Producers Antoine Rein and Fabrice Goldstein of France’s Kare Productions have received the €20,000 ArteKino International Prize from the Cannes Marche du Film’s Investors Circle for Carine Tardieu’s upcoming feature All The Little Live Things.
The film stars Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry and is based on the 1967 American novel of the same title by American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner. It is set in the 1970s and centres on a couple who retreat to the Normandy countryside after losing their 25-year-old son in a surfing accident, where they meet a single mother and a free-spirited young man who force them to confront their pain and embrace life again.
Tardieu reteams with the producers after The Ties That Bind Us, which won best film at this year’s Cesar awards. Diaphana will release the film in France and Paris-based Indie Sales snapped up international sales rights ahead of Cannes and has been selling at the market.
This year’s selection of eight projects included upcoming films from Juho Kuosmanen, Magnus von Horn, Felipe Gálvez, Emanuel Pârvu, Noé Debré, Atsuko Hirayanagi and Ismaël El Iraki with budgets ranging from from €1m to €12m. See the full list below.
Last year’s prize went to producers Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz of Film AG Produktions for Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster, currently in Cannes’ official Competition.
Cannes Investors Circle 2026 projects:
All The Little Live Things (France)
Dir. Carine Tardieu
Prods. Antoine Rein & Fabrice Goldstein, Kare Productions
CIGHID (Romania)
Dir. Emanuel Pârvu
Prod. Miruna Berescu, FAMart
Dream Come True (Finland)
Dir. Juho Kuosmanen
Prods. Jussi Rantamäki, Aamu Film Company; Katrin Pors, Snowglobe
Impunity (Chile)
Dir. Felipe Gálvez
Prods. Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli & Matías Roveda, Rei Pictures; Emily Morgan, Quiddity; Alejandra García, Ronda Cine; Sylvie Pialat & Alejandro Arenas, Les Films du Worso
Montjoie (France)
Dir. Noé Debré
Prod. Benjamin Elalouf, Moonshaker
The Passenger (Sweden-Poland)
Dir. Magnus von Horn
Prods. Jan Krüger, Roshanak Khodabakhsh, Port au Prince Films; Mariusz Włodarski, Lava Films
The Returning (Japan-US)
Dir. Atsuko Hirayanagi
Prod. Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Loaded Films
Wolfmother (Morocco-France)
Dir. Ismaël El Iraki
Prods. Alexis Hofmann, Sébastien Onomo, Special Touch Studios
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