All articles by Rebecca Leffler – Page 6
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         Features FeaturesCannes 2025: 20 buzz titles from FranceScreen presents a selection of the buzziest projects from France available to international buyers at this year’s Cannes market. 
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         News NewsGerard Depardieu found guilty in sexual assault trialDepardieu given 18-month suspended jail term and placed on sex offenders register. 
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         News NewsPyramide launches detective story ‘Maigret And The Dead’ starring Denis PodalydesEXCLUSIVE: Podalydes takes over the role from the disgraced Gerard Deapardieu 
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         Features Features‘Leave One Day’: Amélie Bonnin on making history by directing the first debut feature to open CannesFrench 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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         News NewsRoberto 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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         News NewsPathe bolsters international expansion with investment from shipping billionaire Rodolphe SaadeRodolphe Saade’s family holding Merit France has taken a 20% stake in the family-owned company. 
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         News NewsFrance’s SND Films appoints Alexis Reybet-Degat head of international library and scripted salesReybet-Degat most recently worked at Studiocanal. 
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         Features FeaturesFuture Leaders 2025: Salomé Rizk (France)Festivals manager and sales agent at Totem Films. 
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         Features FeaturesFuture Leaders 2025: Alfred Deragne (France)Head of acquisitions and co-productions, at Indie Sales 
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         Features FeaturesFuture Leaders 2025: Lucie Desquiens (France)Acquisitions manager and sales agent at Charades. 
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         News NewsLucky 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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         Features Features“I want us to be the most innovative market in the world,” says Cannes’ Guillaume EsmiolCannes Marché du Film executive director Guillaume Esmiol tells Screen about positioning the market at the junction of film and innovation. 
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         News NewsLuxbox takes on international sales to Radu Jude’s offbeat comedy drama ‘Dracula’EXCLUSIVE: “Make Dracula Great Again,” said Jude of the film that is being launched in Cannes. 
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         News NewsHitchcock homage ’Murder In The Building’, starring Laetitia Casta, starts shooting in ParisEXCLUSIVE: SND has boarded the project and is handling international sales. 
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         News NewsFrance tv distribution launches sales on French science drama ‘Chemical Bond’EXCLUSIVE: Aurelien Peilloux-directed feature centres on two researchers who grow close while studying a revolutionary cure for depression. 
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         News NewsCzech road movie ‘Caravan’ secures French deal for Alpha VioletEXCLUSIVE: The Un Certain Regard title is about a woman whose life is transformed for the better when she heads to Italy with her son. 
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         News NewsPlaytime to court buyers with Italian sports drama ‘My Tennis Maestro’ starring Pierfrancesco FavinoEXCLUSIVE: "My Tennis Maestro is a tribute to the mentors who show up in unexpected ways," said director Andrea Di Stefano. 
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        ![GareAM6A9808[42]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/100x67/7/7/5/1449775_gaream6a980842_423330.jpg) News NewsEric Toledano, Olivier Nakache start shooting 1980s family comedy ‘Just An Illusion’EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont is handling international sales on the film, about the joys and pains of adolescence. 
 








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