Quebec director/producer Denis Côté is looking for a French partner for Vic and Flo Saw a Bear, a $3.6 million thriller now being developed with seed financing from Telefilm Canada and SODEC.

Côté is shopping the film at the Paris Film festival’s co-production forum, with Pierrette Robitaille, Valérie Donzelli and Marc-André Grondin already on board the ensemble cast.

The thriller features Robitaille as Victoria, a women on prison leave and reuniting on the outside with a woman (Donzelli) she knew behind bars. Their lives are observed by a parole officer (Grondin), who gradually sees the two women pulled in opposite directions by their ambitions and personalities.

Vic and Flo Saw a Bear, produced by Sylvain Corbeil of La Maison De Productions, currently has $42,000 in the kitty.

The rest of the film’s budget is to come in part from a French co-production partner, a French distributor and international pre-sales.

Production on the French-language picture, Côté’s sixth feature, is slated to go in summer 2012.

Côté’s last picture, Curling, earned two awards at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival.

Photo: Curling (2010)