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AFM Line-up and screening schedule.
THE CURED
Nov. 3rd, 11:30AM at AMC Santa Monica 6
LET THE CORPSES TAN
Nov. 3rd, 1:30PM at AMC Santa Monica 6
Gilles Sousa and Marie Garrett will attend AFM from November 1st to 7th and will be pleased to see you there. If you wish to request a meeting please email to:
s.briot-romer@bacfilms.fr
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THE CURED
By David Freyne
Awarded Best Horror Feature at Austin Fantastic Fest
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For six years, Europe was plagued by a devastating virus that transformed humans into zombie-like monsters. As mankind struggled to control the pandemic, the great hope of a cure was found. Although an unforeseen enemy surfaces in its wake: the past. The cured are haunted with the memories of their actions while infected. As some try to readjust to a world that still fears them, the growing unrest threatens to plunge the world back into chaos.
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GENRE - Drama, Horror
COUNTRY - Ireland
PRODUCED BY Tilted Pictures
CO-PRODUCED BY BAC Films Production
CAST - Sam Keeley, Ellen Page
STATUS: Completed
MARKET SCREENING IN AFM
Nov. 3rd, 11:30AM at AMC Santa Monica 6
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LET THE CORPSES TAN
By Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
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The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun….and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration.
Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield….Relentless and mindblowing.
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GENRE - Western Noir, Thriller
CONTRY - Belgium, France
PRODUCED BY Anonymes Films and Tobina Film
CAST - Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara
STATUS: Completed
MARKET SCREENING IN AFM
Nov. 3rd, 1:30PM at AMC Santa Monica 6
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In 1975 in Phnom Penh, Chou leads an enchanted life until one morning when the Khmer Rouge madness plunges Cambodia into horror. The population is deported to camps and Chou’s confronted to the pain of powerlessness. When her 4-year-old son is snatched from her by a fleeing crown, her world falls apart but she never loses hope. Funan is the incredibly powerful story of a young mother’s fight to save her son and keep her family together in a barbaric time.
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GENRE - Animation, Drama
COUNTRY - France, Belgium, Luxembourg
PRODUCED BY Les Films d'Ici, Epuar
CO-PRODUCED BY BAC Cinéma, Lunanime
STATUS: In Production
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THE BLESSED
(aka LES BIENHEUREUX)
By Sofia Djama
Lyna Khoudri awarded Best Acress in Venice Orizzonti
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Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal tells about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - France, Belgium, Qatar
PRODUCED BY Liaison Cinématographique
CO-PRODUCED BY Artémis Productions, Les Films de la Source
CAST - Sami Bouajila, Nadia Kaci, Lyna Khoudri
STATUS: Completed
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UNA FAMIGLIA
By Sebastiano Riso
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At first sight, Vincent and Maria may look like any other couple. He is protective, she is passionate. But who knows what happens behind closed doors? For years, Maria has been too vulnerable and in love to stand up to him, but when she realizes that she can no longer be Vincent’s accomplice, their secret life-project threatens to get out of control.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Italy
PRODUCED BY Indiana Production
CAST - Patrick Bruel, Micaela Ramazzotti
STATUS: Completed
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Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything was normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY F comme Film, Trois Brigands Productions
CAST - Noée Abita, Laure Calamy and Juan Cano
STATUS: Completed
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THE TEACHER
By Olivier Ayache-Vidal
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Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris.
Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
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GENRE - Comedy
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY Sombrero Films and Atelier de Production
CAST - Denis Podalydès, Léa Drucker, Abdoulaye Diallo
STATUS: Completed
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The Yellow Eagle family lives in an Indian Reservation. Soon after news reaches them that the youngest son has died during military service in Afghanistan, his brother is involved in a fight with the white community and falls in a coma. Trapped in a spiral of alcohol and violence, the eldest has to stand up as a man again. LAND is a modern western about Indians, whites, distance, longing and cattle farms set in the American plains.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Italy, France, Mexico, Netherlands
PRODUCED BY Asmara Films, The cup of tea, Piano Productions, Topkapi Films
STATUS: In Post Production
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Gilles Sousa and Marie Garrett will attend the AFM. If you would like to request a meeting please send an email to:
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Office in AFM: Santa Monica, Loews Hotel, room 612
All the best
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