Blood Behind Us
Int. Sales Rep: Quantify (The Trial)
Dir: Brendan Gabriel Murphy (Fluxx)
Cast: Tanner Beard (Landman), Jamie King (My Bloody Valentine)
Going to EFM
Synopsis:
The story follows Casey Hatfield, a former Army Ranger, who joins a motorcycle gang causing him to spiral into a life of crime and addiction. Breaking away from the grips of the brutal gang he attempts to bring down the entire organization.
Documentary To Hold a Mountain
Int. Sales Rep: MetFilm Sales (Name Me Lawand)
Dir: Biljana Tutorov (When Pigs Come)
Premiere: Sundance (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize winner)
Going to EFM
Synopsis:
In Montenegro’s highlands, a shepherd mother and daughter defend their ancestral land from NATO military training threats, recalling their family’s past violence.
Petrichor
Int. Sales Rep: Goodfellas (A Private Life)
Dir: Marco Perego (The Absence of Eden)
Wri: Nicholas Pileggi (Casino)
Going to EFM
Synopsis:
Planned TV series based on the 1990 film ‘Goodfellas’, which follows gangster Henry Hill and his friends as they move up the mob hierarchy.
Dragoons
Int. Sales Rep: Global Constellation (Straight Circle)
Dir: Shea Wageman (Charlie the Wonderdog)
Going to EFM
Father
Int. Sales Rep: Intramovies
Dir: Tereza Nvotová (Nightsiren)
Premiered at Venice
Synopsis:
A successful man’s perfect life shatters when his baby disappears from daycare. His wife’s frantic call reveals a devastating truth about a memory lapse known as Forgotten Baby Syndrome, joining countless similar tragedies.
Just an Illusion
Int. Sales Rep: Gaumont
Dir: Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables)
Going to EFM
Synopsis:
A 12-year-old boy in 1985 suburban Paris navigates life between his distant older brother and quarreling parents while grappling with identity, friendship, love, and understanding why adults seem lost.
Rays and Shadows
Int. Sales Rep: Gaumont
Dir: Xavier Giannoli (Of Money and Blood)
Going to EFM
Synopsis:
Set in Paris during the 1940’s and explores the moral compromises of French high society during the Occupation through the intertwined fates of journalist Jean Luchaire and his daughter Corinne, a rising movie star.