10/01/2022 - Louise Bourgoin and Samy Belkessa lead the cast of the director’s second feature, which is produced by Kazak and sold by Best Friend Forever

Following a seven-week film shoot spanning November and December, Nicolas Silhol’s second feature-length movie Anti-Squat [+see also:
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film profile], following his much remarked offering Corporate [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Silhol
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Stealing focus up front in the cast, we find Louise Bourgoin (nominated for 2009’s Best New Hope César thanks to La fille de Monaco [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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interview: Laurent Cantet
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Anti-Squat is produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond (one of the European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move for 2021 – read our interview) on behalf of Kazak Productions (with Amaury Ovise as associate producer) and has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+. Likewise supported by Procirep-Angoa and the SOFICA companies Cinémage and Lucy Finance/La Banque Postale Image, the feature film will be distributed in France by Diaphana and sold worldwide by Best Friend Forever, having been shot between 8 November and 22 December in the Ile-de-France region, with Pierre Maillis-Laval helming photography.

Recently responsible for the Palme d’Or winner Titane [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Li…
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interview: Clément Cogitore
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interview: Marie Kreutzer
interview: Marie Kreutzer
film profile], by Austria’s Marie Kreutzer, and A E I O U - A Quick Alphabet of Love [+see also:
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interview: Nicolette Krebitz
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(Translated from French)