Pulsar Content sends same-sex motherhood drama ‘Love Letters’ across the globe

EXCLUSIVE: Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, starring Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri as a same-sex couple on a rough road to motherhood, has sold widely for Pulsar Content.

Narrative Distribution has scooped US rights to the film, and Immina will release it in Canada. European deals include Germany (Films That Matter), Austria (Polyfilm), Italy (Wanted), Switzerland (Cineworx), Spain (La Aventura), Greece (Cinobo), Benelux (Athena) and Eastern Europe (HBO). Babilla will release the film in Colombia.

Love Letters first premiered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week and will be released in France by Tandem on November 19. It has gone on to further festivals including Zurich, Hamburg and Queer Screen.

The film is set in 2014 after France legalised same-sex marriage, and follows a lesbian couple about to have their first child who must navigate French bureaucracy, scrutiny and judgement for the mother who is not the one giving birth to officially adopt the baby.

Love Letters is produced by Apsara Films with Les Films de June, Douard’s production company with Marie Boitard. The film is based on Douard’s 2024 short Expecting (L’Attente), which won a César award.

Pulsar Content will be at AFM with Damien Dorsaz’s biopic Lady Nazca about Maria Reiche Neuman, Micha Wald’s feminist drama A Survivor’s Tale and Josephine Japy’s The Wonderers.

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