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Key Players in the 2012 Cannes Film Market: Film Distribution

Published on May 17, 2012

This year the Paris based sales agent only has a pair of films in Cannes – Gilles Jacob’s own doc about the day of the 60th anniversary festivities called A Special Day, and in the Critics’ Week section they’re repping Sandrine Bonnaire’s Maddened by His Absence (pic above).

ARMED HANDS (MAINS ARMÉES) by Pierre JOLIVET
MADDENED BY HIS ABSENCE (J’ENRAGE DE SON ABSENCE) by Sandrine BONNAIRE
YOSSI by Eytan FOX
30 BEATS by Alexis LLOYD
38 WITNESSES (38 TÉMOINS) by Lucas BELVAUX
A SPECIAL DAY (UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE) by Gilles JACOB
CAPTIVE by Brillante MENDOZA
CITADEL by Ciaran FOY
DUCH, MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL by Rithy PANH
PARIS UNDER WATCH
THE CHERRY ON THE CAKE (LA CERISE SUR LE GATEAU) by Laura MORANTE
TIME OF MY LIFE (TOT ALTIJD) by Nic BALTHAZAR
WAR WITCH (REBELLE) by Kim NGUYEN

Related Topics:Cannes 2012, Maddened by His Absence

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).