27/11/2017 - Among the other features selected are the upcoming films by Alice Winocour, Michel Blanc, Rémi Bezançon, Benoît Forgeart, Rémy Chayé and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Actress Sandrine Kiberlain, director Jeanne Herry and actor Gilles Lellouche are working together on Pupille

Thirteen feature films have been selected at the fourth 2017 session of the Ile-de-France region’s Support Fund for Film and Audiovisual Technical Industries.

Standing out among them is Pupille [+see also:
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Another title selected is Proxima, which will be the third feature by Alice Winocour, following two Cannes-selected films: Augustine [+see also:
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The Ile-de-France region will get behind seven other fiction projects: La Fête des mères [+see also:
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interview: Ludovic Bergery
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Three animated features can be found on the list of the lucky titles selected: The Summit of the Gods by Patrick Imbert (see the article - Julianne Films – €440,000), My Sunny Maad [+see also:
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Last but not least, five documentary features will be supported by Ile-de-France: Système K [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Maidatchevsky (Borsalino Productions), Sympathy for the Pepito by Benoit Garel and Gilles Charmant (Atopic), Fahavalo, Madagascar [+see also:
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(Translated from French)