Seville Pictures has high hopes for this fall and next year’s Cannes festival, following a series of deals for new titles including Waltz with Bashir and Radu Mihaileanu’s Le Concert and wins for its prebuys Gomorra, Le Silence de Lorna and A Christmas Tale.

The Italian crime story Gomorra left the festival with the jury prize, while Lorna won best screenplay and Catherine Deneuve took home a special prize for her turn in A Christmas Tale. All three were prebought on the festival circuit over the past year, says EVP of acquisitions Pierre Brousseau, closing after the usual tire kicking at stops including Rome and Paris.

Brousseau says he rarely picks up titles once they’re finished, but made an exception for Waltz with Bashir, an animated war story from Israel and also-ran for the Palme d’Or. ‘When I buy something that’s finished it’s a surprise, but [Bashir] seduced me,’ he says.

Seville also came home with deals for Je l’aimais, a ‘great property’ from France’s Zabou Breitman, and Le Concert by Radu Mihaileanu, director of Va, vis et deviens, which did well for Seville in 2005. Mihaileanu’s latest has a ‘more commercial script’ and was also snapped up in the U.S. by The Weinstein Company through sales agent Wild Bunch. Brousseau anticipates that a hefty marketing push by Weinstein will give a boost to Le Concert in Canada. ‘It will do millions,’ he predicts. ‘It won’t go to video; [Weinstein] will do a real job on it.’

Seville also picked up Les plages d’Agnes by Agnès Varda, Mademoiselle Chambon by Stéphane Brizé, Le petit Nicolas, based on the international bestseller, and Amazonie la planète verte, a feature doc due on screens in 2010.

Waltz with Bashir is due in theaters in 2009. Gomorra, Le Silence de Lorna and A Christmas Tale will come out this fall.