email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

CANNES 2020 Marché du Film

Indie Sales pins its hopes on Should the Wind Drop at Cannes Online

by 

- Boasting both Official Selection and ACID labels, Nora Martirosyan’s film spearheads a line-up that includes the new Rémi Chayé movie, plus the upcoming efforts by Bruno Dumont and Florence Miailhe

Indie Sales pins its hopes on Should the Wind Drop at Cannes Online
Should the Wind Drop by Nora Martirosyan

French international sales agent Indie Sales is about to spring into action at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film Online (22-26 June) with a supersize line-up of 15 titles. Shining particularly bright in the showcase is Should the Wind Drop [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nora Martirosyan
film profile
]
by Nora Martirosyan, which has been stamped with a double seal of quality in the guise of labels from both the Cannes 73 Official Selection and the ACID.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Starring Grégoire Colin and Hayk Bakhryan, the feature debut by the French-Armenian filmmaker (who wrote the screenplay with novelist Emmanuelle Pagano) is set in the Caucasus in the present day. It revolves around Alain, an international auditor, who has arrived to appraise the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in order to greenlight its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a makeshift business in the airport, Alain will put everything at risk to help this isolated territory to open up. Produced by French outfit Sister Productions together with Armenia’s Aneva Production and Belgium’s Kwassa Films, the feature will be released in French theatres by Rouge Distribution in the first quarter of 2021.

The Indie Sales team managed by Nicolas Eschbach (supported by Florencia Gil and Simon Gabriele) will be pre-selling the French-Danish animated feature Calamity: A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Henri Magalon
film profile
]
by Rémi Chayé (Long Way North [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
) based on a promo-reel. The film, which is in competition at Annecy this week (where it will only be viewable by the jury), will be distributed in France by Gebeka from 14 October onwards.

Deals will also be negotiated for four mouth-watering titles currently in post-production. France [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile
]
by Bruno Dumont, for which a promo-reel will be shown, has been announced for the second quarter of 2021, as has the documentary Bigger Than Us [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Flore Vasseur (which follows seven young activists from all over the world, and which is being produced by Marion Cotillard via the company All You Need, with Big Mother Productions and Elzévir Films), which will be sold based on a teaser. The French-German-Czech animated film The Crossing [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Florence Miailhe will also be delivered in the second quarter of 2021. On the other hand, Dead & Beautiful [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: David Verbeek
film profile
]
by Dutch helmer David Verbeek (a vampire flick set in an Asian megacity – a Lemming Film production in conjunction with Taiwanese outfit House on Fire International) is billed to arrive in the first quarter of 2021.

Lastly of note are the market screenings being organised for Adventures of a Mathematician [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
 by Thor Klein, Welcome to the Jungle by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli (toplined by Vincent Dedienne and Catherine Deneuve – see the article), the Berlin competitor All the Dead Ones [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Brazilian duo Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra, Enormous [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Sophie Letourneur (first unveiled at Rotterdam), and Fishlove [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Olivier Babinet.

And that’s not to mention a number of completed films, such as the documentary Days of Cannibalism [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Teboho Edkins
film profile
]
by Teboho Edkins (premiered in the Berlinale Panorama) and Man Up! [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Benjamin Parent.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

(Translated from French)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy