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9694 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Finkiel, Fontaine, Dridi, Anspach and Houellebecq at Locarno

Well represented at the 61st Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16), French cinema is hoping for competition success with Emmanuel Finkiel’s Nulle part terre promise (“Nowhere Promised Land”). This...  

05/08/2008 | Festivals | France

Nebbou releases Mark of an Angel and starts on Signé Dumas

Having first come to attention in 2004 with his debut feature The Giraffe’s Neck, Safy Nebbou is stepping things up a gear. August 13 sees the theatrical release of his second work, Mark of an...  

31/07/2008 | Production | France

Interview: Jean Labadie • Distributor

"French audiences have a real passion for Italian film"

The long-standing distributor of Nanni Moretti’s work backed Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah and offers an enlightened view on French distribution of Italian films  

31/07/2008

Pierre Grise launch trio of European films

While there is not one domestic title among the 11 new releases hitting French screens this Wednesday, Pierre Grise Distribution are taking advantage of this summer lull to introduce French...  

30/07/2008 | Releases | France

Pathé continues to reign

Heading the 2008 rankings of distributors in France with a total of 29.35m admissions (i.e. 21m more viewers than their main competitor Paramount), Pathé Distribution have every reason to be...  

29/07/2008 | Distribution | France

Telerman explores family neuroses in La Faute des Mères

Having first attracted attention at the box office in 2005 with her debut feature Thirty-Five Something (1.44m admissions), Cécile Telerman yesterday finished shooting in Paris on her second film,...  

25/07/2008 | Production | France

Faucher adapts Testud’s portrait of childhood in Gamines

Shooting got underway on Monday on Gamines (“Kids”), the second feature by Eléonore Faucher after A Common Thread (which picked up the Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2004). Having tried in...  

24/07/2008 | Production | France

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life starts today

Today the spotlight is on the screenwriting endeavours of young director Rémi Bezançon who releases his second feature, The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (distributed by StudioCanal),...  

23/07/2008 | Releases | France

Advances on receipts for Anger and Larrivaz

Seven screenplays for debut and second features have received advances on receipts, which were ratified in mid-July by Véronique Cayla – the Director General of the National Film Centre (CNC) –...  

22/07/2008 | Funding | France

Bonitzer harasses Mastroianni in Un chat un chat

Shooting wrapped up in Paris last week for Sophie Fillières’ fourth feature, Un chat un chat (“A Cat, A Cat”). The film stars Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale), Agathe Bonitzer (who will be...  

21/07/2008 | Production | France

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