– 590 foreign buyers and 120 international journalists will travel to Paris between 14 and 21 January to discover and meet talent from the French film and audiovisual world
The Musicians by Grégory Magne
The Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, hosting the biggest markets and press junkets in the world dedicated to the French film and audiovisual sector, is returning for a 27th edition which is set to kick off on Tuesday 14 January, preceded, on the 13th, by the 5th Export Day (which will reveal the international performances of French films in 2024, among other highlights).
Stealing focus on the agenda, which runs until 23 January, are the two markets set to unspool between 14 and 17 January, attended by 390 buyers (hailing from 44 countries) and 45 French international sales agents on the film side, and with upwards of 100 buyers and 60 French export firms attending its audiovisual counterpart. There’s also the press junket unspooling between 18 and 21 January, which will see 120 international journalists meeting an identical number of French artists (filmmakers, actors, showrunners, etc.) who play crucial roles in works scheduled to be broadcast abroad this year.
The film meetings will also see director Rebecca Zlotowski receiving the French Cinema Award and one lucky firm winning the 1st Unifrance Distribution Prize (endowed with 10,000 euros and awarded to a foreign distribution outfit whose promotion and release campaign for a French film is deemed to be particularly ambitious and innovative), while the revelation of the ten young French talents to watch in 2025 is likewise on the cards, alongside the launch of the 15th MyFrenchFilmFestival (running 17 January to 17 February).
Among the 42 films screening in market premieres (out of a total of 79 feature films screening overall), Pyramide International’s offering, The Musicians by Grégory Magne (set to open the film meetings), stands tall, alongside Magma by Cyprien Vial (read our article) and Mika Ex Machina by Mika Tard and Déborah Saïag.
Elle Driver, for their part, will unveil The Islanders by Alanté Kavaïté (article).
Goodfellas will present Oxana by Charlène Favier, as well as The French Job by Dominique Baumard (article).
Les Films du Losange will offer up a market premiere of Six Days in Spring by Joachim Lafosse.
Indie Sales will present It Takes Two to Tango by Jean-Pierre Améris, as well as Maya, Give Me A Title by Michel Gondry (set to be screened in Berlin’s Generation line-up).
The Party Film Sales will wager on market premieres of Stéphane Ly-Cuong’s In the Nguyen Kitchen and Yannick Kergoat’s documentary Sarkozy – Gaddafi: the Scandal of All Scandals.
The Bureau Sales will be in on the action with Guess Who Is Calling? by Fabienne Godet (article) and Mum Don’t Love Me No Mo’ by Grégory Lucilly.
Kinology will be pinning their hopes on hard-hitting movie Rabia [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Mareike Engelhard, which has earned itself two nominations (Best First Film and Best Female Newcomer) at the 2025 Lumières Awards.
Playtime will be relying on Child of True Love by Agnès de Sacy (article).
Charades will be wagering on a premiere of Samuel Theis’ I Swear (news – for the record, the director was accused of abusive behaviour during filming and court proceedings are currently underway).
SND will oversee market premieres of See the Sea by Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud, Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu by Barbara Schulz and Out of Control [+see also:
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Le Pacte will screen Not All Men, but… by Michel Leclerc and Dead Man’s Boots by Yohann Gloaguen.
Be For Films will be joining them with Lola Doillon’s Different (article).
Bac Films will be banking on Hélène Merlin’s Cassandre (article).
MPM Premium will unveil Jean-Luc Gaget’s This Charming Girl (article).
Totem Films will be pinning their hopes on Victor Rodenbach’s charming movie Stages of Love.
Ginger & Fed will reveal Diastème’s Hear Me Love, Enya Baroux’s Bon voyage, Marie and Nils Tavernier’s The Future Awaits.
Pathé Films will screen the comedies God Save the Tuche by Jean-Paul Rouve and Mercato by Tristan Séguéla.
Best Friend Forever will present Jean-Baptiste Saurel’s outrageous comedy Zenithal [+see also:
film review
film profile].
StudioCanal will be in attendance with The Rookie Guide by Philippe Mechelen.
Other Angle Pictures will be placing their bets on Childless by Elsa Blayau, Achille’s Skills by Ged Marlon and We Should Have Gone to Greece by Nicolas Benamou.
Mediawan Rights will be in on the action with Nora Philippe’s Sisters Manifesto.
Cinéfrance will unveil Régis Wargnier’s Redress.
Newen Connect will offer up The Green Gang by Julie Manoukian and Better Days by Elsa Bennett and Hippolyte Dard.
Last but not least, Cité Films will present Looking for Yotam by Georges Benayoun and Caroline Blum Bongrand, and Octopolis will unveil Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog by Benjamin Mousquet.
The whole spectrum of French international sales agents (and their XXL line-ups) will be in on the action, first and foremost mk2 Films, Memento International, Gaumont, Pulsar Content, SBS International, Loco Films, Luxbox, Reel Suspects, WTFilms, Salaud Morisset, Urban Sales, Coproduction Office, France tv distribution and Alpha Violet, together with newcomers MMM Film Sales and B Rated International.
On the audiovisual side, meanwhile, the French TV Screenings are set to offer up eight hitherto unseen programmes, sold by France tv distribution (namely the mini-series La Rebelle – Les aventures de la jeune George Sand), Newen Connect, Film & Picture, Studiofact Rights, Terranoa, Mediawan and Balanga.
(Translated from French)
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