne (toplined by star Canadian actress Ellen Page) as a world premiere on the Special Presentations programme. Also standing out on the line-up of the Canadian gathering are The Leisure Seeker, unspooling as a Gala screening, and the Belgian-French feature Let the Corpses Tan [+see also:
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interview: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
film profile] by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, which will be presented in the Midnight Madness section, after a world premiere that set tongues wagging in early August in Locarno’s Piazza Grande.

Also of note on the line-up are The Teacher by Olivier Ayache Vidal (which Bac will bring out in France on 13 September) and, in post-production, Land [+see also:
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In terms of French distribution activities, Bac Films is gearing up to release the Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Square [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
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interview: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
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(Translated from French)