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             THE PACT                      FLEXYMOVIES          Internet influence genres & cultures   FOX STAR STUDIOS  [email protected]
             Completed. Horror, 106’.     11328 W Magnolia Blvd,   all around the world.   (A DIVISION OF STAR          https://contentsales.
             By David Victori with Belén Rueda,   North Hollywood                             INDIA PVT LTD)           francetvdistribution.fr
             Dario Grandinetti, Mireia Oriol,                   VLAD’S LEGACY                                              Majestic
             Antonio Duran, Josean Bengoetxea,   91601 North Hollywood,   Completed. Horror, 89’.  Star House, Urmi Estate,28th Floor,  Christel Delahaye (Head of
             Carlus Fabrega, Vanessa Buchaca.  California, USA  By Patricio Valladares with Gianni    95 Ganpatrao Kadam Marg,   Acquisitions), Muriel Sauzay
             When Monica finds out her daughter   Tel: +1 310 739 4535   Capaldi, Natalie Burn, Selma Ergeç.  Lower Parel, West  (Consultant), Samuel Golaz
             is about to die, she takes extreme   [email protected]  Filmmaker John Gillespie and his   400013 Mumbai, India  (Directeur Marketing)
             measures to save her.           flexymovies.com    crew travel to Turkey to document   Tel: +91 22 6173 1111 
                                           8 Impasse Bergerie   the legend of Vlad The Impaler, only   [email protected]  FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT
             SOME TIME LATER              (Tel: +393492540469)  to find themselves caught up in a   foxstarstudios.com  Completed. Drama, 104’.
             Completed. Black comedy, 95’.   Alessandro Masi    centuries old conspiracy in a village   Rohit Sharma    By André Téchiné  with  Catherine
             By Jose Luis Cuerda with Roberto   (Film & Tv Business Strategist)  nestled on the outskirts of Istanbul.  (Head of Int’L Sales & Distribution)  Deneuve, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Kamel
             Alamo, Blanca Suarez, Miguel                                                                          Labroudi, Oulaya Amamra, Stéphane
             Rellan, Arturo Valls, Carlos Areces,   A FATHER’S WILL  FORTISSIMO FILMS    BRAHMASTRA                Bak.
             Gabino Diego, Secun De La Rosa.  Completed. First film, 112’.               Post-Production. Fantasy.  Muriel is overjoyed. Her grandson,
             In the year 9177 or so, a thousand   By Dastan Zhapar Uuulu, Bakyt   Van Diemenstraat 134  By  Ayan Mukherji with Ranbir   Alex, will  be  staying  at  her  place
             years here or there the whole world   Mukul with Iman Mukul,  Tynar   1013CN Amsterdam, Netherlands  Kapoor, Alia  Bhatt, Amitabh   for a few days before moving to
             - and according to some authors, the   Abdrazaeva, Aisanat Edigeeva.  Tel: +31 202159310   Bachchan.  Canada.  Intrigued by his curious
             universe too - has been reduced to   After living in the US for 15 years,   [email protected]  behavior, she soon discovers he’s
             just one Representative Building   Azat flies back to Kyrgyzstan to try   fortissimofilms.com  CHHICHHORE  been lying.  Alex is preparing a
             and the filthy outskirts around it   and save the honor of his family by   Majestic:  (Tel: +31628654250)  Post-Production. Drama.  different life. Distraught, Muriel
             inhabited by all of the unemployed   repaying his father’s debts to the   Gabrielle Rozing (General Manager),   By Nitesh Tiwari with Sushant Singh   must act - and there is no time
             and starving people in the cosmos.  villagers.      Clément Magar (General Manager)  Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor.  to lose.
                                                                                         A coming of age drama set against
             UNDER THE SAME ROOF      BEHIND SOME DARK CLOUD    EMILE                    the backdrop of an engineering   KINGS FOR A DAY
             Completed. Comedy, 97’.  Completed. Romance, 90’.  Post-Production. First film, 98’.  college.        Completed. Drama, 84’.
             By Juana Macias with Jordi Sanchez,   By Chelsea Kane with Alice Barrett,   By Zihao Liao with Yinyin Ma, Ze Ying.  By Xabi Molia with Kad Merad,
             Silvia Abril, Ana  Morgade, Alvaro   Julia Barrett-Mitchell, Pascal Yen-  Cheng Die is a young music teacher   HOUSEFUL 4  Sylvie Testud, Kacey Mottet Klein.
             Cervantes, Malena  Alterio, Dani   Pfister.        living in a small town. Following an   Post-Production. Drama.  Despite involving his son Micka in
             Guzman, Cristina Castaño.  Jade,  20  years  old,  hangs  with  a   affair with a married man, she loses   By Sajid Khan with Bobby Deol,   his door-to-door scam operation,
             A divorce, a mortgage, and the worst   vampy schadenfreude and is met   her job and has to leave town. She   Riteish Deshmukh.  Joseph can no longer make ends
             nightmare of a couple breaking up :   with startling intimacy and a tragic   finds herself to an isolated island   meet.
             having to share the house with   discovery in which she’ll have to do   whose inhabitants cannot speak   INDIA’S MOST WANTED
             your ex.                 the only thing she’s been afraid of :              Post-Production. Thriller.  THE RED COLLAR
                                      grow up.                  and where nothing is what it seems.   By Rajkumar Gupta with  Arjun   Completed. Drama, 83’.
                FINECUT CO. LTD       THE FAMILY WHISTLE        She gets immersed in a dreamy   Kapoor.            By Jean Becker with Francois Cluzet,
                                                                                         An espionage thriller which is
                                                                experience.
                Patio House#102(Bldg. C),  Completed. Documentary, 70’.                  inspired from true events. It   Nicolas Duvauchelle.
                22-14 Bongeunsa-ro 26-gil,   By Michele Russo with Francis   THE PENCIL  unfolds the  story  of the  mission   In 1919, in a small town under the
                                                                                                                   crushing heat of summer, a war hero
                    Gangnam-gu        Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Talia   Post-Production. Drama, 100’.  that captured India’s most wanted   is held prisoner in an abandoned
                06126 Seoul, Korea (South)  Shire, Robert Schwartzman, Roman   By Natalya Nazarova with Nadezhda   terrorist, without firing a single   barracks.
                  Tel: +82 2 569 8777   Coppola, Marc Coppola, Jason   Gorelova, Vladimir Mishukov.  bullet.
                  [email protected]  Schwartzman, Michele Russo.  Antonina, an artist from St                   FUNNY BALLOONS
                     finecut.co.kr    A documentary exploring the origins   Petersburg, follows her husband, a   MISSION MANGAL  4 bis rue Saint-Sauveur
                                                                                         Post-Production. Action/Adventure.
                     Riviera: G9      of the famed Coppola family of   political prisoner, to the deep north
              Youngjoo Suh (CEO), Yunjeong Kim   musicians and filmmakers.  province of Russia.  By Jagan Shakti with Akshay Kumar,   75002 Paris, France
                (Director of Int’L Business),                                            Vidya Balan.                  Tel: +33 1 40 13 05 86 
                Bae-Yung Kim (Int’L Sales &   JUST RIGHT HERE   CHRONOLOGY               STUDENT OF THE YEAR 2       [email protected]
               Marketing), Youngkyung Sohn   Completed. Documentary, 70’.  Completed. Thriller, 100’.  Post-Production. Musical.  funny-balloons.com
                  (Festival Coordinator)  By  Simone  Carnesecchi, Tommaso   By Ali Aydin  with  Birkan  Sokullu,   By Punit Malhotra with Tiger Shroff.  17 Square Mérimée, 2nd floor
                                      Lusena De Sarmiento with Pierre                                               Peter Danner (Sales-Acquisitions),
             WARNING : DO NOT PLAY    Vignon, Aldo Fogazza, Sofia Engberg   Cemre Ebuzziya, Serkan Keskin.  ZOYA FACTOR  Renan Artukmac (Acquisitions
             Post-Production. Horror, 98’.  Jame.               Hakan and Nihal have been married   Post-Production. Comedy.  & International Sales)
             By Jin-Won Kim with Yea-Ji Seo,   An intimate diary of two shamans   for many years. Shortly after they   By Abhishek Sharma with Sonam
             Sun-Kyu Jin.             helping locals facing the destruction   find out that Nihal is unable to   Kapoor, Dulquer Salmaan.  A FANTASTIC WOMAN
             An aspiring director Mi-jung   of the sacred Wirikuta desert in   have children, she disappears. While   Completed. Drama, 104’.
             struggles to come up with ideas   Mexico.          frantically searching for her, Hakan   KALANK      By Sebastián Lelio with Daniela
             for a new horror film. Even intense                makes some painful discoveries   Completed. Drama.  Vega.
             bouts of nightmares won’t stop her   LATE WINTER RAIN  about  himself  and  their  marriage.   By Abhishek Varman  with Varun   Marina and Orlando are in love
             from compulsively reaching out for   Completed. Romance, 100’.  He must face his inner demons to   Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sanjay Dutt,   and planning for the future. After
             her laptop every morning.  By Ciro De Caro with Roberto   discover what happened.  Madhuri Dixit, Sonakshi Sinha,   Orlando suddenly dies, Marina is
                                      Caccioppoli, Rossella D’Andrea,                    Aditya Roy Kapur.         forced to confront his family and
             ASTRO GARDENER           Claudia Vismara, Nicola Di Pinto,   FOUR SPRINGS   A Period drama film set against the   society to defend her identity as a
             Completed. Animation, 80’.  Anita Zagaria, Gianni D’Andrea.  Completed. Documentary, 105’.  partition and Indian Independence   complex, strong, forthright, fantastic
                                      When Libero goes back to his   By Qingyi Lu.                                 woman.
             JESTERS: THE GAME CHANGERS   hometown to say farewell to his                struggle of the 1940s.
             (W/T)                    dying grandmother, spring rain   SIREN’S CALL                                NERUDA
             Completed.                                                                  SANJU
                                      washes away the wintry stillness   Completed. Black comedy, 93’.  Completed. Drama, 134’.  Completed. Drama, 108’.
             ME AND ME                to help him finding his true identity   By Ramin Matin with Deniz Cellilo   By Rajkumar Hirani with Ranbir   By Pablo Larrain with Gael Garcia
             Completed.               and love.                 lu, Ezgi Celik.          Kapoor, Paresh Rawal,  Vicky   Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes
                                                                All Tahsin wants is to escape from   Kaushal, Dia Mirza, Sonam Kapoor.  Moran, Pablo Derqui, Alfredo Castro.
                                      LIVING IN NAPLES          the concrete jungle madhouse                       It’s 1948 and the Cold War has
                FLASH FORWARD         Completed. Comedy, 88’.                            TOTAL DHAMAAL             reached Chile.
                 ENTERTAINMENT        By Edoardo De  Angelis, Guido   named Istanbul.    Completed. Bollywood.
                 7F, No. 358, Zhonghe Rd,   Lombardi, Francesco Prisco with   UP THE MOUNTAIN  By Indra Kumar with Ajay Devgn,   GAGA CORPORATION
                   Zhonghe District   Giovanni Esposito, Massimiliano   Completed. Drama, 126’.  Madhuri Dixit, Javed Jaffrey, Arshad   TY Bldg., 2-22-18 Minami-Aoyama,
                23574 New Taipei, Taiwan  Gallo, Miriam Candurro.  By Zhang Yang.        Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman    Minato-ku
                  Tel: +886 2 2926 2839   Three stories about cultural                   Irani, Mahesh Manjrekar.      107-0062 Tokyo, Japan
                   [email protected]    integration, one tribute to the   VORTEX           The madness and the craziness of   Tel: +81 3 5786 7135 
                                                                Completed. Thriller, 100’.
                     ffe.com.tw       welcoming and multiethnic city of   By Jianyu Gan with Chengpeng   the biggest franchise of laughter   [email protected]
                   Patrick Mao Huang    Naples in light tones of comedy.  Dong, Hao Ou, Meng Li.  continues.               gaga.co.jp
                  (Managing Director)                           Liu is in desperate need of money
                                      TWERKUMENTARY                                            FRANCE TV                  Riviera: D13
             A DECISION               Completed. Documentary, 62’.  after losing at gambling, again. A    DISTRIBUTION  Tom Yoda (Chairman of The Board
             Completed. Documentary, 71’.  By Diana Manfredi with Diplo Diplo,   friend can help, he just needs to   of Directors-CEO), Takao Mizuno
                                      Big Freedia, Jameela Jamil, E 40, Too   steal an unregistered car back and   Bat. EOS 37-45   (Operating officer Distribution ),
             LOVE TALK                Short, Kreay Shawn, George Clinton.  resell it. The simple scam becomes   Quai du Président Roosevelt,   Satomi Odake (Operating officer
             Completed. Documentary, 86’.  A film about twerking, freedom of   complicated when they find a little   92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France  Acquisition-Planning), Chizu Ogiya
             By Ko-Shang Shen.        expression and how music & the   girl in the trunk of the car.  Tel: +33 1 56 22 68 24   (General Manager,Acquisition &
                Screening
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