16/11/2007

Véronique Cayla, director general of the National Centre for Cinematography (CNC), confirmed this week that the organisation will grant five advances on receipts, three pre-production and two post-production, worth a total of €1.292m, to films by Christine Dory, Didier Le Pêcheur, Patrick Jean, Cyril Gelblat and Delphine Kreuter.

Of the completed projects, the CNC granted €130,000 to Gelblat’s debut feature Les murs porteurs (“Carrier Walls”, see article), starring Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Charles Berling, Miou Miou and Schulamit Adar. This French/German/Swiss co-production piloted by Delante Films and supported by the Ile-de-France region and the French/German co-production mini-treaty will be distributed in cinemas by SND (the release date has yet to be set).

A sum of €152,000 will go to Kreuter’s debut feature 57000 Km entre nous (“57,000 Km Between Us”), produced by Les Films du Poisson and set to be launched on screens on January 23, 2008 by Pierre Grise Distribution.

Starring Florence Thomassin, Marie Burgun, Pascal Bongard and Hadrien Bouvier, with an appearance by Mathieu Amalric, the film traces the misfortunes of a fragmented and dysfunctional family whose life is constantly laid bare on their website. The plot also revolves around the characters we meet through the family, in a world where screens replace real human contact.

Amongst the three films set to receive pre-production advances on receipts is Circuit fermé (“Closed Circuit”), Dory’s debut feature starring Guillaume Depardieu and Marie Vialle (Pierre Grise Productions, see news) – to be granted €450,000.

Home Sweet Home, the third feature by Le Pêcheur (who first attracted attention with 1995’s News from the Good Lord), starring Judith Godrèche, Patrick Chesnais, Daniel Prévost and Alexandre Astier, will receive €420,000 (produced by Program 33 and Rezo Films). Shooting began on Monday in the Pays Loire Val d’Aubois region and is set to last five weeks.

The CNC will also support Belgian director Jean’s documentary La domination masculine (“Masculine Domination”, Elzévir Films) by allocating to it €140,000.

(Translated from French)