EXCLUSIVE: Boris Lojkine now shooting L’histoire de Souleymane
- The director behind Hope and Camille has once again cast Nina Meurisse, who’ll be supporting Abou Sangare in a film produced by Unité and sold by Pyramide
As of 23 October, Boris Lojkine has been filming L’histoire de Souleymane, his 3rd feature film after Hope [+see also:
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interview: Boris Lojkine
film profile] (handed the Audience Award on Locarno’s Piazza Grande in 2019). Stand-out names in the cast include Abou Sangare (on screens for the very first time) and Nina Meurisse (nominated for the Best New Hope César and the Acting Revelation Lumière via Camille, and recently well-received in Green Tide and The Rapture [+see also:
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interview: Iris Kaltenbäck
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Written by Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut (Inchallah A Boy [+see also:
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L’histoire de Souleymane is produced by Bruno Nahon on behalf of Unité and has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+. Also backed by the CNC (via an advance on receipts and the Images de la Diversité fund), as well as the SOFICA companies Indéfilms, La Banque Postale Image and SofiTVciné, the feature film will be shot over 40 days, wrapping on 16 December in the Paris region, with Tristan Galand heading up photography. Distribution in France and international sales are both entrusted to Pyramide.
For the record, Unité recently co-produced Achilles [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile] by Delphine Deloget (unveiled in May in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section), among other works, and steered the mini-series Class Act for Netflix.
(Translated from French)
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