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Source: Courtesy of Best Friends Forever

The Other Laurens

Brussels–based Best Friend Forever (BFF) has boarded Belgian thriller The Other Laurens, a first feature from Claude Schmitz with a starry European cast and is kicking off sales at the European Film Market.

Set on the French-Spanish border, The Other Laurens follows a private detective forced to face the ghosts of his past when his niece asks him to investigate her father’s death. The film stars Olivier Rabourdin, Kate Moran, Marc Barbé and newcomer Louise Leroy and is now in post.

It is produced by Benoit Roland for Belgium’s Wrong Men and Jérémy Forni for France’s Chevaldeuxtrois.

BFF, the sister company of Paris-based Indie Sales, launched at Cannes 2019 and is headed by Indie Sales former head of marketing & festivals Martin Gondre and former entertainment lawyer Charles Bin, alongside Indie Sales’ co-founder Nicolas Eschbach.

Its EFM line-up also includes Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’ Mutt, screening here in Generation 14+, Nicolas Silhol’s French box office hit Anti-Squat, Michael Dichter’s pre-teen feature The Fantastic Three, Angela Ottobah’s genre drama Rapture and Joëlle Desjardins Paquette’s Canadian road movie Stampede.