Palme d’Or successful director Ruben Östlund is amongst 10 administrators chosen to current their upcoming function movie initiatives on the second version of the Cannes Marché du Movie’s Buyers Circle initiative.
The one-day occasion, happening on Could 19, is geared toward connecting elevated, worldwide function movie initiatives with movie financiers and high-net price people with a need to put money into cinema.
Östlund, who gained the Palme d’Or for The Sq. and Triangle of Disappointment, which was additionally nominated for 3 Oscars, will attend the occasion in individual.
The Marché du Movie didn’t give particulars of the initiatives, however it’s probably the director will likely be speaking upcoming airplane catastrophe film The Leisure System is Down, which he instructed Deadline final year he hopes to shoot in early 2025.
Different filmmakers due in Cannes for the occasion embrace Japan’s Chie Hayakawa, whose function movie debut Plan 75 world premiered in Un Sure Regard, in addition to Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who’s in Official Choice with The Surfer, having debuted second movie Vivarium Cannes Critics’ Week.
The occasion may also showcase initiatives by Rakhshan Banietemad (Iran), Uta Beria (Georgia), Nadav Lapid (Israel), Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania), Laura Samani (Italy), Agnieszka Smoczyńska (Poland) and Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela).
