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VENICE 2005 Market

Celluloïd Dreams and Wild Bunch in pole position

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No less than 6 of the 19 films selected in official competition for the 62nd Venice Mostra (31 August – 10 September) are being sold internationally by French companies. This high proportion includes of course the three French features in competition, Studio Canal for Gabrielle [+see also:
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by Patrice Chéreau, Celluloïd Dreams for Vers le Sud [+see also:
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by Laurent Cantet and Films Distribution for Les amants réguliers [+see also:
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by Philippe Garrel, but also three European productions: Mary [+see also:
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by Abel Ferrara sold by Wild Bunch, La bestia nel cuore [+see also:
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by Cristiana Comencini sold by TF1 International and O Fatalista de João Botelho [+see also:
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sold by Gémini Films

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. Across all sections, it is Celluloïd Dreams who have the biggest line-up with four more films: Le parfum de la dame en noir by Bruno Podalydès (out of competition), Carmen by Jean-Pierre Limosin (section Orizzonti), Allegro by Dane Christoffer Boe (Venice days) and Le Passager [+see also:
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by Eric Caravaca (Critics’ Week). For its part, Wild Bunch has two other features selected out of competition: Backstage by Emmanuelle Bercot from France and Edmond from American Stuart Gordon. Films Distribution add a duo to the official competition: the documentary Belzec by Français Guillaume Moscovitz (Critics’ Week /Special Event) and C.R.A.Z.Y. from Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée (Venice Days). Finally, StudioCanal will follow with interest the fate of the opening film in the Venice days: Le Petit Lieutenant by Xavier Beauvois.

Two other French international sales companies on the Lagune: MK2 with 13-Tzameti by Gela Babluani and Les Films du Losange with the French-Palestinian co-production Attente by Rashid Masharawi (Venice Days). And outside of the selected films, we find in the Venice Screenings twenty French participants, buyers and sellers, among them representatives from Océan Films and from Rezo Films who will screen the only French production at the Venice market : Zaïna, cavalière de l’Atlas by Boualem Guerdjou.

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(Translated from French)

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