LOGLINE: A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Matteo Garrone
MAIN PRODUCERS: Paolo Del Brocco, Matteo Garrone
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pathé
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
GENRE: Survival
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Coralie Fargeat
MAIN PRODUCERS: Marc-Etienne Schwartz (M.E.S. Productions), Marc Stanimirovic (Monkey Pack Films)
CAST: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Charades
LOGLINE: Tumultuous relationship between Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the most famous Russian composer of all time, and his wife Antonina Miliukova.
GENRE: Drama / Biography
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Kirill Serebrennikov
MAIN PRODUCER: Ilya Stewart (Hype Film)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Charades
STATUS: Completed WATCH CLIP
LOGLINE: 20-year-old Jessica leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Ninja Thyberg
MAIN PRODUCERS: Sarah Goldberger, Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå (Plattform Films), Birgersson Fallgren Tove
CAST: Sofia Kappel
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Versatile WATCH THE TRAILER
LOGLINE: When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she’s made the plaything of a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why…
GENRE: Thriller
DIRECTOR: Franck Khalfoun
WRITER: Glen Freyer, Franck Khalfoun
MAIN PRODUCER: Alexandre Aja (Cinestesia), Noémie Devide (Getaway)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Wild Bunch
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.
GENRE: Thriller
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Maximilian Erlenwein
MAIN PRODUCERS: Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo (Augenschein Filmproduktion)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Protagonist / Augenschein Sales
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: In the middle of a heat wave, an ominous cloud appears and with it, a lethal acid rain. A separated family will have to come together to escape this plague ravaging the world.
GENRE: Drama / Fantasy / Impact
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Just Philippot
MAIN PRODUCERS: Yves Darondeau, Clément Renouvin (Bonne Pioche), Jérôme Seydoux (Pathé)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pathé
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: He lives in Japanese comic books. She kills men with her kitchen knife. They have issues.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Kirill Serebrennikov
MAIN PRODUCER: Ilya Stewart (Hype Film)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Charades
LOGLINE: A secret and magical world opens up when a group of children play away from the gaze of grown-ups.
GENRE: Drama / Fantastic / Horror
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Eskil Vogt
MAIN PRODUCER: Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Films)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Protagonist Pictures
LOGLINE: Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
GENRE: Comedy
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Albert Dupontel
MAIN PRODUCERS: Catherine Bozorgan (Manchester Films), Jérôme Seydoux (Pathé)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pathé
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Tina and Ben are a couple of young youtubers specialized in underwater exploration videos. While diving in a remote French lake, they discover a house submerged in deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they understand the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.
GENRE: Horror
DIRECTORS/WRITERS: Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo
MAIN PRODUCER: Clément Miserez (Radar Films)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pulsar Content
LOGLINE: Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
GENRE: Drama, Psychological Thriller
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
MAIN PRODUCERS: Mollye Asher and Mynette Louie (Swallow the Movie), Carole Baraton (Charades), Frédéric Fiore (Logical Pictures)
CAST: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O’Hare
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Charades
LOGLINE: Jean, the youngest of a large family, grew up in a community influenced by Chris, a spiritual guide. After receiving a tape from his sister who lives in recluse, he rediscovers voices and sounds from his past. Memories begin to emerge and Jean decides to follow in Chris’ footsteps, on a journey that will take him to Japan, Indonesia and Bulgaria. During this quest, he will discover his father’s secret, years after his death.
GENRE: Documentary / Mystery
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier
MAIN PRODUCERS: Eric Tavitian, Manu Barron, Alexandra Pilz Hayot, Céline Dornier
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Logical Pictures
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: A casual encounter in a train will lead Helga Pato to a circle of insanity, perversion and trash, a lot of trash.
GENRE: Dark Comedy, Drama, Thriller
DIRECTOR: Artiz Moreno
WRITER: Javier Gullón
MAIN PRODUCERS: Leire Apellaniz (Señor y Señora), Merry Colomer and Juan Gordon (Morena Films)
CAST: Luis Tosar, Pilar Castro, Javier Botet, Macarena García, Gilbert Melki
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Seville International
LOGLINE: “Resurrected” takes place in the near future when the Vatican has found a way to bring dead people back to life. The film is set on the computer of Stanley, an online church priest who uncovers a huge conspiracy.
GENRE: Horror / Screenlife
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Egor Baranov
MAIN PRODUCER: Maria Zatulovskaya (Bazelevs)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pulsar Content
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Tridan Lagache has spent his life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigned from the Mexican holiday club where he was born, determined to find, 42 years later, his great childhood love, Violette.
GENRE: Comedy
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Dany Boon
MAIN PRODUCERS: Jérôme Seydoux (Pathé)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pathé
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Yann dreams of escaping his life of crime and starting again, somewhere far away. To repay a debt, he is forced to escort Dara, a young Nigerian held captive by a prostitution ring, to Spain. But for Dara, the journey offers a chance to flee her captors…
GENRE: Thriller / Crime / Drama
DIRECTOR: FGKO
WRITERS: FGKO / Khalladi Shérazade
MAIN PRODUCERS: David Meadeb (Logical Pictures), Clément Renouvin (Bonne Pioche)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Wild Bunch International
STATUS: Completed
LOGLINE: Nightride is a wry realtime one shot thriller set on the midnight streets of Belfast. It places us in the driver’s seat with smalltime dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
GENRE: Thriller
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Stephen Fingleton
MAIN PROCUDERS: Paul Kennedy (Village Films), Jon Silk (Silk Mass)
CAST: Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pulsar Content
LOGLINE: An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to an galactic chase.
GENRE: Science-Fiction
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Seth Ickerman
MAIN PRODUCERS: Frédéric Fiore (Logical Pictures), Alexis Perrin (Rumble Fish)
CAST: Anders Heinrichsen, Elisa Lasowski, Joëlle Berckmans, Christian Erickson
LOGLINE: Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Lyle Mitchell Corbine
MAIN PRODUCER: Thomas Mahoney, Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Eric Tavitian (Logical Pictures)
CAST: Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Kate Bosworth, Jesse Eisenberg
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Pulsar Content
LOGLINE: A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.
GENRE: Drama, Horror, Mystery
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Pascal Laugier
MAIN PRODUCERS: Jean-Charles Levy (5656 Films), Nicolas Manuel (Forecast Pictures)
CAST: Crystal Reed, Anastasia Phillips, Mylène Farmer
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Kinology
LOGLINE: Following the destruction of their ship, the young Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled in space. His spare capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold until the arrival of a rescue mission.
GENRE: Animation, Family
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Eric Tosti
MAIN PRODUCER: Jean-François Tosti (TAT Productions)
INTERNATIONAL SALES: BAC International
LOGLINE: Build him up. Tear him apart.
GENRE: Thriller, Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Gerard Johnson
MAIN PRODUCER: Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films)
CAST: Craig Fairbrass, Cavan Clerkin
INTERNATIONAL SALES: WestEnd Films
LOGLINE: A group of friends plot a burglary that spirals out of control.
GENRE: Thriller, Horror
DIRECTOR: Julius Berg
WRITERS: Mathieu Gompel, Julius Berg and Geoff Cox (based on “Une Nuit de Pleine Lune” by Yves H. and Hermann)
MAIN PRODUCERS: Alain de la Mata and Christopher Granier-Deferre (BlueLight)
CAST: Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Andrew Ellis, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Versatile
LOGLINE: 1992, war is raging in what will become Ex-Yugoslavia. Paul is covering the siege of Sarajevo. Flamboyant dandy, loud mouth, adrenaline junkie, provocative cigar-smoker, Paul Marchand is the war correspondent archetype. Racing through Sniper’s Alley in his white Ford, the Frenchman relentlessly tells the apathetic western world about the ongoing massacre . In a urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform. How much can he endure before he starts taking up arms?
GENRE: War, Biography
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Guillaume de Fontenay
MAIN PRODUCERS: Pascal Bascaron, Nicole Robert (Go Films), Jean-Yves Robin, Marc Stanimirovic (Monkey Pack Films)
CAST: Niels Schneider, Elisa Lasowski
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Charades
LOGLINE: Based on the writer/director’s childhood, FARMING tells story of a young Nigerian boy, ‘farmed out’ by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
MAIN PRODUCERS: François Ivernel (Montebello Productions), Andrew Levitas (Metalworks Pictures), Michael London (Groundswell Productions) Janice Williams
CAST: Damson Idris, Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
INTERNATIONAL SALES: HanWay Films
LOGLINE: José, an Argentine national, has recently moved to France with his partner and daughter, and makes the acquaintance of his neighbour. On an impulse, whilst listening to the jazz piece Petite Fleur, he kills his new friend. However, the next day, to José’s astonishment, his neighbour is the picture of health. He decides to kill him again. It’s at this point that José finds himself caught up in a strange new daily routine: looking after the baby and the house, trying to save his relationship… and killing his unwitting neighbour.
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Santiago Mitre (The Summit)
MAIN PRODUCER: Didar Domehri (Maneki Films)
CAST: Melvil Poupaud, Sergi López, Vimala Pons
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Playtime
LOGLINE: An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
GENRE: Drama, Western
DIRECTOR/WRITER:Ivan Kavanagh
MAIN PRODUCERS: Jacqueline Kerrin and Dominic Wright (Ripple World Pictures), Nicolas Steil (Iris Group)
CAST: Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Déborah François
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Metro International
LOGLINE: A couple try to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
GENRE: Comedy, Drama, Horror
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Antonio Tublen
MAIN PRODUCERS: Alexander Brøndsted (PingPong Films)
CAST: Zöe Tapper, Ed Speleers
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Seville International
