Bac Films Line up in Cannes
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Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything was normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY F Comme Film and Trois Brigands Productions
CAST - Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano
STATUS: Completed
OFFICIAL PREMIERE
May 19th,11:30am at Espace Miramar
PRESS AND INDUSTRY
May 19th, 6:15pm at Espace Miramar
May 19th, 10pm at Espace Miramar
May 20th, 8:30am at Espace Miramar
MARKET SCREENINGS
May 19th, 3:30pm at Olympia 3
May 20th, 3:30pm at Olympia 9
May 22nd, 12pm at Palais I
May 25th, 3:30pm at Riviera 1
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THE TEACHER
By Olivier Ayache-Vidal
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Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris.
Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
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GENRE - Comedy
COUNTRY - France
PRODUCED BY Sombrero Films and Atelier de Production
CAST - Denis Podalydès, Léa Drucker
STATUS: Completed
MARKET SCREENINGS
May 18th, 9:30am at Arcades 3
May 20th, 11:30am at Palais D
May 23rd, 9:30am at Olympia 7
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THE THIRD WAVE
By David Freyne
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For six years, Europe was plagued by a devastating virus that transformed humans into zombie-like monsters. As mankind struggled to control the pandemic, the great hope of a cure was found. Although an unforeseen enemy surfaces in its wake: the past. The cured are haunted with the memories of their actions while infected. As some try to readjust to a world that still fears them, the growing unrest threatens to plunge the world back into chaos.
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GENRE - Drama, Horror
COUNTRY - Ireland
PRODUCED BY Tilted Pictures
CAST - Sam Keeley, Ellen Page
STATUS: In Post Production
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UNA FAMIGLIA
By Sebastiano Riso
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At first sight, Vincent and Maria may look like any other couple. He is protective, she is passionate. But who knows what happens behind closed doors? For years, Maria has been too vulnerable and in love to stand up to him, but when she realizes that she can no longer be Vincent’s accomplice, their secret life-project threatens to get out of control.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Italy
PRODUCED BY Indiana Production
CAST - Patrick Bruel, Micaela Ramazzotti
STATUS: In Post Production
NEW TITLE
Exclusive promo
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The Yellow Eagle family lives in an Indian Reservation. Soon after news reaches them that the youngest son has died during military service in Afghanistan, his brother is involved in a fight with the white community and falls in a coma. Trapped in a spiral of alcohol and violence, the eldest has to stand up as a man again. LAND is a modern western about Indians, whites, distance, longing and cattle farms set in the American plains.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Italy, France, Mexico, Netherlands
PRODUCED BY Asmara Films, The cup of tea, Piano Productions, Topkapi Films
STATUS: In Post Production
EXCLUSIVE NEW PROMO
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LET THE CORPSES TAN
LAISSEZ BRONZER LES CADAVRES
By Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
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The Mediterranean summer: blue sea, blazing sun….and 250 kg of gold stolen by Rhino and his gang! They had found the perfect hideout: an abandoned and remote hamlet now taken over by a woman artist in search for inspiration.
Unfortunately surprise guests and two cops compromise their plan: the heavenly place where wild happenings and orgies used to take place turns into a gruesome battlefield….Relentless and mindblowing.
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GENRE - Western Noir, Thriller
COUNTRY - Belgium, France
PRODUCED BY Anonymes Film and Tobina Film
CAST - Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara
STATUS: In Post Production
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THE LEISURE SEEKER
By Paolo Virzi
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Ella and John are fleeing the suffocating care of their doctors and grown children. He is distracted but strong; she is frail but sharp. Their journey aboard the faithful old camper they call The Leisure Seeker takes them from Boston to Key West. Sharing moments of exhilaration and anguish, they recapture their passion for life and their love for one another on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
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GENRE - Drama
COUNTRY - Italy
PRODUCED BY Indiana Production, Rai Cinema
CO-PRODUCED BY 3 Marys, Bac Films Production
CAST - Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland
STATUS: In Post Production
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To schedule a meeting please email to:
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We look very much forward to seeing you in Cannes.
All the best
The Bac Films International team
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Cannes office: 24 Boulevard de la Croisette 5th floor
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