21/11/2012 - Claire Denis, François Ozon, Asghar Farhadi, Wim Wenders, and Riad Sattouf's next films stand out among those selected by the region

With an Oscar winner (Asghar Farhadi, 2012 Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language with A Separation), a two-time nominee for the Oscar for best documentary (Wim Wenders in 2000 with Buena Vista Social and in 2012 with Pina [+see also:
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Produced by Memento Films, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's first French film (still without a definitive title - read more) to star Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, and Ali Mosaffa, is to receive €543,000.

Claire Denis's Les salauds (lit. "The bastards" - read more - Alcatraz Films - €466,000) with Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni has also been selected. In the screenplay written by the director with Jean-Paul Fargeau, Marco, a container ship captain, urgently returns to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate... Her husband has committed suicide, leaving behind a bankrupt company, and her daughter is adrift. According to Sandra, it's businessman Edouard Laporte's fault. Marco rents a studio in the building where Laporte has set up his mistress and daughter…

François Ozon's Jeune et jolie (lit. "Young and pretty" - read more - production: Mandarin Cinéma - €349,000) draws the portrait of a 17-year-old teenage girl today, in four seasons and four songs. The cast is to include Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat, Nathalie Richard, and Charlotte Rampling.

Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's documentary L'ombre et la lumière (lit. "Shadow and light" - produced by Decia Films - €87,000) is also worth mentioning. The film, to portray famous photographer Sebastiao Salgado, is to be sold worldwide by Le Pacte.

Other selected projects include Riad Sattouf's Jacky in Women's Kingdom (read more - Les Films des Tournelles - €262,000), Josiane Balasko's Nenette (LGM Films- €466,000), Michaël Cohen's Chronique d'une vie ordinaire [+see also:
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(Translated from French)