WIDE at the AFM 2006

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Loïc Magneron, General Manager of Wide Management, will be attending the upcoming AFI Fest - Los Angeles Film Festival and the AFM - American Film Market 2006 from the 1st to the 9th of November 2006.

He would be really glad to schedule a meeting with you during the Festival and the Market to present our new programs available for your domestic market.

Wide Management is the licensor of more than 300 feature films, more than 250 documentaries and about 100 short films.

Wide Management is presenting the following programs this year:

Fissures (Ecoute le Temps), directed by Alanté Kavaïté, produced by Les Films d'Antoine (Antoine Simkine), selected in Official Competition at the AFI Fest and screened at the AFM. Fissures is already optionned for the remake rights in the US with Joe Dante Production Company.

The film tells the story of Charlotte (Emilie Dequenne), a sound engineer who's actually listening to a record made in the house where her mother (Ludmila Mikael) was murdered. Charlotte discovers sounds from the past blend with sounds from the present and reconstructs the events which lead to her mother's death.

The screenings will be at the following dates and times:

AFI Fest - Official Competition - Sunday, Nov. 5 at 21:15, Arclight 12

AFI Fest - Official Competition - Monday, Nov. 6 at 16:15, Arclight 12

AFM - Market Screening - Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 11:00, AMC 4

AFM - Market Screening - Friday, Nov. 3, 11:00, AMC 4

Return to Gorée (Retour à Gorée), directed by Pierre-Yves Bourgeaud, produced by CAB Productions (Switzerland), Market Première at the AFM.

This musical road-movie tells the story of the African singer Youssou N’Dour and his epic journey following the trail left by the black slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his journey by the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, N’Dour travels across the United States and Europe. Along with some of the world’s most exceptional musicians, they meet well- known figures and create a music which goes beyond cultural division.

The market screenings will be at the following dates and times:

AFM - Market Screening - Saturday, Nov. 4 at 13:00, Fairm 1

Also, Wide is licensing the following new titles:

The Sugar Curtain (El Telon de Azucar), directed by Camila Guzman and produced by Paraiso Productions Diffusion, World Première at the Toronto Film Festival 2006 (82').

This is an autobiographic documentary on the generation of Cuban borns, raised in the golden years of the Revolution. Camila Guzman Urzua goes back to Cuba after years of exil to remember her early childhood and to figure out what happened to her generation who used to live with ideals and got disappointed as they came of age.

Carla's List (La Liste de Carla), by Marcel Schupbach, produced by CAB Productions (Switzerland), a documentary which had its World Première in Locarno Film Festival with Kofi Annan, Gerhard Schröder and Carla del Ponte attending the Official Screening on the Piazza Grande. Following for the first time Carla del Ponte behind the scenes of the ICTY, the journey brings us from The Hague to New York, from Belgrade to Washington, Zagreb or Luxemburg, in a thrilling atmosphere of manhunt, gambling and risk. We follow her quest between truth and lies, between success and deceived hopes, fake news, and lobbying.

Already sold in Italy (Ripley's Film), in France (Pierre Grise Distribution), in Finland (MTV3 News) and in former Yougoslavia, the film is still available for your domestic market.

The film has a running time of 95 minutes and a short version of 52 minutes is available.

Piazza Vittorio's Orchestra (L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio), directed by Agostino Ferrente, produced by Lucky Red (Italy), screened for the Closing Night at the Locarno Film Festival and followed by a concert on the Piazza Grande.

L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio combines music, interviews, solidarity and human comedy. Created at the instigation of Mario Tronco, a film score composer and pianist with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and the collective Apollo 11, this musical group has its roots in a working-class district of Rome where the Italians are «an ethnic minority». Shot over a five-year period, from the birth of the orchestra to its recent successes, this documentary brings together thirty professional and street musicians of various nationalities (some of them illegal), five cameramen, and three sound engineers.

Une Maison à Tanger (A House in Tanger), directed by the acclaimed French film-maker Benoît Jacquot, co-produced by France 5 and Les Films du Lendemain. This documentary follows the famous architect Andrée Putman, in charge of the building of Arielle Dombasle and Bernard Henry-Lévy's house in tanger, Morocco.

Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous apelle), directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, starring James Wilby and Arielle Dombasle, a feature film which had its Première in the Venice International Film Festival 2006 in the Orizzorti Section (Out of Competition).

John Locke, an art historian, is doing research on Orientalism in the visual arts — with a particular focus on Delacroix and the work he did in Morocco — under the jealous scrutiny of Belkis, his very young and enigmatic servant-mistress. John stumbles into a series of recurring, elusive encounters with a willowy, evanescent woman in the medina, who lures him through a labyrinth of Marrakech alleyways and then vanishes into thin air. Finally, he meets Anatoli, an alleged antiques dealer and coordinator of Orientalism exhibitions for perverse amateurs. Despite Belkis’ desperate objections, John is drawn into this web of sado-erotic phantasms by Anatoli and the pseudo-ghost of the too-beautiful woman, without realizing that he’s being manipulated.

Border Post (Karaula), directed by Rajko Grlic, produced by Refresh Productions, selected for the International Competition at San Sebastian 2006.

1987. It’s the seventh year anniversary of Tito’s death and official celebrations paralyse the country. A military detachment on the Albanian border is on standby due to strong rumours of movements by Albanese troops preparing to invade Yugoslavia. If the truth must be told, the soldier in charge of the post has cancelled all permits for far more prosaic reasons. An X-ray of a multiethnic group, obvious parabole of the falling apart Yugoslavia, directed at a jaunty speed which doesn’t give the spectator a minute’s rest.

Here are his contacts in Santa Monica:

Loïc Magneron: Manager, International Sales and Production. Mob : +33 6 60 43 96 86.

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