INTERNATIONAL SALES CANNES

2018

Since 15 years SHELLAC is a label involved in film production, as a producer and co-executive producer, in film distribution, in video edition, with a catalogue of hundred films. SHELLAC is also programming and running two theaters in Marseille in the south of France.

Known for its role in development of new talents (Miguel Gomes, Damien Manivel, Joao Nicolau, Alessandro Comodin, Pietro Marcello, Alain Guiraudie, Serge Bozon...) on french territory, Shellac also oftenwork with confirmed directors (Philippe Grandrieux, Michel Gondry, Chantal Akerman, Claire Simon, Nabuhiro Suwa, Bertrand Bonello, Arnaud Despallieres, Paul Vecchiali, Pedro Costa...).

SHELLAC has been distinguished for its work as a producer and distributor in many occasions: Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Venise, San Sebastian, Busan, Hong-Kong, BAFICI... Building on its previous success, SHELLAC is launching an international sales arm handling an average of four films a year.

SHELLAC’s positioning on the international market will reflect its positioning on the French market. As a production partner, SHELLAC specializes in developing promising young talent. And since SHELLAC is a distributor at home in France, the company offers its partners extensive additional expertise, resources and capabilities.

PRESENTATION

IN CANNES

Starring Lola Duenas, Bojena Horackova.

Irma, strung out on drugs, accidentally meets Dolores,a modern Spanish conquistador. A free spirit, Dolores is on the road writing a gay-friendly tour guide to anout-of-the-way and forgotten part of Provence.

On their travels together, the two women discover a world they never knew existed…

SOMETHINGIS HAPPENINGa film by ANNE ALIX

SHELLAC presents

A ROADTRIP IN AN UNKNOWNSOUTH OF FRANCE

ACID SCREENINGSWEDNESDAY 9TH MAY - 08 :00 PM - ARCADE 1 & 2SATURDAY 12TH MAY - 04 :30 PM - ALEXANDRE IIISUNDAY 13TH MAY - 04 :30 PM - RAIMUSATURDAY 18TH MAY - 11 :30 PM - STUDIO 13

101 MIN - FRANCE - 2018

IN CANNES

The technical dream, deployed towards the exploration of space, has also motivated an inverse movement: the opening of the subterranean world. Beneath the modern city there lies a vast labyrinth of galléries, tunnels, sewers, supplies of light, water, gas and telephone, transportation networks and underground stations, areas of leisure ans consumption, basements, garages...

An immense spiders web that sits upon and dépends on the visible city; a functional and essential space but also a symbolic area, a hidden sphere: the unconscious of the city.

THE HIDDEN CITYa film by VICTOR MORENO

El Viaje Films, Pomme Hurlantes Films, Dirk Mantey present

A SUBURBAN SYMPHONY, A SENSORIAL TRIP INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE BIG CITY

MARKET SCREENINGSTHURSDAY 10TH MAY - 12 :00 PM - GRAY 1MONDAY 14TH MAY - 01 :30 PM - PALAIS B

80 MIN - ESPAGNE, FRANCE, NETHERLAND - 2018

UPCOMING

From 22 March 2017 to 22 March 2018,we observe Elsa and Gabriel in their daily life.Students in the School of Fine Arts of Paris,they are in love and share an acute reflectionon the paradoxes of a world in turmoilthey’re experiencing while becoming «artists».The gestures apparently senseless, the visual signs of society and events translate into a story with its own aesthetic, sensitivity and anthropology.The story combines the intimacy of the students inThe Quartier Latin, the world of Art and the state ofthe world through the digital era. The editing of the film creates a unique writing. Without words, it composesa choreographic score of pictures. It presents an original way to watch the fierceness of a confused period of timeas it did happen in 1968, mirroring the 50th anniversaryof May events.

DON’T WORKa film by CÉSAR VAYSSIÉ

50 YEARS AFTER MAY 68 EVENTS,TWO FRENCH STUDENTS HERE AND NOW !

90 MIN - FRANCE - 2018

SHELLAC and AFE present

UPCOMING

Starring Nini Phonesavanh Vilivong, Marc Barbé, Nathalie Richard.

This film is about France, a woman with a French fatherand a Laotian mother. She works at her family’s karaoke restaurant on an old boat at the shores of lake Nam Ngum. She falls in love in Xana, an underwater logger who brings up wood from the forests submerged under the lake. But at the same time she feels attracted to Tony Wong, a quiet and sentimental Chinese billionaire.

Hugo arrives in search of his wife Nadine, and stays with France’s family. He enters a surreal period of exile, captivated by the lake’s splendour. The film explores a complex reawakening far from Europe, at the same time drawing a sensitive portrait of Laos, a country that has left behind its past as a French colony.

FRANCEa film by KIYÉ SIMON LUANG

A FIRST INDEPENDANT LAOTIAN FILMINGROWN BY A YOUNG MODERN WOMAN

LAO - FRANCE - 2018

SHELLAC present

COMPLETED

THE WILDFRONTIERa film by NICOLAS KLOTZand ELISABETH PERCEVAL

SHELLAC presents

A SPECTACULAR A LIFE FULL ODYSSEYBY THE SIDE OF IMMIGRANTS THROUGH THE FRENCH JUNGLE OF CALAIS

225 MIN - FRANCE

By Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval acclaimed directors of Paria (San Sebastian – special jury prize 2000), The Wound (Cannes 2004), Heatbeat Detector (Cannes 2008), Low Life (Locarno 2011).

Winter 2016. The Calais Jungle is a growing city of about 12 000. In the early spring, the Southern zone, its shops, streets and houses, are completely destroyed. Its expelled population move their houses to the Northern zone to find shelter and keep on living. In the fall, the France organizes the permanent dismantling of the Jungle. But the Jungle is a mutating territory, a world-city, a city of the future: even destroyed, it always rises from its ashes. Shot with young people trapped in the turmoil of wars, police violence, and their attempts at crossing the border to get to England, The Wild Frontier could be a forgotten episode of Homer’s Odyssey.

28TH FID MARSEILLEInternational Competition

French Institute Prize • Special Mention

1ST EL GOUNA FILM FESTIVALInternational Documentary Competition

46TH FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA (MONTREAL)Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Competition

15TH DOC LISBOAInternational Competition

41ST MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA(SAO PAULO)

Perspectiva Internacional32TH FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE

DE MAR DEL PLATAPanorama Autores

7TH MUESTRA DE CINE DE LANZAROTEInternational Competition

23RD BELGRADE FILM FESTIVALBande à part

FILMMAKER 2017 (MILANO)International Competition

COMPLETED

TAKARATHE NIGHTI SWAMa film by DAMIEN MANIVELand KOHEI IGARASHI

MLD FILMS and SHELLAC present

ON THE TRACKS OF A YOUNG CHILDREN IN SEARCH FOR HIS FATHER IN THE JAPANESE WINTER, A MUTE AND UNIVERSAL TALE.

79 MIN - FRANCE, JAPON - 2017

On the tracks of a young children in search for hisfather in the Japanese winter, a mute and universal tale, co-directed by Jean Vigo Prize winner Damien Manivel (A Young Poet - Locarno 2014, The Park - Cannes 2016) and Kohei Igarashi (Hold you breath Like A Lover - Locarno 2014).

Snow covered mountains in Japan.Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His 6 year old son is awoken by his departure and finds it impossible to fall back to sleep. In the sleeping household, the young boy draws a picturehe then slips into his satchel. On his way to school,still drowsy, he strays off the path and wandersinto the snow...

74TH MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA (VENICE)

Orizzonti Competition

65TH SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALZabaltegi-Tabakalera Competition

46TH FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA (MONTRÉAL)Les Nouveaux Alchimistes Competition

44TH FILM FEST GENT Official Competition

17TH VIENNALE International Competition

41ST MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA(SAO PAULO) Perspectiva Internacional

ARAVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

18TH TOKYO FILMEX International CompetitionFilmarks Award and Student Jury Prize

IBAFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF MURCIAInternational Competition

25TH FEBIO FEST (PRAGUE) Asian View

23RD VILNIAUS KINO FESTIVALIS Discoveries program

20TH BAFICI

18TH JEONJU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

33RD MIDNIGHT SUN FILM FESTIVALGems of New Cinema

COMPLETED

THE LION SLEEPSTONIGHTa film by NOBUHIRO SUWA

FILM-IN-EVOLUTION and Les productions Balthazar present

« HAPPINESS »LES CAHIERS DU CINÉMA

103 MIN – FRANCE, JAPON - 2017

By the acclaimed Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa(M/Other, H story, A perfect couple, Yuki and Nina), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud with a group of young kids.When the most french among the Japanese cineast direct the children of the french new wave...

South of France. Present day.Jean, an actor caught up in the past, learns that his current film shoot is unexpectedly suspended for an indefinite period. He takes this opportunity to visit an old friend and settles, clandestinely, into an abandoned house where it happened that Juliette, the great love of his life, once lived. A group of young friends, novice filmmakers, stumble upon the same house and decide it’s the perfect location for their next home-made horror movie. Jean and the kids will meet face to face,sooner or later.

65TH SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Official Competition

22TH BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALPanorama

37TH TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVALDirector On Focus

FICUNAM (MEXICO CITY)

RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2018 (NYC)

16TH SPIRIT OF FIRE INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVAL

Crème de la crème

20TH BAFICI

42TH HONK-KONG INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVAL

Authors

Starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Lebrun, Annie Cordy,Françoise Arnoul, Edith Scob, Mathieu Amalric...

CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTIONSpecial screening

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness.He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him, Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.

LOVE STORY, GREATEST DIRECTORS, FIVE STARS CASTING

Starring Pascal Cervo, Astride Adverbe.

SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVALInternational Competition

A woman (Odile) suspects her husband (Jean) to be unfaithful to her. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor (Daniel) she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman (Albert), will make love with her. But this action will suffer some unexpected consequences: Odile and Daniel will be bound forever by an irrepressible love. To the detriment of their entourage.

LOVE STORY, SOUTH OF FRANCE, GREATEST DIRECTORS

LE CANCREC’EST L’AMOURa film by PAUL VECCHIALIa film by PAUL VECCHIALI

CATALOGUECATALOGUE

98 MIN – FRANCE - 2017 116 MIN – FRANCE - 2016

CATALOGUECATALOGUE

CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2015French Competition

Karim lives in Brest and works at the local airport.Every two years he returns to Ouagadougou, to be with his family and friends, do some business. Confront those who never left. Whether they want it or not, all of them carry the madness of a world split into two. The film places itself by their side, at this very breakpoint.

AFRICA, IMMIGRATION

GAM GAMa film by NATACHA SAMUEL & FLORENT KLOCKENBRING

135 MIN - FRANCE, BURKINA FASO - 2015

CPH DOX 2014Competition

Between his abandoned suburbs, the radical depletion of its natural resources,the permanent immorality of its culture, Las Vegas has become the city of the endof the world, crystallizing all of our anxieties, fascinating superficial Babylon.

ECOLOGY, ANTICIPATION, URBANISM

LAS VEGAS MEDITATIONa film by FLORENT TILLON

91 MIN - USA, FRANCE - 2014

CATALOGUECATALOGUE

CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2015French Competition

They are at work.The employees of a factory that produces 800,000 auto parts daily and composerNicolas Frize whose musical creation is invented in the heart of workshops.In their different ways, they say their work.In their different ways, they wonder, what are you doing?

WORK, SOCIETY, HUMAN SCIENCES

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?a film by LUC JOULÉ & SÉBASTIEN JOUSSE

100 MIN – FRANCE – 2015

FID MARSEILLE 2012French Competition

The Baumettes prison in Marseille.The medical and psychological unit, where women psychiatrists have deliberatelychosen to work. They talk with inmates whose faces the law forbids to show.

PRISON UNIVERSE, PSYCHIATRY, SOCIETY, HUMAN SCIENCES

BEING THEREa film by RÉGIS SAUDER

97 MIN - FRANCE - 2012

IN CANNESMarina Club / H6 Rivierasales@shellac-altern.org

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