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Payam Yazdani.           SILENCIO                 By Peter Bishai with François Arnaud.  ringtail possum who is obsessed   By Mees Peijnenburg with Jonas
              Tehran’s air pollution has reached   Post-Production. Thriller, 98’.  A publicity seeking radio DJ is driven   with the world outside of the city   Smulders,  Bilal Wahib, Tamar Van
              the maximum level because of   By Lorena Villarreal with Rupert   to the edge of insanity when he   walls and the adventures that lay   Waning.
              inversion. Niloofar,  a  35-year-old   Graves, John Noble.  attempts to break the 11 day world   within it, amongst the wild animals.
              girl who owns a sewing workshop,   In order to save her son’s life,   record for staying awake-under the   TIJUANA BIBLE
              lives with her mother.   Ana must find a mystical stone   threat of a deranged caller who will   BROTHERS’ NEST  Post-Production. Thriller.
                                       which her grandfather originally   kill him if he falls asleep.  Completed. Drama, 98’.  By Jean-Charles Hue with Paul
              NAHID                    discovered in Mexico’s Zone of                     By Clayton Jacobson with Shane   Anderson, Adriana Paz, Luis Alberti.
              Completed. First film, 105’.  Silence. Throughout her desperate   RUST CREEK  Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson, Sarah   Upon returning from several tours
              By Ida Panahandeh with Sareh   search, Ana stumbles upon family   Completed. Thriller, 100’.  Snook, Kim Gyngel, Lynette Curran.  in Iraq, and feeling utterly incapable
              Bayat, Navid Mohammad Zadeh,   secrets and enemies who believe   By Jen Mcgowan with Hermione   Two brothers’ murder plans go   of returning to his former life in the
              Pouria Rahimi, Nasrin Babaei, Milad   the stone‘s power is worth killing for.  Corfield.  somewhat sideways in this   US without going crazy, Nick Wilson
                                                                                                                   (Paul Anderson) has washed up in
              Hossein Pour.                                     TEACHER                   Australian dark comedy.  Tijuana.
              A young divorcee, not wanting to   BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS  Completed. Drama, 90’.  DEADTECTIVES
                                       Completed. Fantasy, 93’.
              lose the custody of her son and   By  Monty Whitebloom, Andy   By Adam Dick with Kevin Pollak,   Completed. Comedy, 90’.  TOP OF THE CLASS
              struggling to keep her beloved man   Delaney with Matthew Broderick,   David  Dastmalchian,  Zachary   By  Tony  West with Chris Geere,   Post-Production. Comedy.
              she wants to marry, has to think   Chloe Sevigny, Shannon  Tarbet,   Kamen.  David Newman, Martha Higareda.  By Stéphane Ben Lahcene with
              about the temporary marriage   Aidan Turner.      A high school English teacher goes   From the Producer of Netflix’s   Pascal Nzonzi, Michèle Laroque.
              (Sighe) that is not well-received by   A funny and irresistible story of a   to disturbing lengths to protect his   El Chapo, DeadTectives is a   Abou, 13, is his father’s pride and
              the society at all, despite being legal.   young girl who literally cannot see or   favorite students from bullies.  irreverent, laugh out loud blend of   joy. Unlike his 3 brothers, he’s "top
              What’s the solution for her problem?  hear her mother, even though she is   Ghostbusters, Shaun of the Dead   of his class". Well, that’s what he
                                       living with her under the same roof.  ODIN’S EYE   and Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners.  pretends to be.
              NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE                                 ENTERTAINMENT                                  BATTLE OF THE CLASSES
              Completed. Drama, 104’.  BERSERK                     Level 2, 85 The Grand Parade,   DINO KING : JOURNEY TO FIRE   Completed. Drama, 104’.
              By Vahid  Jalilvand  with Amir   Completed. Thriller, 81’.  PO Box 173 - Brighton Le Sands  MOUNTAIN  By Michel Leclerc.
                                                                                          Completed. Animation, 92’.
              Agha’Ee, Navid Mohammadzadeh,   By  Rhys  Wakefield  with Rhys   2216 Sydney,   By Han Sang Ho with Hee Soon Park.  Corentin, Paul and Sofia’s 9-year-old
              Hediyeh  Tehrani, Sa’Eed Dakh,   Wakefield, Nick Cannon, James   New South Wales, Australia  An action packed family adventure   son, only has friends that look like
              Alireza Ostadi, Zakiyeh Behbahani.  Roday, Nora Arnezeder.  Tel: +61 295 672 294   that combines the realism of   him at school. After his friends leave
              Vahid Jalilvand (Tehran, 1976) is a   DEATH KISS       [email protected]  "Walking with dinosaurs" with the   for a Parisian private school, his
              graduate in Theater Directing. He   Completed. Action/Adventure, 88’.  odinseyeent.com  heart of "Finding Nemo".  parents get scared. From now on,
              was the actor in many television   By Rene Perez with Robert Kovacs,   Lerins: M2 (Tel: +61410382771)  Corentin is the only one in his class.
              series and plays and director of   Richard Tyson, Eva Hamilton.  Michael Favelle (CEO), Martin Gallery   FOODIVERSE  But the only what?
              many home video series and   A vigilante with a mysterious past   (Head of International Sales and   Completed. Animation, 90’.
              documentaries. "Wednesday, May   becomes a one-man army as he   Distribution), Belinda Davis (EVP   By Chen Liaoyu.  CITY HUNTER
                                                                                                                   Completed. Action/Adventure, 91’.
                                                                                          Grab your space helmet and blast off
              9", his first feature got many awards.   takes on a crime-infested town, at   Development, Acquisitions, Festivals)  By Philippe Lacheau with Philippe
                                       the same time protecting a young                   into a fantastical adventure set in a   Lacheau, Elodie Fontan, Pamela
              RONA, AZIM’S MOTHER      mother and her child.    HUMP                      distant galaxy made entirely of food.  Anderson, Didier Bourdon, Tarek
              Completed. Second film, 89’.                      Development. Action/Adventure.                     Boudali, Julien Arruti.
              By Jamshid Mahmoudi with Mohsen   DIVISION 19     By Ron Gibbs with Simon Pegg,   ORANGE STUDIO
              Tanabandeh, Mojtaba Pirzadeh,   Completed. Action/Adventure, 93’.  Gaten Matarazzo, Ramy Youssef.  21 rue Jasmin  HEAVY DUTY
              Fatemeh Hosseini, Fereshteh   By S.a. Halewood with Linus Roache,   Set among the rolling dunes of a   75016 Paris, France  Completed. Comedy, 83’.
              Hosseini, Fatemeh Mirzaei, Alireza   Alison Doody.  vast and exotic Arabian desert, a   Tel: +33 1 57 36 11 11   By  Betrand  Blier  with  Gérard
              Ostadi.                  2039. Jails have been turned into   Bedouin boy named Omar and his   [email protected]  Depardieu, Christian Clavier,
              Azim, an afghan refugee, who works   online portals and prisoners have   best friend, a bumbling, yet sweetly   orange-studio.fr  Alexandra Lamy, Alex Lutz, Audrey
                                                                sincere Camel named Rami frolic
              at the municipality at night, lives in   become virtual pawns. The general   and play among the dunes, oases   35 Bd de la Croisette  Dana, Bouli Lanners.
              Tehran along with his family. Being   public determines what they eat,   and plains without a care in the   Serguei Obolensky (Head of Film   KILL BEN LYK
              the head of entire family, he has to   wear, watch and who they fight.  world.  Operations), Nicolas Descalles   Completed. Thriller, 78’.
              choose  between  his  own life and                                          (Sales Manager), Lenny Porte (Sales   By Erwan Marinopoulos.
              his mother’s whom he has always   FERAL           ANGEL’S RAGE              Manager), Andrei Kamarowsky (Head   Within 24 hours three people have
                                       Completed. Thriller, 90’.
              claimed as the most important one   By Mark Young with Scout Taylor-  Pre-Production. Action/Adventure.  of Sales), Emilie Serres (Deputy   been murdered in London, all by
              in his life...                                    By Michael Spooner with David   Head of Sales), Andrea Dos Santos   the name of Ben Lyk. Scotland Yard
                                       Compton.                 Sakurai.                  (International Sales), Inès Papo (Sales   decides to gather together all the
                     OCTANE            LADY-LIKE                A Japanese gangster living and    Assistant)       other  Ben Lyks located in  London
                  ENTERTAINMENT        Completed. Comedy, 90’.  operating in L.A. desperately   WASP NETWORK       until they can figure out who’s after
                                                                attempts to fight his way out of
                   17049 Ventura Blvd.  By Brent Craft with Beverly D’Angelo,   the Yakuza path that his family has   Production. True Story.  them and why.
                91316 Encino, California, USA  Olivia Luccardi, Stephanie Simbari,   followed for generations.  By Olivier Assayas with Penélope   SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS 2
                  Tel: +1 818 508 66 01   Allie Gallerani.                                Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Gael Garcia   Completed. Comedy, 98’.
                   [email protected]  When a quick-witted but co-   ARKIE                Bernal, Wagner Moura.    By Philippe De Chauveron with
                    octaneent.com      dependent college girl helps her   Pre-Production. Animation.  THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF  Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby,
                      Lerins: M6       best friend land a boyfriend, she’s   By Luke Jurevicius with Shailene   Post-Production. Family.  Ary Abittan, Medi Sadoun, Frédéric
               Jack Campbell (President), Marie   left on the outside looking in and is   Woodley, Jai Courtney,  Andrew   By Marilou Berry with Marilou Berry,   Chau, Noom Diawara, Julia Platon,
              Chloe Knoff (Assistant To President),   forced to deal with the realities of   Bachelor, Tim Minchin.  Gérard Jugnot, Bérengère Krief.  Frédérique Bel, Elodie Fontan, Émilie
                 Robert Bronzi (Consultant)  adulthood for the first time.  As her world is shrouded in darkness   Victor is 12 and has an overflowing   Caen.
                                                                a young girl must travel to a city of              4 years after the international
              THE BLACK STRING         MONSTER PARTY            light, save her best friend from a   imagination. He lives alone in his   success, the (whole) Verneuil family
                                                                                          grandfather’s lodge, who is the
              Post-Production. Thriller, 90’.  Completed. Horror, 89’.  mysterious scientist and discover the      is back!
              By Brian Hanson with Frankie Muniz.  By Chris Von Hoffman with Julian   history behind her own unique self.  superintendent.
              When  a  suburban  slacker  has  a   Mcmahon, Virginia Gardner, Robin       DUNE DREAMS              THE VETS
              reckless encounter with a mysterious   Tunney.    TALES FROM SANCTUARY CITY :   Post-Production. Thriller.  Completed.
              woman, his life begins to unravel in   Three teenage thieves infiltrate   COMBAT WOMBAT  By  Samuel  Doux  with  Benoit
              horrific fashion.        a mansion dinner party secretly   Pre-Production. Action/Adventure.  Magimel, Igor Van Dessel, Johannes   OUTSIDER PICTURES
                                                                By Ricard Cusso.
                                       hosted by a group of recovering                    Kuhnke, Agata Buzek.          1127 9th Street #104
              CAMP COLD BROOK          murderers for the social elite.  TALES FROM SANCTUARY CITY :   In  the  wake  of his  wife’s death,   90403 Santa Monica, California, USA
              Post-Production. Thriller, 87’.                   DAISY QUOKKA, WORLD’S
              By Andy Palmer with Chad Michael   THE RANGER     SCARIEST ANIMAL           Simon tries to make a fresh start   Tel: +1 310 951 0878 
                                                                                          by moving with his son Camille
              Murray, Danielle Harris.  Completed. Horror, 77’.  Pre-Production. Action/Adventure.  to Dubai.          [email protected]
              A paranormal reality tv show visits   By Jess Wexler with Chloe Levine,   By Ricard Cusso.                 outsiderpictures.us
              an abandoned summer camp where   Jeremy Holm, Larrey Fessenden.             I WISH SOMEONE WERE WAITING
              a mass murder had taken place   Teen punks, on the run from the cops   TALES FROM SANCTUARY CITY :   FOR ME SOMEWHERE
              decades before.          and hiding out in the woods, come   THE WISHMAS TREE  Post-Production. Drama.     FOR FULL
                                       up against the local authority - an   Production. Animation.  By Arnaud Viard  with  Jean-Paul
              ESCAPE FROM DEATH BLOCK 13  unhinged park ranger with an axe   By Ricard Cusso.  Rouve, Alice Taglioni,  Benjamin   DETAILS, GO TO
              Post-Production. Action/Adventure,   to grind.    Deep within the gates of the   Lavernhe, Camille Rowe.
              90’.                                              fantastical, protected animal
              By Gary Jones with Nicholas Turturro,   RAPID EYE MOVEMENT  paradise known as Sanctuary City,   PARADISE DRIFTERS
              Robert Kovacs.           Completed. Thriller, 107’.  stands Kerry, a young, rebellious   Post-Production. Drama.

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