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UniFrance at the 74th Festival de Cannes

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Cannes from July 6 through 16 at two locations: the UniFrance Terrace and the UniFrance stand, within the Marché du Film. Export professionals, French film teams at Cannes (all sections included), and the international press will be welcomed there. Numerous events will also take places in these sites.

THE PLACES

The UniFrance Terrace in Cannes, a special venue at the service of French cinema on the international scene.

For the third year, the Unifrance Terrace will be set up at 5 rue des Belges, a stone's throw from the Palais des Festivals, in a space spread over three floors, to welcome the crews of the French films presented at Cannes (in particular the films of François Ozon, Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Desplechin, Sandrine Kiberlain, to mention just a few) for their interviews with the international press.

A studio dedicated to television interviews and remote interviews, as well as a photo studio (under the leadership of photographer Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris in January 2021.

The Unifrance stand at the Marché du Film

Unifrance will also be present alongside professionals in a second location, a large 170 square meter space located within the Marché du Film (Riviera-L1), which will host six French sales companies: Memento International, Loco Films, Celluloid Dreams) and includes a space dedicated to short films to allow short film distributors to meet with foreign buyers and festivals

This space will also be the place where UniFrance teams will meet with their contacts: directors and selectors of foreign festivals, international distributors, exporters, market managers, audiovisual attachés, cultural advisors, partners, and export professionals.

With our partners

UniFrance is coorganizing with the Daniela Elstner will lead a panel on the challenges of international theatrical exhibition of documentaries, and UniFrance will offer its members privileged access to the Doc Days closing cocktail, the "Mixer Doc & Animation," of which UniFrance is a partner alongside EuroDoc.
UniFrance also supports the ACID program by jointly organizing a breakfast meeting with the filmmakers and producers of certain French documentaries in the selection.
Networking events on the impact of French cinema will also be proposed, on the one hand around the ephemeral selection of films on the environment, which includes six French films, and on the other hand in association with the We Build Change project, whose winners will be hosted in the Riviera space.
Lastly, UniFrance is once again a partner of the Short Film Corner and will be offering some thirty short film producers and distributors privileged access to the SFC professional breakfasts.

EVENTS

On the UniFrance Terrace

Presentation of the Académie Franco-Allemande du Cinéma/German Films/Franco-German Film Meetings. These will be held on November 17 and 18, 2021 in Bonn (the city that was supposed to host the 2020 edition before it had to be held completely virtually).

This edition of the festival will also be the occasion to launch the International French Cinema Fest, on July. This 24-hour event will celebrate French cinema in all its forms and highlight the latest French productions whose releases have been disrupted by the pandemic It will take place in more than 30 countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, the Baltic States, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to name just a few. This unprecedented initiative is made possible by the mobilization of numerous international distributors and exhibitors.

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