Advance on receipts for Moll’s Le Moine
The second advances on receipts committee of the National Film Centre (CNC) selected six screenplays at its July session. These include Dominik Moll’s Le Moine (“The Monk”).
Produced by Diaphana, this will be the director’s fourth feature after Intimacy (1994), With a Friend Like Harry (in competition at Cannes in 2000 and winner of four Cesar Awards in 2001, including Best Director and Best Actor) and Lemming [+see also:
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An advance on receipts will also go to Jacques Doillon’s Aux Quatre Vents (“To the Four Winds”, produced by Alfama Films - see news); Benoit Jacquot’s Hypnose (“Hypnosis”, Passion Films and Ciné@ - see news); Philippe Faucon’s Kamikaze (produced by Screen Runner); L’oiseau by Yves Caumon (Blue Monday Productions), whose previous film Peekaboo [+see also:
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Meanwhile, the first advances on receipts committee, which selects screenplays for debut and second features, chose Audrey Fouché’s Memories Corner (Noodles Production); and Stéphane Cazes’ Le Sens de Nos Peines (“The Meaning of Our Suffering”, Arsam International and Bibona Films), which centres on a young woman who raises her first child in prison. The latter film won last year’s Junior Grand Prize for Best Screenwriter.
Other titles set to receive an advance on receipts include Laurent Boileau and Jung Hénin’s animated project Approved for Adoption; and the documentary Monde en Chantier (“World Under Construction”) By Polish-born director Lech Kowalski (Capricci Films), who won the Horizons Award at Venice in 2005 for East of Paradise.
(Translated from French)
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