EXCLUSIVE: New titles from Stephane Demoustier, Mikhael Hers and Cedric Kahn will be introduced to buyers
Paris-based sales powerhouse Charades is heading into the year with a slate of new features from French filmmakers including Stephane Demoustier’s La Chaleur, Mikhaël Hers’ Between Now And Then and Cedric Kahn’s A Place To Heal.
It will launch sales on the trio of titles at Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous (January 13-20) along with the event’s opening night film, Comedie Francaise.
The company is hoping to fire up buyers with La Chaleur, Demoustier’s follow-up to last year’s Cannes premiere The Great Arch. Based on Victor Jestin’s novel of the same name and set at a seaside campsite, the film follows a quiet 17-year-old who hides a body in panic following a deadly accident and spends the final day of his holiday trapped between fear, first love, and a desperate need to go home.
It is produced by France’s Petit Film and Italy’s Fremantle-owned Wildside. Co-producers are Panache Productions and Belgium’s La Compagnie Cinématographique, in association with Switzerland’s The Dreaming Sheep Company. Memento Distribution will release the film in France.
Between Now And Then (Une Autre Histoire) is Hers’ fifth feature and stars Alba Rohrwacher as a wife and mother living in Lyon after growing up abroad, whose past resurfaces when an unexpected message arrives to threaten the balance of her new life.
Jonathan Pryce, Bastien Bouillon, Eowyn Personne and Clare Dunne co-star in the film produced by Nord-Ouest Films and co-produced by Arte France Cinema and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinema. Pyramide will release locally.
Kahn’s A Place To Heal is set in an adolescent psychiatry unit in a French public hospital and focuses on a group of teenagers who are destabilised by the arrival of a new patient. Kahn also co-stars alongside Sophie Guillemin, Jennifer Decker and a cast of rising talents including Malou Khebizi, Zoé Monpart and Kenji Peyran.
Ad Vitam Films produces and will release A Place To Heal in France. Kahn’s previous two films, The Goldman Case and Making Of, premiered respectively at Cannes and Venice in 2023.
All three titles are currently in post-production. Charades will also be speaking to buyers about Comedie Francaise, which will have its world premiere on January 13 at Pathe Palace.
The debut feature from Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau follows the hours leading up to a performance of Macbeth as the stage production is beset by delays, technical problems and ego clashes. It is produced by Thomas Verhaeghe and Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production, in co-production with La Comedie Francaise and France 2.
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