May 17, 2026 2:27am PT
French Producer Sylvie Pialat Hits Cannes With New Projects by Pablo Fendrik, Felipe Gálvez and Hu Wei (EXCLUSIVE)
Pialat's slate includes 'Impunity,' Felipe Gálvez's geopolitical thriller starring Ana de Armas and Sebastian Stan.
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Cesar-winning French producer Sylvie Pialat is in Cannes with one of the most eclectic slates on the Croisette, ranging from an alpine revenge thriller from Argentine auteur Pablo Fendrik, a geopolitical drama about Augusto Pinochet starring Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas, and the first animated feature from Céline Devaux. Led by Pialat and Benoit Quainon, Les Films du Worso is developing “Black Glacier,” directed by Fendrik and starring Samuel Kircher and Andranic Manet. Produced alongside Benjamin Domenech, the project was originally developed as an Argentine production before the political crisis and economic turmoil in Argentina forced the team to rethink the film.“Financing collapsed. So we had the idea — if he liked it — to transpose the story to France and shoot it in French,” Pialat said during an interview in Cannes.
