STEREOGIRLS

Source: Courtesy of Celluloid Dreams

‘Stereo Girls’

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has acquired  international sales rights to Caroline Deruas Peano’s Stereo Girls (Les Immortelles), a French coming-of-age drama set to open the 40th Venice Critics’ Week.

Premiering out of competition, the film is set in the 1990s in the south of France and stars Emmanuelle Béart alongside  Peano’s daughter, Lena Garrel.

It is about inseparable 17-year-old best friends, bound by their love of music and desire for freedom until tragedy strikes and one of them must face the future alone, carrying dreams for two.

Stereo Girls is produced by France’s Les Films de la Capitaine and La Féline Films alongside Canada’s Possibles Media. New Story will release the film in France in March 2026.

Celluloid Dreams is back in the international sales game after a long pause since the company’s founder, pioneering sales agent Hengameh Panahi, died in 2023 following a long illness. The company has been quietly building a robust sales slate and officially returned to the market earlier this year, run by Panahi’s former colleague Saliha Guemraoui, who has been CEO since 2023.

”Stereo Girls is a nuanced and intimate debut that captures the strength of female friendship through a distinctive directorial voice, in line with the artistic vision Celluloid Dreams has always embraced,” said Guemraoui.

Further slate highlights include Rogerio Nunes’ Annecy animation Heart Of Darkness and Jean-Claude Barny’s Fanon, which first premiered at Marrakech International Film Festival.

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