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                 ALFAMA FILMS                  ALL IN           By Roman Karimov with Irina   a horse, he falls in love with his best   Bar Gottfried.
                   78 rue de Turbigo      ENTERTAINMENT         Starshenbaum, Dmitry Bogdan,   friend, a beautiful filly named Olivia,   The critical meeting of two modern
                   75003 Paris, France   7F 5-2-1 Roppongi Minato-Ku,  Yevgeniy Alekhin.  who is also the love interest of the   urbanites will produce both
                  Tel: +33 1 42 01 07 05     Tokyo, Minato-ku   Maksim dreams of repairing an   macho stallion Storm.  destruction and growth, violence
                                                                                                                   and grace.
                                                                old  abandoned  boat  and  set  sail
                 [email protected]     106-0032 Tokyo, Japan  together with his brother who is   CATS
                   alfamafilms.com          Tel: +813 5474 034   receiving  a treatment  from  drug   Completed. Animation, 87’.  ALTERMÉDIA
                     Riviera: F1           [email protected]  addiction. He takes Petr from   By Gary Wang.
                    Paulo Branco         https://rightscube.wixsite.com/  the clinic, interrupting the rehab   Cape, a highly-intelligent little   44 rue de Montmorency
                 (Producer & Int’L Sales),     rightscube       program.                 yellow cat, leaves his owner’s home   75013 Paris, France
                    Jason Bressand           Palais -1: 23,01                            and his father in search of a fabled   Tel: +33 1 42 72 57 30
              (Head of Sales & Festival Manager),    Yusuke Suzuki (General Manager),   ELEPHANTS CAN PLAY FOOTBAL   Peach Blossom Land where all cats   [email protected]
               Louis Descombes (Distributeur)  Wataru Shibayama (Assistant)  Completed. Drama, 105’.  may leave a wonderful life. In his   Altermedia.org
                                                                                         search, he uses his own inventions,
             HERITAGE                 CONFLICT                  GIRLFRIEND FOR RENT      like a rocket or a diving bell, and is   CHICA
             Post-Production. Drama, 164’.  Completed. Crime.   Completed. Comedy, 96’.  helped by Wanderer, a mysterious   Completed. Drama, 61’.
                                                                By Roman Karimov with Efim   stray cat.            By Caroline Chomienne with Judith
             ALL THE DREAMS IN THE WORLD  INNOCENT BLOOD        Petrunin, Lyubov Aksyonova, Roman                  Allio, Cristina Hoyos, Judith Henry,
             Completed. Drama, 108’.  Completed. Drama, 113’.   Kurtsin, Sofia Rayzman.  CRAZY FIST                Samir Guesmi.
             By Laurence Ferreira Barbosa with   By Michihito Fujii with Yuki Sera,   Mitya  is in  a real mess ! He   Completed. Action/Adventure, 97’.  Lorca, 17, lives in Paris with a life of
             Paméla Ramos, Rosa Da Costa,   Riko Uchikoshi, Natsuko Kobayashi,   accidentally proposed to his   By  Qing  Guo  with  Qing  Guo, Wei   parties, music and friends. But these
             Antonio Torres Lima.     Mika Dehara, Hiromi Sakai,   beautiful girlfriend, and her overly   Wang, Xiaoming Huang, Wei Zhao.  are troubled times from which she
             Pamela is stuck in her contradictions,   Shinnosuke Kazama.  excited, powerful father sets the   Shanghai, former mixed martial   escapes to see her grandmother,
             failures and  absolute  love for  her   Three horrific incidents in 2012.   date of the wedding right away.   arts champion and inheritor of a   a  famous  flamenco  dancer  in
             family, she feels lost and seems   The victims, their families, and the     multi-billion  corporation,  swore   Andalucia who helps her discover
             incapable of imagining how she   wrongdoers. The stories of their   SAVING LENINGRAD  never to fight in the ring again after   her cultural identity… and peace.
             could  live  her  life. She will  try  to   suffers and the three years until they   Completed. Drama, 96’.  accidentally killing his opponent
             find her own way between France   are brought to an end.  By  Aleksey Kozlov with Maria   during his last fight.   VÉRA
             and Portugal.                                      Melnikova,  Andrey Udalov, Gela                    Completed. Drama, 87’.
                                      ITOSATO                   Meskhi, Sergey Zharkov.  WHITE SNAKE               By Caroline Chomienne with
             THE BLACK BOOK           Completed. Historical, 116’.  September 1941. In a turn of events   Completed. Fantasy, 95’.  Agathe Bonitzer, Dimitri Storoge,
             Completed. Romance, 110’.                          young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya   By Amp Wong, Ji Zhao.  Yuri Romagnoli, Airy Routier, Lucie
             By Valeria Sarmiento with Lou De   PROOF OF LOVE   find themselves on board of a    A white snake spirit transforms   Boujenah
                                      Completed. Romance, 85’.
             Laage, Niels Schneider, Stanislas                  barge that will evacuate people from   into a woman and falls in love with   Vera, a young dancer, battles within
             Merhar.                  ROAD TO LOVE              the sieged Leningrad. At night the   a man.        herself after quitting the prestigious
             The story of the adventures, in the   Completed. Comedy, 60’.  barge gets into the storm. When it     Paris Opera to integrate into the
             twilight of the eighteenth century, of             starts sinking, enemy planes - but   ALPHA VIOLET  multi-enthnic contemporary dance
             a singular couple formed by a little   ROAD TO THE KING  not rescuers - are the first to arrive   18 rue Soleillet  scene. The metamorphosis of the
             orphan with mysterious origins and   Completed. Drama, 77’.  at the scene.        75020 Paris, France  courageous artist turns out in a way
             his young Italian nurse of a similarly   RYOMA     SELFIE                        Tel: +33 1 47 97 39 84   that she could never have expected.
             uncertain birth. They lead us in their   Completed. Historical, 116’.  Completed. Thriller, 113’.  [email protected]  LA SARDINE 
             wake from Rome to Paris...                         By Nikolay Khomeriki with       alphaviolet.com    By Caroline Chomienne.
                                      UNFINISHED
             MOSQUITO                 Completed. Crime.         Konstantin  Khabenskiy, Anna     Riviera: E18
             Completed.                                         Mikhalkova, Fedor Bondarchuk.  Virginie Devesa (CEO-Sales-  ALTITUDE FILM SALES
                                                                                            Acquisitions), Keiko Funato
                                                                                                                      / ALTITUDE FILM
             NEVER EVER                ALL MEDIA COMPANY        SOBIBOR                     (CEO-Sales & Acquisitions),    ENTERTAINMENT
             Completed. Drama, 86’.       Leningradsky prospect, 9,   Completed. Drama, 117’.  Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre   34 Foubert’s Place
             By Benoît Jacquot with Mathieu   floor 2, location II, room 8   By Konstantin Khabensky with   (Administration and Finance)  W1F 7PX London, United Kingdom
             Amalric, Julia Roy.          125284 Moscow, Russia  Konstantin Khabensky, Christopher                     Tel: +44 207 478 7612 
             After her husband’s death, Laura   [email protected]  Lambert, Felice Jankell,  Michalina   CHAINED
                                                                Olsza ska, Maria Kozhevnikova.
                                                                                         Completed. Drama, 112’.
             discovers she isn’t alone in the   allmediacompany.ru/en                                                 [email protected]
             house with her mourning. There is an   Lerins: M9/M3                        By Yaron Shani with Eran Naim, Stav   altitudefilment.com
             intruder, a strange and "incomplete"   Larisa Leonova (International   ALL RIGHTS  Almagor, Stav Patay.  9 rue des États-Unis, 2nd floor
                                                                                         A police officer is being accused
             being…                     Department), Dasha Morozova    ENTERTAINMENT     of sexually attacking two boys. His   (Tel: +33 4 89 68 50 15)
                                           (Acquisitions Manager)      LIMITED                                     William Clarke (Chairman-Co-CEO),
             STALIN’S COUCH                                        5A - Blk A - Hang Lok Bldg.   helplessness under the investigation,   Andy Mayson (Co-CEO), Mike
             Completed. Drama, 92’.   THE SUPER FAMILY-2          130 Wing Lok St, Sheung Wan  and his inability to have a child of   Runagall (Managing Director-Int’L
             By  Fanny  Ardant  with  Gérard   Production. Comedy, 90’.  852 Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)  his own, push him toward the edges   Sales), Hamish Moseley (Head of
             Depardieu, Emmanuelle Seigner,   By Dmitry Dyachenko with Pavel   Tel: +852 2388 6007   of his existence, where anything can   Distribution), Bradley Quirk (Head
             Paul Hamy.               Derevyanko,  Oksana Akinshina,   [email protected]  happen.    of Development), Charlie Kemball
             In a secret residence where older   Roman Madyanov, Irina Pegova,   allrightsentertainment.com  MONSTERS  (International Sales Director), Karina
             Stalin came to rest a few days,   Daniel Vahrushev, Vladimir   Riviera: E13/E14  Completed. Drama, 116’.  Gechtman (Head of International
             a young painter, Danilov, comes   Tolokonnikov.      Aymeric Contat Desfontaines   By Marius Olteanu with Judith State,   Marketing and Publicity), Gursharn
             to present the dictator his artistic                (Managing Director), Nazim Ben   Cristian Popa, Alexandru Potocean,    Khaira (Head of Legal and Business
             project of a posthumous monument   THE HERO         Senouci (Europe and Middle East   erban Pavlu.      Affairs), Adam Eldrett, Olivier
             to his glory.            Post-Production. Crime, 100’.                      Dana and Arthur, wife and husband   Brunskill (International Sales &
                                      By Karen Oganesian with Aleksandr   Sales Manager), Aurélien Piris           Marketing Coordinator), Anil Ravdjee
             SUNBEAT                  Petrov, Vladimir Mashkov, Svetlana   (International Sales Manager),   in their forties, have been together   (International Sales Manager)
             Completed. Drama, 95’.   Khodchenkova.               Géraldine Imbert Clery (Sales   for almost 10 years. They are a
             By Clara Laperrousaz, Laura   Fifteen years ago Andrey graduated   Manager), David Bauduin (Asian   couple that society, family, friends   ALTITUDE PROMO REEL
             Laperrousaz with  Ana Girardot,   from the Intelligence service school   Sales Manager), Chantal Chauzy   seem to love together, but despise   Completed.
             Agathe Bonitzer, Clément Roussier.  that trained teenagers to be special   (Sales Executive), Hugo Luquet   separately. Because of their needs,   BEATS
             For the holidays, Gabriel and Iris   agents.             (Festival Manager)  their beliefs, their life options, their   Completed. Drama, 102’.
                                                                                         inner monsters.
             return to a family house in Portugal               MUTTS : LOVE HAS NO BORDERS                        By Brian Welsh with Cristian Ortega,
             with their daughters Emma and   COLLECTOR          Development. Action/Adventure,   SICK, SICK, SICK   Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser.
                                      Completed. Thriller, 80’.
             Zoe, irresistible six-year-old twins.   By Alexey Krasovskiy with Konstantin   90’.  Completed. First film, 100’.  1994, a small town in central
             In the heart of a solar landscape,   Khabenskiy.   By Bruce Morris.         By Alice Furtado with Luiza Kosovski,   Scotland. Best mates Johnno and
             between bathing in the river and   Arthur is the best employee of   Izzy is a pampered border collie.   Juan Paiva.  Spanner share a deep bond.
             their kids’ laughter, the couple’s   a  collecting  firm.  He  has  got  a   Ramon is a streetwise mutt. Together   Silvia and Artur’s teenage-romance
             past resurfaces.                                   they head north, meeting lots of new   starts abruptly, and ends up all of   CARMILLA
                                      high income and a solid reputation                                           Completed. Drama, 95’.
             WILD                     among his colleagues.     friends on the way.      sudden when Artur dies. Silvia gets   By Harris Emily with Jessica Raine,
                                                                                         sick and her days turn into dark. Her
             Completed. Drama, 90’.   THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA   JACK BLUE                mourning becomes an obsessive   Tobias Menzies, Greg Wise, Hannah
             By Denis Berry with Nadia   Completed. Historical, 109’.  Production. Family, 85’.  quest to bring him back to life.  Rae, Devrim Lingnau.
             Tereszkiewick, Catarina Wallenstein.  By Igor Zaytsev.  By Celal Ozturk.                              An atmospheric, coming-of-age love
             Nora, 19 years old, just released                  Adopted by horses, Jack, a young   STRIPPED        story steeped in eerie mystery and
             from prison, has only one goal on   DARK WATER     blue donkey, grows up in a farm   Completed. Drama, 119’.  inspired by the gothic vampire novel
             her mind: to hunt down Lea.   Completed. Horror, 113’.  with his animal pals. Thinking he is   By Yaron Shani with Laliv Sivan,    of the same name.
                Screening
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