27/04/2018 - The French seller's line-up includes Angel Face by Vanessa Filho in the Un Certain Regard section and Treat Me Like Fire at the Directors' Fortnight

Forever hot on the heels of potential talent in the making, the French branch of Playtime – the international sales company – will be hedging its bets at the Film Market at the 71^st Cannes Film Festival (from 8 to 19 May) on two debut French feature films that captured the interest of those making the selections on the Croisette.

Angel Face [+see also:
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Treat Me Like Fire [+see also:
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Freshly added to the line-up is the thriller Who Do You Think I Am by Safy Nebbou, which has just finished shooting (see the article – starring Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Charles Berling and Guillaume Gouix).

The Playtime Team (Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, François Yon and Sebastian Beffa) will also be relying on the market premiere of 15 Minutes of War [+see also:
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Playtime will also be showing some first-look promo reels for Non-Fiction [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Assayas
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interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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interview: László Nemes
film profile] by the Hungarian director László Nemes. Two further titles in post-production will also be pre-sold on promo-reel: Who Killed Lady Winsley? [+see also:
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interview: Markus Schleinzer
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Playtime will also be represented on the Croisette by its German subsidiary (Films Boutique with Border [+see also:
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interview: Ali Abbasi
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interview: Antoine Desrosières
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interview: Zsófia Szilágyi
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interview: Meryem Benm'Barek
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interview: Guillaume Senez
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(Translated from French)