More than 14,000 industry professionals attended the Marché du Film this year, nearly 4 per cent more than last year, underlining Cannes’ continuing status as the world’s most influential marketplace for international cinema.

The movie will be screened under the festival’s ‘marché du film’ (film market), at the Palais de Festivals of Cannes’s theatre, for which the director of “Maa” is currently in attendance.