Baya Kasmi shoots Mikado
- Félix Moati, Ramzy Bedia and Vimala Pons star in the filmmaker’s 3rd feature, piloted by Karé Productions and Films Grand Huit, with international sales handled by Pulsar Content
On 7 August, Baya Kasmi began filming Mikado, his 3rd feature film after I'm All Yours [+see also:
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film profile] (2015) and The (in)famous Youssef Salem (2023). Standing out in the cast of this new dramatic comedy are Félix Moati (nominated for the 2013 and 2016 César awards for Most Promising Actor, well received in the series No Man’s Land [+see also:
interview: Souheila Yacoub
series profile], soon in cinemas in Voleuses, La promesse verte and La chambre du sultan), Ramzy Bedia (seen recently in Kung Fu Zohra [+see also:
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interview: Mabrouk El Mechri
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interview: Stéphan Castang
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interview: Erwan Le Duc
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Written by the director (winner of the 2011 César award for Best Original Screenplay for The Names of Love [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Lilti
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film profile] and in the Best Original Screenplay category in 2010 for Welcome [+see also:
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making of
interview: Philippe Lioret
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Produced by Fabrice Goldstein and Antoine Rein for Karé Productions and by Pauline Seigland and Lionel Massol for Films Grand Huit, Mikado was pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+. Supported by the advance on receipts of the CNC, the Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, and the Cinéventure and Cofimage Soficas, the feature film is shooting until 15 September in Aix-en-Provence and Toulon with Romain Le Bonniec as director of photography. The release in French cinemas will be handled by Memento Distribution and the international sales by Pulsar Content.
For the record, Karé Productions is currently behind L’Attachement by Carine Tardieu (read the news) in production, and Les impatiences by Blandine Lenoir (read the news) and Bernadette [+see also:
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interview: Giacomo Abbruzzese
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interview: Pauline Seigland
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(Translated from French)
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