The thirty second version of the Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV content material market in Le Havre begins on September 7 with a big selection of greater than 350 packages with robust worldwide potential introduced by the principle French distributors.
The Rendez-Vous hosts round fifty unique screenings of profitable scripted sequence, animated reveals and acclaimed documentaries, together with a particular showcase of three of the yr’s highlights.
Regardless of a brand new condensed program this yr, the Rendez-Vous, which can prolong over 4 days, will nonetheless supply a full program of spherical tables, occasions and business evenings, together with the presentation of French TV programming export figures for 2025 by the promotion group Unifrance and the Nationwide Movie Board (CNC).
The main TV market in France, the Rendez-Vous introduced collectively some 150 patrons from 40 nations and greater than 50 native distribution corporations final yr.
This yr’s featured titles embody:
Credit score: AH! Manufacturing
“The Beasts of the Colosseum” directed by Nicolas Brénéol, produced by AH! Manufacturing for Novo 19 and bought internationally by Balanga.
It examines how historic Rome, captivated by “venationes” – spectacles that includes wild beasts moderately than gladiators – organized with the assistance of legionnaires the seize and transport of lions, panthers, elephants and bears from the borders of the Empire to the Colosseum.
Credit score: Caroline Dubois
“Change” directed by Vania Leturcq and Savina Dellicour, produced by Lincoln TV for France 2 and distributed by France TV Distribution.
Set in Paris in 1889, the sequence follows Rose (Lula Cotton Frapier), a younger mom and nanny who, pressured to desert her personal baby, secretly exchanges her child with that of Hélène de Gersande (Alexia Giordano), a mom grieving the sudden lack of her child. It’s “within the vein of Downton Abbey however in a French type,” explains Julia Schulte, senior vice-president of worldwide gross sales at France TV Distribution.
Credit score: Nicolas Velter/France Télévisions/Siècle Productions/Wild Bunch
“The Crimson and the Black” tailored from Stendhal’s novel, written by Georges-Marc Benamou and Gilles Taurand, directed by Gaël Morel, produced by Siècle Productions for France Télévisions, and distributed by Wild Bunch Distribution.
The four-part sequence chronicles the efforts of younger Julien Sorel (Victor Belmondo) to rise socially past his modest upbringing whereas being entangled in an online of ardour and energy. Julien’s quest for greatness takes him on a path the place love, satisfaction and hypocrisy collide… with tragic penalties.
Credit score: DMLS Movies (Banijay Group)/TF1/About Premium content material
Different notable new reveals with potential for cross-border and even native adaptation embody About Premium Content material’s “Marketing campaign Spy” produced by Banijay Group’s DMLS Movies, which follows French intelligence agent Marie-Line Maupain, who, after 30 years of service, finds herself within the rural space the place she as soon as lived. Placing her spy instincts to good use, she begins investigating legal circumstances behind the again of the native police captain.
Credit score: Can’t look ahead to Monday!/Autour de Minuit/France Télévisions
Supposed for kids aged 10 and beneath, “Tremendous-Struggle” follows 10-year-old Ennio, who comes from a protracted line of Tremendous-Luchadores, masked vigilantes who combat the forces of evil in a small Mexican city. Bought by Autour de Minuit, directed by Goulwen Merret and produced by Vivement Lundi! and Nadasdy Movie, the stop-motion animated present takes inspiration from Mexican popular culture and papier-mâché piñatas.
Credit score: Nicolas Velter/Incognita TV/Tripode Productions/Arte
“The Nefertiti Affair” bought by Movie & Image and produced by Incognita Télévision and
Tripode Productions, recounts the efforts of Andrea, head of France’s Museums Directorate, to save lots of a historic exhibition after the priceless bust of Nefertiti, on mortgage from Berlin, fell to the bottom and shattered. Determined, she seeks assist from a legendary forger not too long ago launched from jail, who additionally occurs to be her ex-younger sister.
Credit score: Bande à Half Movies/Les Movies Pelléas/Gaumont Télévision
At Gaumont “The deal” set in 2015, Swiss diplomat Alexandra Weiss leads a mission internet hosting last-chance nuclear talks between the US and Iran, together with Europe, Russia and China. As tensions rise and the delegates’ hidden agendas jeopardize fragile diplomacy, Alexandra’s former love Payam, a threatened Iranian engineer, seems, forcing her to cross the traces to guard him. Bande à Half Movies, Les Movies Pelléas and Gaumont produce.
Credit score: Elda Productions
Andana Movies presents the two-part documentary by Tamara Erde “Gaza, a preferred historical past” from Elda Productions and Kwassa Movies, which explores the historical past of this 400 sq. kilometer stretch of Palestinian land, wedged between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, and which was as soon as residence to 2.23 million folks. The manufacturing revisits key moments within the area’s historical past.