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Cannes Marché du Film has unveiled nan 8 board who will coming projects astatine nan 4th version of its Cannes Investors Circle aimed astatine connecting elevated world arthouse productions pinch imaginable financiers.
The curated lineup features upcoming productions by board pinch Cannes and Venice pedigree spanning a wide scope of cinematic approaches, pinch budgets ranging from €1M to complete €12M.
The participating board see Juho Kuosmanen, who won nan Cannes Grand Prix for his past movie Compartment No. 6 as 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.
Further participants are Felipe Gálvez (The Settlers, Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2023), Carine Tardieu (The Ties That Bind Us, Orizzonti, Venice 2024), Emanuel Pârvu (Three Kilometres to nan End of nan World, In Competition, Cannes 2024), Ismaël El Iraki (Zanka Contact, Orizzonti, Venice 2020), and Noé Débré (screenwriter of Dheepan, Palme d’Or, Cannes 2015).
“Following past year’s edition, nan Investors Circle has already led to actual finance outcomes, pinch projects specified arsenic Gentle Monster by Marie Kreutzer and Poeta Chileno by Sebastián Lelio securing investors done nan program,” said Guillaume Esmiol, Executive Director of nan Marché du Film.
“At nan aforesaid time, participating filmmakers were besides represented crossed prestigious show selections. For this caller edition, we are further refining nan action process, and we will erstwhile again person a very prestigious action of projects. We besides scheme to grow nan inaugural beyond Cannes done year- information activities, specified arsenic nan caller shop we did successful Trieste during When East Meets West.”
The 2026 action process was overseen by nan Head of Investors Circle, Alexandra Zakharchenko, successful collaboration pinch an annually renewed committee of manufacture figures. This year’s committee comprised Céline Dornier (Content Executive, IPR.VC), Jean des Forêts (Founder & CEO, Petit Film), Alice Laffillé (Vice President of International Sales, FilmNation Entertainment) and Anthony Muir (Senior Executive for International Co-Productions, Film one Väst).
Scheduled for Saturday, 16 May and Sunday, 17 May, nan arena will return spot astatine nan Plage des Palmes, nan charismatic beachside venue of nan Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes
