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Exclusive: Léa Fehner’s drama recently won top prize at Rotterdam

Pyramide International has secured sales on Léa Fehner’s Les Ogres, which won the Vpro Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this month.

The film has sold to Switzerland’s Cinework and fledgling Benelux distributor Cherry Pickers, a new outfit launched by former Imagine Film Distribution staffer Huub Roelvink and David van Marlen.

Paris-based Pyramide’s distribution arm is due to release the film, following the chaotic lives of travelling theatre company Checkov Cabaret, in France on March 16.

Iffr’s Vpro Big Screen Award is worth a total of $33,500, covering publicity costs for a theatrical release in the Netherlands, the sale of TV rights to Dutch broadcaster Npo and an amount for the film-maker. Other films in the contest included Suntan, Halal Love (And Sex) and Wild.

Gazing into the crystal ball, Screen rounds up its Cannes predictions.

With the unveiling of Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection now exactly three weeks away buzz over the titles that Thierry Fremaux and his team will select for the 68th edition is hitting fever pitch.

Official teaser announcements have started to roll this week, led by the confirmation on Wednesday that George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road would premiere in an Out of Competition screening on May 14.

Earlier the week, Cannes unveiled its poster featuring Ingrid Bergman to mark the centenary of the late big screen’s birth and it was announced that Stig Bjorkman’s documentary Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words would show in Cannes Classics as part of the commemorations.

For the rest of the Official Selection, except perhaps the opening film which is traditionally revealed in advance, Cannes watchers will have to wait for the announcement press conference in Paris on April...