06/07/2016 - Paul Hamy heads up a cast which also features Gaspard Ulliel with a minor role in a noir film that is being produced by 10:15 Productions and co-produced by O Som e a Fúria

After L'affaire des Divisions Morituri (1985 – showcased in the Pespectives of French Cinema section at Cannes), Le trésor des Iles Chiennes (which won the Grand Prix at the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival in 1990), Docteur Chance (which was shown in competition at Locarno in 1998) and Dharma Guns [+see also:
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film profile] (acclaimed in the Horizons section of Venice in 2010), cult filmmaker FJ Ossang is currently working on his fifth feature film: 9 Fingers [+see also:
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Co-produced by France and Portugal, the first round of filming wrapped in June and will pick up again in September with a cast featuring Paul Hamy (nominated for a César in 2014 and the Lumière for Most Promising Actor for Suzanne [+see also:
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interview: João Pedro Rodrigues
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
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Q&A: Bertrand Bonello
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interview: Delphine and Muriel Coulin
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Written by FJ Ossang in the spirit of film noir, the story starts at night in a town surprised by a flurry of snow and ice, in a station where all the trains are at a standstill. Magloire steps outside for a cigarette. Everything happens during a police check. He takes flight as he is, without bags or a future, and comes across a dying man. He finds a wad of cash whilst the former succumbs to death, but then the problems start: there’s a gang hot on his heels, which takes him hostage before working with him, as Magloire deals with things like someone who expects nothing from life.

Produced by Sébastien Haguenauer for 10:15 Productions and by OSS/100 Films & Documents (the director’s company), 9 Fingers (which won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the New Cinema Network in Rome in 2014) is being co-produced by CDP (Catherine Dussart Production) and Portuguese company O Som e a Fúria. Supported by an advance on receipts from the CNC, and the l'Instituto do Cinema et do Audiovisual (ICA), a fund providing support to Franco-Portuguese co-productions, Sofica Cinémage and the Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes region, the first round of filming took place between 6 and 21 June in Biarritz and Pau. Five more weeks of filming are set to start on 15 September in Portugal, with the film expected to be released in spring 2017. Distribution in France and international sales will be handled by Capricci Films.

Meanwhile, on 3 August, 10:15 Productions will be releasing My Revolution [+see also:
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(Translated from French)