Films to Buy is a guide to some of the titles in play at the major international Festival. Each film listed below plays this autumn between Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Each entry lists the title, its director, the company handling international sales and the festival where it screens. It’s a working map of what’s available and who to talk to about it.
A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat)
by Stéphane Brizé
Gaumont — Venice / Toronto
A Place To Heal (15/18)
by Cédric Kahn
Charades — Venice
A Talent For Murder
by Anton Corbijn
FilmNation Entertainment — Toronto
All Of A Sudden (Soudain)
by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Cinéfrance International — Cannes /
Toronto
Alpha Gang
by David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
CAA (North America) / mk2 Films (ROW) — Toronto
Arrested Memory
by Sabu
Lucky Number — Venice / Toronto
Being Heumann
by Siân Heder
Apple Original Films — Toronto
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad)
by Pedro Almodóvar
Film Factory Entertainment — Cannes / Toronto
Bucking Fastard
by Werner Herzog
Gersh (USA) / HanWay Films (ROW) — Venice / Toronto
Bunker
by Florian Zeller
FilmNation Entertainment — Venice / Toronto
Company
by Casey Affleck
AGC Studios — Venice
Dau
by Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Coproduction Office — Venice
Father Joe
by Barthélémy Grossmann
Kinology — Venice
Fjord
by Cristian Mungiu
Goodfellas — Cannes / Toronto
God Laughs (Dio ride)
by Giovanni Veronesi
PiperPlay — Venice
Ground Floor (Földszint)
by Gábor Reisz
Films Boutique — Venice
I Play Rocky
by Peter Farrelly
FilmNation Entertainment — Toronto
Ink
by Danny Boyle
StudioCanal — Venice / Toronto
It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte)
by Nanni Moretti
Playtime — Venice / Toronto
Look Back
by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Goodfellas — Venice / Toronto
Minotaur
by Andrey Zvyagintsev
mk2 Films — Cannes / Toronto
Misty Green
by Chris Rock
A24 International — Toronto
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Nelson san, anata ha hito wo koroshimashitaka?)
by Shinya Tsukamoto
Kino Films — Venice / Toronto
No Pain (Nessun dolore)
by Gianni Amelio
Rai Cinema International Distribution — Venice
Onwards And Sideways
by John Madden
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution — Toronto
Possible Love (Ga-neung-han sa-rang)
by Lee Chang-dong
Netflix — Venice / Toronto
Primetime
by Lance Oppenheim
A24 International — Venice
Back To Buenos Aires (Ritorno a Buenos Aires)
by Marco Bechis
Fandango Sales — Venice
Tender Loving Care
by Mike Leigh
Cornerstone Films — Toronto
The Basics Of Philosophy
by Paul Schrader
CAA / Noora Films — Venice
The Beloved (El ser querido)
by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Goodfellas — Cannes / Toronto
The Debut
by Jesse Eisenberg
A24 International — Toronto
The Echo Chamber
by Andrea Pallaoro
Paradise City Sales — Venice
The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro)
by Edoardo De Angelis
Rai Cinema International Distribution — Venice
The Spiral (L’Estranea)
by Paolo Strippoli
Le Pacte — Venice / Toronto
Trick (Scherzetto)
by Mario Martone
Rai Cinema International Distribution — Venice
Un Peu Avant Minuit
by Nicolas Pariser
Pyramide International — Venice
Wild Horse Nine
by Martin McDonagh
The Walt Disney Company — Venice / Toronto
Woman Unknown (Kvinde Ukendt)
by May el-Toukhy
TrustNordisk — Venice
Read more: Cinema & Video International Issue #208
