Rebecca Leffler

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Source: Ahmet Sesigürgil / Barış Aygen EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales outfit Lucky Number has boarded Turkish filmmaker Emin Alper’s Salvation and Hungarian director György Pálfi’s The Hen: A Feather’s Tale, and will launch sales at the company’s first Cannes market. Salvation is Alper’s fifth feature and follows Burning Days, whichpremiered in Un Certain Regard in 2022, and Frenzy, that won the special jury prize in Venice in 2015.

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Source: Indiana Production, Indigo Film, and Vision Distribution EXCLUSIVE: Playtime has scored international sales rights to Andrea Di Stefano’s My Tennis Maestro starring Pierfrancesco Favino about a young athlete who bonds with his unconventional coach. It is produced by Italy’s Indiana Production, Indigo Film and Vision Distribution in collaboration with Memo Film, Sky, and Playtime.

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler

Cannes Marché du Film executive director Guillaume Esmiol tells Screen about positioning the market at the junction of film and innovation. “We are already the biggest film market in the world. I want us to be not only the most powerful, but also the most innovative,” says Cannes Marché du Film executive director Guillaume Esmiol of the annual industry gathering (May 13-21).

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, theFrench directing duo behind Intouchables, are now filming their ninth feature Just An Illusion, a teenage coming-of-age story set in mid-1980s Parisstarring Camille Cottin, Louis Garrel and Pierre Lottin. Gaumont is launching sales in Cannes.

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Rebecca Leffler

EXCLUSIVE: Les Alchimistes has acquired French rights to Un Certain Regard title Caravan from Paris-based Alpha Violet. Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová’s feature debut is a road movie about a woman overwhelmed with motherhood who steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son who has an intellectual disability. They meet a young drifter whose open heart transforms their makeshift family and gives them hope.