Java films debut ‘Franco’, ‘Achille Lauro’ on Rendez-Vous, Le Havre

“Franco: Spain’s contempt memory”, a new documentary that marks the 50th anniversary of the Dictator Francisco Franco’s death, makes his market debut during the Unifrance Rendezvous in Le Havre.

It is one of a whole series of new politically tinted Docs Java Films ready to enter the market in the Rendezvous from his muscular autumn slate.

The film produced by Galaxie Presse, based in Paris, investigates the legacy of the notorious leader of Spain and the ways in which his memory strengthens the new extreme right -wing movement of the country.

Despite recent laws that prohibit the Spanish Civil War and apologize, the “Cara Al Sol” hymns are regularly heard for rallies held by the extreme right-wing Vox party of Spain. Vox has taken over the story of Franco about the Spanish national identity and made the rehabilitation of the dictator an important part of his election campaign.

The film will be broadcast in France in November by its commissioning group, Histoire TV, with Java films that are taking it to the international sales market for the first time at Le Havre.

Java Films also offers the latest film in its long -term collaboration with the French production house Premières Lignes, “That Friday”, the exclusive story behind the horrible Bataclan attacks 2015 in Paris.

On the evening of November 13, 2015, Daniel Psenny, when a journalist for Le Monde who lived in a building next to the Bataclan concert hall, took the first images of the attack, which were broadcast a lot and posted it again.

The film asks, who were the people in the images? And 10 years later, what has become of them? The documentary will premiere in France on LCP, which gave the film commissioned on November 13. The DOC has already sold to Francophone Belgian broadcaster RTBF.

Another new acquisition for Paris-based distributor, “Achille Lauro”, visits the hijacking of the 1985 of the cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt by members of the Palestinian liberation front, who held passengers and crew gijzelaars in Israeli. The three -day test culminated in the murder of the American hostage agent Leon Klinghoffer, the conquest of the four Palestinian militants and an armed impasse between the US and Italy about their destiny.

“For the first time, this film brings the protagonists together to reveal what really happened,” notes Java films.

Directed by Simone Manetti and produced by the Rome-based B&B Film, “Achille Lauro” became co-commissioner by Arte and Germany’s WDR. It has already been sold to the Spain TV3.

The line -up of Java films also includes “Zensky”, Ports Docs’ portrait of the Ukrainian president. Commissioned by Arte, the film is directed by the French documentary maker Yves Jeuland, the French journalist Ariane Chemin and historian and researcher Lisa Vapné. With rare access to President VolodyMyr Zensky and the people who have known him since his youth-Even if photos, film archives and never before seen eyewitness reports, this film outlines a picture of both the president and his country.

The film has seen a strong sale since the premiere in a special screening at the Cannes film festival earlier this year, to CNN Portugal, Radio Canada, TVP in Poland and RTS from Switzerland. The function documentary is also available as a two -part mini series.

Donatien Pierda, co-director of Java films from Operations, Sales and Acquisitions, said: “We are delighted to participate in the Rendezvous, an audiovisual market that merges the films with a slate to select the films in the buyers we have, a slanes a slate to copper.

“On-site impressions that have only become too rare for quick feedback and are a great opportunity and accelerator for the lives of documentaries.”