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PARIS --The fifth annual Rendez-Vous Franco-Allemands (Franco-German Meetings) is set to kick off in Versailles on Nov. 22, French film promotion organization Unifrance announced Wednesday.

The three-day confab, presided over by the heads of both countries' state film bodies, Veronique Cayla and Peter Dinges, will feature a series of meetings for film industry professionals.

The subjects du jour will include new ways of financing and the implications for co-productions, the deployment of digital screens and the implication of VOD for film and television.

A pitching session will help both Gallic and German producers find co-production partners for their various projects. Russian producers also are planning to make the trip to Versailles to observe the exchanges and propose their own projects.

Unifrance will introduce young talents from Germany (Martina Gedek, August Diehl, Alexander Fehling, Fabian Hinrichs, Sibel Kekilli, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Joerdis Triebel and Sebastian Urzendowsky) and France (Melvil Poupaud, Nicolas Cazale, Jennifer Decker, Valerie Donzelli, Mylene Jampanoi, Adrien Jolivet, Aissa Maiga and Allyson Paradis) to each other and to visiting producers.