Two contenders for the Cannes Palme d’Or for Charades

05/11/2022 – The Almond Trees by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Tchaikovsky’s wife by Kirill Serebrennikov dominate a very attractive line-up including among others aftersun

In five years of activity, the French company Charades has established itself as a key player, qualitative and very agile, in the ultra-competitive panorama of international sellers, and the Film Market (from May 17 to 25) of the 75th Cannes film festival will make a new demonstration of it since the team of Yohann Comte, Carole Baraton, Pierre Mazars and Constantin Briest will notably surf a wave of four films selected on the Croisette.

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Among them shine two candidates for the Palme d’Or 2022. With The Almond Trees [+lire aussi :
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The other star of the Charades line-up is Tchaikovsky’s Wife [+lire aussi :
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Charades will also negotiate for the Franco-Luxembourgish animation co-production The little Nicolas – What are we waiting for to be happy? [+lire aussi :
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Four new additions to the line-up with British comedy in post-production Fearless from Icelandic Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdssonthe black comedy thriller Hit Big finnish J.-P. Valkeapää and the first Italian-French feature Amanda [+lire aussi :
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Finally, among the many market screenings orchestrated by Charades, there are premieres for animated feature films Unicorn Wars [+lire aussi :
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