Martin Gondre is a partner at Best Friend Forever, a boutique film sales company created in 2019 and based in Brussels. Previously, he worked for six years at Indie Sales as Marketing and Festivals Manager on films including the Academy Award nominees The Insult (2017) by Ziad Doueiri and My Life as a Zucchini (2016) by Claude Barras. Best Friend Forever’s recent line-up includes titles such as Cannes Competition Banel & Adama (2023) by Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Cannes Critics Week winner A Useful Ghost (2025) by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Berlinale Competition documentary Timestamp (2025) by Kateryna Gornostai or Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award winner Universal Language (2024) by Matthew Rankin. The company also works with veteran directors such as Bertrand Bonello, Radu Jude, and Bruce LaBruce and animation with Annecy Jury award winner ChaO (2025) by Yasuhiro Aoki or Ale Abreu’s Perlimps.