Buy­ers

Dis­trib­u­tor in CIS who is releas­ing 12 titles the­atri­cal­ly per year, sells TV, VoD and new media rights. We are look­ing for the acqui­si­tion of Euro­pean ani­ma­tion films. We released the­atri­cal­ly more than 160 titles includ­ing such ani­ma­tion projects as ​“Maya the Bee - Movie”, ​“Maya the Bee 3: The Gold­en Orb”, ​“Song of the Sea”, ​“Pinoc­chio”, ​“Jun­gle Beat: The Movie” and ​“Princess Emmy”.

Which film just stays in your head despite the world and all oth­er films? Touch­es you in a way that makes you want to show it to as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble? Ban­tam Film choos­es its films care­ful­ly and releas­es them with pas­sion and care. We spe­cialise in ani­ma­tion fea­tures for adults and the­atri­cal doc­u­men­taries. Like ​“Blind Wil­low, Sleep­ing Woman” and ​“No Dogs or Ital­ians Allowed”, which we released in 2023 or ​“Flow” by Gints Zil­balodis or ​“Mem­oir of a Snail” by Adam Elliot which will be next.

Cre­at­ed in May 2019, Best Friend For­ev­er is a Brus­sels-based com­pa­ny focused on bring­ing to the inter­na­tion­al mar­ket care­ful­ly select­ed art­house films. Our mis­sion is to accom­pa­ny bril­liant pro­duc­ers and direc­tors into bring­ing their projects to real­i­ty through inter­na­tion­al sales, devel­op­ment financ­ing, legal or finan­cial con­sult­ing. BFF is a sis­ter com­pa­ny of Indie Sales.

CANAL+ Group is a leader in pre­mi­um and the­mat­ic tele­vi­sion chan­nels, as well as in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of pay tele­vi­sion ser­vices. In France, it is also a major play­er in free-to-air tele­vi­sion with 3 nation­al chan­nels, and its relat­ed adver­tis­ing arm. Out­side of France, CANAL+ Group has record­ed strong growth with a sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in Europe, Africa and Asia. In total, CANAL+ Group has more than 20 mil­lion sub­scribers world­wide, includ­ing more than 8 mil­lion in main­land France.

Case Départ is not your typ­i­cal film dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny; it’s a pas­sion­ate team of cinephiles on a mis­sion to rede­fine the way films con­nect with audi­ences. In a world sat­u­rat­ed with con­ven­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tion prac­tices, Case Départ thrives on dis­rupt­ing the sta­tus quo, push­ing bound­aries and breath­ing new life into the cin­e­mat­ic experience.

The­atri­cal dis­trib­u­tor in Japan. Dis­trib­uted Car­toon Saloon fea­ture films and ​“Dilili in Paris” & ​“The Black Pharaoh, the Sav­age and the Princess” by Michel Ocelot and ​“Per­limps” by Ale Abreu.

Cin­e­ma Mon­do (est. 1990) is the lead­ing art-house and world cin­e­ma dis­trib­u­tor in Fin­land. We release about 15 titles the­atri­cal­ly per year, and oper­ate in all win­dows. Recent releas­es: ​“One Fine Morn­ing”, ​“First Slam Dunk”, ​“Oth­er Peo­ple’s Chil­dren”, ​“The Crime Is Mine”, ​“The Last Bus”, ​“Demon Slay­er”, ​“Truf­fle Hunters”, ​“Yak in a Class­room”, ​“Belle”, P“anahi: No Bears”, etc. Our ani­ma­tion crown jew­els: all Stu­dio Ghi­b­li pro­duc­tions, includ­ing ​“The Boy and The Heron”. Next ani­ma­tion: ​“Ken­suke’s Kingdom”.

Since 1989, Ciné­ma Pub­lic Films is as spe­cialised inde­pen­dent dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny ful­ly com­mit­ted to pro­mote and dis­trib­ute to cin­e­mas high-qual­i­ty ani­mat­ed films (all for­mats) towards the young audience.

Film­Fo­cus inde­pen­dent and Gen­tofte Kino, deals in dis­tri­b­u­tion, sales, acqui­si­tion, even­tis­ing, mar­ket­ing and launch­ing of films. The com­pa­ny also owns a major Dan­ish Cinema.

Folkets Bio is an art-house dis­trib­u­tor in Swe­den that have been in busi­ness since 1973. With­in the art-house and inde­pen­dent scene, we look for films in all gen­res, for all ages, and also to find and stim­u­late new tal­ent. Every year, we release around 25 fea­ture films and 15-20 short films the­atri­cal­ly. Our lat­est ani­ma­tion releas­es are ​“Lat­te Igel and the Mag­ic Water­stone”, ​“Shooom’s Odyssey”, ​“Wolfwalk­ers” and ​“The Breadwinner”.

Gebe­ka Films is a dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny found­ed in 1997 by Marc Bon­ny and is Hildegarde’s prop­er­ty (Regi­nald de Guille­bon) since 2018. Our main goal: releas­ing long and short movies on French ter­ri­to­ry - the­atri­cal, video/​DVD and TV rights. Pol­i­cy: high-qual­i­ty films, main­ly for a young audi­ence (ani­ma­tion or fic­tion). Gebe­ka Films has also devel­oped a co-pro­duc­tion activ­i­ty with ​“Princes and Princess­es” (M. Ocelot) in the first place, and with well-award­ed ​“My Life as a Cour­gette” (C. Barras).

Haut et Court is a French inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny. Our line-up usu­al­ly con­sists of eight to ten films per year, among which at least one ani­ma­tion film. We released ​“Wolfwalk­ers” by Tomm Moore and Ross Stu­art, ​“Flee” by Jonas Poher Ras­mussen and ​“Siroc­co and the King­dom of the Winds” by Benoît Chieux. We are co-pro­duc­ing ​“Sav­ages” by Claude Bar­ras and will dis­trib­ute ​“Silex” by Jul and Amelie by Liane Cho Han and Maylis Vallade.

Haut et Court is a French inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny. Our line-up usu­al­ly con­sists of eight to ten films per year, among which at least one ani­ma­tion film. We released ​“Wolfwalk­ers” by Tomm Moore and Ross Stu­art, ​“Flee” by Jonas Poher Ras­mussen and ​“Siroc­co and the King­dom of the Winds” by Benoît Chieux. We are co-pro­duc­ing ​“Sav­ages” by Claude Bar­ras and will dis­trib­ute ​“Silex” by Jul and Amelie by Liane Cho Han and Maylis Vallade.

Script con­sult­ing and film val­ue opti­mis­ing is the core busi­ness of Inter­na­tion­al Script & Sales Co. We help to devel­op, eval­u­ate and opti­mise films and series for suc­cess­ful domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tion. In addi­tion to script, sales and mar­ket­ing ser­vices, ISSC aims to become a pro­duc­er-dis­trib­u­tor for qual­i­ty fea­ture and ani­ma­tion films with a strong human factor.

J&J Films focussing on high-end art-house (adult ani­ma­tion) prod­uct, also con­sult­ing in distribution.

KMBO is a dis­tri­b­u­tion and pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny based in Paris. A sig­nif­i­cant part of our the­atri­cal releas­es are ded­i­cat­ed to ani­ma­tion fea­ture films. Ani­ma­tion fea­ture films for the fam­i­ly and the young audi­ence, also ani­ma­tion genre films. Our recent ani­ma­tion releas­es: ​“The Insep­a­ra­bles”, ​“The Inven­tor”, ​“Nina and the Hedge­hog’s Secret”, ​“Deep Sea”, ​“White plas­tic Sky”, ​“Mav­ka: The For­est Song”, ​“The Amaz­ing Mau­rice” & ​“Moon­bound”.

We are Unre­al Engine experts. We pro­vide in-house tal­ent for yours needs on UE5, we can also han­dle project from A to Z with our expe­ri­enced in house talents.

Memen­to Inter­na­tion­al is a bou­tique sales com­pa­ny that spe­cialis­es in direc­tor-dri­ven inde­pen­dent films. With a selec­tive line­up of up to 12 films a year, we offer tai­lor-made strate­gies and pro­vide busi­ness exper­tise through pro­duc­tion, financ­ing and inter­na­tion­al sales. Our cat­a­logue includes high-pro­file and award-win­ning film­mak­ers such as Asghar Farha­di, Luca Guadagni­no, Dominik Moll, Joachim Tri­er, Cate Short­land, Nuri Bilge Cey­lan, Kel­ly Reichardt, Philippe Lacôte, Mal­go­rza­ta Szumowska…

Out­sider Films is a films dis­trib­u­tor cre­at­ed by three pro­fes­sion­als in the Por­tuguese mar­ket, based in Lis­bon. It oper­ates in the seg­ment of inde­pen­dent movies. Out­sider Films is now releas­ing 14 to 16 films per year with a spe­cial focus on ani­ma­tion. Last ani­mat­ed movies released in the last 4 years: ​“Check­ered Nin­ja 1”, ​“Lat­te and the Mag­ic Water­stone”, ​“Seal Team”, ​“Paws of Fury”, ​“Check­ered Nin­ja 2”, ​“The Boy and The Heron”, ​“Gra­cie and Pedro” and ​“Zack & Wowo - La Légende de Lendarys”.

Play­time is a Paris-based inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny active since 1997, also active in pro­duc­tion of fea­ture films and series. Each year, Play­time launch­es approx­i­mate­ly 15 new films in the most pres­ti­gious fes­ti­vals. Play­time is known for the qual­i­ty of its artis­tic choic­es and world­wide suc­cess­es such as ​“Son of Paul”, ​“BPM (Beats Per Minute)”, ​“Paris 13th Dis­trict”, ​“The Crime Is Mine”, ​“About Dry Grass­es”, includ­ing ani­mat­ed films like ​“A Cat in Paris”, ​“Louise by the Shore” or ​“The Black Pharaoh, the Sav­age and the Princess” by Michel Ocelot.

Pyra­mide is both a French dis­trib­u­tor and an inter­na­tion­al sales com­pa­ny based in Paris. As a French dis­trib­u­tor, Pyra­mide releas­es 15 art­house titles a year and is one of the biggest inde­pen­dent French dis­trib­u­tors. As a world sales agent, Pyra­mide Inter­na­tion­al delib­er­ate­ly focus on the films d’auteur, will­ing to pro­mote abroad films by 1st-time direc­tors and expe­ri­enced film­mak­ers and their pro­duc­ers who have trust­ed the company.

The Occ­i­tanie Region aims to strength­en the film indus­try and the cul­tur­al dynam­ics on its ter­ri­to­ry. The Region sup­ports film­mak­ers by pro­vid­ing finan­cial assis­tance for devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion and offers sup­ports to film fes­ti­val and film mar­kets. This approach also includes a film edu­ca­tion pro­gram, as well as a sup­port to film her­itage through the Ciné­math­èque de Toulouse and the Jean Vigo Institute.

The Occ­i­tanie Region aims to strength­en the film indus­try and the cul­tur­al dynam­ics on its ter­ri­to­ry. The Region sup­ports film­mak­ers by pro­vid­ing finan­cial assis­tance for devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion and offers sup­ports to film fes­ti­val and film mar­kets. This approach also includes a film edu­ca­tion pro­gram, as well as a sup­port to film her­itage through the Ciné­math­èque de Toulouse and the Jean Vigo Institute.

SC Films Inter­na­tion­al was found­ed by Simon Crowe and financier Matthew Joynes in Lon­don in 2008. SC Films is a sales, finance and dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­ny spe­cial­is­ing in ani­ma­tion fea­tures includ­ing such titles as ​“Yel­low­bird” aka ​“Gus”, ​“Mon­key King”, ​“White Fang”, ​“Gnome Alone”, ​“Charm­ing and Pachama­ma”. Simon is cur­rent­ly pro­duc­ing ani­ma­tion fea­tures ​“Girl in the clouds” and ​“Drag­onkeep­er”. Cur­rent slate also includes live-action films, the award-win­ning ​“Lit­tle Bone Lodge”, ​“On fire and ​“Orang Ikan”.

Screen Flan­ders is your first stop for audio­vi­su­al activ­i­ties in the Flan­ders Region, pro­vid­ing finan­cial sup­port through its Eco­nom­ic Fund, infor­ma­tion and ser­vices via its Film Com­mis­sion. Via the Screen Flan­ders Eco­nom­ic Fund, Bel­gian (co-)producers can apply to receive up to 400,000€ refund­able advances by way of eco­nom­ic sup­port to cov­er their audio­vi­su­al expens­es in the Flan­ders Region.

Silk­Way­Films was found­ed in 2016 and is spe­cialised in acqui­si­tion, sales, financ­ing and devel­op­ing projects and films. Silk­Way­Films is per­ma­nent­ly scout­ing for ani­mat­ed fea­ture projects for dis­tri­b­u­tion in Germany.

SND is the film dis­tri­b­u­tion sub­sidiary of the M6 Group, one of the lead­ing TV net­works in Europe. SND han­dles film dis­tri­b­u­tion, video pub­lish­ing, inter­na­tion­al sales and film pro­duc­tion. Ani­ma­tion high­lights include ​“Aster­ix, Land of the Gods”, ​“The Jun­gle Bunch”, ​“Aster­ix and the Secret of the Mag­ic Potion” and recent­ly ​“The Extinct” and ​“Pil”.

SO·Games is born from the merge of Angoulême Video Games and Bor­deaux Games, cre­at­ing the main gath­er­ing of the video game sec­tor in Nou­velle-Aquitaine. The asso­ci­a­tion gath­ers 1,000 full time jobs, 100M€ worth of busi­ness in 100 stu­dios. Among the famous mem­bers: Asobo Stu­dio, Ubisoft Bor­deaux, Shi­ro Games, Motion Twin, Nova-Box, Head­bang Club, Black Flag, La Poule Noire, Evil Empire, Game­s­plan­et, G4F and many more.

Stu­dio Elon has been a dis­tri­b­u­tion and acqui­si­tion com­pa­ny in Korea since 2018. The com­pa­ny used to release fea­ture films and recent­ly start­ed to release sev­er­al ani­ma­tions includ­ing ​“Ooops! The Adven­ture Con­tin­ues” and Japan­ese ani­ma­tions. We keep look­ing for all kinds of com­mer­cial films includ­ing animations.

The Play­mak­er is a high­ly enthu­si­as­tic, open and deter­mined inter­na­tion­al sales agent with­in the moth­er com­pa­ny SL Group. Since many years, we are spe­cialised on fam­i­ly enter­tain­ment, our ani­ma­tion slate includes inter­na­tion­al box-office hits such as ​“Ploey”, ​“The Ogglies” and the upcom­ing ​“Pirate Mo”. With­in our com­pa­ny hold­ing, we are also able to offer through our sis­ter com­pa­nies co-financ­ing as well as ser­vic­ing (cam­era & light­ing equip­ment, post-pro­duc­tion, deliv­er­ies and VFX).

West­deutsch­er Rund­funk (WDR) is a Ger­man pub­lic broad­cast­ing insti­tu­tion based in Cologne. We are the largest media organ­i­sa­tion in Ger­many and the sec­ond largest in Europe. WDR pro­duces approx. a quar­ter of the nation­wide pro­gram­ming of Das Erste (Chan­nel 1), the coun­try’s pri­ma­ry and longest-run­ning Ger­man TV chan­nel. WDR also sup­plies con­tent for oth­er chan­nels such as the ARD/ZDF chil­dren’s broad­cast­er KiKA.

Yejil­im Enter­tain­ment spe­cialis­es in film buy­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing fam­i­ly films for Korea and Viet­nam. We are look­ing for good qual­i­ty of ani­ma­tion, fea­ture films and award-win­ning fea­ture films. Yejil­im Enter­tain­ment is based in Seoul and is found­ed by Jack­ie Lim in 2006.