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             mysterious death alone at the old   mere  geographical location  on  a   Violaine Pichon (Co-Founder)  Mcmillan, Frank Chiesurin, Xander   Tel: +1 718 312 82 10 
             family cabin. Now, one year later,   map.                                   Steel, Katie O’Grady.          [email protected]
             Lillian and her friends arrive at the              THE OWNERS               Based on a true story, a community   visitfilms.com
                                                                Pre-Production. Horror.
             cabin to say their goodbyes and   T R Y            By Julius Berg with Maisie Williams.  is rocked by a double-homicide.   Lerins: M4
             finally sell the place.  Completed. Drama, 90’.                             The new resident pastor must help   Ryan Kampe (Decision Maker),
                                      By Angel Haro with Ana Loig, Sergio   JESSICA      his church family overcome the   Lydia Rodman (Director of Sales),
             MORTAL                   Moral.                    Production. Drama.       aftershocks by providing stability,   Tarek Shoukri (Festivals and Non-
             Post-Production. Action/Adventure,   Camila y Marcos, best friends since   By Ninja Thyberg.  healing and hope.  Theatrical Manager), James Lickfield
             109’.                    their childhood, meet again after a   Ambitious 20-year-old Jessica moves       (Manager of Acquisitions)
             By André Øvredal with Nat Wolff,   long time without seeing each other.  from a small town in Sweden to Los   ABEYANCE
             Iben  Akerlie, Priyanka Bose, Per                  Angeles for a shot at a career in the   Completed. Thriller.  ALICE
             Frisch.                  THE WAITER                adult industry.          By Harley Wallen with Scout Taylor-  Completed. Drama, 103’.
                                      Completed. Black comedy, 99’.  GIRL WITH NO MOUTH  Compton, Richard Tyson, Billy Writh,   By Josephine Mackerras with Emilie
             THE SPY                                                                     Mel Novak.                Piponnier, Martin Swabey, Chloe
             Post-Production. Drama, 105’.  By Steve Krikris with Aris Servetalis,   Post-Production. Action/Adventure.  A "fountain of youth" miracle drug   Boreham, Christophe Favre, David
                                                                By Can Evrenol.
             By Jens Jonsson with Ingrid Bolsø   Chiara  Gensini, Alexandros   The coming of age story of Perihan,   is being tested on humans and a   Coburn, Philippe De Monts, Rebecca
             Berdal, Rolf Lasgård,  Alexander   Mavropoulos.    a girl born without a mouth, on a   teenage  daughter  must  develop   Finet.
             Scheer, Edvin Endre.                               quest to escape the wasteland she   unlikely allies to save her parents,   After discovering that her husband’s
             Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia’s most   UDI - URBAN     was born into.           and the world.            addiction to escorts has left their
             acclaimed female movie star, enlists    DISTRIBUTION                                                  family penniless, Alice finds herself
             as a  spy for  Swedish intelligence   INTERNATIONAL  LIL’ BUCK: REAL SWAN   ADVERSE                   drawn into the world of high-end
                                                                Completed. Documentary, 90’.
             but ends up becoming entangled   2 rue Charles Renouvier  By Wallecan Louis.  Completed. Thriller.    prostitution as a means of caring
             with the German Reichskommissar   75020 Paris, France                       With  Penelope Ann  Miller,  Mickey   for herself and her child.
             Terboven.                     Tel: +33 1 48 70 46 56                        Rourke, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean
                                           [email protected]      VILLAGE INC.        Astin, Andrew Keegan, Matt Ryan,   CRSHD
             VALHALLA                        urbandistrib.com     3-8-8-7F Shinkuku Shijuku-ku  Thomas Ian Nicholas.  Completed. Comedy, 81’.
             Post-Production. Action/Adventure,   Riviera: L2       160-0022 Tokyo, Japan  In order to save his sister, a ride-  By Emily Cohn with Isabelle Barbier,
             100’.                        Frédéric Corvez (President),    Tel: +81 80 4805 51 22   share  driver  must  infiltrate  a   Deeksha Ketkar, Sadie Scott, Will
             By Fenar  Ahmad with Cecilia   Delphyne Besse (Head of Sales   [email protected]  dangerous crime syndicate.  Janowitz, L.h. Gonzalez,  Abdul
             Loffredo, Saxo Moltke-Leth, Roland   & Acquisitions), Louise Ronzet   geki-cine.jp/en                 Seidu.
             Møller, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Stine Fischer   (International Sales), Morgane Delay   Palais -1: 23,01  BOB FOSSE : IT’S SHOWTIME!
             Christensen.                 (Festival Manager & Sales),    Hiroyuki Hata    Completed. Biography, 60’.  INITIALS SG
             The  Viking  children  Røskva  and   Jennyfer Gautier (International    (Director-Int’L Operations)  By Lucia Helenka  with Bob  Fossé,   Completed. Comedy, 99’.
             Tjalfe embark on an adventurous   Sales & Marketing)                        Will Young, Louise Redknapp, David   By Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia with
             journey from Midgard to Valhalla                   FORTRESS OF SKULLS       Benedict.                 Diego Peretti, Julianne Nicholson,
             with the gods Thor and Loki.  CHICHINETTE - HOW I   Completed. Action/Adventure, 134’.                Daniel Fanego, Malena Sanchez,
                                      ACCIDENTALLY BECAME A SPY   By Hidenori Inoue, Takuji Izumi with   LONG GONE WILD  Francisco Lumerman.
             THE OTHER LAMB           Completed. Documentary, 86’.  Kenichi Matsuyama, Osamu Mukai,   Completed. Environmental, 83’.
             Completed. Drama, 95’.   By Nicola Alice Hens with Marthe   Rena Tanaka.    By William Neal with Ric O’Barry,   SAINT FRANCES
             By Ma go ka Szumowska with Raffey   Cohn, Major Cohn.  Early 1590, after the death of the   Dr. Naomi Rose, Dr. Ingrid Visser,   Completed. Drama, 98’.
             Cassidy, Denise Gough.                             ruler Oda Nobunaga, the Land was   Charles Vinick.  By Alex Thompson  with  Kelly
             Selah lives in a repressive all-female   UNIVERSE FILMS  taken over by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.   The orca, or killer whale, is again   O’Sullivan, Ramona Edith-Williams,
             cult, ruled by one man, Shepherd.    DISTRIBUTION CO. LTD  Away from the capital, a mysterious   being hunted for sale into the   Lily Mojekwu, Charin Alvarez, Jim
             After witnessing a certain sacred   18/F, Wyler Centre Phase II,   rebel called Tenmao forms a Skull   exploding marine theme park   True-Frost, Max Lipchitz.
             ritual, Selah starts to question the   192-200 Tai Lin Pai Rd  army. Between them all, how will   industry. An in-depth  look  at the   After her decision to end an
             cult’s way of life - and its leader.   Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)  the civil war end?  case against  captivity, the Whale   unwanted pregnancy, 34-year-
                                           Tel: +852 2416 3008                           Sanctuary  Project,  and  daring   old Bridget reluctantly agrees to
             PARADISE WAR                                         VIRGIL FILMS AND                                 nanny the bright and rambunctious
             Completed. Drama, 130’.      [email protected]  ENTERTAINMENT         undercover work in search of orcas   Frances, forming an unexpected
             By Hilber Niklaus.                u333.com                                  held captive.             bond with her and her parents.
                                              Riviera: G11           20 Terry Drive, #649
             TRUSTNORDISK PROMO REEL           Alvin Lam        18940 Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA  MAKING BABIES    THE SHARKS
             Completed.                     (General Manager),       Tel: +1 917 545 8766   Completed. Comedy, 88’.  Completed. Drama, 80’.
             By Artists Various.               Mia Sin              [email protected]  By Josh F. Huber with Steve Howey,   By Lucía Garibaldi with Romina
                                        (Assistant Distribution Manager),    virgilfilms.com  Eliza Coupe, Ed Begley Jr., Glenne   Bentancur, Federico Morosini, Fabian
                      TVCO             Carmen Kai (Distribution Assistant)  Joe Amodei (President-CEO),    Headly, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Heidei   Arenillas, Valeria  Lois, Antonella
                    Via Buccari 16                                 Michael Meister (Director of   Gardner, Jon Daly.  Aquistapache.
                   00195 Rome, Italy  CALL HEAVEN TO HEAVEN      Acquisitions), Tim Maggiani (Vice   After years of trying to conceive the   While reports of shark sightings
                                      Post-Production. Thriller, 90’.
                                                                                         romantic way, a young couple put
                  Tel: +39 335 273 654   By Oxide Pang with Kabby Hui, Joyin   President Digital Services),    their bodies, wallet and marriage   create panic in a small beach
                   [email protected]   Choi, Yomi.                  Carol Fountain (Manager,   through the ringer of modern   town, 14-year-old Rosina begins to
                      tvco.eu         Three young girls are mysteriously   Acquisitions)  infertility treatments with surprising   circle her own prey as her intense
                   Riviera: A10-C1    captured and detained on an remote                                           attraction  to  an  older co-worker
                Vincenzo Mosca (President),   island, scared and helpless, they’re   CLARENCE CLEMONS WHO    results !  grows.
               Simonetta Polese (International   forced to become matching mates   DO I THINK I AM   SPEED IS MY NEED
                                                                Completed. Documentary, 90’.
                 Sales), Billy Montacchini    of the three islander brothers who’re   By Mead Nick.  Completed. Documentary, 74’.  TITO
                   (Festival Manager)                                                                              Completed. Comedy, 70’.
                                      raised by their grandmother on the                 By Mark Sloper with Freddie Spencer,   By Grace Glowicki with Grace
             REVOLUTION               island in isolation from the outside   VISION FILMS  Colin Edwards, Rick Broadbent, Peter   Glowicki, Ben Petrie.
                                                                                         Hickman, Kenny Roberts.
             Post-Production. Drama, 91’.  world.                  333 Washington Blvd #357                        Paralyzed by fear of the outside
             By Joseph Troia with Giulia Schiavo,   THE WHITE STORM 2 DRUG LORDS  90292 Marina Del Rey,   XENOPHOBIA  world, a traumatized man seeks
             Paolo Caterino, Vittorio Nastri.  Post-Production. Action/Adventure,   California, USA  Completed. Thriller, 90’.  refuge in an abandoned house until
             Two boys and a girl perform a violent   100’.          Tel: +1 818 784 17 02   By Joe Castro, Steven J. Escobar,   the arrival of a cheerfully intrusive
             act in the name of the ideals they   By Herman Yau with Andy Lau, Louis   [email protected]  Thomas Churchill with Kirsten   neighbor.
                                                                       visionfilms.net
             believe in, but a tragic accident will   Koo, Michael Miu, Karena Lam,   5 La Croisette, 2nd floor   Renton, Brinke Stevens, Rachel   THE WALL OF MEXICO
             challenge their convictions.  Cherry Ying, Kent Cheng.  (Tel: +1 818 235 99 09)  Sterling, Alexander Kane.  Completed. Drama, 105’.
                                                                 Lise Romanoff (Managing Director-  Six unlikely strangers recall the   By Zachary Cotler, Magdalena
             PORTUGAL                        VERSATILE                                   details of  their experiences with   Zyzak with Jackson Rathbone, Esai
             Completed. Drama, 112’.       65 rue de Dunkerque    CEO Worldwide Distribution),    alien  forces,  their  abductions and   Morales, Mariel Hemingway, Xander
             By Lauri Lagle with Mirtel Pohla,   75009 Paris, France  Adam Wright (Exec. VP-Sales    possessions, but can they overcome   Berkeley, Moises  Arias, Carmela
                                                                  & Acquisitions), Kristen Bedno
             Margus Prangel,  Taavi Eelmaa,   Tel: +33 1 76 21 61 68   (Director of Domestic Distribution    their fears and trust each other in   Zumbado, Marisol Sacramento, Alex
             Jarmo Reha, Anne Türnpu.     [email protected]     & Marketing)      order to survive ?        Meneses.
             Portugal is profound and smooth   versatile-films.com                                                 A young handyman begins working
             like a summer’s night. It is a physical   Res. Du Gray D’Albion:   A MURDER OF INNOCENCE  VISIT FILMS  for a decadently wealthy Mexican-
             progression and a mental journey   20 bis rue des Serbes  Completed. Drama, 90’.  173 Richardson St.  American family and is drawn into a
             towards something other than a   Pape Boye (Co-Founder),    By Shawn Justice with Rachael   11222 Brooklyn, New York, USA  bitter feud when the family decides
                Screening
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