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Carine Tardieu’s All The Little Live Things has scooped nan apical prize astatine nan Marché du Film’s Cannes Investors Circle pitching arena connecting characteristic movie projects pinch imaginable financiers and partners.
The project’s producers Antoine Rein and Fabrice Goldstein of Kare Productions were presented pinch nan 2026 ArteKino International Prize worthy €20,000 ($23k) to support nan financing of nan film.
The movie is based connected nan 1967 California-set caller of nan aforesaid title by Pulitzer Prize victor Wallace Stegner, revolving astir a mates coming to position pinch nan decease of their boy successful a surfing mishap and nan societal and governmental chaos of nan era.
Tardieu has transposed nan communicative to nan Normandy countryside for her adjustment which is owed to statesman shooting adjacent period pinch Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry successful nan cast.
The Investors Circle triumph comes arsenic Tardieu’s prima is connected nan emergence pursuing nan triumph of her past image The Ties That Bind Us (L’Attachement) astatine nan 2026 version of nan French Césars, wherever it won Best Film and Best Supporting Actress for Vimala Pons.
Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi arsenic a happily solitary women who finds herself drawn into nan chaotic life of her neighbors, young parents whose lives return a tragic turn, nan movie primitively world premiered successful Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar past year.
All The Little Live Things was among 8 projects presented astatine nan two-day Investors Circle event, pinch participating board besides including Juho Kuosmanen, who won nan Cannes Grand Prix for his past movie Compartment No. 6 arsenic good arsenic Atsuko Hirayanagi, whose Oh Lucy! played successful Cannes Critics’ Week and Magnus Von Horn, whose The Girl pinch nan Needle debuted successful Competition successful 2024. (scroll down for afloat task details)
This year’s programme besides explored nan evolving domiciled of brands wrong nan movie financing ecosystem, highlighting their increasing strategical engagement and nonstop finance successful cinema.
The arena opened pinch keynote speech by Koji Yanai, Group Senior Executive Officer and Director of nan Board astatine Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., nan genitor institution of Uniqlo. Yanai was a shaper connected Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, which debuted successful Competition successful Cannes successful 2023.
There were besides a sheet chat connected nan taxable featuring Rebecca De Pas (Film Fund Manager, Fondazione Prada), Elsa Huisman (Founding Partner, 111 Avocats), Philipp Manderla (Global Head, Red Bull Studios), and Brian Newman (CEO, Sub-Genre Media), looking astatine really brands are reshaping financing models and semipermanent engagement pinch independent cinema.
Full database of projects:
All The Little Live Things
directed by Carine Tardieu (France)
produced by Antoine Rein, Fabrice Goldstein astatine Kare Productions
CIGHID
directed by Emanuel Pârvu (Romania)
produced by Miruna Berescu astatine FAMart
Dream Come True
directed by Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
produced by Jussi Rantamäki astatine Aamu Film Company, Katrin Pors astatine Snowglobe
Impunity
directed by Felipe Gálvez (Chile)
produced by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda astatine Rei Pictures, EmilyMorgan astatine Quiddity, Alejandra García astatine Ronda Cine, Sylvie Pialat, Alejandro Arenas astatine Les Films du Worso.
Montjoie
directed by Noé Debré (France)
produced by Benjamin Elalouf astatine Moonshaker
The Passenger
directed by Magnus von Horn (Sweden/Poland)
produced by Jan Krüger, Roshanak Khodabakhsh astatine Port au Prince Films and Mariusz
Włodarski astatine Lava Films
The Returning
directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi (Japan/USA)
produced by Eiko Mizuno-Gray astatine Loaded Films
Wolfmother
directed by Ismaël El Iraki (Morocco/France)
produced by Alexis Hofmann, Sébastien Onomo astatine Special Touch Studios
