INTERNATIONAL DRAMA DISTRIBUTION
France tv distribution is proud to announce the selection of two drama series from its line-up in the television competition of COLCOA (City of Lights, City of Angels) Festival. After "Call my agent" received the Audience Award last year, France tv distribution comes back for this 22nd edition of the biggest event dedicated to French drama and cinema in the world. The festival will take place from April 23rd to May 1st in Los Angeles.
France tv distribution will distribute these two dramas abroad. They will be in competition for The best drama Award, attributed by an american professionnal jury, and the Audience Award.
INFIDELITY
© Jérôme Prébois / Scarlett Production Arte France
At age 25, Alice decides to spread her wings and live away from home. She goes to see a few apartments with a real estate agent named Julien - in his 40s, married with kids. Attracted to each other, they start an affair without Julien's wife Mary being ware of what's going on. The love story unfolds, acutely showing the three leading characters' happiness, guilt and distress. The moving film frankly scrutinizes what the consequences of adultery can be, without ever being judgmental.
Length : 1x90' - Film-making : Philippe Harel - Cast : Isabelle Carré, Xavier Lemaître, Roxane Arnal, David Stone... - Production : Scarlett Production - 2018 - Arte / TV5 Monde
THROUGH THE MILL
©Aurélien Faidy
Lucie Baud is born into a family of poor rural workers in the Grenoble region of France. A the age of twelve, she becomes an apprentice in the textile mill and at twenty, she marries a rural constable. When her husband passes away, she is evicted from his tied house and has to fend for herself, alone with her children. When the owners of the textile mill impose a cut in wages and increase work rates, there is a strike. Lucie is in the front line against the bosses. Help comes in the form of Auda, a union official. He boosts Lucie's morale and determination, educates her politically... and dates her! Through the Mill is the story of a great woman; a mother courage and a lover who spends her life struggling to end the "infinite servitude of women".
Length : 1x90' - Film-making : Gérard Mordillat - Cast : Virginie Ledoyen, Philippe Torreton, François Cluzet... - Production : JPG Films - 2017 - Arte