IFTN brings you a comprehensive look at the Cannes Film Festival and film market including Irish screenings, selling productions and a look at this year’s Irish Producer on the Move.
A host of Irish films are screening as part of Marché du Film 2023. Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun will receive a Special Screening at Critics’ Week 2023. The film debuted at Cannes last year, and enjoyed a successful journey on the festival circuit, leading to an Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Paul Mescal, as well as the IFTA Award for Actor in a Lead Role (Film).
The Pavilion
The Irish Pavilion at Marche du Film is open for registered production companies & professionals working in the Irish screen industry. The Pavillion supplies a central hub for Irish productions screening or selling at the festival as well as providing business, information or social elements to festival and market attendees. The Irish Pavilion can be found at Pavilion no. 128 in the International Village.
Production Companies
Fastnet Films, Cartoon Saloon, Jam Media, Cowtown Pictures, Stigma Pictures, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Port Pictures, Failsafe Films, Fantastic Films, Samson Films, Ice Box Films, Wildcard Distribution, Tiger Darling Productions, Fubar Films, Tailored Films, Shinawil, Wee Buns, Ripple World Pictures, Samson Films, True Films, Planet Korda Pictures
Sales Agents
Charades, Westend Films, Gfm Film Sales, Bankside Films, Protagonist Pictures, Mk2 Sales, Epic Pictures, Bankside Films, Media Luna, Xyz Films, Mubi, Embankment Films, Global Screen, Cinetic Media, The Film Party Sales
Selling at the Market
The internationally renowned film festival, which is in its 76th year, runs alongside the busiest global film market, The Marche du Film. Producers and directors attempting to find funding and distribution networks will mingle with financiers and distributors from across the globe. Irish films screening at the Marche du Film 2023 include West The Road, directed by Ita Fitzgerald, and The Damned, directed by Thordur Palsson and supported by Screen Ireland, and Lola directed by Andrew Legge.
GREAT 8 Showcase
Rich Peppiatt’s comedy Kneecap is slated for the GREAT 8 Showcase at this year’s festival. The film follows Irish-language rap trio Kneecap playing heightened versions of themselves against the backdrop of post-Troubles Belfast.
Charades will be representing the film in international sales. They will be unveiling the first footage of the film at the GREAT 8 event, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of U.K. films from first and second-time directors.
Charades previously took part in GREAT 8 with Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, for which Paul Mescal won Best Lead Actor (Film) at the 20th Anniversary IFTAs. The showcase is being backed by the BFI, BBC Films, Film4, the British Council, and the UK government’s GREAT campaign.
Curzon and Wildcard are handling distribution in Ireland and the UK.
Producers on the Move
At this year’s Cannes festival, Irish producer Kathryn Kennedy was selected for the European Film Promotion’s Producer on the Move for 2023. Kennedy is most recently known for Atomic Hope: Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement. The film is directed by Frankie Fenton, under Kennedy’s production banner Kennedy Films. Atomic Hope made its premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2022.
The Marche du Film runs from the 16th to 24th May.
The 12-day Cannes Film Festival ends May 27th.
Screening At The Marché Du Film 2023
Apocalypse Clown
- Director George Kane
- Production Company Fastnet Films
- Sales Agent Charades
Public Screenings
- May 18th, 2023 - 1.45Pm, Olympia 7
- May 19th, 2023 - 4.00Pm, Olympia 9
Puffin Rock
Director Jeremy Purcell
Production Company Cartoon Saloon
Sales Agent Westend Films
Invite-Only Screenings
- May 19th, 2023 - 1.45Pm, Olympia 1
- May 21st, 2023 - 1.45Pm, Olympia 1
A Greyhound Of A Girl
- Director Enzo D’alò
- Production Company Jam Media
- Sales Agent Gfm Film Sales
Public Screenings
- May 17th, 2023 – 9.00Am, Palais B
- May 18th, 2023 – 9.00Am, Palais D
Selling at the Marché du Film 2023
West The Road
Director Ita Fitzgerald
Production Company Cowtown Pictures, Stigma Pictures
Sales agent Bankside Films
The Damned
Director Thordur Palsson
Production Company Wild Atlantic Pictures
Sales agent Protagonist Pictures
Four Mothers
Director Darren Thornton
Production Company Port Pictures
Sales Agent Mk2 Sales
Double Blind
Director Ian Hunt-Duffy
Production Company Failsafe Films
Sales Agent Epic Pictures
Woken
Director Alan Friel
Production Company Fantastic Films
Sales Agent Bankside Films
Lola
Director Andrew Legge
Production Company Cowtown Pictures
Sales Agent Bankside Films
Baltimore
Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor
Production Company Samson Films
Sales Agent Bankside Films
Tarrac
Director Declan Recks
Production Company Ice Box Films
Sales Agent Media Luna
Kneecap
Director Rich Peppiatt
Production Company Wildcard Distribution
Sales Agent Charades
The Sparrow
Director Michael Kinirons
Production Company Tiger Darling Productions
Sales Agent Bankside Films
Barber
Director Fintan Connolly
Production Company Fubar Films
Sales Agent Xyz Films
Bring Them Down
Director Christopher Andrews
Production Company Tailored Films
Sales Agent Mubi / Charades
The Miracle Club
Director Thaddeus O’sullivan
Production Company Shinawil
Sales Agent Embankment Films
The Last Rifleman
Director Terry Loane
Production Company Wee Buns, Ripple World Pictures
Sales Agent Westend Films
My Sailor, My Love
Director Klaus Härö
Production Company Samson Films
Sales Agent Global Screen
All The Numbers
Director Ross Whitaker
Production Company True Films
Sales Agent Cinetic Media
The Flats
Director Alessandra Celesia
Production Company Planet Korda Pictures
Sales Agent The Film Party Sales