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CrossBorder Films, a caller London-based income company, has launched up of this year’s Cannes Market.
The institution will beryllium led by Alla May. Before launching nan company, she worked crossed nan European movie and tv landscape, including Evil Doghouse, a co-producer of Hatching and Alma.
The inaugural CrossBorder Films slate see nan Australian narration drama Zombucha! and nan Kyrgyz thriller Mergen.
Zombucha! is directed by Claudia Dzienny and stars Jackie van Beek. The synopsis reads: Built astir nan kombucha trend, nan movie uses its offbeat premise to research narration anxieties, including committedness and readiness for starting a family. The movie is group for merchandise successful September successful Australia.
Mergen won nan Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize astatine nan Bishkek International Film Festival and had its world premiere astatine nan 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam. The movie follows a constabulary serviceman investigating a decease successful nan snowy Kyrgyz mountains, who uncovers a web of convulsive corruption successful a distant erstwhile gold-mining town.
“We spot a beardown world ecosystem astir auteur and show cinema,” Alla May, CEO of CrossBorder Films, said successful a statement. “At nan aforesaid time, location is simply a spread erstwhile it comes to audience-driven films — particularly from cross-border contexts that don’t travel pinch awesome budgets aliases star-driven packaging. These projects often struggle to recreation internationally, and that is wherever we focus.”
Alongside sales, CrossBorder besides said it will grow into improvement and packaging. The institution is bringing Polish My Life, a romcom astir a London-based editor who rebuilds her life aft a breakup and originates an unexpected narration pinch a Polish immigrant, to Cannes.
