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FUNDING France

Advance on receipts for Beauvois’ Des Hommes et des Dieux

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Screenplays for forthcoming features by Xavier Beauvois, Chantal Akerman, Nadir Moknèche, Delphine Gleize and Raphaël Jacoulot were selected by the second advances on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) at its autumn session. Also on the list is Christian Rouaud’s documentary project Tous au Larzac (“Everyone To Larzac”, Elzévir Films).

Beauvois (The Young Lieutenant [+see also:
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) will start shooting in December-January on his fifth feature: Des Hommes et des Dieux (“Men and Gods”). Produced byWhy Not, the film will be set in a monastery (its other working title is Les Sept Moines, i.e. “The Seven Monks”) and lensed by DoP Caroline Champetier.

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Moknèche (Paloma Delight [+see also:
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) will shoot his fourth feature My Name Is Gabriel in spring 2010 in Tangiers. Piloted by Blue Monday Productions, the film will revolve around a disappearance which paralyses all the cogs of a well-oiled social machine made up of relations of interest, love and honour.

Belgian director Akerman (Tomorrow We Move) will start shooting next year in Malaysia on La Folie Almayer (“Almayer’s Folly”), which is adapted from Joseph Conrad’s eponymous novel and produced by Alfama Films.

Piloted by Les Productions Balthazar, De Toutes Mes Forces (“With All My Strength”) is the third feature by Gleize (whose film Carnage was unveiled in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2002). The film centres on the relationship between a 50-year-old doctor and a teenager suffering from a rare disease. Shooting will take place during 2010.

Finally, in the first quarter of 2010, Mon Voisin Productions will start shooting on the thriller Avant l’Aube (“Before Dawn”) by Jacoulot, who was discovered in the Berlinale Forum 2005 with his debut feature Barrage (“Dam”). Co-written by the director and Lise Macheboeuf, the film will star Jean-Pierre Bacri

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(Translated from French)

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