All articles by Rebecca Leffler – Page 4
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Kirsten Dunst to star in Flora Birnbaum’s debut feature ‘Self Help’
mk2 Films has boarded for international sales with UTA Independent Film Group and WME Independent representing North America.
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WTFilms unleashes French body horror ‘Species’ with Mara Taquin, Karin Viard
EXCLUSIVE: The debut feature from Marion Le Corroller is about a young medical student who witnesses a new virus spreading among young patients.
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Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’ scores early sales ahead of Cannes premiere
The film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge the system during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937.
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Pyramide adopts rising filmmaker Zou Jing’s ‘A Girl Unknown’, starring Li Gengxi
EXCLUSIVE: Li Gengxi also stars in Cannes Competition film ‘Resurrection’.
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How Robin Campillo helped guide the late Laurent Cantet’s last film ‘Enzo’ to the big screen
The coming-of-age drama that opens this year’s Directors’ Fortnight is billed as ‘a film by Laurent Cantet, directed by Robin Campillo’.
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Robert De Niro criticises Trump tariffs at Cannes Film Festival opening ceremony
”You can’t put a price on creativity, but apparently you can put a tariff on it.”
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Cannes 2025: 20 buzz titles from France
Screen presents a selection of the buzziest projects from France available to international buyers at this year’s Cannes market.
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Gerard Depardieu found guilty in sexual assault trial
Depardieu given 18-month suspended jail term and placed on sex offenders register.
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Pyramide launches detective story ‘Maigret And The Dead’ starring Denis Podalydes
EXCLUSIVE: Podalydes takes over the role from the disgraced Gerard Deapardieu
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‘Leave One Day’: Amélie Bonnin on making history by directing the first debut feature to open Cannes
French filmmaker Amélie Bonnin talks about how she infused music and memories into Leave One Day, the first debut feature to open Cannes Film Festival.
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Roberto Saviano to co-direct ‘I’m Still Alive’
EXCLUSIVE: The film is about a 26 year-old sentenced to death by the Napolitan mafia and living life under heavy police protection.
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Pathe bolsters international expansion with investment from shipping billionaire Rodolphe Saade
Rodolphe Saade’s family holding Merit France has taken a 20% stake in the family-owned company.
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France’s SND Films appoints Alexis Reybet-Degat head of international library and scripted sales
Reybet-Degat most recently worked at Studiocanal.
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Future Leaders 2025: Salomé Rizk (France)
Festivals manager and sales agent at Totem Films.
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Future Leaders 2025: Alfred Deragne (France)
Head of acquisitions and co-productions, at Indie Sales
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Future Leaders 2025: Lucie Desquiens (France)
Acquisitions manager and sales agent at Charades.
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Lucky Number launches sales on ‘Salvation’, ‘The Hen: A Feather’s Tale’
EXCLUSIVE: The company, launched late last year by Olivier Barbier, Ola Byszuk and Lenny Porte.
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“I want us to be the most innovative market in the world,” says Cannes’ Guillaume Esmiol
Cannes Marché du Film executive director Guillaume Esmiol tells Screen about positioning the market at the junction of film and innovation.