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Cannes 2020: Totem Films with Gagarin, Charades with Le Discours, Playtime, Wild Bunch, mk2 Films, Pathé, Luxbox and Les Films du Losange, stole particular focus at the virtual market. French international sales agents whipped out a number of announcements at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22 - 26 June). The main deals struck and new films now gracing line-ups are as follows... Among the very few films awarded the Cannes 73 Official Selection seal of approval and treated to a scheduled market screening, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarin - which was notably acquired for the Us by Cohen Media Group and for the UK by Curzon - helped Totem Films come out on top. The team composed of Agathe Valentin, Laure...

The French firm will notably be selling Official Selection Label title Gagarin by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh and Stambul Garden by Germany’s Ilker Çatak. One year after its official launch on the Croisette, the international French sales agent Totem Films, steered by Agathe Valentin, Laure Parleani and Bérénice Vincent, will be negotiating on behalf of nine titles at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22 - 26 June). Stealing focus among these films is Gagarin, the first feature by the French duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, which has been awarded the Cannes 73 Official Selection Label.Starring Alséni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Farida Rahouadj and also Denis Lavant, the film follows in the footsteps of 16-year-old Youri who has grown up in Gagarin, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris (Ivry-sur-Seine) where he dreams of becoming an astronaut. When he.