Of Gods and Men enter the race
Winner of the Grand Prize at the latest Cannes Film Festival, Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men [+see also:
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Produced by Why Not Productions (who enjoyed the honour of seeing their production A Prophet [+see also:
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film profile] nominated for the Oscar in 2010), the director’s fifth feature Of Gods and Men was co-produced by Armada Film and France 3 Cinéma with backing from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) in the form of an advance on receipts.
The film, based on the tragedy of the French monks of Tibhirine in Algeria in 1996, has been sold by Wild Bunch to almost every territory across the world. Launched in French theatres on September 8 by Mars Distribution, Of Gods and Men garnered 468,000 admissions in its first week. It will be released in the UK on December 10 and in Germany on December 16.
The selection committee for the French Oscar candidate included Florence Malraux (president of the advance on receipts committee at the National Film Centre (CNC)), Thierry Frémaux (delegate general of the Cannes Film Festival), Alain Terzian (producer and Cesars Academy president), actress Jeanne Moreau and directors Costa-Gavras, Philippe Pollet-Villard and Régis Wargnier.
(Translated from French)
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