22 July marks the beginning of the shoot for Gagarine [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], the debut feature by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh. Having made a splash with their short films Blue Dog (in national competition in Clermont-Ferrand this year and winner of the International Press Award at the MyFrenchFilmFestival) and La République des enchanteurs (winner of the Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand in 2017), the duo of filmmakers have cast Alséni Bathily (on screen for the first time), Jamil Mc Craven (Nocturama [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mounia Meddour
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intervista: Eva Husson
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intervista: Leos Carax
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intervista: Pierre Schoeller
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Written by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh and Benjamin Charbit (nominated for the Best Original Screenplay César Award in 2019 for The Trouble With You [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pierre Salvadori
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Produced by Julie Billy and Carole Scotta for Haut et Court, Gagarine is being co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Also pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature benefits from the support of the CNC (via an advance on earnings and a grant for visual or audio creation with the use of visual or audio digital technologies), of the Ile-de-France region, and of the Manon and Indéfilms Soficas. The shoot will take place until 13 September in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Gagarine housing project, which will be destroyed for real from 31 August. French distribution will be handled by Haut et Court and international sales by Totem Films.

Haut et Court also has, in post-production, Fabienne Berthaud’s A Bigger World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fabienne Berthaud
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intervista: Dominik Moll
scheda film] by Dominik Moll, which we should discover very soon at a major international festival; The County [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Grímur Hákonarson
scheda film], by Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson, which the Parisian company has co-produced; and Memory Box by Lebanese directors Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, selected in the Venice Gap-Financing Market of the forthcoming Venice Production Bridge (29 August-3 September).