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Le Poirier sauvage by Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Arte France Cinéma

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- The next films by Mia Hansen-Love, Cédric Kahn, Emmanuel Mouret and Santiago Mitre are also being co-produced by the film branch of the French-German network

Le Poirier sauvage by Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Arte France Cinéma
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The third selection committee of 2016 for Arte France Cinéma (headed up by Olivier Père) has chosen to co-produce and pre-purchase five projects. They include The Wild Pear Tree [+see also:
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 by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2014 with Winter Sleep [+see also:
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and has won several other awards at Cannes (the Grand Prix in 2003 and 2011 with Uzak and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [+see also:
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respectively, and the award for Best Director in 2008 with Three Monkeys [+see also:
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). His next film will centre around Sinan, who is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him… Commenting on the plot, Nuri Bilge Ceylan says: "Whether we like it or not, we can’t help but inherit certain defining features from our fathers, like a certain number of their weaknesses, their habits, their mannerisms and much, much more. The story of a son’s unavoidable slide towards a fate resembling that of his father is told here through a series of painful experiences." Le Poirier sauvage will be produced by Parisian company Memento Films Production and Turkish company Zeyno Film.

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Arte France Cinéma will also support Maya, the sixth feature film by Mia Hansen-Love after All is Forgiven [+see also:
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(screened in Directors’ Fortnight in 2007), Father of my Children [+see also:
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(which won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes in 2009), Goodbye First Love [+see also:
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(which got a special mention at Locarno in 2011), Eden [+see also:
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(unveiled in 2014 at Toronto and in competition at San Sebastián), and Things to Come [+see also:
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(which won the award for Best Director at Berlin this year). The filmmaker’s latest opus will centre around 30-year-old Gabriel, a war reporter who tries to start over after spending months in captivity in Syria. He leaves for Goa, for the house where he spent his childhood, to try to give his life new meaning… The cast features Roman Kolinka, Cédric Kahn and Aarshi Banerjee. The film will be produced by Les Films Pelléas with German company Razor Films.

The projects chosen also include Mademoiselle de Joncquières by Emmanuel Mouret, which will be the ninth feature film by the director, whose past films have been screened in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes (Venus and Fleur in 2004 and Change of Address [+see also:
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in 2006), Venice Days (Shall We Kiss? [+see also:
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in 2007) and Locarno (L’art d’aimer [+see also:
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in Piazza Grande in 2011 and Lovers [+see also:
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in competition in 2013). Produced by Moby Dick Films, his new opus will be an adaptation of the story of Madame de la Pommeraye and the Marquis of Arcis, an episode from Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot (1778).

Arte France Cinéma will also be supporting The Prayer [+see also:
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 by Cédric Kahn, which will be the tenth feature by the director of films like Roberto Succo (shown in competition at Cannes in 2001), Red Lights (shown in competition at Berlin in 2004), A Better Life [+see also:
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(2011), and Wild Life [+see also:
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(shown in competition at San Sebastián in 2014). The film will recount the misfortunes of a young 22-year-old man who, to kick his addiction, joins an isolated community in the mountains run by former drug addicts who heal themselves through prayer, exploring friendship, rules, work, love and faith. The film will be produced by Les Films du Worso.

A second feature is also among the chosen few: The Summit [+see also:
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by Santiago Mitre (which won the Grand Prix in Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2015 with Paulina [+see also:
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), a fantasy thriller starring Ricardo Darin which will be produced by French company Maneki Films, Argentinian companies La Union de los rios and K&S, and Spanish company Mod (see the article).

For the record, Arte France Cinéma will most notably be supporting upcoming films by Philippe Faucon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Philippe Garrel, Andreï Zviaguintsev, Sergeï Loznitsa, Nadav Lapid, Thierry de Peretti, Serge Bozon, Hafsia Herzi, Rayhana Obermeyer, Fellipe Barbosa, Samuel Maoz, Karim Moussaoui, Dror Moreh, the duo Agnès Varda - JR, and Michel Ocelot.

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(Translated from French)

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