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Flurry of premieres at Rendez-vous with French Cinema

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A total of 400 international distributors and 120 journalists from 26 countries are taking part in Unifrance’s 12th Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which kicks off today in Paris.

Over four days, there will be a market with screenings of 75 films (including around 30 unreleased titles) and the most important European press junket bringing together press from across the world and the directors of French features set to be released internationally in 2010.

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French international sellers, like Wild Bunch (see news), have no shortage of impressive titles to showcase and the line-up includes numerous world premieres.

Gaumont will unveil Nicolas Boukhrief’s Sphinx [+see also:
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(see news), starring Cécile de France; SND will present Cédric Anger’s The Counsel (see news), featuring Benoît Magimel; and Films Distribution will screen Pierre Granier-Deferre’s Wedding Cake [+see also:
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(see news).

Pyramide is hoping for success with Frédéric Chignac’s The Time of the Charity Fête is Over (see news) and Mehdi Ben Attia’s The Thread, while StudioCanal will show off Marc Dugain’s An Ordinary Execution, starring André Dussollier as Stalin (see news).

TF1 International, which has planned a world premiere for Anne Le Ny’s My Father’s Guests (see news), will also screen Alfred Lot’s A Spot of Bother [+see also:
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(see news) and Safy Nebbou’s Dumas [+see also:
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. The company will also start sales for Fabrice Gobert’s Love Like Blood (see news) and make the most of the diverse titles on the line-up resulting from its alliance with UGC (see news).

Les Films du Losange will show a world premiere of Nicolas Philibert’s documentary Nénette (selected in the Berlinale Forum) and start pre-sales for films including Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Des Filles en Noir (“Girls in Black”, see news).

Memento Films International will also put in an appearance with Natalia Smirnoff’s Argentinean/French co-production Puzzle and enticing titles in post-production: Julie Bertucelli’s The Tree (see news) and Gilles Marchand’s Black Heaven (see news).

Umedia will present Olivier Coussemacq’s Sweet Evil (see news) in world premiere, while The Coproduction Office will prepare for the future with The Four Times by Italy’s Michelangelo Frammartino, Aurora [+see also:
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by Romania’s Cristi Puiu and The Frankenstein Project by Hungary’s Kornel Mundruczo.

Finally, Doc & Film will showcase Jacques Doillon’s Le Mariage à Trois (“Three-Way Marriage”, see news), Belgian director Marion Hansël’s Black Ocean, Spanish filmmaker Adán Aliaga’s Estigmas (“Stigmas”) and Vanja d’Alcantara’s Beyond the Steppes.

Also in attendance at the Paris Rendez-Vous are Celluloid Dreams, EuropaCorp, Le Pacte, Kinology, MK2, Rezo, Bac Films, Elle Driver, Other Angle Pictures, Wide Management and Pathé, which opened the event yesterday with a gala evening screening of Jacques Perrin’s Oceans.

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(Translated from French)

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