15/10/2012 - Tony Gatlif, Martin Provost, Thomas Lilti and Larry Clark’s next film projects have also been selected for an advance on receipts

Seven feature film projects have been selected by the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC)’s second advance on receipts committee during its fourth 2012 session. Lyes Salem (photo)’s L’Oranais (lit. “The man from Oran”) stands out among them. It will be the filmmaker’s second feature after Mascarades [+see also:
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film profile] (nominated for a 2009 Cesar for best first film and Algeria’s submission the same year for an Oscar for best film in a foreign language). The film, to start shooting next spring and to be produced by Dharamsala (Isabelle Madelaine), is to recount the journey and evolution of two friends in Algeria from 1962 (independence) to October 1988 (protests and ensuing state of emergency). At the beginning of the screenplay (written by the director), one of the two main characters has travelled across the world to plead for the national cause as a member of a National Liberation Front delegation, while the other has spent five years as a National Liberation Army resistance fighter.

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An advance on receipts is also to go to another second feature: Thomas Lilti’s Hippocrate (co-written with Baya Kasmi, Pierre Chosson, and Julien Lilti – production: 31 Juin Films). Lilti was first noticed in 2008 with Les yeux bandés and he also co-wrote the screenplays of Mariage à Mendoza (due out in cinemas on January 23, 2013) and Télégaucho (due out on December 12).

The CNC is also to support Tony Gatlif’s Geronimo (Prince Films), Martin Provost’s Violette (read more - TS Productions - €396,000), Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us (read more - Pénélope Morgane Production), and the following two documentary projects: Marie Dumora’s Forbach For Ever (Les Productions Balthazar) as well as Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard’s La règle du jeu (no producer for the moment).

(Translated from French)