17/04/2025 - Ossem, Hugo Becker and Otomo de Manuel star in the director’s debut feature, a production by Georges Films, which will also get started on The Station by Sara Ishaq

The shoot for Pirates, the debut feature by Myriam Gharbi, will begin on 26 May. Standing out in the cast are rapper Ossem, Hugo Becker (notably appreciated in Ride Above [+see also:
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Written by the director in collaboration with Jamal Belmahi (awarded at the Red Sea Festival in 2023 for the script for Six Feet Over [+see also:
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Pirates is being produced by Nicolas Leprêtre for Georges Films and co-produced by Acrobate Films. Supported by the CNC (via the advance on receipts and the Fonds Images de la diversité) and the South region, the feature will benefit from 26 shooting days with Dominique Colin as director of photography. Distribution in French cinemas will be handled by Épicentre Films.

Georges Films, which has so far worked on Inchallah a boy [+see also:
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film profile] by duo Rana Kazkaz - Anas Khalaf (Toronto Industry Selects in 2020), will also begin on 30 Avril in Jordan the shooting of The Station, the debut feature by Yemeni filmmaker Sara Ishaq, a film supported by Eurimages and produced with Jordan (Screen Project), Germany (One Two Films), and the Netherlands (Kepler Film) and Norway (Barentsfilm). Written by the filmmaker together with Nadia Eliewat, this film, which went through the Atelier of the Cinéfondation and the Venice FF Gap Financing Market amongst others, benefits from the support of the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du monde, the Netherlands Film Fund and Hubert Bals Fund, the Doha Film Institute and the Sørfond Production Fund.

(Translated from French)