07/05/2024 - The French sales agent will be storming the Marché du Film with an armada of six titles in the Official Selection and one in the Directors’ Fortnight

The years go by to the same happy effect on the Croisette for French sales agent Pyramide International (directed by Éric Lagesse and steered by Agathe Mauruc), who’ll be counting on seven films showcasing in the various selections of the Marché du Film, unspooling within the 77th Cannes Film Festival (running 14 – 25 May).

Shining bright among these are six feature films set to world premiere in the Official Selection, one of which is in the running for the 2024 Palme d’Or 2024, namely Agathe Riedinger’s first film Wild Diamond [+see also:
film review
interview: Agathe Riedinger
film profile].

Three titles in their line-up stand out in the Un Certain Regard section, in the form of L'Histoire de Souleymane by Boris Lojkine, Holy Cow [+see also:
film review
film profile] by Louise Courvoisier and Viet and Nam by Minh Quý Truong. The latter revolves around Nam and Viet who are in love. Both are miners, working 1,000 metres below ground, where danger lurks and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living while polluting the land and the sea. Black sea. Black coal. Burnt coal. Wet coal. Dusty coal. When Nam decides to leave the country via an agent who smuggles people out in shipping containers, a rift develops between his love for Viet and his hopes for his future… Production is entrusted to Filippino firm Epicmedia alongside Singapore’s E&W Films, French outfit Deuxième Ligne Films, Holland’s An Original Picture, Taiwan’s Volos Films and Germany’s Scarlet Visions.

Pyramide’s line-up also includes Jim’s Story, within the Official Selection, by brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, which is set to be unveiled in the Cannes Première section (a loose adaptation of Pierric Bailly’s novel of the same name, mainly starring Karim Leklou, Laetitia Dosch and Sabrina Seyvecou), as well as Yolande Zauberman’s documentary The Belle From Gaza [+see also:
film review
interview: Yolande Zauberman
film profile], which will be treated to a special screening.

Last but not least, the Directors’ Fortnight will see Pyramide International pinning their hopes on Thierry de Peretti’s In His Own Image [+see also:
film review
interview: Thierry de Peretti
film profile].

It’s an XXL line-up which is shaping up to be a profitable one, helped not least by promo-reel-based presales on Emmanuel Mouret’s Three Friends (article - in post-production) at the Marché du Film, and sales set to be rounded off on André Téchiné’s My New Friends [+see also:
film review
film profile], Pascal Bonitzer’s Auction and on Finnish-Swedish director Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.

(Translated from French)